Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Helen Gandy

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[edit] Helen Gandy

Self nom. Article on J. Edgar Hoover's longtime secretary and the woman who destroyed his files. Article is actually longer than Hoover's. PedanticallySpeaking 19:36, July 14, 2005 (UTC)

Hah! Success. Found a picture at the Library of Congress and added it. PedanticallySpeaking 18:19, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

Folks, here's a picture on the Washington Post site of her with Mark Felt. Probably one of the paper's photographers, so it's not public domain. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2005/05/31/PH2005053101008.html PedanticallySpeaking 17:41, July 18, 2005 (UTC) And here's her mother. PedanticallySpeaking 17:55, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

• Support. A shame there isn't a picture of Gandy herself, however. Great research! Meelar (talk) 20:38, July 14, 2005 (UTC)

I've seen some from the National Archives in Hoover biographies, but I couldn't find anything on the web and I don't have a scanner. PedanticallySpeaking 20:55, July 14, 2005 (UTC)

• Support, though similar to Mark Felt in the fact that most of the pictures are of other people. Still, well written. Phoenix2 21:40, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Phils 15:55, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
• Support. interesting, well written, well referenced. I wouldn't worry about the lack of picture of Gandy herself, the article more than stands without it, and one can be added if ever located in the future. Rossrs 01:17, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, Rossrs. PedanticallySpeaking 17:22, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

• Conditional Support. Another fine bit of research by PedanticallySpeaking! I'd love to see a photo, too, especially since there are descriptions of her appearance. I'll go to full support if you can get her date of birth. Jokestress 02:40, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, Jokestress, for your kind words. PedanticallySpeaking 17:22, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

• • Date of birth gotten from the Social Security Death Index. (I'll see if I can find out whether she died in DeLand or Orange City; I live in DeLand, but I'm not going to be there this week.) Mindspillage (spill yours?) 05:07, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Nice piece of detective work!! I spent about an hour looking unsuccessfully! Have added to reference section. Rossrs 07:19, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

I concur! I just used it to add dates to four incomplete bios. Jokestress 07:34, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

• Support. Huge bulk of offline references given, which means that the author has really done some homework. A great read. — Stevey7788 (talk) 17:09, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Thank you Stevey. Nice to be appreciated. PedanticallySpeaking 17:22, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

• Support with the comment that it might make for easier reading if there were more section headings. David | Talk 13:58, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
• Support. This is really good and interesting. It is obvious you have done your research so I won't object, but it is really hard sometimes to tell what sources were used for what, or in scanning through, to see where they were used at all. That's because the sources are all referred to in prose which is good, but like I said, makes it hard to check. Can you add invisible notes or something with which source covers which facts. Especially for the most important points. - Taxman ^Talk 19:33, July 19, 2005 (UTC)