Talk:Nellie McClung
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Was she generally known by her middle name, or should this article be moved to Nellie McClung? RickK 03:43, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Mooney was her maiden name. Personally I like Nellie McClung. I'm not sure how feminists would react to that. Perhaps someone could comment? Meanwhile I will make some inquiries amongst feminist friends. Sunray 06:48, 2003 Dec 24 (UTC)
- I've never heard her maiden name before. She chose to use her husband's name. My version of feminism says we let women pick what they want to be called. moink 18:53, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Prohibition points to an article about the American laws... which makes sense, since I believe it's an American word in this context. I'm under the impression McClung herself did not use the word, she used 'temperance' instead. Should we change this to reflect that, or is it clearer the way it is? moink 18:51, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- Yes, good point. A reference to temperance makes more sense. The article on temperance needs some additions. Alberta, Canada had prohibition--I'm not sure if other Western provinces followed suit. I'll see if I can find out more about that. Sunray 19:59, 2003 Dec 24 (UTC)
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- You're right, temperance is not the right place either, but temperance movement is the right concept. I linked to there. moink 23:25, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC)
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- That works. Sunray 01:24, 2003 Dec 25 (UTC)
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[edit] Source of spam e-mail text
Here's the most interesting contemporary factoid about Nellie McClung: a large number of those quasi poetic spam e-mail's floating around the net (presumably in an attempt to foil the spam filters) contain lines taken from Nellie McClung's story The Black Creek Stopping House, a text available on Project Gutenberg. Google the next one you see, and there's a good chance it's Nellie. I wonder why this is! --JMax 06:34, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Broken reference
The reference from this article to Charles Sydney Gibbes catches an article about a person who was not a Canadian MLA and is presumably accidental. I don't know enough about the MLA to make a dismbiguation page.Dan Dean 21:22, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
