Talk:Lewis Hancox

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Lewis Hancox in 2013
Lewis Hancox in 2013

* Source: https://www.brokenfrontier.com/welcome-to-st-hell-hancox-scholastic/

  • ALT1: ... that in Lewis Hancox's graphic novel Welcome to St. Hell he goes back in time to speak to his teenage self?

* Source: https://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/20182228.transgender-author-writes-book-wishes-had-growing-st-helens

  • ALT2: ... that Lewis Hancox (pictured) played for a local boy's basketball team without revealing his biological sex for six months?
Nominated by Finnfrog99 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations. Created by Respair (talk), Moved to mainspace by Monkeysmashingkeyboards (talk)

Finnfrog99 (talk) 01:51, 11 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

  • comment: ALT1 fails WP:DYKFICTION. For this, I have struck it. Roast (talk) 03:07, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    • Great work on this article! It is very interesting and you clearly put a lot of effort into it. There are two issues though. The first is that Earwig shows a 51% copyright issue ([1]) - could you please trim the quote? Also, I was trying to verify some facts and could not find them in the inline citation (for example, I could not find the source that said that he identified as a lesbian during puberty). Could you please ensure that the citations verifying the fact are given at the end of the relevant statement and could you please do a spotcheck before I approve this to ensure that everything here is sourced? :) Also, Buzzfeed and the Daily Mirror are considered not the most reliable by they work in an WP:ABOUTSELF way so they are fine, as is the Facebook source. DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 09:00, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
      • I've trimmed the quote, I hope the copyright issue decreased enough and we can still illustrate some of Hancox's thoughts. I found and added a source which said that he identified as a lesbian. I did a spot check, everything is sourced. Thank you for picking this up. Respair (talk) 14:36, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
        • Thank you for this! All of the above are sourced in the article and verified and they are all interesting. Hence, this is approved. Well done! I think ALT0 is the most interesting. I would recommend one final spotcheck as I found an error (it said aged 10 in the article whereas it did not say so in the source) and it would be best to avoid these of course. DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 22:14, 12 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
          • Thank you for the response, I'm just wondering whether ALT0 is decided upon? I personally have a preference for ALT2 as I think it would probably entice more readers compared to the others, but I'd love to hear what others think. Respair (talk) 13:30, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I'm okay with either. DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 19:21, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]