Talk:Douglas Stuart (writer)
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Yoninah in topic Did you know nomination
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A fact from Douglas Stuart (writer) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 December 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Did you know nomination
edit- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:21, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
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- ... that Booker Prize winning author Douglas Stuart wanted to study English literature but was discouraged by a teacher who said that it wouldn't "suit someone from his background"? Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/books/douglas-stuart-shuggie-bain.html
- ALT1:... that Booker Prize winning author Douglas Stuart studied textiles instead of English literature discouraged by a teacher who said that it wouldn't "suit someone from his background"? Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/books/douglas-stuart-shuggie-bain.html
- ALT2:... that Douglas Stuart's Booker Prize winning book, Shuggie Bain, was rejected by 30 publishers before being picked up? Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/books/booker-prize-winner-douglas-stuart-shuggie-bain.html
5x expanded by Ktin (talk) and Proscribe (talk). Nominated by Ktin (talk) at 14:51, 24 November 2020 (UTC). QPQ: Template:Did you know nominations/Introduction to Solid State Physics
- Comment. Can I request any editor to help pick this one up for review? Ktin (talk) 17:50, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
- I'll do this one shortly. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 22:02, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
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QPQ: Done. |
Overall: The earwig results are just quotes from the NYT article, I prefer ALT2, but any of the hooks would be fine. GTG. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 22:56, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
- Peacemaker67, Thanks much for the review. I agree with you, the posting Admin can select either of the hooks. Cheers.