- 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 Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:22, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
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Max Harzof
edit... that Max Harzof thought that honesty was rarer than intelligence?
- Reviewed: not a self-nom
Created by Philafrenzy (talk). Nominated by Edwardx (talk) at 22:43, 1 September 2014 (UTC).
- ALT1 ... that Max Harzof once owned the book that reputedly inspired Herman Melville to write Moby-Dick? Philafrenzy (talk) 22:52, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
New enough, long enough, well-referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. No QPQ needed. Regarding the hook, I find the first one rather vague, considering that most readers will have never heard of him, and the second hook full of other links (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) that readers will probably click on instead of the main subject. (ALT1 is good, though; can we run it without those extra links?) I added some sources to the page to give an idea of his "larger than life" status; alternately, you may wish to use something from that, or from another source, that would focus the attention on him in a hook. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 23:55, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks. I'm struggling to find another good hook idea. I like ALT1 too, and have no objection to removing the other two links, so I've gone ahead and done that. Indeed, DYK is one area where a strong case can be made for underlinking. However, we should expect the possibility of someone else putting the links back in at some later point... Edwardx (talk) 11:54, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
