Template:Did you know nominations/The Cabinet of Folksongs

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 21:12, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

Cabinet of Folksongs

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Cabinet of Folksongs

... that the Cabinet of Folksongs (pictured), which contains all of the Latvian folksongs collected by Krišjānis Barons, was included in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register?

Reviewed: Micralign
Comment: I added references and made some fixes.

Moved to mainspace by Iguana Counter (talk) and SL93 (talk). Nominated by SL93 (talk) at 04:58, 30 July 2020 (UTC).

I'm interested in reviewing this - later. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:58, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: I know you haven't started the review yet, but I'm just letting you know that I made more fixes with content and references. I had to rename the article title to remove "The". SL93 (talk) 19:08, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for the move, spares me that question ;) - Interesting treasure, on good sources, no copyvio obvious. - The hook is fine but a bit longish, - could we perhaps drop the collector and his image, and have the - much more unique - image of the cabinet? In the article, I'd also drop that image, and the See also section. I can't see "two parts" in the sources, - where is that? Please do another round of copy-editing, examples "and other texts such as riddles and adages have been written down and stored", "The cabinet has two copies". I'd hope for more detail from the sources, links to museums (at least Latvian, per inter-language), an infobox, and a bit of structure, such as History and Description. It's a good beginning, but polishing would make it shine brighter. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:54, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Mandarax, can you please fix after a page move? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:56, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Done. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 17:23, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: "could we perhaps drop the collector and his image, and have the - much more unique - image of the cabinet?" - Done.

"I can't see "two parts" in the sources, - where is that?" Much of that section was based on looking at the picture, but no sources go into those details so I removed it. Done.

"Please do another round of copy-editing, examples "and other texts such as riddles and adages have been written down and stored", "The cabinet has two copies"." - Done.

"I'd hope for more detail from the sources" - Done.

"links to museums (at least Latvian, per inter-language" - I'm not entirely sure what you mean.

"and a bit of structure, such as History and Description" - Done.

I also thought that this hook was interesting based on new content that I added to the article

ALT1: ~~... that before the Cabinet of Folksongs (pictured) was completed, the folksongs were stored in cigarette-paper boxes?~~ SL93 (talk) 12:03, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for excellent work. Next time, please don't just change a hook and/or pic but put them below your original signature, in case someone wants to follow the discussion. Fine for this one. - I'm not happy with ALT1 which misses HOW important this is (which could be fixed by adding "now UNESCO memory"), and - worse, "Latvian" (which could be fixed by at least using the Latvian name, - I mean, cabinet of folksongs could be almost anything.) So:

I approve the modified original at this point. If you want to pursue the cigarette boxes, please nominate below. The image is licensed and almost a must, - I hope a prep builder will agree. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:15, 3 August 2020 (UTC)