Talk:When Marnie Was There (novel)

Did you know nomination

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: rejected by Narutolovehinata5 (talk) 05:51, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
Currently ineligible for DYK; no prejudice against renomination if brought to GA status

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• ... that Joan G. Robinson felt that through writing the novel When Marnie Was There, she "faced the truth and found understanding" about her emotionally distant mother? "I am Anna of course, and Marnie is my mother. My mother was always un-get-atable. Without meaning to, she always let me down. I found this extremely difficult to forgive, for without realising parents are in the same boat as yourself, that they are children, too, you can’t forgive them for being frail and human. But until you learn to forgive, you yourself are crippled, can’t begin to grow up. Through writing Marnie I faced the truth and found understanding. It made things a lot better." Source: Carter, Hannah (September 29, 1969). "Charley". The Guardian. p. 7. (subscription may be required or content may be available in libraries)

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Forthcoming
• Comment: Source is a dead tree newspaper digitised in a library eResource service (ProQuest). I retrieved it through my British Library membership. You may contact me if you need help. This is the first time this fact has emerged on the surface web so I felt it was a particularly valuable article expansion.

5x expanded by JAYFAX (talk). Self-nominated at 21:39, 18 September 2021 (UTC).

• Managed to find offline source text on Newspapers.com, quote checks out. First DYK nomination so no QPQ necessary. Unfortunately the article was expanded over the course of a year, and DYK requires it to have been expanded within the last 7 days of nomination. It's very well written, illustrated and laid out though, good enough to be a Good article in my opinion. If you want to nominate it again as a recent GA promotion I think the same hook again would pass without a hitch. DigitalIceAge (talk) 08:54, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

• @DigitalIceAge: Thank you very much for the kind comments, it is very encouraging. I will consider a GA nomination! I apologise for my misunderstanding of the DYK requirements. JAYFAX (talk) 21:25, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

• I apologise for my misunderstanding of the DYK requirements. No problem! DigitalIceAge (talk) 22:50, 30 September 2021 (UTC)