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A fact from Alexandru Talex appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 June 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Latest comment: 2 months ago6 comments3 people in discussion
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.
Source: Ion Căpățână, "Temoignage. Panaït Istrati ou l'homme qui n'a adhéré à rien", in Cahiers Panaït Istrati, Issue 4, December 1976, p. 24. You can read a print here.
ALT1: ... that Alexandru Talex(pictured), who was novelist Panait Istrati's confidant and posthumous promoter, produced "superficial, negligent, or downright aberrant" footnotes to Istrati's letters? Source: Mircea Iorgulescu, "Vieți paralele. Recunoașterea", in Vatra, Vol. XXX, Issue 391, October 2003, p. 25 -- includes both the quote and detail on Istrati's relationship with Talex (the latter is detailed in a million other sources as well).
Comment: I'm hoping this gets accepted, even though I was myself superficial, negligent, or downright aberrant in not making sure to submit it within the required interval (and just some hours over it).
Created by Dahn (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 109 past nominations.
Interesting substantial life and work, on plenty of good-looking sources, foreign and offline sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. I lean towards the original hook (as more positive about the subject), but am afraid that the organisation will not be known to many readers, and while I thing "paramilitary" is meant to explain what it is, it wasn't clear for me just from reading the hook. Could you say that differently? The image is licensed, and shows the period well. I don't mind a slightly late nom, especially of such a substantial addition to our knowledge. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:55, 27 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
Fair point, Gerda, and thank you for giving this article such a thorough second-look. In light of the above, how about: