Talk:Clair Cline

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: promoted by Schwede66 talk 04:54, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

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• ... that a prisoner of war in a Nazi prison camp built a violin out of scrap material?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Native American Educational Services College
  • Comment: QPQ and further expansion of article to follow.

Created by Cielquiparle (talk). Self-nominated at 06:52, 2 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Clair Cline; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• @Cielquiparle: Review:
  • Article created 27 Dec 2023; nominated 2nd Jan 2024; New enough;
  • DYK check indicates article is long enough;
  • Article is presentable; should be sufficient sourcing to meet GNG, though some copy editing could improve readability;
  • Copyvio clear;
  • Hook is interesting but has repetition of the word prison - welcome thoughts on ALT1:
    • ALT1: ... that while being held in Stalag Luft I an American prisoner of war built a violin out of scrap material?
  • Pending: No source for the hook fact given in nomination (however article references do support that fact). I further note reference [1] is behind a paywall - is there an archive version available that can be linked?
  • Pending: awaiting QPQ. ResonantDis_tortion 17:56, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
• @Cielquiparle: Just a reminder regarding the QPQ. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:17, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
• Thank you Cielquiparle for providing the QPQ, and for the extra work on the article. Hook fact is covered in article references so no issue there. This DYK nomination is approved - preferred ALT1. ResonantDis_tortion 09:59, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

@ResonantDistortion: Thanks for the review. I like your ALT hook especially because in researching this article, I became keenly aware that the term "prisoner of war" is sometimes used the other way around – i.e., there were articles that referred to him as a "German prisoner of war" (i.e., prisoner of the Nazis), though calling him an "American prisoner of war" is probably more standard. In thinking it through, naming the specific prison camp as you did helps to obviate that particular ambiguity. Anyway the promoter can decide and/or there may be other editors out there with more ALT hooks. Cielquiparle (talk) 10:30, 14 January 2024 (UTC)