Talk:Ludwig Grass

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 04:17, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

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Ludwig Grass

• ... that in 1852 Ludwig Grass (pictured) donated 20,000 guilders to build the first state secondary school in Liechtenstein? Source: "Eine höhere Lehranstalt in Liechtenstein wurde schon in den 1790er Jahren von den fürstlichen Beamten diskutiert und im Revolutionsjahr 1848 gefordert. Aber erst eine Privatinitiative von Ludwig Grass ermöglichte die Realisierung dieses Vorhabens: er schenkte dem Staat 1857 zur Gründung einer «Landesrealschule» 20 000 Gulden, worauf 1858 die zweijährige «Landeshauptschule» in Vaduz geschaffen wurde."
  • ALT1: ... that everyone left Liechtenstein for secondary schools until Ludwig Grass (pictured) donated 20,000 guilders to build one? Source: "Eine höhere Lehranstalt in Liechtenstein wurde schon in den 1790er Jahren von den fürstlichen Beamten diskutiert und im Revolutionsjahr 1848 gefordert. Aber erst eine Privatinitiative von Ludwig Grass ermöglichte die Realisierung dieses Vorhabens: er schenkte dem Staat 1857 zur Gründung einer «Landesrealschule» 20 000 Gulden, worauf 1858 die zweijährige «Landeshauptschule» in Vaduz geschaffen wurde."

https://historisches-lexikon.li/Realschule

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  • Comment: Image is far from necessary, so feel free to disregard the notion of placing it with the hook if there's a better one to be placed instead. The second hook was suggested to me as an alternative.

Created by TheBritinator (talk). Self-nominated at 22:19, 7 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Ludwig Grass; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• OK, the article is fine--long enough, new enough, no plagiarism, etc. My problem is with the hook. ALT1 is kind of funny, but also a bit misleading. "People left Liechtenstei"n is a bit dramatic, and "for secondary schools" is ambiguous; "for secondary schooling" would be better. But who knows, maybe there was a high school right across the border in Austria or Switzerland? Anyway, that's a thing. "Had to go across the border to attend high school" or something like that, that might work, but then, your source doesn't actually say that--it says there wasn't secondary schooling until he etc. For another thing, I think this needs a year, for clarity, and it needs something on Liechtenstein--perhaps a link, in violation of MOS:OVERLINK, but so few people actually know where and what it is, or some short note. Please consider that, User:TheBritinator. Thanks for writing it up, Drmies (talk) 22:08, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
  • Thanks for the review Drmies. The ALT1 hook was suggested to me by another user. Personally, I am more in favour of the first one due to its simplicity, but I added both since they could both potentially work. If a date would make it more clear, then the first could be modified to "...that in 1852, Ludwig Grass (pictured) donated 20,000 guilders to build the first state secondary school in Liechtenstein?". That may also be considered. TheBritinator (talk) 01:37, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
    • Sure thing TheBritinator. Please, tweak that first hook in that way--it's uncontroversial, but if I do it someone is going to complain. Ping me when you're done. Drmies (talk) 15:15, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
      • Drmies - Done. TheBritinator (talk) 15:30, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

• Go with the first hook. Drmies (talk) 15:33, 16 January 2024 (UTC)