Talk:Paddy O'Day

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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:28, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

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• ... that a reviewer praised child star Jane Withers' expressiveness in the title role of Paddy O'Day, saying that she "sings, dances, talks with eyes, hands, feet and hair"? Source: "Jane is versatile. She uses a County Cork brogue more than an inch thick, then doubles in Russian. She sings, dances, talks with eyes, hands, feet and hair". (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  • ALT1:... that in the 1936 comedy-drama Paddy O'Day, child star Jane Withers sings an Irish song with an Irish accent and a Russian song with a Russian accent? Source: "In Paddy O'Day, for example, she performs a Russian number in Russian costume and accent, "I Like a Balalaika" (Troy Sanders and Edward Eliscu), and sings "Keep a Twinkle in Your Eye" (Troy Sanders and Edward Eliscu) in an Irish accent". (Fantasies of Neglect)

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5x expanded by Yoninah (talk). Self-nominated at 14:34, 22 May 2020 (UTC).

• 5× expansion of 21 February 2020 version completed from 302 characters to 6,693 and nominated one day after first expansion. No copyvios detected and duplication detector check of online sources [1][2] reveal no close paraphrasing issues (AGF books and article scans which can't go through Dup detector). Article is well-sourced. Main hook is 169 characters long (ALT1 is 149); both are under the 200 character max. limit and are interesting. Refs 3 and 14 (verifying the hook and ALT1) are reliable sources from Google Books and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, respectively. QPQ done. Looks good to go! —Bloom6132 (talk) 02:00, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

• @Bloom6132: I had tweaked the ALT1 hook because it was incorrect. The first song is not an "Irish song", but a song that Withers sang with her character's Irish accent. The second song wasn't really a Russian song, but a takeoff of one. I'm wondering if the ALT0 is simply the better option, in which case we could strike ALT1. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 11:17, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

• Agreed, ALT0 would be the better choice since it is less ambiguous. Struck out ALT1 per your request. —Bloom6132 (talk) 17:06, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

• @Bloom6132: Thank you. Now, I have one more question. It seems to me that the review should have had an "and" here: She sings, dances, and talks with eyes, hands, feet and hair, and that the last part of the quote refers to her talking, not to her singing or dancing. I wonder if the hook should be written this way:
• ALT0a: ... that a reviewer praised child star Jane Withers' expressiveness in the title role of Paddy O'Day, saying that she "talks with eyes, hands, feet and hair"? Yoninah (talk) 17:18, 26 May 2020 (UTC)