Talk:The Vatican Rag

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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet talk 06:21, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

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"The Vatican Rag" by Tom Lehrer

• ... that Tom Lehrer wrote a ragtime song for the Catholic Church (audio featured)? Source: ref4, etc.
  • ALT0b: ... that Tom Lehrer wrote a ragtime song about the Catholic Church (audio featured)?
  • ALT1: ... that some Catholics criticized Tom Lehrer's "Vatican Rag" (audio featured)? Source: ref12, etc.
  • ALT1b: ... that some Catholics considered Tom Lehrer's "Vatican Rag" (audio featured) to be blasphemous? Source: ref9
  • ALT2: ... that according to a witness, the actor Ricardo Montalbán confronted Tom Lehrer after hearing his "Vatican Rag"? Source: ref14, p.143
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Grimace Shake (1 of 2)
  • Comment: Planning to write about handful of Lehrer's songs, hope we can feature some with audio files—which are wonderfully in the public domain

Converted from a redirect by Hameltion (talk). Self-nominated at 03:45, 4 November 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/The Vatican Rag; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• A Montalbán hook would be better with more details:
  ALT2a ... that after Tom Lehrer performed "The Vatican Rag" (audio featured), Ricardo Montalbán reportedly yelled "I will die for my religion!" and Lehrer quipped "... as long as you don't fight for your religion"?
  By my reckoning, that's exactly 200 characters, including an allowance for (audio featured). MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 06:27, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
  • Good point, ce'd the expansion slightly. Hameltion (talk | contribs) 23:57, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
    • Article is new enough, long enough, written neutrally, and appears to be free of copyvios. The audio file is in the public domain. QPQ has been done. The hooks are cited, interesting, and formatted correctly (assuming 'audio featured' is acceptable for audio files). I like both ALT0 and ALT1b. Good job. gobonobo ^{+ c} 19:29, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
      • In ALT0, I changed "for the Catholic Church" to "about the Catholic Church". It certainly wasn't written for them. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 20:33, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
        • Hmm, "for" was intentional but maybe too jokingly credulous. Split into separate lines if that's okay. Hameltion (talk | contribs) 20:54, 5 November 2023 (UTC)