Template:Did you know nominations/Alfred Kroeber: A Personal Configuration

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 05:52, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

Alfred Kroeber: A Personal Configuration

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• ... that Theodora Kroeber's biography of her husband was described by anthropologist David G. Mandelbaum as being as important from an anthropological perspective as Ishi in Two Worlds?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/KVUE (California)
  • Comment: Having a little trouble coming up with a punchy hook, likely because I've been staring at the sources all day. Suggestions are welcome.

Moved to mainspace by Vanamonde93 (talk). Self-nominated at 04:02, 31 October 2022 (UTC).

• SD0001 Thanks for cleaning this up: any idea what I did wrong? I used the nomination form, I didn't think there was much syntax to get wrong. Vanamonde (Talk) 04:22, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
  • Vanamonde93 The biography wikilink in the hook in the original revision was missing the second closing bracket. However, I'm not sure why a benign syntax issue like that was causing template substitution to fail altogether. – SD0001 (talk) 14:06, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
    • Interesting, thanks again. Vanamonde (Talk) 14:25, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
• I'm not really sure if most readers would get the significance of Ishi, so may I give a suggestion? I thought it was interesting that someone would write a biography on her husband. Maybe lean more towards that angle instead? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 14:38, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

  @Narutolovehinata5: How's ALT1 and ALT2 below? Vanamonde (Talk) 16:37, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

• ALT1: ... that Theodora Kroeber wrote a biography of her husband that was described as a work of value to anthropologists?

• ALT2: ... that Theodora Kroeber wrote a biography of her husband that was described as a "welcome and refreshing exception" to the "often embarrassing" biographies of men written by their wives?

I think ALT2 is the best option here. This does still need a full review though. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:01, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

• Repeating that this nom still needs a full review. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:26, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
• Well-written and intriguing article. New enough, long enough, well sourced, no copyvio, neutral, critical reception section is balanced. QPQ is done. Hook has been reworked. I wanted to propose 1 minor edit to ALT2, and that is a descriptor for Theodora, since we've now lost the connection to anthropology. @Vanamonde93: So how about:

• ALT2a: ... that anthropologist Theodora Kroeber wrote a biography of her husband that was described as a "welcome and refreshing exception" to the "often embarrassing" biographies of men written by their wives? Cielquiparle (talk) 22:47, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

• @Cielquiparle: That works for me, thank you! As it's only a single word change, I believe you would be justified in approving it yourself. Vanamonde (Talk) 23:04, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

• Approving ALT2a as good to go. Cielquiparle (talk) 23:23, 15 November 2022 (UTC)