Template:Did you know nominations/Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:34, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
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Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
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Illustration by John Tenniel
... that Lewis Carroll may have based Alice (pictured) on Alice Liddell, a girl to whom he used to tell stories?
- Reviewed: La finta pazza
- Comment: I'm about three days late nominating this and I've dug the review up from last year.
Improved to Good Article status by Rapunzel-bellflower (talk). Nominated by Cwmhiraeth (talk) at 20:23, 26 September 2017 (UTC).
GA, long enough, sourced (giving a pass on the two plot-centric passages), offline/inline hook citations accepted AGF, image checks out, QPQ done. Late, but not enough to be an issue. @Cwmhiraeth and Rapunzel-bellflower: footnotes 62, 63, and 65 have errors. --Usernameunique (talk) 05:04, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
- @Usernameunique: Thank you for the review. A better, more mystifying hook would be
- ALT1 ... that Alice (pictured) may have been modelled on Alice? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:13, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
Cwmhiraeth ALT1 is fine as well. If you wished to merge the two, you could have:
ALT2: ... that Lewis Carroll may have based Alice (pictured) on Alice? --Usernameunique (talk) 05:24, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
- ALT1 or ALT2 would be fine. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:36, 27 September 2017 (UTC)