- 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 Theleekycauldron (talk) 07:38, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
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Fir teg
- ... that the final scene in the 1931 Soviet Yiddish theatrical play Fir teg is said to be inspired by the mass suicide at the siege of Masada? Source: "A play about a group of ideologues who wait un- der siege for the enemy to approach, deciding at the last minute to take their own lives rather than be captured, evokes the story of Masada" (https://books.google.at/books?id=qXHw3Uzh5qQC&pg=PA98 )
Created by Soman (talk). Self-nominated at 22:37, 19 September 2022 (UTC).
Article is new enough. QPQP is done. The article's title should be italicized using Template:Italic title. Krisgabwoosh (talk) 17:31, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
- @Soman and Krisgabwoosh: I'm not sure that the source and hook match up; the source says that the play evokes the siege, whereas this hooks says that the source says that the play was inspired by the siege, which implies authorial intent. Can the hook be tweaked? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 23:13, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
- I don't really see the difference in meaning. In evoking the siege, it is inspired. I don't think the source implies that the author would have evoked the Masada siege without being aware of it. But I'd be ok with ALT1: ... that the final scene in the 1931 Soviet Yiddish theatrical play Fir teg is said evoke the mass suicide at the siege of Masada? --Soman (talk) 19:34, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
- The difference here would be that "inspired" implies the playwrite directly based the scene off of the historical event, whereas "evoke" simply means that the scene calls back to the event. It's a small but important difference that changes the accuracy of the hook. Krisgabwoosh (talk) 21:01, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
- I don't really see the difference in meaning. In evoking the siege, it is inspired. I don't think the source implies that the author would have evoked the Masada siege without being aware of it. But I'd be ok with ALT1: ... that the final scene in the 1931 Soviet Yiddish theatrical play Fir teg is said evoke the mass suicide at the siege of Masada? --Soman (talk) 19:34, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
- @Soman and Krisgabwoosh: I'm not sure that the source and hook match up; the source says that the play evokes the siege, whereas this hooks says that the source says that the play was inspired by the siege, which implies authorial intent. Can the hook be tweaked? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 23:13, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
