Template:Did you know nominations/Hotel Les Trois Rois

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The result was: promoted by 4meter4 (talk) 15:36, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Hotel Les Trois Rois

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Hotel Les Trois Rois

• ... that political leaders who have stayed at the Hotel Les Trois Rois (pictured) include Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and the Dalai Lama?

• ALT1 ... that Hotel Les Trois Rois (pictured) is built on the site of "Drei Könige" (three kings), an itinerant merchants lodging thought to be named for the Biblical Magi who visited the baby Jesus?

Offering ALT1 — Maile (talk) 22:39, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

• Reviewed: Sushi machine

Created by Charles01 (talk). Nominated by SSTflyer (talk) at 08:33, 10 November 2015 (UTC).

• New enough, long enough, well referenced, neutrally written. Most of the sources are in German, so unable to check for close paraphrasing. First hook is AGF and cited inline. The second hook does not align with the wording in the article; the "Drei Könige" (Three Kings) is said to be a common name for inns in that area. If you want to mention the Magi in a hook, perhaps you could provide a reworded ALT. QPQ done. Image appears in article and is freely licensed. Yoninah (talk) 22:12, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

• I did not provide the second hook. sst✈^(discuss) 01:27, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

• I did not provide the second hook either, and I'm not very good with gratuitous jargon. A translation for "reworded ALT. QPQ" might be useful here! Regards Charles01 (talk) 09:01, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

• No problem. I just wondered if you liked the direction of the ALT. We can go with the original, but I'm wondering if you want to do something a little hookier? Like:
• ALT2: ... that Napoleon Bonaparte conducted a business lunch at the Hotel Les Trois Rois in 1798? Yoninah (talk) 10:11, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

Works for me. There's something engagingly anachronistic about the juxtaposition of a business lunch, which for me is a late twentieth century construct, and revolutionary emperor and genius military tactician/civil administrator who so troubled a generation of the Swiss two centuries earlier. But it provides a harmless jolt to the mental digestion, and I am keen that wikipedia entries should not be unnecessarily soporific. So yes .... good. Thanks. Charles01 (talk) 10:52, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. New reviewer needed for ALT2. Yoninah (talk) 15:03, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

• ALT2 has an inline citation and is acceptable. Otherwise, as per Yoninah's review. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 20:51, 23 November 2015 (UTC)