Template:Did you know nominations/Robert Sickinger

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:23, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Robert Sickinger

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~~... that director Robert Sickinger gave notes to his actors throughout the run of a show?~~ Source: "He was in the audience almost every night and constantly, no matter what stage of the run, would come backstage after performances with notes"
- ALT1:~~... that Robert Sickinger, an acclaimed theater director, ended up running a telemarketing company?~~ Source: "At 62 ... he runs an answering service in New York."

Reviewed: Call Me by Your Name (film)

Created by Yunshui (talk). Self-nominated at 10:13, 27 October 2017 (UTC).

QPQ done, new enough, in time, free of copyright problems, long enough, source checks out, hook is interesting. Would prefer if we go with ALT1 . This is good to go. FITINDIA 11:16, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi, I came by to promote this, but I think you could do more with the hook. Calling him "acclaimed" without telling us what he did looks like puffery. Perhaps you could work something around his founding "off-loop" theater? Yoninah (talk) 12:49, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

ALT 2:.. "that Robert Sickinger, the father of Chicago's "off-Loop" theater scene, ended up running a telemarketing company?" Yunshui ^雲 _水 13:05, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

@Yunshui: sorry, I don't see why ALT2 is hooky; it just sounds sad. I looked at the New York Times source and see that you wrote a very start-class article, leaving out a lot of good information. I added some of that from the New York Times, and suggest:
ALT3: ... that Robert Sickinger, the father of Chicago's "off-Loop" theater scene, raised eyebrows with his decision to stage plays by Edward Albee, Harold Pinter, Athol Fugard, and Amiri Baraka? Yoninah (talk) 22:27, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

New reviewer needed to check ALT3. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:26, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
While personally I would prefer ALT2 actually (why is it sad?) there are no problems with this hook. !dave 07:29, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

@My name is not dave: thank you. Let's leave it to the promoter to decide. Yoninah (talk) 13:59, 29 November 2017 (UTC)