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A fact from Maria Giustina Turcotti appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 May 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that several composers wrote coloratura arias specifically for the voice of Italian opera singer Maria Giustina Turcotti?
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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 22:48, 13 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Overall: @4meter4: Everything looks OK to me; no plagiarism on scan, assuming good faith on the offline sources. Minor suggestion: maybe clarify that the quote in the hook came from a pan of the show? Not clear from this whether the critic liked it or not. (May also improve sensitivity: this isn't a BLP but the hook is somewhat negative, so it may help to clarify that this is one critic reviewing one show, not someone delivering an authoritative verdict, if that makes sense.) Gnomingstuff (talk) 16:25, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Gnomingstuff I wouldn't say the quoted review came from a "pan" of Andrea Bernasconi's Il Bajazet. The image is a caricature from that production by the critic's brother (the well known artist Antonio Maria Zanetti), but the quote is from a serious review of the production published in the periodical Archivio Veneto by a well known 18th century Italian critic, editor and writer, Girolamo Zanetti. He himself would make a good wiki article. You can read more about him here. There's also another citation to the quote in the article which gives more detail about where this quote came from; but I used the Royal Collection website here because its online and easier to see for checking the hook fact. I kept it short here because explaining the hook properly made it too long, and it was 'hookier' to leave it short. Sadly, the existing academic scholarship on Turcotti focuses predominantly on negative criticism involving her weight, and it is the primary focus of practically every detailed biographical entry on the singer found in published RS. For example, her biography in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians does not mention a single opera she performed in but spends over half the article talking about her weight and quoting negative comments about her weight. In essence the hook is a reflection of the scholarship which has tended to focus in on the Zanetti caricature and the many negative critical reviews and/or comments made by colleagues and employers regarding her size during the latter part of her career. 4meter4 (talk) 16:51, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Got it -- I did get that impression from what I read of the biographies. As far as the quoted review, I was referring to the Royal Collection Trust calling it "scathing," but will take your word for it... Gnomingstuff (talk) 19:12, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I tried to get an opinion on the hook and the "fat shaming". I see the long explanation and the reason for the hook. I have been hesitant to promote the hook until I heard from leeky, but they have been absent. I note that @BorgQueen: was equally apprehensive about the hook. I will promote the hook and if there are objections we will see them appear in DYKtalk. Bruxton (talk) 22:45, 13 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@4meter4: Everything looks OK to me; no plagiarism on scan, assuming good faith on the offline sources. Minor suggestion: maybe clarify that the quote in the hook came from a pan of the show? Not clear from this whether the critic liked it or not. (May also improve sensitivity: this isn't a BLP but the hook is somewhat negative, so it may help to clarify that this is one critic reviewing one show, not someone delivering an authoritative verdict, if that makes sense.) Gnomingstuff (talk) 16:25, 25 April 2023 (UTC)