Template:Did you know nominations/Max Steiner

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:53, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Max Steiner

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• ... that Max Steiner was often criticized for his excessive use of "mickey mousing" in his film scores? Source: Cook, Mervyn, ed. The Hollywood Music Reader, p.56
  • ALT1:... that George Lucas instructed John Williams to base the Star Wars film score on works such as those of Max Steiner? Source:[1]
  • ALT2:... that in his youth Max Steiner studied under composers such as Mahler, Weingartner and Eysler? Source: Daubney, Kate Max Steiner's 'Now, Voyager' :A Film Score Guide, p.2

• Reviewed: Shiena Nishizawa

Improved to Good Article status by Skyes(BYU) (talk) and Light show (talk). Nominated by Skyes(BYU) (talk) at 21:48, 15 August 2018 (UTC).

•  Doing... Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 23:48, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

• The article was promoted to good article status on August 14, three days before the nomination, so the newness requirement is met. Unable to find any paraphrasing issues. The article is adequately cited: ALT0 and ALT2 being sourced to an offline source are accepted AGF, ALT1 appears to be verified but slightly inaccurate (the article states that Lucas's instructions were to base the score on composers such as Steiner, not specifically Steiner, though I guess it's close enough). QPQ has been provided. My issues are more with the hooks themselves: I'd recommend you wikilinking to all names as well as to "mickey-mousing" (and ideally put it in quotation marks since it's an unusual term). Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 08:57, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

• I made the fixes you suggested as well as altered hook ALT1 to better reflect the source, but I have no real preference for which hook is chosen. Skyes(BYU) (talk) 21:13, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

• There are no more problems so I guess this is good to go. Any of the three hooks is fine, but I'm less keen on ALT1 for the reasons I mentioned above, although I still modified it to address the existing issues. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 01:07, 22 August 2018 (UTC)