Template:Did you know nominations/Jørgen Læssøe
- 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) 08:46, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
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Jørgen Læssøe
- ... that when Jørgen Læssøe became Professor Extraordinaire of Assyriology at the University of Copenhagen in 1957, he was the only active professional Assyriologist in Denmark?
Created by Kingoflettuce (talk). Self-nominated at 13:21, 29 March 2022 (UTC).
- Kingoflettuce, I have had a look at the article and it seems to be almost entirely based on one source. Could you add something from (Google) translations of the non-English sources used in other Wikipedias (below) and/or reviews of The People of Ancient Assyria on JSTOR?
- Den Store Danske
- Copenhagen University obituaries
- Dansk Biografisk Leksikon. TSventon (talk) 20:27, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
- @TSventon: I'm not sure if that's part of the DYK criteria, and does this diminish the quality of the content in any way? I refrain from touching foreign-lang stuff if I don't understand it myself, and am especially wary of crude machine translations. Kingoflettuce (talk) 22:24, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
- @Kingoflettuce: I did read the criteria, and I think there is a danger of violating NPOV if you write an article based on a single source, as NPOV means representing the balance of "all the significant views that have been published by reliable sources on a topic". In this case the other sources paint a fairly similar picture. Based on the criteria, the article is newly created, well written, long enough, neutral, with no BLP problems, contains appropriate citations, does not contain overly close paraphrasing. A QPQ has been done, however I posted a copy of the article into javascriptkit.com and got 1506 characters before the final sentence was added, giving 1568. Do you think it is a valid QPQ as your review only mentioned length and NOTNEWS and the reviewing guide says "make sure that review adequately covers all of the DYK criteria just as yours will do"? TSventon (talk) 23:37, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks, the DYKbot gives 2003 characters though, not sure why the discrepancy. I have expanded on my Hitler teapot review. Cheers, Kingoflettuce (talk) 00:26, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
- @Kingoflettuce: I did read the criteria, and I think there is a danger of violating NPOV if you write an article based on a single source, as NPOV means representing the balance of "all the significant views that have been published by reliable sources on a topic". In this case the other sources paint a fairly similar picture. Based on the criteria, the article is newly created, well written, long enough, neutral, with no BLP problems, contains appropriate citations, does not contain overly close paraphrasing. A QPQ has been done, however I posted a copy of the article into javascriptkit.com and got 1506 characters before the final sentence was added, giving 1568. Do you think it is a valid QPQ as your review only mentioned length and NOTNEWS and the reviewing guide says "make sure that review adequately covers all of the DYK criteria just as yours will do"? TSventon (talk) 23:37, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
- I don't think it's a problem to rely mostly on one source either; not if it's a good one and an uncontroversial topic like this. But I've added material from these Danish and other sources, which has expanded the article a bit. – Joe (talk) 13:20, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
- @Joe Roe: Fabulous expansion, thank you!!! Kingoflettuce (talk) 14:32, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
- Kingoflettuce, I have had a look at the article and it seems to be almost entirely based on one source. Could you add something from (Google) translations of the non-English sources used in other Wikipedias (below) and/or reviews of The People of Ancient Assyria on JSTOR?
Kingoflettuce, than you for expanding the QPQ, and getting me to refresh my knowledge of the length rules. I am now happy to pass the nomination. TSventon (talk) 22:23, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
