Template:Did you know nominations/Hannes Pétursson

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The result was: promoted by Miyagawa (talk) 17:55, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Hannes Pétursson

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• ... that the University of Oklahoma have described Hannes Pétursson as "one of Iceland's most eminent poets"?

Created/expanded by Dr. Blofeld (talk). Self nom at 16:56, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Reviewed Battle of Martynów

• Citation needed tag needs to be dealt with. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:06, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
• Tag (and some text before it) has been removed. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:07, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

• Added another. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:33, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

• I may have fixed this. Yngvadottir (talk) 02:55, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

• I don't like the hook. First off, the University of Oklahoma didn't describe him; rather this is a statement in a journal published by University of Oklahoma Press. The article now attributes the statement to "A writer in World Literature Today". That vague attribution makes it clear that the source of the statement is a snippet view on Google Books of a small part of page 834. The author and title of the piece aren't identified because they weren't visible in snippet view. Short snippets are not a sound basis for DYK facts. --Orlady (talk) 05:01, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

• My fault for referencing it so precisely; Dr. Blofeld may well have had this and the other cited book physically in his hand, but I don't. So let me suggest:

ALT1 ... that Hannes Pétursson's poetry has been translated from Icelandic into 12 languages? --Yngvadottir (talk) 12:06, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

ALT1 is good, and so is the rest of the nomination. (Article is long enough, new enough, sufficiently footnoted, and did not contain apparent evidence of close paraphrasing.) My only quibble is that his work probably has been translated into more than 12 languages by now -- that number was reported in 1988, and the number of languages is likely to have grown in the last 24 years. I considered tweaking the article and hook to say "at least 12", but that could be considered original research. --Orlady (talk) 13:56, 13 August 2012 (UTC)