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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:29, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
... that the soprano Melitta Muszely appeared as the four women Hoffmann loves in the legendary Felsenstein 1958 production and its later DEFA film, and sang recitals until 2008? Source: several
Reviewed: to come
Comment: Sorry, I discovered the article only today, due to vacation. I hope that can be forgiven in women's month?
Overall: Almost there! To improve the hook: I don't think you have enough weight in the sources for "legendary" to appear on the Main Page. This is the only source I saw that says that. And, IMO, it is better to omit the DEFA film in the hook. It is the least interesting part of the hook. Short and sweet is hookier. Also, would you object to saying "... and sang recitals until age 80?" The math works. She turned 80 in Sept. 2007. This source I think specifically says she was 80 years old when she retired from her career. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 09:51, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
Thank you. I added "legendary" because I know that Felsenstein was legendary, but doubt that's common knowledge decades later. Any suggestion? If we drop DEFA we should at least add KOB, for those who don't associate GDR immidiately. No objections to "80". Will do qpq shortly. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:57, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
Agree, re: KOB.--- Coffeeandcrumbs 10:04, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
Not so happy for two reasons, wrong chronology, and I'd prefer the thing first for which she will be remembered. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:42, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
Created on March 11 (9 days before nom). New enough thru minor evocation of IAR for Women's Month. Long enough, well sourced (AGF for German language sources) and written with NPOV. No obvious COPYVIO issues per Earwig's. Hook ALT 1 (~173 characters) is cited, interesting, and approved. QPQ done. Good to go.--- Coffeeandcrumbs 17:02, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
Almost there! To improve the hook: I don't think you have enough weight in the sources for "legendary" to appear on the Main Page. This is the only source I saw that says that. And, IMO, it is better to omit the DEFA film in the hook. It is the least interesting part of the hook. Short and sweet is hookier. Also, would you object to saying "... and sang recitals until age 80?" The math works. She turned 80 in Sept. 2007. This source I think specifically says she was 80 years old when she retired from her career. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 09:51, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
Created on March 11 (9 days before nom). New enough thru minor evocation of IAR for Women's Month. Long enough, well sourced (AGF for German language sources) and written with NPOV. No obvious COPYVIO issues per Earwig's. Hook ALT 1 (~173 characters) is cited, interesting, and approved. QPQ done. Good to go.--- Coffeeandcrumbs 17:02, 22 March 2019 (UTC)