Template:Did you know nominations/William Chaney

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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) 06:43, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

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William Chaney[edit]

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  • ... that American historian William Chaney would pretend to "shudder and avert his gaze whenever he passed the statue of General Sherman"? Source: Mayr-Harting 2013: "Another rhetorical pose was his always pretending to shudder and avert his gaze whenever he passed the statue of General Sherman in Appleton!"
    • ALT1:... that William Chaney took a legal view of monsters? Source: Spear, Schulenburg & Hittle 2013: "Chaney published several articles in journals such as the Journal of British Studies and the Harvard Theological Review. Perhaps his most widely cited article is “Grendel and the Gifstol: a Legal View of Monsters,” which appeared in 1962 in PMLA."

5x expanded by Usernameunique (talk). Self-nominated at 06:24, 7 January 2018 (UTC).

  • Incomplete review. Please remember, Please begin with one of the 5 review symbols that appear at the top of the edit screen, and then indicate all aspects of the article that you have reviewed. That means specifically mentioning them: newness, length, neutrality, copyvio/close paraphrasing, and all the rest. Thank you. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:14, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Full review: 5x expansion verified. New enough, long enough, neutrally written, adequately referenced, no close paraphrasing seen in online sources. QPQ done. Both hooks are great; I have a slight preference for ALT1. I added "American historian" to ALT0 because it adds a wry touch to the historical Sherman; I also added "pretend" because that was part of the quote. ALT0 hook ref verified and cited inline. Offline ALT1 hook ref AGF and cited inline. Good to go. Yoninah (talk) 23:56, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
  • @Usernameunique: what do you think about paraphrasing the quote here and in the article? Like:
  • ALT0a: * ... that American historian William Chaney would pretend to shiver and look the other way whenever he walked by a statue of General Sherman"? Yoninah (talk) 00:05, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
  • Yoninah, that looks good to me. I made one minor change: "the statue" to "a statue", which feels more appropriate when not quoting. --Usernameunique (talk) 03:47, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
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