Talk:Dennis Howard Green

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Review: February 28, 2021. (Reviewed version).

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A fact from Dennis Howard Green appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 March 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Dennis Howard Green was such a productive book reviewer for the Modern Language Review that they implemented a rule called Lex Green, which limits the number of reviews per person to three per year?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/March. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Dennis Howard Green.

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Wording query[edit]

The article says "was an elected University Lecturer in German at Cambridge from 1950 to 1966", but I don't think university positions (as opposed to College fellowships) were elected. It's true that in the source of this point, Roger Paulin says, "he was elected to a Research Fellowship at Trinity, then to a University Lectureship in Cambridge", but I would go with "appointed" all the same. --Pfold (talk) 14:32, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Dennis Howard Green/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Whiteguru (talk · contribs) 03:24, 26 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Starts GA Review; the review will follow the same sections of the Article.

Lede[edit]

Is it reasonably well written?

Short, sharp lede which gives indication of what is to come;

Early Life and Education[edit]

Is it reasonably well written?

Introduces war experience (and benefits) and qualifications in German.

Early Career[edit]

Is it reasonably well written?

Multilingual, he was Chair of the Department of Other Languages at Cambridge
Account The Carolingian Lord he was Chair of Modern Languages at Cambridge.

Schröder Professor of German[edit]

Is it reasonably well written?

Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival. A profound influence, not only on Heinrich Himmler.
consistently authored his monographs on Medieval German literature in English, which made them available to a broader audience.

Retirement from Cambridge[edit]

Is it reasonably well written?

A prophet for his times: covered topics recently made relevant by critical theory, such as reading, listening, orality, literacy and the role of women

Death and legacy[edit]

Is it reasonably well written?

one the last representatives of the so-called Cambridge tradition, dating back to the nineteenth century, in which the study of literature proceeded from philology

Personal life[edit]

Is it reasonably well written?

Noted.

Selected Works[edit]

Is it reasonably well written?

Medieval listening and reading : the primary reception of German literature 800-1300. Narrative is meant to be listened to, before reading.

References[edit]

Is it reasonably well written?

Examined.

Sources[edit]

Is it reasonably well written?

Examined. Appropriate.

End Matter[edit]

Is it is Broad in its coverage?

Quite so.

Is it Verifiable with no original research?

Yes.

Does the article meet notability guidelines?

Yes.

Does it follow WP:NPOV Neutral Point of View?

Yes. Quite independent.

Is it stable?

This page started life on 21 January 2016;
There have been 47 edits to this page by 16 editors
The page has had 387 views over the last 90 day
There are no tags on the page
There is no evidence of edit warring on the page;

Top editors are

    * Krakkos
    * Pfold
    * Tom.Reding
    * Dl2000
    * Velocipedus

It is illustrated by images ?

There are a number of images, apposite and well placed.
Infobox image is from the university and qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law;
Tristan and Isolde: this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer;
Parzival image is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer;
Iron Helmet image is licensed by the owner: under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic;
Trinity College image is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International;

Overall[edit]

This is a rather succinct article about a fellow of Trinity College who had a career in philology and Germanic Languages unparalleled in Cambridge, the last of a strong tradition.

Conclusion[edit]

Passed --Whiteguru (talk) 03:28, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination[edit]

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 SL93 (talk) 02:02, 17 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Article history

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... that Dennis Howard Green wrote all the twenty book reviews for the Modern Language Review in 1975? Source: Palmer, Nigel (9 May 2009). "Memorial for Dennis Howard Green". Trinity College Cambridge Annual Record. Trinity College, Cambridge: 123. Retrieved 3 October 2020. Dennis may not himself have engaged with these issues, but he was extremely well read, and worked his way through all the latest developments. In the year 1975 he published all of twenty book reviews in Modern Language Review. This gave rise to what is called the Lex Green, according to which the editors of Modern Language Review permit a maximum of three reviews by any one person in a year.
- ALT1:... that Dennis Howard Green was such a productive book reviewer for the Modern Language Review that they implemented a rule called Lex Green, which limits the amount of reviews per person to three per year? Source: Palmer, Nigel (9 May 2009). "Memorial for Dennis Howard Green". Trinity College Cambridge Annual Record. Trinity College, Cambridge: 123. Retrieved 3 October 2020. Dennis may not himself have engaged with these issues, but he was extremely well read, and worked his way through all the latest developments. In the year 1975 he published all of twenty book reviews in Modern Language Review. This gave rise to what is called the Lex Green, according to which the editors of Modern Language Review permit a maximum of three reviews by any one person in a year.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Dog Day Afternoon

Improved to Good Article status by Krakkos (talk). Self-nominated at 11:38, 28 February 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Approve Alt1 This is a GA review passed article that did so on the 28th and nominated on the same day, so is new enough. Obviously, it is long enough because of that. The article reads neutrally and has proper usage of in-line citations (again, unsurprising for a GA). The copyvio tool found no issues as well. I'm going to go with Alt1 as being the more interesting one and it is properly cited in-line, so no problems there. The QPQ has been done and there's no image to review. Looks good to go! Silver seren^C 18:14, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]