Template:Did you know nominations/New England White

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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 Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 01:52, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

New England White[edit]

Author Stephen L. Carter in 2015
Author Stephen L. Carter in 2015

Created by Fish and karate (talk). Self-nominated at 11:44, 19 April 2018 (UTC).


General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: Yes
  • Interesting: No - Both alts can be improved:
    • ALT0: ... that New England White, the second fiction novel by Stephen L. Carter (pictured), tells the story of a university president who may be covering up a murder to protect the U.S. president?
    • ALT1: ... that in the fiction novel New England White, author Stephen L. Carter (pictured) writes about the murders of a black professor and a black schoolgirl set in a town described as "the heart of whiteness"?
Personally I think new ALT0 is better. epicgenius (talk) 15:32, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: epicgenius (talk) 15:32, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

@Epicgenius: - how about:

    • ALT0: ... that New England White, the second novel by Stephen L. Carter (pictured), tells the story of a university president who may be covering up a murder to protect the U.S. president?

We don't need to specify it's a fiction novel. All novels are fiction. Your alt1 is not an improvement, it's too wordy. How about:

    • ALT1: ... that in New England White, Stephen L. Carter (pictured) writes about the murders of a black professor and a black schoolgirl set in a town described as "the heart of whiteness"?

Fish+Karate 13:57, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

@Fish and karate: Point noted. Your second proposed hooks are fine, but what I was getting at is that the message conveyed in ALT0 is better than the message in ALT1.
Your second ALT0 is good to go, unless you object. I have stricken the other hooks for clarity. epicgenius (talk) 14:18, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
@Epicgenius: Happy with the revised ALT0, thank you for taking the time to review the nomination, it's much appreciated. Cheers, Fish+Karate 14:53, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
Note to promoter: The image already appeared on the main page in February 2018 with the hook for The Emperor of Ocean Park. Yoninah (talk) 20:34, 2 May 2018 (UTC)