Template:Did you know nominations/Godfrid Storms

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 14:04, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Godfrid Storms

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• ... that Godfrid Storms wrote his dissertation about magic? Source: Pretty self-explanatory, dissertation name is Anglo-Saxon Magic.

• Reviewed: Psalm Wooching

5x expanded by Usernameunique (talk). Self-nominated at 08:31, 20 March 2018 (UTC).

Interesting life, solid expansion. on good sources, no copyvio obvious. The hook is too general for my taste, how about "charms" instead of "magic", for more charm? - Article: a lead doesn't need references, only quotes in it. I don't like this one word quote "important", better phrase who found it so an why. - The poor wife has no life, - that's sad ;) - Do we need his name with every publication? - I clicked on the external link, and was caught between "not found" and loading, and could never return, had to write the review a second time. Please make sure it works, and mention title and publisher, even if it's "only" an external link. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:09, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Thank for the review and feedback, Gerda Arendt. Removed the quotation from the lead, though I can't quite get myself to remove the references (moved them around a bit to make them less unwieldy though). I was extremely happy that Afasmit was able to find the scant personal details we have, including the name of his wife; maybe it would be easier to find if one can Google in Dutch, but I could barely find any personal details. Updated the external link to full reference format; the link does work for me (tried unsuccessfully to archive it as a workaround). Here are some alts:

ALT1: ... that Godfrid Storms catalogued 86 Anglo-Saxon charms?

ALT2: ... that Godfrid Storms wrote his dissertation about charms?

ALT3: ... that Godfrid's dissertation was stormy, magical, and charming? --Usernameunique (talk) 23:30, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. - Even if you know nothing about his wife but a name, you could say that they were married, and that she died before him, - I guess that's what "preceding" intends to mean? - The link: I tried again. The problem seems to be that I don't generally allow scripts, the site seems to struggle with that, finally says "not found", and then: no way back. Other sites don't struggle, they just don't show content, then I permit, then they show, - instead of this nervous flickering ;) - I may be the only one.

I prefer ALT1. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:39, 20 March 2018 (UTC)