Template:Did you know nominations/Jean-François Champollion
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The result was: promoted by Miyagawa (talk) 11:13, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
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Jean-François Champollion[edit]
- ... that Jean-François Champollion's (pictured) first major publication on the decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs was reviewed anonymously by Thomas Young, his main rival?
- Comment: Expanded from less than 1kb to 29kb prose size
5x expanded by Maunus (talk). Self nominated at 22:03, 5 January 2015 (UTC).
Article is fivefold expanded within five days before nomination. QPQ is not done; is this among your five first DYK articles? The article is very comprehensive and inline cited to reliable sources. I haven't checked for copyvio/close paraphrasing as the sources is mostly off-line and the one I found online (pdf) wasn't cited to exact page so much to look through. But assuming good faith here. The rule of thumb at DYK is that every paragraph should have at least one citation; in this article there is a few paragraphs that's lacking citations, and while we don't need to follow this rule slavishly, you can see if there are more paragraphs you want to add citations to. In particular I think the sentence "laying the foundation for all subsequent discoveries in egyptology" should have a citation. (I was also wondering if Death and Legacy should be one section, as except for the first sentence, all other content is actually legacy). A few places, like in the beginning of the Précis section, the style appears a bit story-telling to me and in my eyes strays a bit from an encyclopedic tone, but this is just my personal preferences, probably. Otherwise, I think this article is good to go. Iselilja (talk) 18:47, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
- Ok, I'll do a QPQ today, and add some sources in the places you mention.User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 18:50, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
- I've done a QPQ review of Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Scipio_Kennedy.User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 21:49, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
I see you are still working on the article, but I'll just sign it off now as I think it is absolutely good enough for DYK standard. The photo is assumed by Wikimedia to be in the public domain (photography of 100+ old art). The hook is short enough, interesting and inline cited, though to an offline source, so AGF. (The text doesn't explicitly say "first major work", just mentions title; but I don't think there's a problem with that since it's not the main point of hook and probably clear from the full article). I notice that there has historically been some dispute regarding the importance of Champollion vs Young and I don't have expertise to make my own call whether the article is fully neutral in all aspects, but I trust the author. Iselilja (talk) 22:51, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
