Template:Did you know nominations/Richard Cobb

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The following discussion 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 Allen3 talk 09:36, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Richard Cobb[edit]

  • ... that a fellow academic described the historian Richard Cobb as "a Parisian street urchin"?

5x expanded by SteveStrummer (talk). Self nominated at 09:49, 9 March 2014 (UTC).

  • Date and length OK. Hook citation checks out. A notable subject showing careful research. Image problem: Halfway down the article is a fair-use image whose image-file says that its purpose-of-use is "to serve as the primary means of visual identification at the top of the article dedicated to the work in question" but that is not the case, and the image would not be appropriate for the biography infobox. I cannot see how to deal with this without abandoning the image. To speed up the DYK process it would be easiest to remove the image until after DYK is done, then sort out the image afterwards - however if you do that, the image would get a speedy-deletion tag due to being unused on an article page. One alternative would be to abandon the image to its fate, and replace it with a link in a citation. (I have corrected the source link on the filepage as it didn't work). Since this is a biographical article, it would be valid to replace the image with others showing places where he grew up, people he was associated with, and buildings or places where he studied or worked, for example. Links: The link to "essayist" goes to a list of essayists. If you could kindly sort out these matters, then I'll strike through the above negative comments and the nom should be good to go. --Storye book (talk) 10:47, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
I have removed the link and image. Thank you for the review! SteveStrummer (talk) 22:26, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
  • Thank you for sorting out the above. Good to go. --Storye book (talk) 07:56, 10 March 2014 (UTC)