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DYK for Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography[edit]

On 8 July 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography described its subject as a "liar", and yet, one reviewer felt that the author's "studiously neutral position ends up sounding like an apologia for Kosinski"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:03, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Flyover (book)[edit]

On 9 July 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Flyover (book), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Flyover, a 2023 science fiction novel by an American author, portraying a dystopian future where part of the US becomes a theocracy, was published in French but not in English? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Flyover (book). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Flyover (book)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:03, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Kościuszko at Racławice[edit]

Though somewhat messy (as most drafts are), Draft:Kościuszko at Racławice is promising. It is, or claims to be, a translation from a Polish WP article. Two sentences have got garbled, and unfortunately the creator/translator doesn't seem likely to respond. I've used the "Vague" template to mark the two bits that are screwed up. Could I interest you in a quick look at pl:Kościuszko pod Racławicami (obraz) and a touch-up for the relevant bits of the draft? -- Hoary (talk) 02:27, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Hoary Thanks, this is certainly a topic that interests me, so I did a c/e. Also fixed few other errors. I think the article is publishable (I've seen worse translations or outright articles in mainspace); the topic is certainly notable and reliable sources are used (although there is some arguable reliance on 19th century newspapers, etc.). Article could use more links to pl wiki articles through {{ill}}, but that's a GA-level concern, IMHO. Will you publish it? (And yeah, the author is inactive, sadly). By the way, I was also recently reviewing a similar work by her - see Draft:Clothes in Poland, which I hope can be saved too. @asilvering was looking at that one. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 13:52, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I went ahead and accepted that one. Hopefully they have email notifications turned on and will return to life now that one of their articles has made it out of AfC limbo. -- asilvering (talk) 18:40, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Good morning (my time)! Thank you for your numerous improvements. Yes, I would have published it, had I been awake and seen what you'd already done to it. I had been very surprised by the use of "PLN", but thought that conceivably the term was applied retrospectively: I'd already put a fair amount of time into the draft and [sorry!] couldn't be bothered to put yet more into it. But [cough], on the matter of currency, the new article now uses both the term "Austro-Hungarian guldens" and the term "Polish guldens"; are their referents not the same? Also, the reader of the English article is likely to be a lot more ignorant of Polish matters than is the reader of the Polish original; which is why I added a mention that the Battle of Racławice took place in 1794, and think some similar additions and clarifications could be beneficial. Rather than a "work", is "Marian Gorzkowski's work Hints to Jan Matejko's latest painting Kościuszko at Racławice, finished in April 1888" (clicking on a link takes me to Wskazówki do najnowszego obrazu Jana Matejki "Kościuszko pod Racławicami" wykończonego w kwietniu 1888 roku) better described as a feuilleton, or something else? Jumping ahead to the final sentence, "Censorship did not allow Warsaw magazines to publish articles about the painting, even critical ones": I imagine that this would be Russian censorship, but this might be a simplification for some kind of Russian-directed or other Russia-placating censorship ... and is there any particular reason for "Warsaw" rather than "Polish" magazines? (If you're suspecting that the general problem here is that I don't know squat about Poland, your suspicions are of course correct.) -- Hoary (talk) 23:20, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Hoary Tnx - fixed Polish guldens (an error I introduced, oops). And yes, on en wiki we likely need further clarifications. Your other points are good but I am not sure how to answer them. The relevant censorship link would be Censorship_in_Poland#Partitions and/or Censorship in the Russian Empire, and Poland at that time did not really exist, although see Congress Poland/Vistula Land. It's... complicated (TL;DR Poland was partitioned between Russia, Germany and A/A-H; and in Russia it was increasingly loosing autonomy, without this fact being fully reflected in major law, de facto transitioning from satellite state into a province). Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:55, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ah yes, of course. I've tweaked the article again. One conspicuous oddity, though: "The artistic and literary groups proposed [...] to make a reproduction of the painting. [...] As part of the campaign of the Artistic and Literary Circle in Kraków [...]" Are the "groups" perhaps the same as the "Circle"? -- Hoary (talk) 22:47, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Hoary Ah, it seems so. That error even existed on pl wiki due to bad capitalization, I fixed it. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:59, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in Education: June 2024[edit]

This Month in Education

Volume 13 • Issue 6 • June 2024

In This Issue

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Massacres committed by Ukraine[edit]

A tag has been placed on Category:Massacres committed by Ukraine indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 22:54, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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