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A fact from Will Arbery appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 January 2023 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Will Arbery's view that the media shallowly examined supporters of Donald Trump after the
2016 presidential election crystallized Arbery's desire to write
a play?
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
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The result was: promoted by
BorgQueen (
talk) 19:35, 3 January 2023 (UTC)reply
... that Will Arbery's view that the American media shallowly examined supporters of
Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election “crystallized” his desire to write his play Heroes of the Fourth Turning? Source: “In the wake of the seismic 2016 presidential election, playwright Will Arbery remembers all too well bewildered news reporters flocking to diners and cafes across the Midwest to speak with Trump voters and trying to understand their allegiance to the candidate.
“These tender little photo-realistic portraits, they were so superficial and ignored what these people actually believed,” Arbery says in a phone interview. “It felt so disingenuous — and also a disservice to the actual subjects because they have real agitations, obsessions, and beliefs that were getting glossed over.”
The media’s shallow examination of Donald Trump supporters “crystalized” Arbery’s desire to write a play in which “those beliefs were really said out loud and given their due, so that we could look at them and actually process those differences.””
The Boston Globe
Other problems: - Some citations are
bare URLs, including the one supporting the hook. Please replace with full citations.
Hook eligibility:
Cited: - Minor inconsistency between source and article/hook: source says that Arbery reacted to media coverage "in the wake of" Trump's election, that is, after the election rather than "during" it. Article and hook should be revised to match the source on this.
Interesting:
Other problems: - I'd favour rewording the in-article sentence that supports the hook: "Arbery’s idea for the play 'crystallized' after being personally dissatisfied ...". As it was Arbery himself rather than his idea that was dissatisfied, I'd suggest changing "after being personally dissatisfied" to "after he was personally dissatisfied".
QPQ: Done.
Overall: Article is new enough, long enough, adequately sourced and free of copyvios, and hook is interesting. Just needs the bare URLs to be replaced with full citations, and straightforward revisions to the hook as indicated above.
EmphasisMine (
talk) 21:28, 6 November 2022 (UTC)reply
The issues I raised with the wording of the hook and article haven't been addressed. Should I make the edits I asked for myself? (I'm new to reviewing and am not sure if this is allowed or encouraged.)
EmphasisMine (
talk) 18:25, 7 December 2022 (UTC)reply
@
EmphasisMine: It's certainly allowed, although traditionally
Thriley as the nominator would be the one to make them, so pinging them. {{u|Sdkb}}talk 21:37, 7 December 2022 (UTC)reply
@
EmphasisMine: I just changed the wording. Sorry for the delay. Thank you for for review.
Thriley (
talk) 23:51, 7 December 2022 (UTC)reply
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EmphasisMine: I just changed the wording of the hook to match the source.
Thriley (
talk) 23:56, 7 December 2022 (UTC)reply
@
Thriley: Thanks! Where the hook and article refer to coverage of Trump supporters "during" the election, I'm still not sure this is exactly supported by the Boston Globe's reference to "the wake of" the election. Would you consider it acceptable to make the article and hook a little less specific about the timing – something like "... that the American media shallowly examined supporters of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential election campaign ..."?
EmphasisMine (
talk) 17:54, 8 December 2022 (UTC)reply
ALT1 that Will Arbery's view that the American media shallowly examined supporters of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential election campaign “crystallized” his desire to write his play Heroes of the Fourth Turning?
Thriley (
talk) 19:56, 31 December 2022 (UTC)reply
@
EmphasisMine: I’ve fixed the article and made a new hook. Look ok?
Thriley (
talk) 19:58, 31 December 2022 (UTC)reply