Talk:Adam Parry

Adam Parry is currently a Language and literature good article nominee. Nominated by UndercoverClassicist ^T·C at 10:17, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

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Short description: American classicist (1928–1971)

A fact from Adam Parry appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 June 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the classicist Adam Parry said that he had only ever considered three careers: academia, law and beachcombing?

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Spouses

Excellent piece of work. I notice, however, that only Parry's first spouse is being displayed in the infobox, but I can see that his second wife Anne is included in the code. It looks like there's an error somewhere but I can't see where. (Might Anne also be worthy of her own article and therefore a redlink?). —Noswall59 (talk) 10:02, 31 May 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Good eye -- that's me "fixing" the template (going from hlist to plainlist) but forgetting to change the syntax. I've redlinked Anne Parry: she was an interesting character and a serious classicist in her own right, though seems to have ended her academic career when she married Adam. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 10:08, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. By the way, I have just created an article for W. R. Johnson. It's a very basic stub right now, but there's plenty of scope for expanding it. His work is well outside of my specialism unfortunately. --Noswall59 (talk) 17:14, 1 June 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Ah, nice one -- I've stuck it on my watchlist. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 17:39, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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 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 Rjjiii talk 19:39, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Adam Parry was blamed for infecting the study of the Roman poet Virgil with "Parryitis"?

Source: Brooks, Ward W. (2017). "What the Harvard School Has Taught Me". The Classical World. 111 (1): 54. JSTOR 48553367.

ALT1: ... that the classicist Adam Parry said that he had only ever considered three careers: academia, law and beachcombing? Source: * Lloyd-Jones, Hugh (1989). "Foreword". In Lloyd-Jones, Hugh (ed.). The Language of Achilles and Other Papers. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. v–vi. OCLC 1150068883 – via Internet Archive.}
ALT2: ... that the classicist Adam Parry credited his academic career to the early and mysterious death of his father, Milman Parry? Source: * Lloyd-Jones, Hugh (1989). "Foreword". In Lloyd-Jones, Hugh (ed.). The Language of Achilles and Other Papers. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. v–vi. OCLC 1150068883 – via Internet Archive.}
Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/David Marchese

Moved to mainspace by UndercoverClassicist (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 23 past nominations.

UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 20:04, 31 May 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Parryitis, lol. Good article, certainly eligible and extremely well sourced, with no evidence of copyvio — I have some sort of premonition of yet another classicist FAC in our futures. QPQ is good, and the source checks out as well, and is correctly cited in-article. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 03:29, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]