Talk:Esther Merle Jackson

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 03:43, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

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• ... that as a professor at UW–Madison, Esther Merle Jackson worked with John Ezell on a half-hour compilation of Thornton Wilder plays, titled Wilder Wilder, which aired nationwide on PBS in 1978? Source: "production projects that she cotaught with colleague John Ezell, where graduate students at Madison would direct, design, act in, and produce one production every semester ... At least one of these production projects, entitled Wilder Wilder (1978)—an evening of Thornton Wilder’s one-acts—led to an airing on Wisconsin television station WHA. & "half-hour work from WHA-TV ... "Wilder Wilder" ... consist[s] of four short plays by .. the later Thornton Wilder ... PBS's national air date for "Wilder Wilder" is tonight"
  • ALT1: ... that as a professor at UW–Madison, Esther Merle Jackson worked with John Ezell on a half-hour compilation of Thornton Wilder plays, which aired nationwide on PBS in 1978? Source: As above
  • ALT2: ... that Esther Merle Jackson worked with John Ezell during her efforts to start an institution on American theatre studies? Source: "I also found numerous correspondence and multiple written reports about Jackson’s attempt to establish an Institute for American Theatre Studies, with the help of Ezell, at Madison for over ten years."
  • ALT3: ... that as a specialist in theatre and dance education at the United States Office of Education, Esther Merle Jackson intended to expand theater's role in the Great Society? Source: "Jackson, Esther Merle ... U.S. Office of Education, Specialist in Theatre and Dance Education, 1964-65" & As the specialist in theatre and dance, she hoped to make theatre an integral part of the Great Society being shaped at the time.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Vanessa Weenink for Tanya Unkovich and Template:Did you know nominations/Michael Owens (politician) (2x for backlog)

Moved to mainspace by Miraclepine (talk). Self-nominated at 22:59, 29 February 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Esther Merle Jackson; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
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QPQ: Done.

Overall: Very nicely written article! It was very interesting to read. Out of the hooks, the one that strikes me as the most interesting is ALT3. Perhaps it's just me, but I don't find "worked with John Ezell" very enticing as a hook. But that she worked to expand theatre's role in the "Great Society"? That interests me. Grnrchst (talk) 16:10, 20 March 2024 (UTC)