Talk:Gnomes (book)

Gnomes (book) has been listed as one of the Language and literature good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: October 13, 2020. (Reviewed version).

Books

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Books. To participate in the project, please visit its page, where you can join the project and discuss matters related to book articles. To use this banner, please refer to the documentation. To improve this article, please refer to the relevant guideline for the type of work.BooksWikipedia:WikiProject BooksTemplate:WikiProject BooksBook articles

Children's literature Mid‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Children's literature, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Children's literature on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Children's literatureWikipedia:WikiProject Children's literatureTemplate:WikiProject Children's literaturechildren and young adult literature articles

Mid

This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Tasks you can do:

Here are some open tasks for WikiProject Children's literature, an attempt to create and standardize articles related to children's literature. Feel free to help with any of the following tasks.

Add {{Portal|Children's literature}} to the See also section of related articles.
Tag the talk pages of related articles with {{WikiProject Children's literature}}
Join WikiProject Children's literature and list yourself as a Participant in the project.
Cleanup: A cleanup listing for this project is available. See also the list by category, the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
Deletion discussions: listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Literature
Notability: Articles with notability concerns, listed at WikiProject Notability
Rate the Unassessed articles in the Children's literature WikiProject.
References: Add references to Unreferenced BLPs.
Requested articles: Create a requested article on literature
Stubs: Improve a stub-class article

edit

Netherlands

This article falls within the scope of WikiProject Netherlands, an attempt to create, expand, and improve articles related to the Netherlands on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, visit the project page where you can join the project or contribute to the discussion.NetherlandsWikipedia:WikiProject NetherlandsTemplate:WikiProject NetherlandsNetherlands articles

A fact from Gnomes (book) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 October 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a book about the life of gnomes remained on U.S. non-fiction best-seller lists for more than a year?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/October. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gnomes (book).

Wikipedia

DYK 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 Yoninah (talk) 17:33, 8 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

(

Comment or view
Article history

)

... that a book about the life of gnomes remained in the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list for over a year? Source: "A look back at: 'Gnomes'". Quote: "...the book jumped onto national nonfiction bestseller lists three weeks after publication and stayed there for 62 weeks."
- ALT0b:... that a book about the life and work of the gnomes remained in the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list for over a year?
- ALT1:... that the book Gnomes describes these creatures with great detail, including their internal organs and circulatory system? Source: Fascinanting. Quote: "Though Huygen tells us more than the average person might care to know about the physiology of the gnome, going into such matters as hormonal makeup and sex organs, kidney and bladder systems, the circulation and the senses..."

Comment: Second nomination, so no QPQ necessary.

5x expanded by Isabelle Belato (talk). Self-nominated at 18:20, 30 September 2020 (UTC).[reply]

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

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Article expanded on 30-September. QPQ not needed as 2nd nomination. Hook ALT0 and ALT0b approved but I find ALT0b more interesting Roller26 (talk) 09:04, 7 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]