Talk:Linguistic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula

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Did you know... that linguist Aníbal Otero was imprisoned for espionage while working on fieldwork for the Linguistic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula?

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 19:12, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that fieldwork for the Linguistic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula was interrupted by the Spanish Civil War? Source: "...at which point the civil war interrupted them and the project director had to leave in exile" http://www.alpi.csic.es/en/alpi/los-trabajos-del-atlas
" when the fieldwork was interrupted by the military uprising against the Republican government which was to become the Spanish Civil War." https://twpl.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/twpl/article/view/6165
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- Comment: Could I also submit another fact about a linguist/fieldworker for the ALPI who was accused of espionage and almost executed?

Moved to mainspace by Erinius (talk). Self-nominated at 17:49, 14 March 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Linguistic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

ALT1: ... that the linguist Aníbal Otero was imprisoned for espionage while working on fieldwork for the Linguistic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula? Source: "On the strength of ‘evidence’ that he was a spy — his avowed sympathy for the Republican cause, the fact that his ALPI fieldwork was funded by the Republican government in Madrid, and especially those suspicious notebooks he had with him, which were apparently full of incomprehensible writing in ‘code’ — a summary military tribunal convicted Otero of high treason and sentenced him to death by firing squad... his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. He was eventually pardoned and released in 1941 (two years after the end of the Civil War), having spent more than five years in prison for the crime of linguistic fieldwork and Republican sympathies " https://twpl.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/twpl/article/view/6165
@Erinius: I prefer ALT1 but I see we have no English Wikipedia article on Aníbal Otero yet. It'd be great if you could write one and make it a double hook. What do you think? BorgQueen (talk) 08:54, 6 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for the creation! It's too short to be eligible for DYK at the moment but at least we can link it. BorgQueen (talk) 22:47, 6 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  - Thanks for the approval - I meant to say earlier that I thought ALT1 was more interesting as well, and that I was down to create Aníbal Otero. Erinius (talk) 03:11, 9 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
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Approve ALT1. BorgQueen (talk) 12:50, 7 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]