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Did you know nomination

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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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 19:35, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Created by CurryTime7-24 (talk). Self-nominated at 21:30, 23 December 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Sofiya Vakman; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

  • I can pick this one up!
General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: Done.
Overall: Approving ALT1. To my mind, ALT1 is the most interesting hook; the other two seem less interesting from the perspective of someone not familiar with Russian music. ALT3 also reads a bit oddly (rumoured to be courted by her future husband?) although I understand why the change was made and it does align with the source. P.S. I don't speak Russian, but using Google Translate I'm confident the sources check out. Cheers, Chocmilk03 (talk) 21:58, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]


Name spelling

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@CurryTime7-24: Sofia Vakman appears to be the more common transliteration in English. See for example the handful of hits on Newspapers.com (none for "Sofiya" or "Sofya"). Hameltion (talk | contribs) 03:41, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Sofiya" is the spelling used in Shostakovich: A Life Remembered by Elizabeth Wilson, which is where I got the idea to make this article. I had been consulting it when creating Six Poems by Marina Tsvetayeva and thereafter worked on Vakman's article concurrently.
Searching online right now suggests that you're correct and that "Sofia" may be more common. These results can sometimes be misleading, however. Google Ngrams would be helpful here; unfortunately, its results are inconclusive.[2] BGN/PGCN, which I typically adhere to, recommends "Sofiya".
I'm not attached to any one spelling. Whichever one is the more commonly used is fine with me. My only concern is with how a potential spelling change may affect this article's forthcoming DYK. —CurryTime7-24 (talk) 04:30, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Shouldn't be an issue for DYK at all, hook can be edited. I hadn't tried books, but that also seems to prefer "Sofia" (3.5 pages of Google Books results vs 1 for "Sofiya", 0.5 for "Sofya", and 0.5 for "Sophia"). Hameltion (talk | contribs) 04:40, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]