Talk:Victories Greater Than Death

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 13:20, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

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• ... that Charlie Jane Anders wrote preferred pronouns into her sci-fi novel Victories Greater Than Death because she felt that the gender identities of alien species would not be apparent to humans? Source: "[pronouns] felt like a good way to be introducing a lot of human and alien characters, some of whom might not have genders or other identifiers that a human would be able to figure out at a glance." [1]
  "it made sense that, if you had a universal translator, it should let you know someone’s pronouns. When you meet an alien, you’re not going to be able to tell what gender, if any, they might have and how they want to be referred to in the third person just by looking at them." [2]
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/School for American Crafts

Created by BuySomeApples (talk). Self-nominated at 05:42, 20 February 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Victories Greater Than Death; 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
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting:
• Other problems: - Source of hook is >200 characters, text is at 194 characters

QPQ: Done.

Overall: I'm not sure whether wikitext is counted in the character count. Either way, it could be shortened a bit. Super interesting though :] Wracking ^💬 06:19, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the review! How about this shortened hook @Wracking::

ALT1:... that Charlie Jane Anders wrote preferred pronouns into her sci-fi novel Victories Greater Than Death because she felt humans would have difficulty understanding alien gender?

ALT2:... that Charlie Jane Anders wrote preferred pronouns into her sci-fi novel Victories Greater Than Death because she thought alien gender would be unclear to humans?

BuySomeApples (talk) 08:52, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

@BuySomeApples: Looks great! I'd say I slightly prefer ALT2, but both are good :]

Wracking ^💬 19:35, 27 February 2023 (UTC)