Template:Did you know nominations/Bekah Brunstetter
- 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 feminist (talk) 14:40, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
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Bekah Brunstetter
[edit]- ... that Bekah Brunstetter's play The Cake, about a baker refusing to serve gay customers, was partly inspired by her father Peter S. Brunstetter's opposition to same-sex marriage? Source: "Brunstetter’s father is former N.C. Sen. Pete Brunstetter, who supported the 2011 Defense of Marriage Act, also known as Amendment One, that defines marriage as only between one man and one woman. Pete Brunstetter, a Republican, was a leading lawmaker and chairman of one of the Senate’s judiciary committees when the legislature voted to put the constitutional amendment on marriage to a public vote, which it passed. Her father’s role in the controversial North Carolina law – which subsequently was overturned by the courts – is partial inspiration for his daughter’s play... Through a quirk of North Carolina law-making, her father ended up listed as the sole, primary sponsor of the proposal to ban gay marriage." [1]
- ALT1:... that award-winning playwright Bekah Brunstetter is also an Emmy-nominated producer of the television series This is Us? Source: Winner of Sam French Off-off-Broadway Short Play Festival [2] Emmy noms for This is Us: [3] [4]
- ALT2:... that before becoming an Emmy-nominated producer for This is Us, Bekah Brunstetter ran a business writing audition monologues for actors? Source: "Brunstetter eked out a modest living writing plays and running a side business writing monologues for aspiring actors to use when auditioning for roles. Little by little, she succeeded, eventually winding up with an agent who steered her into writing for television shows." [5] Emmy noms for This is Us: [6] [7]
- Reviewed: QPQ exempt, 4th nomination
Moved to mainspace by Trillfendi (talk) and Bakazaka (talk). Nominated by Bakazaka (talk) at 01:07, 7 March 2019 (UTC).
- The article is new and long enough. It has inline citations throughout and is written neutrally. The article only has one image and it is properly licensed. No QPQ needed. Copyvio tool didn't find any violations. One issue though: I'm not a fan of all the direct quotes (it may fall into overuse territory) and I think some of the reviews of her works can be paraphrased. Review of the hooks:
- ALT0: The part about the play being "about a baker refusing to serve gay customers" isn't exactly mentioned in the article as per DYK rule 3a. The article instead says that it's "about a baker whose beliefs are challenged when she is asked to bake a cake for a lesbian wedding", which doesn't necessarily mean that the baker refused to serve gay people. Perhaps the play's description in the article can be tweaked to reflect the hook more clearly, just to be on the safe side of DYK. Also, I think the hook should state that her father's opposition to SSM partly inspired the play, so as to better reflect the source and article.
- ALT1: I'm not a fan of this one, mostly because I don't like the use of "award-winning" on Wikipedia, but otherwise it is sourced and stated in the article.
- ALT2: No issues.
On hold for now. @Bakazaka: do ping me to let me know when the above points have been addressed or if you have any questions about my review. Thanks. Bennv3771 (talk) 06:12, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Bennv3771: Thanks for taking on this review. I've just done an editing pass through the article that a) brings the description of the play's contents in line with ALT0, and b) greatly reduces the use of direct quotes. I am of course fine with changing "inspired" to "partly inspired" in ALT0, though I cannot remember if I am permitted to change the proposed text myself once the review starts. Bakazaka (talk) 06:46, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
