Template:Did you know nominations/Jacques Schmidt

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The result was: promoted by BlueMoonset (talk) 05:27, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Jacques Schmidt

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... that Jacques Schmidt (pictured) designed costumes for the Bayreuth Jahrhundertring and for Prokofiev's War and Peace, where 650 "historically appropriate costumes" were needed?

Reviewed: William Hunter (publisher)

Created by Gerda Arendt (talk). Self nominated at 14:06, 24 October 2013 (UTC).

All checks out according to the various tests. Good hook - I can't see a better one. This is only my second review, so someone else should have a look please. Edwardx (talk) 23:12, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Thank you, new reviewer! Second opinion requested, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:23, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Article is new enough, long enough, well-referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. QPQ done. However, I don't see the quoted words in the source. I rewrote the expression without quotes, but perhaps you want to do some tweaking of the article and the hook? Yoninah (talk) 23:36, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

The quote is from page 2 of the reference. What do you suggest, reference it separately? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:10, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up. I thought the L.A. Times piece ended on p. 1, my bad. I restored the quote marks to the article. I think the hook would benefit from using the "uniforms recycled from Hollywood" quote rather than the "historically appropriate costumes" quote, though. What do you think? Yoninah (talk) 12:14, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

I think that it may be attractive but doesn't show his work so much ;) - Anyway:
ALT1: ~~... that Jacques Schmidt (pictured) designed costumes for the Bayreuth Jahrhundertring and for Prokofiev's War and Peace where 650 costumes included uniforms recycled from Hollywood?~~ --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:21, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

No problem, I can live with the original hook, too :). Hook ref verified. Good to go. Yoninah (talk) 12:42, 10 November 2013 (UTC)