Template:Did you know nominations/Les Avariés

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The result was: promoted by Evrik (talk) 17:27, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Les Avariés

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... that Les Avariés, the first play in the United States to mention the word "syphilis", was temporarily banned in England and France for its focus on syphilis? Source: Schaefer, Eric (1992). "Of hygiene and Hollywood: origins of the exploitation film". Velvet Light Trap. , http://www.ww1plays.com/2020/08/eugene-brieuxs-damaged-goods-les-avaries.html ,
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Improved to Good Article status by Colin M (talk). Nominated by Onegreatjoke (talk) at 18:48, 23 May 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Les Avariés; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

Reviewing...: Will provide a review in the coming hours. Schminnte (talk • contribs) 15:34, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

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: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
Interesting:
Other problems: - ?

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Onegreatjoke: article looks good... (pardon the pun). New, somewhat long, sourced to a book (hence the AGF) and a blog, which is fine per WP:BLOG as the writer is a subject matter expert. Hook is nice and interesting (syphilis will probably get quite a few clicks), however, I wonder if there is a slightly less clunky way to state it. The repetition could be removed, for example: ALT 1: ... that Les Avariés, the first play in the United States to mention the word "syphilis", was temporarily banned in England and France for its focus on the disease? That's all, it's a good candidate. Well done to Colin M. Schminnte (talk • contribs) 15:58, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

That's good enough. Onegreatjoke (talk) 01:40, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Or one can simply pick one or the other statements, as they are both rather catchy on their own:

ALT2: ... that Les Avariés was the first play in the United States to mention the word "syphilis"?
ALT3: ... that Les Avariés was temporarily banned in England and France for its focus on syphilis?

Maury Markowitz (talk) 15:52, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

all shortenings good to go per original review. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 15:38, 5 July 2023 (UTC)