Template:Did you know nominations/Letters to a German Princess

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The result was: promoted by Baldy Bill (sharpen the razor|see my reflection) 01:33, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

Letters to a German Princess

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... that Leonhard Euler wrote 234 letters between 1760 and 1762 to Friederike Charlotte of Brandenburg-Schwedt?

Reviewed: Sophia Dobson Collet

Created by Solomon7968 (talk). Self nominated at 17:57, 21 October 2013 (UTC).

Created and nominated on 21 October, and is about 1900 characters, satisfying date and length criteria. QPQ completed. Sources are reliable. Hook is OK and sourced, though the text from which it is sourced also states "on behalf of their father"; why was this omitted? Other than this, there are no issues with this article. Mind matrix 22:35, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

I checked all the available references on the topic and they give conflicting dates to various points. Like it is not clear where the 3rd volume of the book was published (one ref says Saint Petersburg and another Frankfurt). The "on behalf of their father" claim does not seems to supported by all references. Solomon 7968 08:49, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Those are OK. I just noticed one minor issue I had missed earlier: the letters were originally written in French, but the text states they were later translated into French (1812 and 1829). Should this state that they were later republished in new editions, or were these translations back to French from one of the other translations? Mind matrix 15:49, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
I also just noticed there's an image attached to this DYK nomination that doesn't appear in the article. It's free and decent at the size needed for DYK, but it must either be added to the article or removed from the nomination. Mind matrix 15:54, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

I have clarified that part. The original text reads:

The Spanish translator (in 1798) added a footnote describing
the newly discovered planet Herschel. The German edition of 1847 (E343B5) is especially strange. ....The French editions of 1812 and 1829 (E3435 and
E3436).

So yes Spanish (1798) was translation but the French and German one were "editions". However I am not sure whether Uranus was called "Uranus" ("Geogrium Sidus"?) in the editions. And Re: I have removed the image from the hook. Solomon 7968 16:26, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for addressing the issues. This is good to go. Mind matrix 17:16, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Promoter's note: moved "234" into bolded area for aesthetic reasons - "letters" looked too short when part of a dyk set. Baldy Bill (sharpen the razor|see my reflection) 01:33, 14 November 2013 (UTC)