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.
ALT1: ... that the linguist Aníbal Otero was imprisoned for espionage while working on fieldwork for the Linguistic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula? Source: "On the strength of ‘evidence’ that he was a spy — his avowed sympathy for the Republican cause, the fact that his ALPI fieldwork was funded by the Republican government in Madrid, and especially those suspicious notebooks he had with him, which were apparently full of incomprehensible writing in ‘code’ — a summary military tribunal convicted Otero of high treason and sentenced him to death by firing squad... his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. He was eventually pardoned and released in 1941 (two years after the end of the Civil War), having spent more than five years in prison for the crime of linguistic fieldwork and Republican sympathies " https://twpl.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/twpl/article/view/6165
@Erinius: I prefer ALT1 but I see we have no English Wikipedia article on Aníbal Otero yet. It'd be great if you could write one and make it a double hook. What do you think? BorgQueen (talk) 08:54, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for the creation! It's too short to be eligible for DYK at the moment but at least we can link it. BorgQueen (talk) 22:47, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for the approval - I meant to say earlier that I thought ALT1 was more interesting as well, and that I was down to create Aníbal Otero. Erinius (talk) 03:11, 9 April 2023 (UTC)