Template:Did you know nominations/List of books bound in human skin

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 21:38, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

List of books bound in human skin

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A book reportedly bound in human skin

• ... that known books bound in human skin (pictured) include a highwayman's memoirs bound in his own skin, a novel about a man being left by his lesbian wife, and a BDSM erotic poem? Source: Rosenbloom, Megan (20 October 2020). "The Anthropodermic Book Project's List of Confirmed Human Skin Books as of March 2020". Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation Into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin. New York, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. 229–230. ISBN 978-0-374-13470-9.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Dan Simonescu
  • Comment: There are many possible combinations here. I've gone with three, there are many other possibilities (but I want to keep the last one in). Images are tricky because none of the "gold-standard tested" ones have free images, but this one is generally considered confirmed. There's another image in the article of a printing of a book known to have multiple anthropodermic copies, where the copy is advertised as so, but I'm not sure if it's confirmed.

Moved to mainspace by Vaticidalprophet (talk). Self-nominated at 04:15, 3 September 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/List of books bound in human skin; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

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Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Vaticidalprophet: Hook needs to be fixed; the information is present in the article but in pieces. The hook needs to appear in the article with a citation no later than at the end of the sentence. RV (talk) 09:44, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

I'm not sure that this is how WP:DYKRULES is meant to be interpreted, especially given the wording was just tweaked to 'sentences'. (Tabular lists are a complex case, though, because they're not common at DYK -- but a strict 'only as mentioned in the exact same place' rule for a tabular list would likely rule out any hook about the, uh, books.) Theleekycauldron? Vaticidalprophet 10:49, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, that was a mistake in the summarization on my part – the hook fact can appear in pieces, as long as each bit is cited. A refs column is a standard citation format, so it's fine. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 21:12, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

It's good to go then. Thanks RV (talk) 01:31, 7 September 2023 (UTC)