Template:Did you know nominations/Pero Pirker
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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 19:47, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
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Pero Pirker, 1964 Zagreb flood
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that a year after the 2020 Zagreb earthquake, an essay comparing its aftermath with the handling of the devastating 1964 flood by former Zagreb mayor Pero Pirker was trending on social media?Source: "A text about Zagreb mayor Pero Pirker by former MP Goran Beus Richembergh has quickly spread on Facebook. ... In a repost ... [Richembergh] compared [Pirker's] decisions with those of recently deceased [mayor Milan Bandić. ... To top it all, in the second year of his term, Zagreb was struck by the worst flood in its history... [Pirker] had to coordinate a large relief effort... which he did successfully."] (original Croatian in wikicomment: )- ALT½: ... that a year after the 2020 Zagreb earthquake, a biography comparing its aftermath with the handling of the devastating 1964 flood by former Zagreb mayor Pero Pirker was trending on social media? Source: "A text about Zagreb mayor Pero Pirker by former MP Goran Beus Richembergh has quickly spread on Facebook. ... In a repost ... [Richembergh] compared [Pirker's] decisions with those of recently deceased [mayor Milan Bandić. ... To top it all, in the second year of his term, Zagreb was struck by the worst flood in its history... [Pirker] had to coordinate a large relief effort... which he did successfully."] (original Croatian in wikicomment: )
- ALT1: ... that mayor Pero Pirker was largely forgotten despite leading recovery and rebuilding efforts after the devastating 1964 Zagreb flood? Source: same as above + "After the end of the Croatian Spring, Pirker fell from grace in politics and his prior results were completely ignored. His early death accelerated his fall into oblivion." (original Croatian in wikicomment: )
- ALT2: ... that Pero Pirker, mayor of Zagreb, Croatia, contracted and died of lung cancer only years after helping found the Croatian League Against Cancer? Source: "Unfortunately, although he had been healthy until then, around mid-1972 he had some health troubles and died in August that year. ... The autopsy showed the cause of death was an aggressive lung cancer." (original Croatian in wikicomment: ) — "After his return from the United States in 1964, with a group of physicians from and outside the hospital, and with the assistance of Pero Pirker, the mayor of Zagreb, he [Ivo Padovan] founded the League Against Cancer." p.190(3)
- Reviewed: Younousse Sèye & Chestnut-capped piha
- Comment: I created the Pero Pirker article in my userspace in March[1] and merged it into the mainspace version earlier this week. Please also credit Tomobe03 for helping out with the Pero Pirker article.
5x expanded by Daß Wölf (talk). Self-nominated at 04:18, 19 November 2021 (UTC).
- Comment: Articles have indeed undergone an 8.6x and 77.1x (no, that's not a typo) expansions, respectively. I'm not going to do a full review, just leaving a comment to say that and to add that while Tomobe03 made very useful aesthetic edits to both articles, their impact on the expansion was rather limited and a DYK credit to them doesn't seem to be in order to me. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/she) 05:11, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
Full review needed. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:43, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
Both articles were expanded enough. I used an online translator to help me verify the facts in non-English sources, but I do know that isn't always the greatest so I assume good faith. I also assume good faith on the print sources. Both articles are neutral. There are a few issues. For the first hook, the Pero Pirker article calls the work a biography instead of an essay. The other two hooks are fine and are directly cited. OpenStreetMap in the Pero Pirker article shouldn't be used to cite anything due to it being editable by anyone. SL93 (talk) 00:17, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
- @SL93: Thanks for the review, and for taking time and effort to translate the sources, I can imagine that must've been onerous! I've replaced the references to OpenStreetMap with secondary sources and struck out "essay" in ALT0. Please let me know if there's anything else that needs to be done. Daß Wölf 16:05, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
- P.S. Feel free to reword ALT½. Putting "biography" there without Pirker's name directly attached feels odd, but I haven't been able to find a better way to word it without making it too long. Perhaps "text" would be better...? Daß Wölf 16:13, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
