Template:Did you know nominations/Richard Armstrong (museum director)
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The result was: promoted by — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:08, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
Richard Armstrong (museum director)
[edit]- ... that Richard Armstrong became director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 2008, succeeding the controversial Thomas Krens?
- Reviewed: Dial (soap)
Created/expanded by Ssilvers (talk). Nominated by Pgallert (talk) at 10:02, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
- new article, of appropriate length, hook is cited, no copyvio found. However, I'm wary of putting a hook on the main page calling a BLP subject "controversial". I would suggest you feel around for a hook that's a little less BLPishly worrisome. This is my first DYK review. DYK stalkers, please feel free to chime in and tell me if I'm wrong on this. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 01:36, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
- There is nothing pejorative in calling someone "controversial", and if you read Krens's article, he certainly was proudly controversial. However, an ALT hook could be:
- ... that Richard Armstrong became director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 2008, bringing a curatorial background to the position? -- Ssilvers (talk) 15:04, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
- I agree that's it's not necessarily pejorative, but I'm being overly cautious because, well, neither you (I assume) nor I wants to have Main Page watchers baying for our blood because of an infelicitous wording. Your alt hook
checks out fine as far as I'm concerned. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 00:21, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
- I agree that's it's not necessarily pejorative, but I'm being overly cautious because, well, neither you (I assume) nor I wants to have Main Page watchers baying for our blood because of an infelicitous wording. Your alt hook
- ... that Richard Armstrong became director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 2008, bringing a curatorial background to the position? -- Ssilvers (talk) 15:04, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
