Template:Did you know nominations/Robert Ballagh
- 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.
The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 22:54, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
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Robert Ballagh
Artist Robert Ballagh in 2014
- ... that Irish artist Robert Ballagh has painted, designed the sets for Riverdance, more than 70 stamps and a full set of banknotes, and taught art in a prison? Source: Aosdana: Robert Ballagh, http://aosdana.artscouncil.ie/members/ballagh (painting, stamps, notes, Riverdance) / Carty, Ciaran (2010). Robert Ballagh: Citizen Artist - p. 53 (art teaching in Portlaoise Prison)
- ALT1: ... that Irish artist Robert Ballagh had his first major retrospective exhibition in Moscow, and his first Irish retrospective in Dublin's largest department store, Arnotts, rather than a gallery? Source: Re Moscow, 1989: Carty, Ciaran (2010). Robert Ballagh: Citizen Artist - pp. 42/43 and Clines, Francis X. (10 June 1989). "It's a Long Way Away, But the Work Is Grand". The New York Times. p. 4. / Re. Ireland, 1992: Carty, Ciaran (2010). Robert Ballagh: Citizen Artist - pp. 58/59 and Leonard, Hugh (16 February 1992). "More bricks than kicks (Leonard's log)". The Sunday Independent (Dublin), p. 3L.
- ALT2: ... that artist Robert Ballagh, having painted a domestic scene with a nude of his wife, felt he had to produce a painting with a nude of himself as a follow-up? Source: The Irish Examiner, 19 Oct. 2018, "Jesus, did I paint them?’; Robert Ballagh reacts to the nude portraits to him and his wife" / Magill (magazine), Jillian Stephens, 31 March 1983, "a companion piece. 'It became embarrassingly obvious that it had to be a male nude and it had to be me,' "
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Noveloa
- Comment: Article significantly extended to give proper coverage, notably of the main career aspect, painting. DYK check, Nov. 8: "at 5x now, expansion began 104 edits ago on Nov. 3, 2023". Will add QPQ within 48 hours, may come up with 1-2 more alt hooks.
5x expanded by SeoR (talk). Self-nominated at 00:29, 9 November 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Robert Ballagh; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
- Comment: I like this hook, but unfortunately, the first thing I thought was "why was he in prison?" Of course, he wasn't in prison, he taught in prison, but the hook made me think otherwise. I wonder if this is a BLP problem or simply an issue with my overactive imagination. Viriditas (talk) 22:28, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks Viriditas for the comment - it's always helpful to see work through other eyes, and I could perhaps have worded more precisely; sorry I was unable to respond in a timely way due to illness. SeoR (talk) 00:54, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
Approve all hooks. Nominated on time and with a sufficient expansion. It wasn't that short an article to begin with and the expansion is largely fluff-less. RSing on article and hooks with citations in relevant locations. Hooks are interesting and short enough. Image is under rights I don't fully understand but appears to be cleared for use on the main page. Good work. ~ Pbritti (talk) 02:37, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
