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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 21:45, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

The Great Friendship

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... that The Great Friendship had distinctly unfriendly consequences? Source: Marina Frolova-Walker (2016). Stalin's Music Prize. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. pp. 223-226.

Reviewed: Hans Grischkat

Created by Smerus (talk). Self-nominated at 16:11, 25 April 2017 (UTC).

Interesting piece, the sources look good, but I have to take them AGF, all Russian and/or offline. - The hook is true, and I approve it if you wish, but not even saying that it is music seems saying very little ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:18, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi! The sources are good, I promise you :-). I'm afraid I've had to use Russian references for details which are just not available in English, but Vlasova is a scholarly work (and is cited by Frolova-Walker in her English book). The purpose of the hook is exactly as its nomenclature implies - to attract readers by intrigue or otherwise - I have always tried to make my hooks ambivalent in this way. After all, if it clearly indicated it was about opera, that could turn some potential readers away. See also WP:HOOK - " When you write the DYK item (or "hook") please make it "hooky", that is, short, punchy, catchy, and likely to draw the readers in to wanting to read the article." Hope this explanation is satisfactory - Best, Smerus (talk) 17:52, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Understood, even before the lecture on hooks ;) - In Freundschaft --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:04, 2 May 2017 (UTC)