Template:Did you know nominations/The Manchester Rambler
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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:05, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
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The Manchester Rambler
[edit]- ... that "The Manchester Rambler" was written by folk singer Ewan MacColl after he took part in the mass trespass of Kinder Scout in 1932?
- Reviewed: Långholmens spinnhus
Created by Chiswick Chap (talk). Nominated by Cwmhiraeth (talk) at 09:25, 4 November 2014 (UTC).
Full review needed; the above is not at all adequate as it fails to address the bulk of the DYK criteria. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:38, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
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New article. New enough, long enough, well cited article; hook is directly cited to and expressly supported by the over-cited sources. Particularly: Harker, Ben (Spring 2005). "'The Manchester Rambler': Ewan MacColl and the 1932 Mass Trespass". History Workshop Journal (59): 219–228. JSTOR 25472794.(subscription required) Long, Chris. "How trespassing 'crystallised' Ewan MacColl's songwriting". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 3 November 2014. As to the Harker source, I do not have JSTOR and did not have access to the full article – only the preview, and so I must WP:AGF. To that extent, I couldn't compare the whole article for copy violations, but given the DYK record of the chief editor, I have no worries. There are citations in every paragraph. IMHO the quality of the hook is very high: interesting, very hooky and capturing the essence of the article. I suppose an alternate might explain about the trespass (for those of us outside the UK that were unaware of this crucial act of civil disobedience.) OTOH, this is about the song and songwriter, not the underlying act itself. No copyright violations or close paraphrasing. QPQ confirmed. Good to go. I enjoyed the article and learned a lot from it. Nicely done! 7&6=thirteen (☎) 19:39, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
