Template:Did you know nominations/Tove Jansson
- 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 17:55, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
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Tove Jansson
Tove Jansson with Moomintrolls in 1956
- ... that Tove Jansson (pictured) accepted an offer from a British newspaper man? Source: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/15/tove-jansson-life-words-westin-review
Improved to Good Article status by Chiswick Chap (talk). Self-nominated at 21:55, 14 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Tove Jansson; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
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- Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
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- Something odd happening with Copyvios report but first one I've dismissed as a copy of the Wiki article and second (Tovepedia page) I've read through and checked and it's book titles and awards that seem to be causing the matching.
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Overall: 
Perhaps hook could be more intriguing with some when and a tiny bit more what (without totally giving the game away), e.g. "In 1952, Tove Jansson accepted a lucrative offer from a British newspaper man?" Zeromonk (talk) 09:44, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
- ALT1: "In 1952, Tove Jansson accepted a lucrative offer from a British newspaper man?"
- I'm happy with that, and the source is unchanged. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:58, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
The hook/alt are misleading and set an absurd precedent: you can remove relevant info from all hooks, make them look more mysterious than they are, and draw clicks with that method, doing absolutely no service to the topic itself. The bland info here is that she accepted an offer to draw the comics in English papers as well (well, it's actually not that bland, it would be somewhat interesting on itself); the pointlessly vague phrasing here makes it seem like the offer was from James Humphreys. Is the subject here really so obscure that there's nothing else to fish from the article, and that we have to resort to this sort of trickery? Dahn (talk) 17:56, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
- I'm very sorry you feel that way, and the old-style hook is certainly not a "precedent": it was for many years the Wikipedia DYK tradition to make hooks somewhat entertaining and ambiguous; indeed, short witty hooks were considered the best. If times have changed and we have to be straight-faced and literal now, that's fine (maybe other reviewers will be happy with it, I don't know; the reviewer above was), but there is no reason to become angry about it. Anyway, here's another in case we choose not to go with one of the hooks above. Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:38, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
- ALT2: ... that Tove Jansson (pictured) drew illustrations for the satirical magazine Garm?Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20110807230113/http://www.kansallisbiografia.fi/english/?id=1395
- ALT3: ... that Tove Jansson (pictured) had an "unusually even balance between visual art and writing"?Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20110807230113/http://www.kansallisbiografia.fi/english/?id=1395
- Alt 2 has some modicum of interest only if one already knows who Jansson was, and that she drew mainly for children. ALT 3 is a bland statement that rhymes with just about any author who also drew. How about how she made a political figure that she she dated into Snufkin? how about her Moomintroll was originally used in her political cartoons? how about the psychological clues about her family and how they seeped into her illustrations? Seriously, you're acting like this is an obscure bland figure on whom nothing interesting can be found, and in fact she was a trove of beautiful quirks. Dahn (talk) 18:59, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
- I've suggested two witty and two plain hooks. If you want to propose others, please list and cite them as ALT4, etc. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:01, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
- Alt 2 has some modicum of interest only if one already knows who Jansson was, and that she drew mainly for children. ALT 3 is a bland statement that rhymes with just about any author who also drew. How about how she made a political figure that she she dated into Snufkin? how about her Moomintroll was originally used in her political cartoons? how about the psychological clues about her family and how they seeped into her illustrations? Seriously, you're acting like this is an obscure bland figure on whom nothing interesting can be found, and in fact she was a trove of beautiful quirks. Dahn (talk) 18:59, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
- Fine. Here's my ALT 4: ... that artist Tove Jansson (pictured) based the children's book character Snufkin on a political philosopher whom she had dated? Dahn (talk) 19:54, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
- @Chiswick Chap: Does ALT4 work for you? Z1720 (talk) 15:39, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, whatever, I'm a bit bemused by the heat in this process. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:40, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
