Talk:Václav Jírů

Possible sources

There are sources on Czech Wikipedia at cs:Václav Jírů, though I have concerns about the online ones - some trace back to the subject's nephew Jiří, and a couple quote a "journalist and art critic" named Peter Ferrill but I can find very little evidence of this fellow's existence as an art critic so I'm somewhat skeptical. There is some evidence that he's a copyeditor of some sort.

Some possible sources:

• [1] (looks reliable enough - if I understand right, this is run by an art archiving organization)
• "Czech Photography of the 20th Century" (I might be able to get this at my local university's library after the holidays)
• "Encyclopédie internationale des photographes de 1839 à nos jours" (might be available in English? unclear) GeneralNotability (talk) 01:20, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 15:22, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

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• ... that the photographer Václav Jírů was sentenced to death for resisting the German occupation of Czechoslovakia and spent years in Nazi prisons? Source: [2] (Czech-language source)
  • Reviewed: Jack Lemley

Moved to mainspace by Possibly (talk) and DanCherek (talk). Nominated by DanCherek (talk) at 01:29, 29 December 2021 (UTC).

• Starting review. Updates to follow. Ktin (talk) 01:55, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article meets eligibility criteria - newness and length. Well sourced. Will WP:AGF on non-English language sources. Tone is neutral. Earwig does not show any issues with Copvio. The image that has been used in the article is used under WP:FAIRUSE. QPQ done. Question for the nominator regarding the hook -- Google Translation of the source says 22.2.1940 - arrested by the Gestapo for participation in the resistance movement; 1941 - death sentence changed to life imprisonment. I am assuming the resistance movement is the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, which makes sense. The latter part of the hook says "and spent years in Nazi prisons" is that attributed to ref #6 in the article. i.e. the offline source Slovník českých spisovatelů beletristů, 1945–1956 (in Czech). Prague: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství. p. 171? If so, I will WP:AGF on that one. Passing back to nominator for the clarification. Ktin (talk) 02:05, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the review, Ktin! The source above [3] actually indicates that he was imprisoned from 1940 to 1945 (vězněn (1940 - 45)). Just for good measure, I've supplemented that part of the article with another source (ref #4). It's offline but in the English language and I'll quote it here: "He joined the Resistance movement in the Second World War, and was arrested by the Gestapo in February 1940. He remained in a Nazi concentration camp until the end of the war." DanCherek (talk) 02:55, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Sounds good DanCherek. A bit nit-picky, but, I am assuming he did serve in multiple nazi prisons (plural), which seems obvious, but let me know if that is not the case. Marking approved.

Thanks! Yeah, the sourcing is a bit scattered but he was transferred between several prisons, per the cited ref #6. DanCherek (talk) 04:02, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

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Promoting the main hook to Prep 1 – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 15:22, 10 January 2022 (UTC)