Talk:"What! Still Alive?!"

A fact from "What! Still Alive?!" appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 August 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Monika Rice's "What! Still Alive?!" has been described as a "disturbing narrative of violence, hostility, and indifference" towards Holocaust survivors in Poland?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/August. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/"What! Still Alive?!": Jewish Survivors in Poland and Israel Remember Homecoming.

Wikipedia

Books

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Books. To participate in the project, please visit its page, where you can join the project and discuss matters related to book articles. To use this banner, please refer to the documentation. To improve this article, please refer to the relevant guideline for the type of work.BooksWikipedia:WikiProject BooksTemplate:WikiProject BooksBook articles

New York (state): Syracuse Low‑importance

	New York (state) portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject New York (state), a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the U.S. state of New York on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.New York (state)Wikipedia:WikiProject New York (state)Template:WikiProject New York (state)New York (state) articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Syracuse, New York, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.

Women writers Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women writers, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of women writers on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Women writersWikipedia:WikiProject Women writersTemplate:WikiProject Women writersWomen writers articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Did you know nomination edit

Latest comment: 3 years ago5 comments3 people in discussion

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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:48, 11 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

(

Comment or view
Article history

)

... that in "What! Still Alive?!", historian Monika Rice presents a "disturbing narrative of violence, hostility, and indifference" towards Holocaust survivors in Poland?

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000

Created by Buidhe (talk). Self-nominated at 01:13, 23 July 2020 (UTC).Reply

Article is new enough (created 23 July) and long enough (2,000 characters of prose).
Article is written in NPOV and contains sufficient inline citations. Earwig returns no copyvio concerns; only close matches are appropriately presented as quotations and cited in the article text.
Hook is of adequate length (166 characters), and it is properly formatted and cited; AGF on offline source.
QPQ is done.
My only concern is that the summary of the hook is one person's assessment of the text, yet the phrasing makes it sound like a fact. Maybe reword the hook to something like:

ALT1: ... that Monika Rice's "What! Still Alive?!" has been described as a "disturbing narrative of violence, hostility, and indifference" towards Holocaust survivors in Poland? Armadillopteryx^talk 21:24, 7 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

ALT1 is fine by me, although other reviewers don't exactly disagree with the assessment. Thanks for the review! (t · c) buidhe 21:46, 7 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

Yeah, I don't doubt that Cichopek-Gajraj's words represent consensus among critics, it's just that even a broad consensus is still technically subjective.

Anyway, if you're happy with ALT1, then ALT1 is good to go! Congrats on an interesting article. Armadillopteryx^talk 21:59, 7 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

Add topic