Template:Did you know nominations/Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
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The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 00:03, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
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Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
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Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
- ... that 19th-century Polish writer Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (pictured) authored several hundred works, including over 200 novels, making him one of the most prolific writers in the world? Source: see https://books.google.com/books?id=R-MkT9vavwIC&q=The+History+of+Polish+Literature (p. 256, book available through Internet Archive as well) "the most prolific of Polish novelists left a work encompassing some seven hundren volumes - which must be reckoned among the highest outputs ever on the world scale" or https://books.google.com/books?id=9Tbed6iMNLEC&dq=%22J%C3%B3zef+Ignacy+Kraszewski%22+biography&pg=PA17 (page 17) "In the hands of [JIK], the historical novel assumed the proportions of a mass industry. In a liftetime of unpararelled productivity, Kraszewski wrote over five hundred works..." For the count of "over 200 novels", see sources cited in the first sentence and paragraph of section "Reception", where figure 223 is cited (I think we don't need a precise figure for the lead/hook)
Improved to Good Article status by Piotrus (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 515 past nominations.
Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 13:42, 26 July 2024 (UTC).
Interesting quality biography, on fine sources, offline and foreign sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. I approve the hook but am not happy with saying only something about quantity. I am open to something less repetitive (200 novels seem impressive enough) which might include "historic" novels, or a title, or that he also illustrated, or that he wrote series in collaboration, or some biographical aspect. Your choice. In the article, I'd appreciate less sandwiching of text between images. His first name is used The image of him is licensed (and if taken we could drop 19th-century as given by how it looks) but it is rather pale. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:22, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: Could you suggest hooks directly? As ALT1, 2, etc.? I like your ideas but I am not sure I fully grasp it. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:53, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
- I could but not today, and then you'd need another reviewer. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:06, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: Could you suggest hooks directly? As ALT1, 2, etc.? I like your ideas but I am not sure I fully grasp it. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:53, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
