Talk:The Papers of Benjamin Franklin

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New article[edit]

New article. added content and sources welcomed. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 00:35, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination[edit]

Template:Did you know nominations/The Papers of Benjamin Franklin

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 Theleekycauldron (talk) 08:30, 12 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Created by Gwillhickers (talk). Self-nominated at 22:13, 30 August 2022 (UTC).[reply]

  • New article is 7,820 characters long and nominated one day later. No copyvios detected (allowing for proper names and titles per WP:LIMITED). Article is well-sourced. Hook is 147 characters long (under 200 character max.) and is interesting. Ref 14 (verifying the hook) is a reliable source (AGF offline ref). QPQ done. Looks good to go! —Bloom6132 (talk) 06:08, 3 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Bloom6132 and Gwillhickers: I agree that the hook is cited to a WP:RS, but it doesn't actually say what the source (or the article) says, so I've (boldly) removed the tick. The source says, is projected to reach 47 volumes and will publish in full or in abbreviated from the total corpus of Franklin’s approximately 30,000 extant papers. Future tense, speculating about how big the collection is expected to be when it's done. So I think we need a better hook.
  • ALT1: ... that The Papers of Benjamin Franklin currently includes forty-three volumes and will eventually contain approximately 30,000 writings to and from Benjamin Franklin?
  • ALT2: ... that when The Papers of Benjamin Franklin is completed, it is expected to contain approximately 30,000 writings in 47 volumes?
-- RoySmith (talk) 22:40, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • @RoySmith: — Okay, I struck the original hook and substituted ALT2, slightly modified, in its place. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 23:05, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. Tick restored. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:07, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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