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A fact from David Hilchen appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 December 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that David Hilchen played a key role in the establishment of Renaissance humanism in the area of the present-day Baltic states?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/December. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/David Hilchen.

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 15:16, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that David Hilchen played a key role in the establishment of Renaissance humanism in the area of the present-day Baltic states? Source: Viiding 2024, p. 119-120
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Valse in A minor (Chopin)

Created by Yakikaki (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 143 past nominations.

Yakikaki (talk) 15:31, 1 November 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Interesting life and work, on few but fine sources, no copyvio obvious. I like the interesting short hook! I have a few wishes for the article: 1) give him an infobox, or it looks as if it was an article about a coat of arms, 2) avoid "would" - everything is now past, 3) bring the refs above the cited sources - no idea why German and others have it differently, but in English, that's normal, 4) formal the one source that's not yet among Cited sources like the others. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:36, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much Gerda! I will go through the article and make some of the improvements you suggest, and certainly change the order of refs and cited sourced. I really dislike infoboxes though. Yakikaki (talk) 18:41, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

...though upon reflection, in this case you're right, an infobox makes the coat of arms look less awkward. Added. Thanks again Gerda! Yakikaki (talk) 19:49, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Image in infobox

@Launchballer: Including the coat of arms of a person from early modern or medieval history as the main image of an infobox is established practice on Wikipedia. It also makes a lot of sense, actually. I understand that it may perhaps seem a bit odd considering that in more recent times, there is almost always a portrait (or several) of prominent people. However, in many cases for people who lived back when the coat of arms is the only personal symbol we have, and quite important exactly that - a symbol identifying the person.

Heaps of examples can be found from other Wikipedia articles, just a few off the cuff are here, here, here, here, here or here. So if we could please agree that it is not against any guidelines of Wikipedia and in addition well-established practice, I would like to put the infobox back in with the coat of arms of Hilchen in it, and avoid an edit war over this. Thanks, Yakikaki (talk) 09:46, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]