A fact from Natalie Simanowski appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 August 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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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.
Overall: Article is new enough, long enough, well sourced and has no copyvio. The hook is cited and interesting, but I'm not sure if describing her attacker as a "psychopath" is politically correct enough for Wikipedia. I can see that it's the term used in the original source, but since I'm not knowledgable about German I can't tell if that's a diagnosis or a turn of speech (ie "He's such a psychopath"). Not a problem that would prevent this nom from passing, I just want another opinion. BuySomeApples (talk) 06:34, 1 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I had that problem too, I though about "by a stranger" or "random attack", but its not made clear whether he was known to her and I wanted to avoid being so politically correct that we failed to report the facts. Leaving "by a psychopath" out of the hook side steps the issue and we can put "described as" in the article. I'm not sure we will find an authoritative opinion here. Victuallers (talk) 12:15, 2 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
True, I'm not sure how to verify whether the "psychopath" bit is factually accurate or journalistic color (I also don't know much about German news media, whether its more likely to be accurate or not). From what I know, the popular use of the term psychopath is inaccurate but without understanding nuance I don't know if that's the case here. I think I'll err on the side of trusting the sources to be strictly factual and approve ALT0 and ALT1@Victuallers:. BuySomeApples (talk) 18:03, 2 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Article is new enough, long enough, well sourced and has no copyvio. The hook is cited and interesting, but I'm not sure if describing her attacker as a "psychopath" is politically correct enough for Wikipedia. I can see that it's the term used in the original source, but since I'm not knowledgable about German I can't tell if that's a diagnosis or a turn of speech (ie "He's such a psychopath"). Not a problem that would prevent this nom from passing, I just want another opinion. BuySomeApples (talk) 06:34, 1 August 2021 (UTC)