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Overall: The article is new enough and long enough. Source verifies hook. No copyvio detected. Hook is cited. QPQ done. I like ALT1 better. I don't know what Oralist method is, so the first hook made me want to click on Oralist method and not the guy's name. I think ALT1 is very interesting. Approving ALT1. Nice work! ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 00:34, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Good point re: the first hook. It could be changed to
There certainly were precursors, notably the work of Gerrit van Asch (who studied alongside van Praagh in Rotterdam). Van Praagh is nonetheless considered to have "pioneered" the method in the literature (see e.g. tertiary sources like 1, 2). Ploni💬01:02, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Jacobs, Joseph; Harris, Isidore (1906). "van Praagh, William". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 12. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 401. 2. Stiles, H. Dominic W. (18 November 2011). "Van Praagh & The Rise of Oralism". UCL Ear Institute & Action on Hearing Loss Libraries. University College London.
The article is new enough and long enough. Source verifies hook. No copyvio detected. Hook is cited. QPQ done. I like ALT1 better. I don't know what Oralist method is, so the first hook made me want to click on Oralist method and not the guy's name. I think ALT1 is very interesting. Approving ALT1. Nice work! ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 00:34, 31 December 2024 (UTC)