Template:Did you know nominations/A Dog's Love

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 Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:04, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

A Dog's Love

(

Comment or view
Article history

)

~~... that A Dog's Love, a 1914 American short silent fantasy film, stars Helen Badgley and Shep the Dog (pictured)?~~

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Eva (sternwheeler)

Created by Dr. Blofeld (talk), Rosiestep (talk). Nominated by Rosiestep (talk) at 03:43, 24 August 2014 (UTC).

Article is long enough, new enough, and within policy (neutral, cites sources, no copyvio). Hook is short enough and interesting. Hook is verified too. I think the sources are probably reliable, but I did have some concerns as one site seems to claiming false copyright on public domain material. Nevertheless, the fact also shows up in other sources as well. QPQ is done, and article is good to go. Image is sufficiently old to have no copyright concerns. IronGargoyle (talk) 19:27, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

ALT1: ~~... that Shep the Dog (pictured) proved to be a better actor than his child co-star in A Dog's Love?~~ Yoninah (talk) 12:14, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

@IronGargoyle: Thank you for the review. @Yoninah: ALT1 is fine if the promoter would prefer it. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:11, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Reviewer needed to verify ALT1. Yoninah (talk) 15:02, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

ALT1 is fun and interesting, and cited to a reliable source. It is obviously one writer's opinion, but I feel that is implicit in the hook. Rest of the review per IronGargoyle above. 97198 (talk) 12:27, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Pulled from queue by The Rambling Man due to perceived hook issues noted on the DYK talk page. Since the hook in question was ALT1, I've struck it. I should probably note that "histrionics", from the source and in the article, is not necessarily a complimentary word—perhaps the article's sentence can be centered around the word "outshining" from the source. (I believe the photo actually pictures both Shep and his co-star...) BlueMoonset (talk) 15:03, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

I can't see much wrong with ALT1 to be honest (other than the pictured needing to be expanded); the hook fact is clearly in the article and cited even if the wording is slightly different [clutches at mouth, wrings hands]. Anyway, to keep things rolling along, a slightly reworded ALT (or you could always unstrike and reinstate ALT1):

ALT2 ... that Shep the Dog (pictured with co-star) was considered to have given a better performance than his melodramatic child co-star in A Dog's Love? (too long? I can't count all those characters, I'd be here all night) Belle (talk) 16:05, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

ALT2 is short enough and works nicely. Hook ref verified and cited inline. ALT2 good to go. Yoninah (talk) 18:15, 10 September 2014 (UTC)