Template:Did you know nominations/Grigore T. Popa

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The result was: promoted by Orlady (talk) 02:44, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Grigore T. Popa

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... ~~that future Romanian anatomist Grigore T. Popa fainted when he first entered a dissecting room?~~

ALT1:... that anatomist Grigore T. Popa spoke against fascism before the Romanian Academy while a fascist ruler held office, and later attacked communism when it was consolidating control over his country?
ALT2:... that Romanian anatomist Grigore T. Popa's peasant parents sold their land to help finance his education?
ALT3:... that the students of Romanian anatomist Grigore T. Popa included a future Nobel laureate and about twenty-two university professors and members of the Romanian Academy?
ALT4:... that Romanian anatomist Grigore T. Popa spent time in hiding from the nascent Communist regime, which was first unable to apprehend him and then dropped its pursuit since he was dying?
ALT5:... that the students of anatomist and Romanian Communist Party target Grigore T. Popa mobilized to prevent his dismissal and later his arrest?
Reviewed: Galindo Mellado Cruz

Created by Biruitorul (talk). Self nominated at 05:00, 5 June 2014 (UTC).

Comment Unlinking Romania - common word. Few tweaks to hooks. Edwardx (talk) 13:57, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

As one who took a part in expanding the article, I am going to refrain from reviewing the hook (it wouldn't be fair play), but I will make some suggestions regarding the hooks:

1. The original hook strikes me as a bit bland in comparison with any of the alts. These things tend to happen to people when they first witness dissections and such, and it doesn't tell readers how interesting the article is (which it is!).

2. Perhaps ALT 1 could be improved. The really interesting tidbit is not that Popa spoke out at the Academy against the local dictator Antonescu, and then against the country's Communist Party. It is that he spoke out against fascism (including Nazism), then against communism. Could it also be emphasized somehow that his antifascist lectures began when fascism was still in power? It is not immediately apparent from the hook, but it is a most astounding fact. Excellent.

I want to congratulate Biruitorul for writing this article on someone who surely was one of the most lucid voices in modern Romanian history. Dahn (talk) 09:45, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Created 3 June, nominated 5 June. New enough and long enough. QPQ done. Text written in objective manner and neutral style. Fully referenced. No problems with disambig links or with access to external links. External links checked for sources of copyvio and close paraphrasing; none found. I have struck the original hook in response to the comment above, since there are others to choose from. All hooks are acceptable and short enough, the longest having 185 characters. Both parts of ALT1 are referenced to offline citation #38. ALT2 is referenced to offline citation #1. ALT3 is referenced to offline citation #13, and online citations #14 and #15. ALT4 is referenced to online citation #3, and offline citation #9. ALT5 is referenced with online citations #3 and #15. All offline citations and Romanian language citations accepted AGF. Excellent and worthwhile article, well done. I would like to see more subheadings to help first-stop researchers skim through that wall of text, but this is not a DYK requirement. Good to go for ALTs 1-5. --Storye book (talk) 16:04, 20 June 2014 (UTC)