Template:Did you know nominations/N. Porsenna

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The result was: promoted by P199 (talk) 18:22, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

N. Porsenna

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... that N. Porsenna, who translated The Ballad of Reading Gaol into Romanian, spent seven years in communist prisons? Source: Rhea Cristina, Închisorile politice. Zoe Porsenna, avocat, intervievată la București in 2001, at Memoria Digital Library; Călin Stănculescu, "Nicu Porsenna, o victimă a temnițelor comuniste", in România Liberă, August 12, 2005 (the first of these provides the exact full dates, showing that it was 7 full years and 2 months)
- ALT1: ... that the "notorious anti-Semitic publicist" N. Porsenna was also a noted figure in Romanian parapsychology? Source: The qualifier in Victor Rizescu, "Social Policy and the Corporatist Design: A Romanian Experience of Reluctant Intermingling", in Sfera Politicii, Issue 2 (188), 2016, pp. 28–29; his activity as a parapsychology is reviewed, with some accolades, in Victor Săhleanu, "Telepatie, clarviziune, telekinezie...", in Flacăra, Vol. XX, Issue 820, February 1971, p. 15.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sibil Pektorosoğlu

Created by Dahn (talk). Self-nominated at 12:02, 16 March 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/N. Porsenna; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Approve ALT0 only. I found the antisemitic bit in the second hook a little too provocative to AGF on offline sources. BorgQueen (talk) 03:22, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

- @BorgQueen: Thanks. If you found ALT1 interesting, you can actually verify the provocative bit by downloading the Rizescu article on Researchgate. Dahn (talk) 10:17, 6 April 2023 (UTC)