Template:Did you know nominations/Killing baby Hitler

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton talk 22:53, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Killing baby Hitler

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Adolf Hitler as an infant (c. 1889–1890)

• ... that the ethical dilemma of killing baby Hitler (pictured) has been compared to the trolley problem? Source: Strauss, Matthew (29 October 2015). "A Philosopher Weighs in on Whether or Not You Should Kill Baby Hitler". Inverse. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
  • ALT1: ... that theories of multiple time dimensions have held it to be physically possible to travel back in time and kill baby Hitler (pictured)? Source: Andreoletti, Giacomo; Spolaore, Giuseppe (2021). "The future ain't what it used to be". Synthese. 199: 10569–10585. doi:10.1007/s11229-021-03259-5. ISSN 0039-7857. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
  • ALT2: ... that science fiction stories about killing baby Hitler (pictured) date as far back as World War II? Source: Blevins, Joe (17 October 2016). "How killing baby Hitler became a staple of time-travel stories". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
  • ALT3: ... that Florida governor Jeb Bush has publicly expressed support for killing baby Hitler (pictured)? Source: Conroy, Scott; Strauss, Jon (9 November 2015). "Jeb Bush On Whether He'd Kill Baby Hitler: 'Hell Yeah, I Would!'". HuffPost. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Miyuki Ichijo and Template:Did you know nominations/Teatre Victòria
  • Comment: If anyone has notes about how to improve this article, I'm happy to hear it. If I can reserve a specific date for one of these hooks to be posted, ideally it would be 20 April or 30 April.

Created by Grnrchst (talk).

Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 33 past nominations.

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Grnrchst (talk) 10:46, 6 April 2024 (UTC).

• Eligible, well-sourced, no copyvio, neutral, QPQs done etc. The sources are all about this topic, which forms a coherent, standalone subject, with no synthesis or original research that I could find. This is one kind of article that makes Wikipedia brilliant, in my opinion: serious commentary on an initially flippant idea.
• "wouldn't" should be "would not" per MOS:CONTRACT – also "isn't", "can't" and so on
• AmbaSSada should be in italics, as a film name

The tiny copyedits above shouldn't hold this up and I wasn't able to find any substantial issues. I've checked all four sources: the only dubious thing is HuffPost as a politics source in ALT3 but other sources in the article verify the same simple statements of fact (Nahin, 2017), so this is good. Personally I'd recommend ALT2 as the most surprising, then ALT1 is also quite weird and hooky, but all hooks are good to go at the discretion of the prepper. — Bilorv (talk) 21:32, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

• I edited the article to remove contractions. Also investigating ALT2 I see that, in the story mentioned in the hook, Hitler is eleven, so not a baby Hitler. I will promote ALT0 without the dilemma link. Bruxton (talk) 22:52, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
• ALT0a: ... that the ethical dilemma of killing baby Hitler (pictured) has been compared to the trolley problem? Bruxton (talk) 22:52, 8 April 2024 (UTC)