Template:Did you know nominations/Barcroft Boake (poet)

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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 AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:53, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

Barcroft Boake (poet)

  • ... that Barcroft Boake, author of one of Australia's most anthologised poems, hanged himself with a stockwhip a few months after it was published? Source: for death/timing, ADB; for most anthologised, journal article (paywalled): "Barcroft Boake is the exemplar of the signature poem phenomenon. His poem 'Where the Dead Men Lie' has appeared twelve times [n.b.: second-most behind 'Five Bells']. This poem accounts for Boake’s inclusion in most anthologies; excluding this poem, Boake has had only four other poems anthologised"

5x expanded by ITBF (talk). Self-nominated at 18:20, 4 July 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Barcroft Boake (poet); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited: Yes - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
  • Interesting: Yes
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Anyone running a double check for copyvio should note that two copy/paste sentences are from a website that itself copied from the article/mirror site, so the check is a false positive. Waiting on QPQ. — MaxnaCarta  ( 💬 • 📝 ) 00:27, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

  • @ITBF: It's been over a week since the nomination. Please provide a QPQ as soon as possible so that the nomination can proceed. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:38, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
Apologies now done. ITBF (talk) 09:38, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
Pinging reviewer MaxnaCarta to return and finish the review now that the QPQ has been provided. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:34, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
@ITBF: all done, please ping in future to ensure the eyes come back. Cheers and well done — MaxnaCarta  ( 💬 • 📝 ) 03:15, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
@MaxnaCarta and ITBF: I think we need a source for the suicide claim. Right now the claim is sourced to he was found hanging and the coroner will have an inquest. Bruxton (talk) 22:37, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
@Bruxton: Thank you for pinging me. I do see your point of view in that, trictly speaking, the source does not confirm beyond a doubt that it was suicide. I, however, consider the source fine to substantiate suicide. A compromise could be @ITBF: changing the wording to "reported suicide"? "Reportedly hanged himself". Or "presumed to have hanged himself"? Dunno. We are not talking about a tabloid claiming something rumoured about a celebrity here; it seems fairly credible. I reckon it's adequately sourced. ITBF, maybe try to substantiate the claim further to avoid us getting off track here. Cheers — MaxnaCarta  ( 💬 • 📝 ) 01:36, 4 August 2023 (UTC)