Template:Did you know nominations/Cossva Anckarsvärd

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:11, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Cossva Anckarsvärd[edit]

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Cossva Anckarsvärd

... that Swedish diplomat Cossva Anckarsvärd (pictured) was a witness to the Armenian Genocide and stated that it was an attempt to "exterminate the Armenian nation"?

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/St Gredifael's Church

Created by Saftgurka (talk) and EtienneDolet (talk). Nominated by EtienneDolet (talk) at 17:38, 14 April 2016 (UTC).

Notable life for good causes, well sourced. Swedish sources accepted AGF. I recommend to make the pdf a second source for the hook (more precise, more context). - For the pic caption: the given name is repetitive, better add a year. - How do you feel about an infobox? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:43, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

IMO this is a highly POV hook from a highly POV website. Even footnote 6 doesn't state his opinion so virulently. Do you have any other sources that verify his opinions? Yoninah (talk) 17:43, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Yoninah, I'm assuming you mean the genocide1915.org source. I removed it along with the sentence it cited. Étienne Dolet (talk) 18:03, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. Restoring tick per Gerda Arendt's review (English-language hook ref verified and cited inline). I would suggest tweaking the hook as follows:

ALT1: ... that Swedish diplomat Cossva Anckarsvärd (pictured), a witness to the Armenian Genocide, called it an attempt to "exterminate the Armenian nation"? Yoninah (talk) 18:47, 26 April 2016 (UTC)