Template:Did you know nominations/In the Land of Invented Languages

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 22:07, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

In the Land of Invented Languages

  • ... that In the Land of Invented Languages was written when its author discovered she lived in the same town as a fluent Klingon speaker? Source: Okrent, Arika (19 May 2009). "Scaring the Mundanes". In the Land of Invented Languages. Spiegel & Grau. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-385-52788-0.
    • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/BattleBit Remastered
    • Comment: ...there are like 13 possible hooks in this article. I think this is the most directly-related one, though. I considered something about the Lojban-forum-argument, but couldn't get it under 200 char.

Moved to mainspace by Vaticidalprophet (talk). Self-nominated at 15:27, 29 July 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/In the Land of Invented Languages; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

  • Article is newly created, plenty long enough, appears well written and well-cited. The only issue I have is that the hook, though immediately catching my interest, does not seem to be the same as what is written/cited in the article. The article cites that the author "met Mark, a fluent Klingon speaker who lived in the same town as her" but not that this caused her to write the book. The source is not available online, so I can't suggest an alternative wording. Maybe another hook could be proposed? Sionk (talk) 22:54, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
@Vaticidalprophet and Sionk: How do these sound?
The suggestions still state she lived in the same town as a Klingon speaker but doesn't attribute the book to the discovery. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:34, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
Looks good to me. Vaticidalprophet 11:37, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
  • Let's go for ALT0b then, it is clearly verified in the text. Sionk (talk) 12:49, 1 August 2023 (UTC)