Template:Did you know nominations/Stiftsbasilika Waldsassen

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The result was: promoted by Allen3 ^talk 11:51, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Stiftsbasilika Waldsassen[edit]

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... that the Baroque Stiftsbasilika Waldsassen (pictured), a papal basilica minor, has an organ of 7,720 pipes?

Comment: will review

Created/expanded by Dr. Blofeld (talk), Gerda Arendt (talk). Nominated by Gerda Arendt (talk) at 23:54, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Question: As an 'organ ignorant' reader, why will I find this interesting? Is 7,200 pipes a lot? I think the hook needs more oomph. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 07:14, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

It's a lot. (Did you ever see a organ? How many do you see?) - I have no time for it today, see my user ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:13, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Then, if it is a lot, the hook needs to make this clearer. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 16:44, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Size (1733 characters) and date (September 26, if you exclude the starting date) check out. AGF on non-English sources. QPQ is needed.--SGCM (talk) 15:45, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

reviewed: Al-Fu'ah. I suggest we leave the hook as is. Organ people may be attracted by the number - rather than a dubious statement "one of the largest" -, others may want to know more about a papal basilica (a church with certain privileges conferred on it by the Pope), others by the pic if taken, - we don't explain in every hook why something is worth mentioning, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:59, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
Pic added that shows the organ, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:24, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

IMO, the part that's making the hook less than interesting is the noun-verb-predicate way the hook is worded. How about:
ALT1: ... that the organ of the Baroque Stiftsbasilika Waldsassen (pictured), a papal basilica minor, has 7,720 pipes?
ALT2: ... that the organ of the Baroque Stiftsbasilika Waldsassen (pictured), a papal basilica minor, has over seven thousand pipes?
ALT3: ... that the organ of the Baroque Stiftsbasilika Waldsassen (pictured), a papal basilica minor, has nearly eight thousand pipes? Yoninah (talk) 18:56, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

All sound good to me, help in English wording is always welcome, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:03, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

So everything checks out, and hook ref is verified in the one English-language ref. I prefer ALT2 or ALT3, but I leave it to the administrator to choose. Good to go. Yoninah (talk) 20:23, 11 October 2012 (UTC)