Template:Did you know nominations/Thomas Carlyle

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:16, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

Thomas Carlyle

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Painting of Thomas Carlyle

• ... that Thomas Carlyle's (pictured) writing greatly influenced Victorian literature while he also developed his own philosophy of religion, Natural Supernaturalism, and postulated the Great man theory? Source: https://www.the-american-interest.com/2012/04/10/retroview-our-hero/ , Traill, Henry Duff, ed. (1896–1899). The Works of Thomas Carlyle in Thirty Volumes. London: Chapman and Hall. 1:202–212. , 29:118
  • ALT1: ... that the Young Irelanders admired Thomas Carlyle (pictured), despite his opposition to their cause? Source: Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan (1892). Conversations with Carlyle. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Pages 4 and 24
  • ALT2: ... that progressives, conservatives, socialists, and nationalists have all been either inspired or influenced by Thomas Carlyle (pictured)? Source: Gutzke, D. (30 April 2016). Britain and Transnational Progressivism. Springer. ISBN 978-0230614970. , Kerry, Paul E.; Pionke, Albert D.; Dent, Megan, eds. (2018). Thomas Carlyle and the Idea of Influence. Madison and Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. ISBN 978-1683930662. Page 289 , Speare, Morris Edmund. The Political Novel: Its Development in England and in America. 1924. Reprint, New York: Russell and Russell, 1966. p. 162 , Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan (1892). Conversations with Carlyle. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.Pages 4 and 24 , and more Sinopecynic (talk) 09:55, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
  • ALT3: ... that Thomas Carlyle (pictured) was the first writer to use the expression "meaning of life"? Source: O'Brien, Wendell. "Meaning of Life, The: Early Continental and Analytic Perspectives". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
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  • Comment: More hooks welcome.

Improved to Good Article status by Sinopecynic (talk) and Chiswick Chap (talk). Nominated by Onegreatjoke (talk) at 21:24, 12 May 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Thomas Carlyle; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

Detailed interesting GA, on fine sources, offline sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. Of the hooks, I like the short ALT1 best, however, for formality: the fact needs a (duplicattion of a) citation right after that sentence. The image is licensed, but doesn't show much of his face in stamp size, - I believe that the photograph or the 1938 drawing would serve the purpose to introduce him better. I'd have a lot to say about image placement (don't sandwich text! let people look "in"!) but that is not relevant for DYK, - perhaps look at it anyway ;) - How do you feel about an infobox (... which is also not relevant to DYK, but by now rather the standard)? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:22, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Added the inline. Does work as an image? If not, we could use the other's you stated. Onegreatjoke (talk) 01:01, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Carlyle c. 1865

Thank you! Yes, that image would work better for me. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:45, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

@Onegreatjoke: Gutzke 2016 needs a page number; can't access Kerry, Pionke & Dent 2018; Speare 1924 checks out; can't access Duffy 1892. Could you help with verification? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 22:10, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

OGJ nominated, probably better off pinging @Sinopecynic and Chiswick Chap: ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 08:48, 12 July 2023 (UTC)