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Did you know... that Brian Fawcett, who would have turned 78 today, taught English to inmates before becoming a full-time writer?
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... that Brian Fawcett, who would have turned 78 today, started a magazine called NMFG ("No Money From Government")? Source:
BC BookLook
ALT1: ... that Brian Fawcett, who would have turned 78 today, worked as an urban planner and community organizer before becoming a full-time writer? Source:
BC BookLook
Comment: Please save for May 13, his 78th birthday (exactly eight weeks and five days from now). Request to
IAR the "six weeks in advance" rule. Eligible per
Rule 1d, because it only appeared in the "Recent Deaths" section of
ITN and not as a bold link.
Interesting life and work, fine expansion on good sources, no copyvio obvious. I'm not quite happy with the hooks which seem a bit to expect that everybody knows him, and wants to know a little extra. How about getting to his writing, Khmer genocide for example. Or if something extra, how about teaching to inmates, rather than urban planning? - I'd accept the little longer wait because of the special day. --
Gerda Arendt (
talk)
21:42, 2 April 2022 (UTC)reply
@
Gerda Arendt: thanks for the review! How about these alternatives:
ALT2: ... that Brian Fawcett, who would have turned 78 today, taught English to inmates before becoming a full-time writer?
thank you. Open for more, such as he taught to inmates also as a writer, no? Of the two we have I prefer ALT2, bacause while that title is catchy, it is - superficially looking, and I'm afraid that's what the Main page readers are - about television ;) --
Gerda Arendt (
talk)
07:08, 4 April 2022 (UTC)reply
A fact from Brian Fawcett appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 May 2022 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Brian Fawcett, who would have turned 78 today, taught English to inmates before becoming a full-time writer?
While the biographies of living persons policy does not apply directly to the subject of this article, it may contain material that relates to living persons, such as friends and family of persons no longer living, or living persons involved in the subject matter. Unsourced or
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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
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... that Brian Fawcett, who would have turned 78 today, started a magazine called NMFG ("No Money From Government")? Source:
BC BookLook
ALT1: ... that Brian Fawcett, who would have turned 78 today, worked as an urban planner and community organizer before becoming a full-time writer? Source:
BC BookLook
Comment: Please save for May 13, his 78th birthday (exactly eight weeks and five days from now). Request to
IAR the "six weeks in advance" rule. Eligible per
Rule 1d, because it only appeared in the "Recent Deaths" section of
ITN and not as a bold link.
Interesting life and work, fine expansion on good sources, no copyvio obvious. I'm not quite happy with the hooks which seem a bit to expect that everybody knows him, and wants to know a little extra. How about getting to his writing, Khmer genocide for example. Or if something extra, how about teaching to inmates, rather than urban planning? - I'd accept the little longer wait because of the special day. --
Gerda Arendt (
talk)
21:42, 2 April 2022 (UTC)reply
@
Gerda Arendt: thanks for the review! How about these alternatives:
ALT2: ... that Brian Fawcett, who would have turned 78 today, taught English to inmates before becoming a full-time writer?
thank you. Open for more, such as he taught to inmates also as a writer, no? Of the two we have I prefer ALT2, bacause while that title is catchy, it is - superficially looking, and I'm afraid that's what the Main page readers are - about television ;) --
Gerda Arendt (
talk)
07:08, 4 April 2022 (UTC)reply