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Did you know... that among rock critic Jacoba Atlas's many concert reviews was a "disastrous appearance" by
Joe Cocker?
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New enough, long enough, neutrally written, well referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. QPQ done.
Please link the films in the Filmography section.
You did a lot of research here, and it shows. But I was expecting something totally different after reading the hook; I thought Joni Mitchell was donating her time to a halfway house or something. If you would like to use this hook angle, please rewrite it; maybe put the bolded subject first. Alternatively, you have a lot of good detail to fashion a hook from in the article. Thanks,
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ALT1:... that music critic Jacoba Atlas reviewed many concerts including a "disastrous appearance" by
Joe Cocker? Atlas wrote, " Joe Cocker opened and closed at the Roxy Theatre and hopefully the talent that delighted so many people a few years back won't be thoroughly buried by this disastrous appearance."
[1]
Thank you. ALT1 has potential, though I don't see source verification for "many concerts"; each group of performers that she interviewed ends with a citation to the last one. I guess you could get around it by writing:
ALT1a: ... that among rock critic Jacoba Atlas's many concert reviews was a "disastrous appearance" by
Joe Cocker?
A fact from Jacoba Atlas appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 September 2020 (
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Did you know... that among rock critic Jacoba Atlas's many concert reviews was a "disastrous appearance" by
Joe Cocker?
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New enough, long enough, neutrally written, well referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. QPQ done.
Please link the films in the Filmography section.
You did a lot of research here, and it shows. But I was expecting something totally different after reading the hook; I thought Joni Mitchell was donating her time to a halfway house or something. If you would like to use this hook angle, please rewrite it; maybe put the bolded subject first. Alternatively, you have a lot of good detail to fashion a hook from in the article. Thanks,
Yoninah (
talk)
15:25, 7 September 2020 (UTC)reply
ALT1:... that music critic Jacoba Atlas reviewed many concerts including a "disastrous appearance" by
Joe Cocker? Atlas wrote, " Joe Cocker opened and closed at the Roxy Theatre and hopefully the talent that delighted so many people a few years back won't be thoroughly buried by this disastrous appearance."
[1]
Thank you. ALT1 has potential, though I don't see source verification for "many concerts"; each group of performers that she interviewed ends with a citation to the last one. I guess you could get around it by writing:
ALT1a: ... that among rock critic Jacoba Atlas's many concert reviews was a "disastrous appearance" by
Joe Cocker?