Template:Did you know nominations/Kim de l'Horizon
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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 07:44, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
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Kim de l'Horizon
Kim de l'Horizon
- ... that Kim de l'Horizon (pictured), winner of the 2022 German Book Prize, shaved their head during the award ceremony in a sign of solidarity with those protesting in Iran? Source: https://archive.today/20221018035042/https://www.rfi.fr/en/people-and-entertainment/20221017-swiss-author-shaves-head-on-stage-after-winning-award
- Reviewed: Cumulus Corporation
- Comment: this article has a potential issue, as kim de l'horizon has previously used another name, and it is currently unclear if de l'horizon is a pseudonym, or if the other name is a deadname. i have requested further guidance at wt:mosbio here, but i don't think there has been any definitive advice yet. in the meantime, other editors have made additions that would normally violate en wikipedia's policies and guidelines regarding deadnames, but i haven't reverted them simply because i do not know if de l'horizon's other name is actually a deadname. personally, i have been trying to edit as if de l'horizon's other name is a deadname, so there are a number of details that i haven't added to the article simply because i have yet to find a source mentioning the detail but not de l'horizon's other name. i would welcome any second opinions on the matter, either from a reviewer or any drive-by commenters. i have no problems having this hook held until the issue is resolved.also, the qpq i have provided is a full review, but is still awaiting a qpq before a final approval. do these count?by the way, i recognize that a few of the sources have yet to be formatted to dyk standards, but i wanted to nominate this before the deadline passed first. i have never gotten citation bot to work, and generally rely on friendly wikignomes to eventually help me out. if you would like to review this, please place it on hold after reviewing. i can address all other issues in the meantime, and eventually ping you once the sources are formatted to dyk standards.
Created by dying (talk). Self-nominated at 04:19, 25 October 2022 (UTC).
Interesting book and life, so far more about the book but I hope for expansion. I can read German sources, no copyvio obvious. Let me know when done. Fine hook of solidarity! The image is great, and almost needed to show that they are not the typical Swiss author. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:58, 27 October 2022 (UTC)- The Book fair is over, so the sentence could go to past tense. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:59, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
- Hey, dying, have you seen this review? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 06:11, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
- whoops! i had deliberately meant to set this aside for a week or so to get some clarity on the pseudonym versus deadname situation, but apparently, pausing work on it made it fall off my radar. i should have an expansion prepared in the next few days. thanks for the ping, theleekycauldron. dying (talk) 07:28, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
- Gerda Arendt, i have now fleshed out the article with more details about the author. apologies for the delay!also, there has been speculation that the german national library (dnb) would eventually update its entry for de l'horizon appropriately if de l'horizon's other name should be treated as a deadname, but as of this writing, the dnb still explicitly states that "Kim de l'Horizon" is a pseudonym, and refers to de l'horizon's other name as a "Wirklicher Name" ('real name'). however, perhaps a week or two ago, the web site that published what i believe is the most prominent online literary work originally written under de l'horizon's other name has changed the byline of the work to "Kim de l'Horizon". in addition, over time, reliable sources have generally removed references to de l'horizon's other name rather than add a clarification that de l'horizon's name is a pseudonym. as i prefer to err on the side of caution, i am continuing to treat de l'horizon's other name as a deadname, and have been trying to avoid using any sources that refer to it.by the way, i am unsure what you mean by "the sentence could go to past tense". which sentence are you referring to? dying (talk) 16:08, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
- thank you! to begin with the last question: "and security has been provided for de l'Horizon's appearances at the Frankfurt Book Fair", i'd say "was provided" as that fair is over, and was over when I reviewed. A family member attended, so I knew that detail ;) - i am with you for the name question.
- just for suggestions: when i translate a title that is not also a title in english, i leave it in sentence case. Blutbuch deserves a translation of the nicely ambiguous title: blood both for the liquid as for family lineage. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:18, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
- oh, it's a quadruply ambiguous title! i had completely missed the fact that the title could be referring to familial relations, which seems blindingly obvious now that you point it out, since the book is about familial relations. the translation of the book's title was previously discussed on the talk page, but only three interpretations had been mentioned. i had left the interpretation of "blood" ambiguous in the explanatory footnote as i had figured that the reader would be able to recognize that the word could either refer to the liquid or to violence, though now that i realize that i had missed a third interpretation, i have explicitly mentioned all three in the footnote. courtesy pinging Matthiaspaul to let him know that we both missed the interpretation that you pointed out.also, thanks for catching that tense error! my eyes focused on the "has" and assumed it was already in past tense, when it was actually in present perfect tense. i have now updated that statement to use past tense instead. i have also done the same for the statement about amazon reviews to avoid an awkward shift in tense in the middle of a sentence, since presumably the review bombing has died down anyway.i am assuming that, with regard to sentence case, you are referring to the gloss of the 2021 play, so i have changed the gloss accordingly. (i agree with your position on sentence case, but had left the capitalization alone when another editor had added it, as i am currently unaware of the mos advocating for either practice. i later added the gloss for the 2017 production in sentence case because i had forgotten about the earlier use of title case.) i had a harder time figuring out what case to use in the explanatory footnote for the book title, but had decided to leave the translations uncapitalized because they were translations of the word "Blutbuch" rather than the title "Blutbuch". please let me know if you disagree.anyway, many thanks, Gerda. hope your family member enjoyed their time at the book fair! dying (talk) 00:53, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
@Dying: As noted in Special:Diff/1125871817 the bare URL references need to be fixed. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:01, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
