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Article is in date, long enough and sourced. I was curious about the reliability of sf-encyclopedia.com, but the entry appears to have been written by
John Clute, and is not an open user-generated content from what I can tell, so I think it should be fine. QPQ has been done. Triggers for copyvio are some book titles, so no issue there. Image looks to be correctly licensed as PD, though I'm not much of an expert there. Both hooks are sourced, supported by the source, and interesting. Looks good to go.
Spokoyni (
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18:07, 10 September 2019 (UTC)reply
The subject is not a work of fiction, or a fictional character, its the writer and what he wrote about. I don't see C6 applying. But I'll leave this to the nominator to decide.
Spokoyni (
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22:17, 14 September 2019 (UTC)reply
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Spokoyni: the lead identifies the book as
speculative fiction. Right now the hook just gives the name of the author and his fictional premise. If something more were added, like who the author is, it would ground the hook in real life in some way.
Yoninah (
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22:38, 14 September 2019 (UTC)reply
I agree with the reviewer. C6 is there to prevent hooks along the lines of "DYK that fictional character X did Y". In this case the subject is a real life person and states what they did, which is write a book. I don't see anything wrong with the existing hook. We could add that he was English or a lawyer but that would add very little.
Philafrenzy (
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12:21, 15 September 2019 (UTC)reply
A fact from Douglas Morey Ford appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 September 2019 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that in his novel A Time of Terror, Douglas Morey Ford imagined anarchists attempting to overthrow the British government?
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