Talk:Huda al-Daghfaq

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A fact from Huda al-Daghfaq appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 June 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the memoir of Saudi poet Huda al-Daghfaq has been described as an expression of her "existential battle"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2025/June. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Huda al-Daghfaq.

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The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 02:47, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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... that poet Huda al-Daghfaq is also a prose poet? Source: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Saudi_Arabia_and_the_Gulf_Arab_States_To/5xbOEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Huda+al-Daghfaq&pg=PA266&printsec=frontcover
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Marva Nabili
- Comment: Other hook suggestions welcome

Created by Lajmmoore (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 141 past nominations.

Lajmmoore (talk) 19:33, 12 May 2025 (UTC).[reply]

@Lajmmoore: I don't see how the current hook meets WP:DYKINT: of course a person who specializes in a form of poetry is a poet, even if an unusual one. Do you have any other hook angles? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 04:14, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Narutolovehinata5 I proposed this one (which I agree is a bit dull) as I got nervous about proposing other hooks based on her feminism. That said she is a prominent figure, so perhaps I am being too overly cautious? What about:

ALT1 that Saudi poet Huda al-Daghfaq's memoir I Tear the Burqa to See was described as an "existential battle"? In the description of this article https://doi.org/10.21608%2Fjssa.2020.119124 Lajmmoore (talk) 06:27, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'd personally just write it as: ALT1a ... that Saudi poet Huda al-Daghfaq's memoir was described as an "existential battle"? I don't think the memoir has to be mentioned by name. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:13, 18 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I just put an alt for it in Lajmmoore (talk) 18:28, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Doing... ミラP@Miraclepine 18:46, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing: - Ref 4 doesn't say The Upward Shadow was her first, and the 1993 publication date there conflicts with ref 2 saying it was 1990. Some of the works are uncited, though citing to the work itself shouldn't be an issue.
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

Cited:
Interesting:
Other problems:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Prose size 2310 B; created two days before nom. Prefer ALT1a per Narutolovehinata5. After some straightforward copyedits (including one I forgot to save before saving the checklist), article is mostly good. @Lajmmoore: fix these issues and I'll approve. ミラP@Miraclepine 19:24, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Lajmmoore: Please address the above.--Laun chba ller 19:27, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Launchballer, I missed this somehow; Miraclepine I've just removed first, and the unreferenced works as I couldn't track them down, none were mentioned in the text Lajmmoore (talk) 19:57, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, now we can approve ALT1a. ミラP@Miraclepine 20:00, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]