Talk:John Albrinck

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• Sacred Heart Church (Pomeroy, Ohio)
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Sacred Heart Church in Pomeroy as depicted in 1909 postcard

• ... that two priests who served at Sacred Heart Church (pictured)—John Albrinck and Joseph Jessing — would later found two separate seminaries, the Pontifical College Josephinum and St. Gregory Seminary?

• Source: https://archive.org/details/cu31924012522870/page/534/mode/1up

https://thecatholicnewsarchive.org/?a=d&d=TCT19020227-01.2.14&srpos=1&e=-------en-20-TCT-1--txt-txIN-%22Albrinck%22-------

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Created by Maximilian775 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 10 past nominations.

Maximilian775 (talk) 01:09, 25 February 2025 (UTC).

• Length and date ok for both articles. No close paraphrase found. 2 QPQs done. But I'm wondering if the hook could be reworked? The factoid that 2 priests went on to found new separate seminaries is not explicitly stated and sourced in the church article, 'separate seminary' does not appear in neither article. Perhaps better to focus more on Albrinck, and just frame him as 'priest of the Sacred Heart Church' in hook? --Soman (talk) 10:18, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Image is free on Commons. --Soman (talk) 10:29, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

• Small note: Shouldn't the hook use — instead of --? I may be wrong though, please ignore this in that case. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 12:27, 25 February 2025 (UTC)
  • The factoid is not cited in the church article as I couldn't find a way to organically include it in the prose there. It is included in the DYK citation. Emdash issue is fixed. Maximilian775 (talk) 13:07, 25 February 2025 (UTC)
    • ALT1:...* "... that two priests who served at Sacred Heart Church (pictured)—John Albrinck and Joseph Jessing — would later found two seminaries, the Pontifical College Josephinum and St. Gregory Seminary?" I think this should correct the issues raised by Soman (talk)Maximilian775 (talk) 15:52, 26 February 2025 (UTC)
• Honestly, I'm not seeing how the hook meets WP:DYKINT, as to me just simply founding a seminary or serving a church doesn't seem to be interesting to a broad or non-specialist audience. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:39, 27 February 2025 (UTC)
  • • • User:Narutolovehinata5, feel free to posit another hook. An extreme minority of priests go on to found collegiate and graduate-level seminaries. One of these seminaries is the only of its type in the whole United States. Both of those are rare, especially for a parish in rural Appalachia. Maximilian775 (talk) 00:10, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

That's specialist information, and hooks that are too reliant on such information are discouraged as they are less likely to make sense or at least be appreciated by general readers. I took a look at Albrinck's article, and two of the things that came to mind are "Albrinck became one of the major advocates for the establishment of a minor seminary to serve the Catholics of Cincinnati" and "any of the fruit trees which used to populate the grounds of St. Gregory were planted by Albrinck, with estimates stating he planted over 1,500 trees during his two years as rector." I'm not sure if either would work as a hook but they could at least be starting points. As for the Sacred Heart Church, maybe a hook about the "It is the birthplace of the orphanage which eventually became the Pontifical College Josephinum, the only pontifical college in the United States" part might work. Regardless, my suggestion would be two separate hooks about them instead of a combined one. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 01:02, 1 March 2025 (UTC)