Talk:The Right Side of History

The Right Side of History was nominated as a Language and literature good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (February 4, 2020). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.

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The result was: rejected by Yoninah (talk) 19:23, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
nominator has not edited for over a month

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~~... that Ben Shapiro's book The Right Side of History became the #1 non-fiction book on both Amazon and The New York Times Best Seller list within one week of its release?~~ Source: "The book became the #1 non-fiction book on both Amazon and The New York Times Best Seller list within one week of its release." Source: Twitter The Daily Wire
- ALT1: ... that Ben Shapiro was inspired to write his book The Right Side of History after protests to his speech at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles turned into a violent confrontation between attendees of Shapiro's speech and protestors? Source: "The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great is a 2019 book by American conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro. It is Shapiro's tenth book, as well as his latest one. Shapiro was inspired to write the book after an incident at California State University, Los Angeles in which his protests to a speech he was giving turned violent." Source: New York Post KABC-TV Pasadena Star-News

Created by TheEpicGhosty (talk). Self-nominated at 01:12, 6 February 2020 (UTC).[reply]

New enough, long enough, well referenced, neutrally written. As Earwig's is down, unable to check for close paraphrasing. I have struck the first hook for saying nothing about what the book is about. ALT1 is better, but I would suggest condensing it this way:
ALT1a: ... that conservative journalist Ben Shapiro was inspired to write The Right Side of History after his speech at the University of Southern California turned into a violent confrontation between attendees and protestors?
Per DYK rules, the hook fact must be cited inline at the end of the sentence in which the fact appears. You seem to be saying in the article that there was more than one inspiration for the book, but if the protest was one of the inspirations, that needs to be clearly stated and cited in the article if you wish to use it as your hook fact.
Image is fair-use. No QPQ needed for nominator with less than 5 DYK credits. Yoninah (talk) 22:10, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently the nominator has not edited since February 20. If someone else wants to fix up this nomination, we can proceed; otherwise will have to close as unsuccessful. Yoninah (talk) 20:41, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The nominator has not edited in a month and never responded to the above review nor to a talk-page message. I'm leaving them a final talk page message, but unless they return to Wikipedia or another editor adopts the nomination, this is now marked for closure. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 10:19, 20 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]