Template:Did you know nominations/Rupert Bruce-Mitford

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:38, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Rupert Bruce-Mitford[edit]

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... that scholar Rupert Bruce-Mitford funded his education by burning a book?

Source: Biddle 2015, pp. 67–68 (Quoting Bruce-Mitford 1989b): "My mother hoped that my father’s unpublished novel might make some money and help to pay my school fees. She left the work with a well-placed, distant, elderly lady cousin for advice. Cousin Louisa said that she herself would be glad to help with my school fees, but on one condition – that my father’s novel, depicting life in Yokohama at the turn of the Century, should be burnt; she thought it immoral and scurrilous ... My hard-pressed mother felt she had no option but to agree. That was the end of my father’s Japanese novel, but the beginning of [my] scholarly process."

Reviewed: Caroline Stein

5x expanded by Usernameunique (talk). Self-nominated at 05:58, 8 September 2017 (UTC).

Article was expanded today. The article is long enough, is neutral, contains no close paraphrasing (copyvio is not working now but I tried a google search and seemed fine), the hook is neutral, short enough, interesting, is properly sourced with an inline source citation very catching DYK if I hadn't the source there, I would have clicked to read what that meant), the article itself is adequately sourced and written in adequate English. QPQ provided. Elisa.rolle (talk) 14:50, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

This whole paragraph is copied verbatim from The Independent:
In the 1950s, Bruce-Mitford was invited to join the panel (alongside Professor Glyn Daniel and Sir Mortimer Wheeler) of the celebrated television show Animal, Vegetable or Mineral. The first programme of its kind to introduce archaeology to a wide public audience, it was produced by a youthful David Attenborough who, in 1966, when Controller of BBC2, commissioned The Million Pound Grave, and a sequel, about the excavations at Sutton Hoo. Yoninah (talk) 21:48, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Ugh, thanks for noticing that Yoninah. My fault for not paying attention to the lead when expanding the article. I see you have removed the offending material. I've also revised the lead to make it less a listing of years and societies. Is there anything else needed to take this nomination forward? (On an unrelated note while I'm pinging you, I'll take a look at Birds'_Head_Haggadah today.) --Usernameunique (talk) 22:15, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Oh, I didn't mean to remove it from the article entirely; I thought it was repeated in the body of the article. Do you want to paraphrase any of it in the body before I promote this? Yoninah (talk) 22:17, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

No worries Yoninah. I'll add back the info soon (without copyvios!), but no need to hold up promotion on its account. Is that something for an "In popular culture" section, or should it be fitted in somewhere else? --Usernameunique (talk) 22:25, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Usernameunique maybe put it under "Other activities" right before "Personal life". Yoninah (talk) 23:10, 18 September 2017 (UTC)