Template:Did you know nominations/Spintharus of Corinth
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:24, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
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Spintharus of Corinth[edit]
- ... that although Pausanias described Spintharus of Corinth as the architect of the Temple at Delphi, subsequent historians have disagreed as to which temple he built? Source: [1]: "the temple built by Spintharus and described by Pausanias was the temple not of the sixth but of the fourth century B.C." [2] "a hexastyle peripteral Doric temple designed by a Corinthian (Spintharus) in the latter half of the sixth century B.C.," [3] "In other words, his mistake lay, if I may so express it, not in connecting Spintharus and the Third temple with the Alcmæonids, but in connecting Spintharus and the Alcmæonids with the Third temple."
- ALT1:... that Spintharus of Corinth was an Ancient Greek architect who built the Temple of Apollo at Delphi? Source: [4]: "In 373 an earthquake and the resulting landslides destroyed the Alcmeonid Temple of Apollo. The oracle again sent out appeals for funds to rebuild, but work on the new building was delayed by war and dragged on for more than forty years. In 346, Spintharus of Corinth began the project."
- Reviewed: Second nomination, so not required yet
Created/expanded by Umimmak (talk). Self-nominated at 22:05, 6 October 2017 (UTC).
Nominated for DYK one week after creation, and is about 1700 bytes, satisfying length and date criteria. QPQ doesn't appear to be required (QPQ check finds no previous notices, and nominator states this is second DYK nomination). Per WP:DYKSG, item D2, each paragraph should have at least one inline citation; this article has no citation in the first paragraph of "Debate on chronology". (One minor issue not related to DYK - please cite page numbers in citation (for example, source 3); hunting through 30+ pages to find support for a claim is annoying. Given you stated page numbers in other citations, I assume you simply missed this one by mistake.) The only other minor concern is with the phrase "Modern historians generally subscribe to this view"; while you give examples, its not clear whether this is an exhaustive list of all such historians, and whether there are opposing viewpoints, and the sentence itself is not supported with a citation. Hooks are OK and cited, though ALT1 may be be phrased as "...who built the Temple of Apollo at Delphi" or some such. Mindmatrix 14:27, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
- @Mindmatrix: thanks for the notes -- does it look all right now? And agreed about change to ALT1 if that's the one that ends up getting used. Umimmak (talk) 15:35, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
With respect to the page numbers, you don't need to alter the references. You can simply add information following the citation; for example, use {{rp}} as follows: <ref name="Davies, 2001" />{{rp|37}}. That way, you have complete source information in the reference, and specific source details for the citations. If you write articles referencing multiple pages of one or more works, you can also use short footnotes, a format I tend to use frequently. (For an example of its use, see Niagara Apothecary.) I've restored the full references and tacked on {{rp}} for now, and leave it to you to decide on the format to use long term. I've updated ALT1 per the above comments. Good to go. Mindmatrix 14:16, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
