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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:33, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

Al-Nadirah

 * ... that the medieval Perso-Arabic legend of al-Nadirah was the source of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea"? Source: "The widespread popular legend about the Hatrene princess Nażira and her betrayal of the city for love is still lives on in the modern fairy tale (by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen) “the princess and the pea”"
 * Reviewed: coming soon

Created by ZxxZxxZ (talk). Self-nominated at 20:55, 15 March 2019 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg Thank you. The hook is excellent. The Princess and the Pea is one of my favourite tales and no doubt this information will be of interest to many. QPQ to do, copyvio okay, new enough, sourced and cited. One bare url needs a fix. Character count too low. Can you expand a bit more, maybe add the information of why it linked with the fairy tale? Another source . Ping me when done. Whispyhistory (talk) 12:57, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
 * , I get the character count of the prose at around 2,000, shouldn't that be enough? I think the hook needs to be reworded though: neither its source, nor the first relevant thing I could see in a quick search suggests that the legend was the actual source of the fairy tale. All that is stated is that they share a theme, stopping short of implying a causal connection (which is likely but not certain and it would be otherwise quite difficult to establish). – Uanfala (talk) 09:03, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
 * It clearly is impossible to say for sure but multiple sources connect them or comment on the similarity. How about ALT1 "... that the medieval Perso-Arabic legend of al-Nadirah may have been the source for Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea"? Or "may have been one of the sources ..."? Philafrenzy (talk) 17:01, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Symbol possible vote.svg ALT1 works with "one of the sources". The article still has a bare url needing a fix. Whispyhistory (talk) 04:53, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

ALT2 "... that the theme of the medieval Perso-Arabic legend of al-Nadirah was used in Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea"? Philafrenzy (talk) 19:41, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
 * There has been no activity on this page since April, please respond, thanks. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 02:35, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. This wording seems to suggest that the story was used as a source, but stops short of stating it explicitly. – Uanfala (talk) 19:54, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Symbol voting keep.svg tick to ALT2 Whispyhistory (talk) 20:30, 9 June 2019 (UTC)