Template:Did you know nominations/M Train (book)


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The result was: promoted by Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 00:11, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

M Train (book)

 * ... that musician Patti Smith was nominated for a Grammy for her book M Train? Source: Grammy Awards
 * ALT1 ... that Patti Smith's title for her second memoir, M Train, refers to a "mind train" or the train of thought that can lead anywhere? (Source: "M Train: 'Mind train, a train of thought that can lead anywhere,'" Vanity Fair)
 * ALT2 ... that musician Patti Smith took 16 years off performing and devoted herself to writing, a subject of her memoir M Train? (Source: "I've always considered myself a writer, and M Train is really about my writer's life" "You didn't perform for years after you moved to Detroit." "Sixteen years...That's when I learned to be a writer. Just Kids didn't come out of flotsam and jetsam. It came from years of developing a discipline."Harper's Bazaar)
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Edward Frank Gillett
 * Comment: I thought it might make a nice quirky hook, getting a Grammy nom for a book.

5x expanded by Innisfree987 (talk). Self-nominated at 03:15, 7 October 2018 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg Date, size, neutrality, refs, hook, copyvio spotcheck, QPQ review, all GTG. The only comment other than that is that the hook is pretty plain and boring. Isn't there anything else to be said here? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 11:17, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the review. I have a few more reviews to read; let me see what I can find as far as ALT hooks. Innisfree987 (talk) 00:40, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I was about to promote this, but no alt hooks were ever presented. SL93 (talk) 00:51, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Closing as failed. No alts were ever given. SL93 (talk) 04:31, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Just seeing this; didn't get your previous, would've been great to have a ping. Sorry I didn't get to it soon. Innisfree987 (talk) 04:38, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I didn't think about it since I assumed you had this on your watchlist. SL93 (talk) 04:39, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Understood--I do, which is how I saw this one. I just had things come up that kept me mainly off-wiki for several weeks, just getting back to catching up on things now. Innisfree987 (talk) 04:42, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I apologize for not pinging you. SL93 (talk) 04:47, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks, much appreciated. What do you want to do about the entry? Understand if it's your decision to close it. It would take me at min a couple more days to read the additional sources and suggest something; I'm willing but up to you. (I actually didn't think it was such a bad idea for a hook in the first place, a book winning a Grammy, but of course that's the reviewer's call.) Innisfree987 (talk) 04:53, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I can wait longer. I would like to see what the original reviewer thinks since he brought up the hook not being interesting, but I can't seem to remember how to ping an editor. SL93 (talk) 04:57, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much for your flexibility—I’ll ping you both in a couple days with new suggestions. (As for my part I can’t remember how to show you a template without actually using it so here, I’ll just ping myself for now——and then if you go in to edit the page you’ll see the syntax!) Innisfree987 (talk) 05:19, 10 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Symbol possible vote.svg Leaving this icon to prevent the nomination from being closed, pending additional hook suggestions from the nominator. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 00:49, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
 * It has been 10 days since the last comment (and indeed edit) by the nominator. Please propose new hooks by Saturday, otherwise this will be marked for closure then. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 00:13, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg I will mark ALT1 as the most interesting of the hooks. Rest of the review is per Piotrus. SL93 (talk) 01:54, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Ok. I hadn't pinged all because I was going to write a couple more to choose from but if that works for you, great. Innisfree987 (talk) 02:11, 23 November 2018 (UTC)