Template:Did you know nominations/Mark Slonim


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The result was: promoted by PFHLai (talk) 14:35, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Mark Slonim

 * ... that Mark Slonim, professor of Russian literature at Sarah Lawrence College in the 1950s, was once offered a job by Benito Mussolini?


 * ALT1:... that Mark Slonim, the youngest deputy in the Russian Constituent Assembly in 1917, was later Samuel Beckett's literary agent?
 * Reviewed: National Socialist Workers' Party of Norway

Created by Dahn (talk). Self-nominated at 10:57, 21 October 2015 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg This nom has been reviewed against, and determined to meet, the seven criteria of a DYK nomination. This review is written to the standards described in the Reviewing Guide which requires an icon and a description of issues discovered. Having (a) placed an icon, and, (b) discovered no issues that require description, this is cleared for queue. As addendum, I have some concern in that the hook says "job" but the article and its referenced source says he was "invited to write for," which does not necessarily = "job." IIRC Edmondo Rossoni emigrated to the U.S. in part because the writing offers for political papers he was getting in Italy were for the glory of publication and no pay was being offered. That said, for the light and fanciful purposes of DYK, this is close enough. Cleared for queue. This is not a QPQ. LavaBaron (talk) 02:54, 24 October 2015 (UTC)