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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 18:53, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Oscar van Hemel

 * ... that the Dutch-Belgian composer Oscar van Hemel created two operas, one of them about a prostitute? Source:
 * ALT1:... that the Dutch-Belgian composer Oscar van Hemel was wounded in the Battle of Halen? Source:
 * Reviewed: Michaelbrent Collings

Created by Randykitty (talk). Self-nominated at 16:18, 7 March 2019 (UTC).

Reviewing this - 2.5 years to finish up that userspace draft, eh?
 * Where in source 1 does it mention "August de Boeck and Lodewijk Mortelmans" and the Dutch National Opera?
 * Similarly, the first sentences of the first section looks sorta similar to source 1 - though I guess that's just because the sources provide pretty simple-to-state facts.

Otherwise, I prefer the original ALT and the other criteria are good to go. Juxlos (talk) 10:35, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
 * To be honest, I had completely forgotten about that draft in my userspace, until I stumbled upon it recently :-) As for your questions (good catch, BTW; ref numbers used are those in the version that you reviewed, they have changed subsequent to my corrections)): 1/ Dutch National Opera: that's indeed not in ref 1, I put the wrong one there, it's in ref 2 and also in ref 7 (corrected). 2/de Boek and Mortelmans: that was actually in none of the references listed... I' found a good reference, I think. As it doesn't say explicitly that this was at the Royal Conservatory, I put that ref behind Mortelmans' name and moved the bio reference up till after the conservatory. 3/ Similarity: personally I think this is different enough not to be "close paraphrasing", but if you like, I can try to reword it. As you say, there's only so many ways to present these basic facts. 4/ My preference is also for the original hook, not the ALT. Thanks for reviewing this, hope it's OK now! --Randykitty (talk) 16:28, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg I see the problems are fixed - original ALT is good to go then. Juxlos (talk) 00:22, 12 March 2019 (UTC)