Template:Did you know nominations/The Common Wind


 * 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) 06:42, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

The Common Wind

 * ... that The Common Wind, Julius S. Scott's book about the Haitian Revolution, takes its title from a William Wordsworth sonnet to Toussaint Louverture? Source: "It’s a great title. Scott gets it from William Wordsworth’s sonnet of 1802 to Toussaint L’Ouverture. Scott quotes the seven lines of its second half." CounterPunch review
 * ALT1:... that Julius S. Scott's PhD thesis on communication between African diaspora communities during the Haitian Revolution was cited hundreds of times before being published as The Common Wind? Source: "It’s made its way onto required-reading lists and been cited hundreds of times. Not bad for an unpublished book in need of revision." Chronicle of Higher Ed feature
 * ALT2:... that historian Julius S. Scott did not agree with his publisher's suggested revisions to The Common Wind, so the book remained unpublished for thirty years? Source: "Oxford University Press offered the author — Julius S. Scott, a young historian who had just completed his doctorate at Duke — a contract, along with suggestions for significant revisions. Scott could have made the changes, argued with Oxford, or taken his chances with another press. Instead he set it aside. And there it stayed for three decades." Chronicle of Higher Ed feature
 * Reviewed: Exempt, 3rd DYK nomination

Created by Bakazaka (talk). Self-nominated at 04:26, 17 December 2018 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg Article is new enough, long enough, and referenced. I prefer ALT2, being a bit less wordy and more interesting than the others. It could change to "over thirty years", though. Kingsif (talk) 19:05, 17 December 2018 (UTC)