Template:Did you know nominations/The Eruption of Mount Pelee


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The result was: promoted by Fuebaey (talk) 15:29, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

The Eruption of Mount Pelee

 * ... that Georges Méliès's film The Eruption of Mount Pelee (pictured) made the poet Guillaume Apollinaire exclaim that he and Méliès both worked to "enchant ordinary materials"?
 * ALT1:... that while Georges Méliès recreated The Eruption of Mount Pelee using scale models and pyrotechnics (pictured), Edison employees attempted to get a similar effect by making a beer barrel explode?
 * Reviewed: Helen-Ann Hartley

Created by Lemuellio (talk). Self nominated at 21:45, 5 December 2014 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg New enough, long enough, and appears to meet core policies (the article is neutral, apparently well cited, and free of any detectable copyright violations or close paraphrasing issues). I am accepting many of the references in good faith, both those that are in French or Catalan (which I unfortunately cannot read) and those that are books (to which I do not have access). One potential issue is that the brief "Summary" section of this article is completely uncited. I would certainly feel better if this section was cited, but I'm unfamiliar with cinema articles and if this lack of citations in a summary section is not an issue, then please let me know. Both the hook and the alternate are short enough, well cited in the article (again accepting some sources in good faith), and certainly interesting. Either would work well on the main page, in my opinion. The image looks great (it is in the public domain, is used in the article, and shows up well at small size), and QPQ has been done. If the lack of citations in the "Summary" section can be resolved and/or is not an issue, I'll be more than happy to pass this nomination, accepting the foreign-language and offline references that I cannot verify in good faith. Michael Barera (talk) 01:47, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
 * According to the Manual of Style at WP:FILMPLOT, "citing the film explicitly in the plot summary's section is not necessary." Thanks for the review!--Lemuellio (talk) 14:19, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol voting keep.svg That resolves my question, Lemuellio. Thank you! I now feel confident in saying that this article is good to go, again accepting some of the citations in good faith. Michael Barera (talk) 18:06, 7 December 2014 (UTC)