Template:Did you know nominations/Valentin Wolfenstein


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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:58, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Valentin Wolfenstein

 * ... that Valentin Wolfenstein (pictured) became an employer for the royal photographer Johannes Jaeger at his studio Atelier Jaeger?
 * Reviewed: Amanda Yan

Created by BabbaQ (talk). Self nominated at 08:46, 27 July 2014 (UTC).
 * ALT1 ... that Valentin Wolfenstein (pictured) was a pioneer photographer and possibly the first in Sweden to make interior pictures for theaters using flash-lamp photography?--Doug Coldwell (talk) 15:27, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
 * ALT2 ... that Valentin Wolfenstein (pictured) owned the first successful photography studio in Los Angeles? --Doug Coldwell (talk) 21:23, 28 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Symbol voting keep.svg New enough, long enough, well sourced (although I have to take the book sources on good faith; Google books won't preview those pages for me), QPQ done. The primary hook appears to be both incorrect (the article says he was an employee of Jaeger, not an employer of him) and boring, and ALT1 is awkwardly worded with many qualifiers. So my preference would be to go with ALT2, which also has the advantage of being from a more easily verifiable online source. Additionally, I am unsure about the usability of the image. It claims to be an expired copyright (life of the author + 70 years) but we don't know who the author is and it is not out of the question that someone who shot the photo in 1880 could have lived until 1944. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:27, 16 August 2014 (UTC)