Talk:Nicolas-Joseph Platel

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A fact from Nicolas-Joseph Platel appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 December 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that French cellist Nicolas-Joseph Platel is considered to be the founder of the Belgian school of cello playing?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/December. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Nicolas-Joseph Platel.

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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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 00:12, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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* ... that Nicolas-Joseph Platel's playing inspired his future student Alexandre Batta to switch from the violin to the cello?

Source: "Alexandre Batta first learned the violin but one day, hearing Platel play the cello, he developed a passion for this instrument and abandoned one for the other." (p. 199) "Once under Platel's direction it was easy to make rapid progress because lessons were never given with more care, more precision, more method, etc." (p. 200)

ALT1: ... that French cellist Nicolas-Joseph Platel is considered the founder of the Belgian school of cello playing? Source: "Nicolas-Joseph Platel, was born in Versailles" "He was regarded as the founder of the Belgian school of cello playing"
ALT2: ... that Nicolas-Joseph Platel left Paris to go on a concert tour but ended up staying in Quimper for two years after making a friend there? Source: "In 1805 he left Paris in order to undertake a concert tour, but at Quimper, where he made the acquaintance of a cello playing dilettante, he remained quite two years"
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Created by AsYouWish13 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

AsYouWish13 (talk) 03:21, 27 November 2024 (UTC).[reply]

The article was nominated the day after creation, and is long enough and adequately sourced. I did not find any close paraphrasing, and AGF on the offline or non-English sources. Among the three hooks proposed, I am only approving ALT1 as the other two hooks may be more specialist or at least not as easily understandable (I don't think ALT0 works if the reader doesn't know who Battas is, and the importance of Quimper is not clear). ALT1 is a rather exceptional claim, but given multiple sources, one of which I could access, it should be fine in this case. This is the nominator's second nomination so no QPQ is required.

As an aside, I'm just curious so I'd like to ask either 4meter4 or CurryTime7-24 regarding this: I'm not familiar with Battas and I've never heard of his name before: how well-known is he in music circles? I'm asking because I'm wondering if Battas is a fairly well-known name and regular readers might actually be familiar with him and thus ALT0 may have some appeal (although regardless, only ALT1 being approved stands). Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:11, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Narutolovehinata5 I've never heard of Battas. I'd say he is an obscure figure to anyone who isn't a historic violinist nerd, which is most people. I've scratched it. In my opinion, Alt1 is the best of the three hooks. 4meter4 (talk) 14:27, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Narutolovehinata5 He's new to me too. Ditto on ALT1. I think a good hook could also be made from the statement that at one point he was considered the greatest cellist in France. —CurryTime7-24 (talk) 16:08, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@AsYouWish13: Pinging regarding the above responses. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 16:15, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, ALT1 sounds good! Thank you for the review. AsYouWish13 (talk) 01:05, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]