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255:* My only observation on the suggested hooks is that both may generate a bit of noise. There are those who get worked up at the suggestion that Kane is modelled on Hearst, and thus whether Xanadu is modelled on San Simeon, even though it's blindingly obvious that he was and it is. There's a smaller, but still vocal, group that get agitated by the Bernard Shaw quote, maintaining either that he didn't say it, or that he said it about somewhere else, usually 346: 340:
Reserving this. Very nice article (but many paras look long on our new narrow pc screens, & no doubt even more on mobile). Why not a pic for DYK? First hook may be the best, but I think all are ok (agf on the quotes), though I agree some may be subject to last-minute nit-picks and undiscussed
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No, I'm the nominator. I asked because I'm not very familiar with the DYK process. This is only my second nomination, my first one (which was an absolute banger, by the way) got quashed on a technicality. So now we wait for someone to hopefully close the discussion?
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The character of Charles Foster Kane was modeled on real-life publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, and his fictional estate in the film Xanadu was based on Hearst’s “Enchanted Hill” in San Simeon,
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Someone promotes it, I hope. Sorry - did you want to review it? It just looked like a 6-day old comment. 1st hook is my preference, but all are ok.
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Source: Mark Anthony Wilson, Julia Morgan: Architect of Beauty (2012), isbn 978-1-423-63654-0, oclc 966008538, Frontispiece
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Does it matter if someone denies the undeniable historical fact that Kane was modelled on Hearst? Let em get worked up.
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George Bernard Shaw... is rumored to have said "this is probably the way God would have done it if He had had the money"
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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
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this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
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changes, which seem to be returning to fashion. GA, well-written and neutral.
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as "what God would have built if he had had the money"?
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