Talk:Robert Louis Stevenson Museum

A fact from Robert Louis Stevenson Museum appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 June 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum in Samoa was founded by two American Mormon missionaries?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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 Desertarun (talk) 17:53, 1 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum in Samoa was the final residence of its namesake? Source: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/robert-louis-stevenson-museum
- ALT1:... that in the 1890s the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum had the only working fireplace in Samoa? Source: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/robert-louis-stevenson-museum

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sungai Selan

Created by Lajmmoore (talk). Self-nominated at 19:17, 20 May 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Copyvio tool suggests there is a paragraph with a little too much similarity to the Atlas Obscura "After Stevenson's death, the villa variously served as the residence of the Governor of German Samoa, the administrator of the New Zealand Mandatory Authority, and the Samoan Head of State. However, hurricanes in 1990 and 1991 badly damaged the residence." So that should be rephrased. However I have qualms about the Atlas Obscura site as a source - is it generally considered reliable? It seems to be community sourced and editable by anyone, but without any sources for the information provided. I think you should be able to find a better source at least for the first hook? DrThneed (talk) 23:20, 22 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much @DrThneed: - take your point about the copyvio and you point is fair enough about Atlas Obscura - I found this discussion [[1]], which seems to infer that there's no consensus on the site yet. I think AO tends to be fairly reliable (despite some of its content being user generated). However, as you observe there shouldn't be space for doubt in a DYK, so I'll offer:

ALT2:... that the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum in Samoa was founded by two American Mormon missionaries? Source: https://doi.org/10.1080/10941660701243331

Let me know if there's further imporvements you'd like to see Lajmmoore (talk) 07:10, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Great, thanks @Lajmmoore:, copyvio is sorted and I am happy with the sourcing of ALT2, and the combination of RLS and Samoa and Mormon missionaries is hooky for me, so that's approved for promotion.(Changing "maybe" to "yes" above to reflect that decision). Cheers! DrThneed (talk) 01:06, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]