Talk:Emil Utitz

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Review: July 28, 2025. (Reviewed version).

A fact from Emil Utitz appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 November 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the philosopher Emil Utitz, a classmate of Franz Kafka, became the head librarian of Theresienstadt Ghetto?

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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 12:28, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the philosopher Emil Utitz, a classmate of Franz Kafka, became the head librarian of Theresienstadt Ghetto? Source: Wolfradt, Uwe; Billmann-Mahecha, Elfriede; Stock, Armin (2014-11-21). Deutschsprachige Psychologinnen und Psychologen 1933–1945: Ein Personenlexikon, ergänzt um einen Text von Erich Stern (in German). Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-658-01481-0.
- ALT1:... that the philosopher Emil Utitz was head librarian of Theresienstadt Ghetto and spent three months after the liberation there to oversee the disbanding of the library? Source: Miriam Intrator: ""People were literally starving for any kind of reading": The Theresienstadt Ghetto Central Library, 1942-1945" https://muse.jhu.edu/article/213101

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mary Emily Sinclair
Comment: Unfortunately I can't find a free image.

Moved to mainspace by Kusma (talk). Self-nominated at 21:10, 17 October 2021 (UTC).[reply]

. Excellent, superbly sourced article. Tragic, deeply affecting story. No copyright issues, nommed the day it was moved to mainspace, hook cited, QPQ done. I can access doi:10.1353/lib.2007.0009 and the complete text of the biographical dictionary cited for the Kafka part but am mildly AGFing on the "classmate of Kafka" bit because I don't read German (but I do see Kafka referenced on the page, and Google tells me "zusammen" means "together"). I prefer alt0 and might actually delete the Kafka bit because it blunts the effect of the statement that there was a librarian at Theresienstadt. Your choice. Also, how are Nazi propaganda films not in the public domain??? AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 16:19, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the review, glad you like it. For Kafka, there's also this class photograph to prove it (Utitz middle of the front row, Kafka second from left in the top row). The propaganda films might belong to (the heirs of) the people who were forced to make them, so under that assumption will be copyrighted until 70 years after their deaths. —Kusma (talk) 21:28, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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—Kusma (talk) 12:56, 27 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA review

Passed. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:59, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This review is transcluded from Talk:Emil Utitz/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Kusma (talk · contribs) 17:53, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: AirshipJungleman29 (talk · contribs) 12:33, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take this review. Comments to follow within the next few days. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:33, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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General comments

Lead could be more thorough and not just a series of dates. Could cover his philosophical work or his work in Theresienstadt in more detail.
Otherwise, really good prose, aside from one typo which I fixed. Will do a source spotcheck later for the remaining criteria. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 16:14, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- You are absolutely right about the lead, it should be about twice the length and discuss more aspects of his life. Will fix soon. —Kusma (talk) 18:00, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  Expanded a bit (I am not good at writing leads). Let me know if you would like me to include anything else. —Kusma (talk) 21:10, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Spotchecks passed, albeit of course one might have missed something in auto-German-translations. All good here. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:58, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.