Talk:Maurus Gerner-Beuerle

User:Charles01, I was thinking of nominating your article for DYK. The only problem is I don’t know what the hook (e.g Did you know… that?) should be. If you have any suggestions then let me know. Sahaib3005 (talk) 20:01, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

Nothing comes to mind instantly. I tend to leave dyk nominations to others - especially where I have been the principal initial compiler of the entry, or even where I have merely contributed significantly - on the basis that this makes for a greater semblance of objectivity. But I would think the thing to do would be to wait 24 hours till I've done the last couple of paras, then read the whole thing from beginning to end, grab a coffee and as you drink it see what you remember. (Obviously this approach depends how your memory is feeling!) The thing that I find sticks in my mind right now is the trouble "our man" had raising funds for building a new church in the 1930s, when the parish council in the village where he was the pastor (except he was away having tuberculosis when the thing blew up) split over whether to accept a donation from a Jewish shop keeper in the teeth of opposition from another shopkeeper in the village who was a member of the parish council and a Hitler stalwart. Trouble is, I don't know from the sources accessed exactly how the story ends. Though I DO know that the church got built, so they must have got the funding from someone somewhere! Otherwise I wonder if there's something he said in a sermon. I think that for contemporaries it was his sermons that he was famous for but .... I haven't got to that bit yet. It's also possible that he shared some deeply important thought (or thought trigger) which he included in something theological that he wrote, but the sources I've come across so far have more on his "Life" than on his "Works".

Ho hum. Time for bed in my time zone. Thanks for these thought trggers. Be well. Charles01 (talk) 20:24, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

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 Theleekycauldron (talk) 06:15, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

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• ... that the Lutheran theologian Maurus Gerner-Beuerle wrote an autobiographical prose work about tales and pranks from his childhood?
  • ALT1:... that after his tuberculosis returned Maurus Gerner-Beuerle was obliged to be locked away for several months at a sanatorium?
  • ALT2:... that Maurus Gerner-Beuerle's tuberculosis treatment of being locked away for several months at a sanatorium evidently worked?
  • ALT3:... that Maurus Gerner-Beuerle became one of the best known Christian preachers of the post-war generation in West Germany?

• Reviewed: The Noises

Created by Charles01 (talk). Nominated by Sahaib3005 (talk) at 20:11, 6 September 2021 (UTC).

• @Sahaib3005: I do not know which hook you prefer. I have given my preferences below.
• Article
• Created within 7 days of the nomination Y
• Sourced: yes. I had to search it myself; Sahaib3005, you shoud have provided the quote right away in you DYK nomination. "1971 veröffentlichte er in gut lesbarer alemannischer Prosa „Im Hebeldorf Huuse, mym Chinderland“, worin er Geschichten und Streiche aus seiner Jugend erzählte. Angefügt war ein kurzer Beitrag „Worum i Pfarrer worde bi“. Bereits 1965 hatte Gerner-Beuerle den Gedichtband „Bunter Herbst“ mit hochdeutschen und alemannischen Gedichten vorgelegt. Die Jugenderzählungen und der Gedichtband führten zur Verleihung der Johann-Peter-Hebel-Gedenkplakette." [1] Y
• Article is long enough Y
• Not already featured In the news Y
• No dispute Y
• Neutral Y
• No copyvio according to Earwig's Copyvio Detector Y
• Hooks
• All hooks have the right lenght and are properly formatted, although I would add a hyperlink to History of Germany (1945–1990) for "post-war" at

• ... that Maurus Gerner-Beuerle became one of the best known Christian preachers of the post-war generation in West Germany?

• Not great; hooks like "X is Y" are to be avoided.

• ALT1:... that after his tuberculosis returned Maurus Gerner-Beuerle was obliged to be locked away for several months at a sanatorium?

• Bad hook, uninteresting, does not make one want to read the article: the treatment, while slightly strange, is no really shocking.

• ALT2:... that Maurus Gerner-Beuerle's tuberculosis treatment of being locked away for several months at a sanatorium evidently worked?

• Uninteresting as it is: the treatment, while slightly strange, is no really shocking. Also, "evidently worked" should be changed: when I first read the sentence, I thought it was ironic.

• ALT3:... that the Lutheran theologian Maurus Gerner-Beuerle wrote an autobiographical prose work about tales and pranks from his childhood?

• The best hook of the four: it is funny, inhabitual, and gives a hint as to who the subject of the article is. It could be used as a DYK hook for the article.
• Veverve (talk) 00:59, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

@Veverve:, thanks for the review. I have now moved the prank one to the top. Sahaib3005 (talk) 04:50, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

@Sahaib3005: Ok, no problem then, I validate the DYK.

Sorry for the delay, I had forgotten to put the DYK nomination on my watchlist. Veverve (talk) 18:07, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

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