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A fact from Ove Jørgensen appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 February 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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I wonder if the first para of 'Later career' shouldn't be in 'Classical scholarship'?
I think they're in the right place: the split is his colossal falling-out over the Greek Society for Philhellenes, and he gives up research into the classics despite carrying on teaching the languages. The lines were fuzzy in those days, but I think only the former really counts as "scholarship". UndercoverClassicistT·C10:29, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
It might make sense to split 'Later career' into either whole chapters or to add subsections, with one for 'Ballet' and one for 'Other scholarship', say.
The one-line paragraph on personal life and death doesn't fit well in Career. Perhaps we should split out 'Personal life' (as is usual) and put the friendship (from 'Classical scholarship') and correspondence with Nielsen etc (from 'Later career') in there. Perhaps Poulsen's comments belong there too, as they're not much to do with career either.
I've added a Personal Life section: I'm cautious about moving Nielsen there, as he was such a big part of J's life that it's useful to have him in the right chronological places, and because I think it's significant to keep N. involved around the Greek Society palaver so as to be clear that J doesn't break with him despite throwing away just about everything else from his previous life. I'm not wedded to this solution, though, and will keep chewing on it. UndercoverClassicistT·C10:29, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
Jørgensen's law should be linked somewhere in 'Classical scholarship' as well as in the lead; I suppose it could just be a 'further' link but it'd be nicer to have it in the text.
Done.
Why is J's law described as "these principles" when it's one thing?
were described in 1998 as ... by the classicist Ruth Scodel -> active voice "Ruth Scodel described the law in 1998 as ..."
Dionysian: so he saw Duncan's approach as in some way Apollonian? How would that work? Some explanation seems to be needed here.
I don't think that's his point: I think he more saw "proper" Danish ballet as Dionysian in the sense of fundamentally vital, and Duncan etc. as fundamentally sterile -- this isn't the Apollonian/Dionysian dichotomy of Nietzsche, as far as I can tell. Might be tricky to expand too much here without falling into OR: sources are extremely few. UndercoverClassicistT·C10:29, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
Still, we need to say something, as the adjective isn't comprehensible as it stands: either readers won't know anything of what it might mean, or they'll think Nietzsche, which you say is wrong, so the current wording is actively misleading.
OK: here's what we have in the source: Suggesting that the French style had in fact been refined in the hands of the Danish ballet master, Jørgensen refers to the male dancer trained in the Bournonville style as the epitome of a Dionysian and modernised masculinity. It is against this virile figure, [sic] he poses Isadora Duncan, the 'dancer of the future'. I've made a bit of a rework here. UndercoverClassicistT·C07:47, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
Jørgensen described his conception of the aesthetic perception of art: "his" must mean "Wanscher's" here?
He maintained his friendship and correspondence with Carl Nielsen,[15] who discussed Shakespeare with Jørgensen and wrote to him in 1916 about his abortive efforts to write an opera based on The Tempest, as well as about the precarious state of Nielsen's marriage. - a bit long and rambling: maybe split?
edition of Dickens's novel Great Expectations, to which he added an introductory essay, later praised by the literary scholar Jørgen Erik Nielsen as displaying an extensive knowledge both of Dickens and of... - maybe drop "Dickens's novel" to avoid repeating the name in the same sentence (and he's already named in the previous sentence, too). Or split and reword a little.
Duncan, and the liberalising ideas of the Modern Breakthrough she represented - represented to whom? Just Jørgensen? Duncan had probably never heard of the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough ...
Lead image is clearly fine as non-free. The Duncan image is certainly PD. Both are wonderfully entertaining, btw. (And I'm itching to sharpen J's image up a bit.)
I note in passing that it would have been easier if [1] covered all the Hartmann 2011 refs (and so on for other sources), but it doesn't because you sometimes group refs as in [5]. It's not forbidden but I can't see the point really when there are never more than 3 refs together.
I've erred on the side of readability: the main principle being to avoid multiple blue footnotes in a row in the body text. What you describe is entirely possible but would err the other way, making the reference list more readable at the expense of the article itself: to me, that's not the best solution. UndercoverClassicistT·C10:29, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
Current & Current don't actually say a lot about Symbolism and Art Nouveau, but it's enough.
[16] Fanning & Assay: the pages given are wrong, The Tempest is pp 83–92.
J writes very plain direct Danish, judging by a quick read of Balletens Kunst. This link and the next (Duncan Kontra Bournonville) could be specified more precisely by linking straight to the first page of the relevant article rather than the magazine's ToC, but it works fine. Though he calls Duncan "an American dilettante" rather than "the..." in D Kontra B.
This is a nice article on an interesting character, well situated in European and Western culture by the text. The comments are mostly very minor and I hope to see the article at GA very shortly. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:22, 22 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
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