Talk:Alexandru Talex

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 20:05, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

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Alexandru Talex in 1940

• ... that Alexandru Talex (pictured) was described as "the gentlest" Crusade of Romanianism paramilitary?

• Source: Ion Căpățână, "Temoignage. Panaït Istrati ou l'homme qui n'a adhéré à rien", in Cahiers Panaït Istrati, Issue 4, December 1976, p. 24. You can read a print here.

• ALT1: ... that Alexandru Talex (pictured), who was novelist Panait Istrati's confidant and posthumous promoter, produced "superficial, negligent, or downright aberrant" footnotes to Istrati's letters? Source: Mircea Iorgulescu, "Vieți paralele. Recunoașterea", in Vatra, Vol. XXX, Issue 391, October 2003, p. 25 -- includes both the quote and detail on Istrati's relationship with Talex (the latter is detailed in a million other sources as well).
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Shagdarjavin Natsagdorj
• Comment: I'm hoping this gets accepted, even though I was myself superficial, negligent, or downright aberrant in not making sure to submit it within the required interval (and just some hours over it).

Created by Dahn (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 109 past nominations.

Dahn (talk) 19:20, 21 May 2024 (UTC).

Interesting substantial life and work, on plenty of good-looking sources, foreign and offline sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. I lean towards the original hook (as more positive about the subject), but am afraid that the organisation will not be known to many readers, and while I thing "paramilitary" is meant to explain what it is, it wasn't clear for me just from reading the hook. Could you say that differently? The image is licensed, and shows the period well. I don't mind a slightly late nom, especially of such a substantial addition to our knowledge. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:55, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Fair point, Gerda, and thank you for giving this article such a thorough second-look. In light of the above, how about:

• ALT 2: ... that Alexandru Talex (pictured) was "the gentlest" member of a Romanian far-right organization? Dahn (talk) 08:33, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Um, Gerda? Dahn (talk) 15:28, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, I had missed to put the nom on my watchlist.

I like that better. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:32, 2 June 2024 (UTC)