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: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 SL93 talk 21:51, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

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  • ... that the found manuscript trope, where a fictional work makes a reference to a fictional work of literature, dates as far back as Ancient Egypt? Source: https://www.unz.com/print/SaturdayRev-1947mar29-00007 - although that source does not use the term, it talks about this concept
  • ALT1: ... that the found manuscript trope, where a fictional work claims to be based on a discovered source material, has been used by works such as Don Quixote and The Blair Witch Project? Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27081957 for DC, https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=916938 for TBWP
  • ALT2: ... that the found manuscript trope evolved into the found footage genre in films and games? Source: https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=916938
  • ALT3: ... that the found manuscript trope blurs the line between fiction and reality, enhancing narrative credibility by portraying fictional events as historical discoveries? Source: https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=916938 , https://www.jstor.org/stable/27081957 , https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/406818/summary
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Margot Dias

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Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:22, 13 March 2025 (UTC).

  • The newspaper archive I use as the first ref seems to be flagged as unreliable, although I don't understand why (I doubt the cited article is fake). I'll try to replace it but I am not good with finding old newspaper articles - I've asked for help from someone I know is better. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:23, 13 March 2025 (UTC)
  • @Piotrus sorry for barging in (not doing the review, just wanted to note) the reason it's flagged is because Unz Review is a hardcore white nationalist publication. I don't think this impacts the reliability as they're just republishing it. I've never known them to lie about old articles they host but I wonder if they have the rights to the archives? I mean, they're fairly... literary types, for their ideology, so they very well might, their website has a few assorted publication archives. It's definitely the original article, so if all else fails you could just not link it. PARAKANYAA (talk) 06:16, 13 March 2025 (UTC)
  • {{rto|PARAKANYAA}} Thanks for heads about about the Unz Review (bleeeh). I certainly hope we can switch the link to something less yucky. Considering it's 1947, this may or may not be in public domain... hmmm. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:12, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
  • I found that it is available in ProQuest, but not through the Wikipedia library. I was bold and switched it anyways. 🌿MtBotany (talk) 23:51, 18 March 2025 (UTC)
  • 16px Full review needed. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:50, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

:* I shall review this. Storye book (talk) 10:15, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

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|comments = Thank you for this rather enjoyable article. Pity we can't include all those stone tablets and stuff which fell out of the sky (or didn't), but one can't have everything. Meanwhile, the subject is all good fun, and thank you for that nice, clear piece of work.

  • I take the hook citations in good faith, as many of those citations are unavailable to me (paywalls, logins etc.)

|sign = Storye book (talk) 10:39, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

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