Talk:Imagining Extinction

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The result was: promoted by Beta Beta Beta (talk) 05:03, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

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• Ursula K. Heise
• Imagining Extinction

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• ... that Ursula K. Heise's book Imagining Extinction argues that endangered species have an uneven degree of attention? Source: In her 2016 book Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species, she foregrounds what she calls “a very clear pattern”: the fact that it is vertebrate species that garner most of the attention, not just from the public and media but also from the scientific community. “Invertebrates get much less attention, and plants especially get ignored.” followed by a paragraph on the IUCN Red List's inequities.
  • ALT0b: ... that Ursula K. Heise's book Imagining Extinction argues that endangered species have an uneven degree of attention at the expenses of invertebrates and plants? Source: Same as ALT0.
  • ALT0c: ... that Ursula K. Heise's book Imagining Extinction argues that endangered invertebrates "get much less attention" and endangered plants "especially get ignored"? Source: Same as ALT0.
  • ALT1: ... that according to Ursula K. Heise's book Imagining Extinction, endangered species are unequally prioritized on aesthetics? Source: The first chapter focusses on the most familiar narrative genres, the novel and the non-fiction memoir, to show how the mood of elegy and the structure of tragedy pervade contemporary accounts of the extinction of individual species. The emphasis, almost always, is on recognisable and aesthetically compelling species – beautiful birds, imposing carnivores – which, as Heise explains, form a synecdoche for the loss of biodiversity as a whole or endangered species as a class.
  • ALT2: ... that Ursula K. Heise's book Imagining Extinction claims that databases have narrative and elegy-like attributes? Source: Alert to problems of emphasis and exclusion in such lists, Heise offers a searching account of how databases, while holding out “the potential of desentimentalizing extinction” (76), still exhibit narrative and elegiac features.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Harry Leons and Template:Did you know nominations/Greater Gotham
  • Comment: Give me some time to tweak the hooks for now.

Created by Miraclepine (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 153 past nominations.

ミラP@Miraclepine 00:28, 29 May 2026 (UTC).

• I take, will review in the next 24 hours.--Launchballer 02:21, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

QPQs and Heise are fine, need longer to check Imagining and the hooks.--Launchballer 23:33, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

Not seeing anything disqualifying regarding Imagining.--Launchballer 02:42, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

@Miraclepine: Long enough, new enough, Earwigs are fine. Not familiar with the word 'elegy', so suspect a broad audience also might not be. It took me a couple of attempts to work out what ALT0 was trying to say (really 'get' or 'receive' instead of 'have') and I think the hook would be better with "on aesthetics" - but also better starting the way ALT0 does. If you're alright with ALT1a: ... that Ursula K. Heise's book Imagining Extinction argues that endangered species are unequally prioritized based on aesthetics?, I'll approve this.--Launchballer 13:17, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

@Launchballer: ALT1a's cool. ミラP@Miraclepine 13:18, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

Alright, let's roll.--Launchballer 13:20, 30 May 2026 (UTC)