Template:Did you know nominations/Louis Alexander MacKay

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The result was: promoted by Dclemens1971 (talk) 18:05, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

Louis Alexander MacKay

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• ... that Canadian writer Louis Alexander MacKay became a successful poet while teaching ancient Greek and Roman poetry at university?

• Source: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Canadian_Poetry_1920_to_1960/5YgppDd6JQcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=louis%20alexander%20mckay%20berkeley&pg=PA209&printsec=frontcover (mentions his study of Roman poets and his book about the Greek poet Homer)

• • ALT1 ... that one critic called Louis Alexander MacKay the "most angry and clever satirist" in Canada?

• • Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20582520

• • ALT2 ... that Canadian satirist Louis Alexander MacKay became a scholar of ancient Greek and Roman poetry?

• • Source: MacKay is called a satirist in https://www.jstor.org/stable/20582520 and page 85 of Trehearne (1989) Aestheticism and the Canadian Modernists: Aspects of a Poetic Influence

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Created by Edward056686 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Edward056686 (talk) 07:00, 15 June 2026 (UTC).

• General: Article is new enough and long enough
  New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Expanded on the 13th of June and nominated on the 15th. The article look great, I bet it'll pass GA. Out of all the hooks, I think ALT1 is the most "Interesting", so I'll approve that one. Great work! 1timeuse75 (talk) 15:37, 3 July 2026 (UTC)