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A fact from Sofia Vakman appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 February 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Sofia Vakman relinquished a career as a concert pianist because a skin disorder she contracted after swimming made it painful for her to play?
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.
ALT1: ... that Sofiya Vakman relinquished a career as a concert pianist because a skin disorder she contracted after swimming made it painful for her to play? Source: Ibid.
CurryTime7-24, the expectation at DYK is that a QPQ will be done within seven days of being notified that it is needed; that will be tomorrow. Please be sure to have your QPQ done by then. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:35, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the reminder. I've been dealing with some real-life matters here and, as a consequence, plain forgot about this. Let me do this ASAP. —CurryTime7-24 (talk) 19:06, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Regarding ALT0, the source translates as "according to rumour" she was courted by the two conductors, if that is the correct translation the hook would need to be modified. Gatoclass (talk) 03:25, 2 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for catching that. Yes, "по слухам" means "according to rumors". Modified hook below:
Overall: Approving ALT1. To my mind, ALT1 is the most interesting hook; the other two seem less interesting from the perspective of someone not familiar with Russian music. ALT3 also reads a bit oddly (rumoured to be courted by her future husband?) although I understand why the change was made and it does align with the source. P.S. I don't speak Russian, but using Google Translate I'm confident the sources check out. Cheers, Chocmilk03 (talk) 21:58, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
"Sofiya" is the spelling used in Shostakovich: A Life Remembered by Elizabeth Wilson, which is where I got the idea to make this article. I had been consulting it when creating Six Poems by Marina Tsvetayeva and thereafter worked on Vakman's article concurrently.
Searching online right now suggests that you're correct and that "Sofia" may be more common. These results can sometimes be misleading, however. Google Ngrams would be helpful here; unfortunately, its results are inconclusive.[2]BGN/PGCN, which I typically adhere to, recommends "Sofiya".
I'm not attached to any one spelling. Whichever one is the more commonly used is fine with me. My only concern is with how a potential spelling change may affect this article's forthcoming DYK. —CurryTime7-24 (talk) 04:30, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Shouldn't be an issue for DYK at all, hook can be edited. I hadn't tried books, but that also seems to prefer "Sofia" (3.5 pages of Google Books results vs 1 for "Sofiya", 0.5 for "Sofya", and 0.5 for "Sophia"). Hameltion (talk | contribs) 04:40, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Full review needed now that valid QPQ has been supplied. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:30, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
Regarding ALT0, the source translates as "according to rumour" she was courted by the two conductors, if that is the correct translation the hook would need to be modified. Gatoclass (talk) 03:25, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
Approving ALT1. To my mind, ALT1 is the most interesting hook; the other two seem less interesting from the perspective of someone not familiar with Russian music. ALT3 also reads a bit oddly (rumoured to be courted by her future husband?) although I understand why the change was made and it does align with the source. P.S. I don't speak Russian, but using Google Translate I'm confident the sources check out. Cheers, Chocmilk03 (talk) 21:58, 7 February 2024 (UTC)