Talk:Toward European Unity

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Review: February 28, 2025. (Reviewed version).

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A fact from Toward European Unity appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 March 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that in the essay "Toward European Unity" George Orwell presumed that one of the greatest obstacles to a federal Europe would be economic pressure by the United States?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2025/March. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Toward European Unity.

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GA review

Passed. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:11, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This review is transcluded from Talk:Toward European Unity/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Grnrchst (talk · contribs) 15:56, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 18:37, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

I've disarmed harv links for Further reading ... except Shaw 2004.

I've done a tiny bit of copy-editing.

under the Attlee government. - far be it from me, but perhaps "under Attlee's British government."

Since the article is in British English, perhaps Scottish academic Graham MacPhee and British historian John Newsinger should both be prefixed with "the".

planned to put his plan into action - reword to avoid repetition of the word "plan"?

Images

The only image is on Commons and is plausibly PD.

Sources

The article is fully-sourced. The listed sources are of good quality, being mainly journal articles and scholarly books, and are plainly relevant to the subject.

Douglass 1985 is in Bibliography but is not cited in the text.

Shaw 2004 is in Further reading but is cited in the text.

Spot-checks: [1], [5], [40], [51]. These are all verified; though [51] doesn't use the actual phrase "Third-worldism", it describes the concept.

Summary

The article is clearly written and plainly covers the key points of its subject. Amenta's "hundred-percent Americanism" ... you did say this was 1947 ... just checking! I'm basically ready to pass this immediately, with only the tiniest tweaks suggested above. Good stuff. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:12, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Chiswick Chap: Thanks for the review! I've made the wee changes suggested above (diff). --Grnrchst (talk) 09:07, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Did you know nomination

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 00:41, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Orwell broadcasting for the BBC

... that in the essay "Toward European Unity", George Orwell (pictured) called for the creation of a democratic socialist European Federation to counter the hegemony of the United States and Soviet Union?

Source: Harries, Owen (1993). "The Collapse of 'The West'". Foreign Affairs. 72 (4): 48. doi:10.2307/20045714. ISSN 0015-7120. JSTOR 20045714.

ALT1: ... that in the essay "Toward European Unity", George Orwell (pictured) presumed that one of the greatest obstacles to a federal Europe would be economic pressure by the United States? Source: Newsinger, John (1999). "A Doctor Treating an All but Hopeless Case". Orwell’s Politics. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 152–153. doi:10.1057/9780333983607_7. ISBN 978-0-333-96858-1.
Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Usha Didi Gunatita

Improved to Good Article status by Grnrchst (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 50 past nominations.

Grnrchst (talk) 09:48, 28 February 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Review coming in a bit. I identify as demsoc myself (despite my negative opinions on Orwell) so I think this might be a good fit. 🌙Eclipse (she/they/all neos • talk • edits) 15:15, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

General eligibility:

New enough:
Long enough:
Other problems:

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:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: GTG. I prefer ALT1 as our readers might already be familiar with Orwell's socialist values mentioned in ALT0 (for reference, his article has gained over 416k pageviews in the last 90 days + his political views are already mentioned in the lede), and the concept of "United States vs. European superstate" is slightly more interesting. AGF on the first source as JSTOR via WP:LIBRARY is not loading on my computer. 🌙Eclipse (she/they/all neos • talk • edits) 17:26, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]