Talk:Crossing a Line

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Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by PrimalMustelid talk 07:54, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

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• ... that research for a previous book about journalism led Amahl Bishara to write Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression?

** ALT1: ... that Crossing a Line intersperses ethnographic research about Palestinian political expression with narratives of the author's own experiences crossing the Green Line?

• • ALT2: ... that Crossing a Line compares Palestinian political expression on either side of the Green Line between Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories?
  • ALT3: ... that Crossing a Line combines a formal ethnography of Palestinian political expression with stories of the author's own experiences crossing the Green Line?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/2020–2022 catalytic converter theft ring, Template:Did you know nominations/Gary Bossert

Created by Ezlev (talk). Self-nominated at 18:59, 14 March 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Crossing a Line (book); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

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More than 1500 prose characters; nominated on same day of creation; no plagiarism. However, both hooks are too complicated. Another proposed ALT is below:

ALT3: ... that Crossing a Line is an ethnography about Palestinian political expression in Israel and the occupied territories? Makeandtoss (talk) 13:18, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the review, Makeandtoss. I don't think that just stating the topic of the book is enough to make a hook interesting. I've added a couple of ALTs above. Take a look when you have a chance? ezlev (user/tlk/ctrbs) 21:25, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

ِALT2 is more interesting so that should work. Makeandtoss (talk) 21:28, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Ezlev (talk • contribs) 18:59, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Requested move 21 May 2025

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The result of the move request was: moved. There seems to be a pretty easy consensus to move. (closed by non-admin page mover) Garsh (talk) 18:13, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

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Crossing a Line (book) → Crossing a Line – Crossing a Line is currently a primary redirect for a song with no article, and receives essentially zero traffic. Move this book to the primary topic, with a hatnote back to Crossing a Line (song). 162 etc. (talk) 16:47, 21 May 2025 (UTC)

• Support per nom and the spirit of WP:SONGDAB. Mdewman6 (talk) 18:23, 21 May 2025 (UTC)
• Support per nomination and Mdewman6. This would even meet the standard for uncontroversial technical request since the song "Crossing a Line" receives barely a mention within the Post Traumatic article and, while it should probably have a hatnote atop the book's entry pointing to its Post Traumatic in-passing mention, it doesn't really rise to the level of having its own redirect, thus giving the mistaken impression that it has a separate entry, although a couple of the 16 songs at Post Traumatic#Track listing also have such redirects. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 20:58, 21 May 2025 (UTC)
• Comment the new hatnote should also include wikt:en:cross the line, as in common usage, "crossing a line" would refer to that -- 65.93.183.249 (talk) 04:16, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

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.

edit request

Please add a link to wikt:en:cross the line, to link to the common phrase "crossing a line" meaning location, in the hatnote.

Please change

{{about|the book by Amahl Bishara|the song by [[Linkin Park]]|Crossing a Line (song)}}

This article is about the book by Amahl Bishara. For the song by Linkin Park, see Crossing a Line (song).

to:

{{about|the book by Amahl Bishara|the song by [[Linkin Park]]|Crossing a Line (song)|the phrase "crossing a line"|:wikt:en:cross the line{{!}}"cross the line" on Wiktionary}}

This article is about the book by Amahl Bishara. For the song by Linkin Park, see Crossing a Line (song). For the phrase "crossing a line", see "cross the line" on Wiktionary.

-- 65.93.183.249 (talk) 19:45, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

Note that Crossing a Line and Crossing the Line are not the same thing, and the latter already links to Wiktionary. 162 etc. (talk) 20:11, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

"crossing a line" is a variant of "crossing the line" thus the same definition on Wiktionary fits. -- 65.93.183.249 (talk) 20:29, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

I suppose we could replace the wiktionary link with a

{{confused|Crossing the Line (disambiguation){{!}}Crossing the Line}}

Not to be confused with Crossing the Line.

instead -- 65.93.183.249 (talk) 20:45, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

I've added a link to Crossing the Line (disambiguation) in the hatnote. 162 etc. (talk) 20:50, 30 May 2025 (UTC)