Talk:Ladislav Zgusta
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 | A fact from Ladislav Zgusta appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 February 2026 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Nationality?
edit Czech-born American ?
--Jerzy•t 02:43, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Did you know nomination
edit- 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. You can locate your hook here. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Viriditas (talk) 02:28, 22 February 2026 (UTC)
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- ... that Ladislav Zgusta escaped Czechoslovakia to the United States partially by elephant?
- Source: Kachru 1995, p. xvi
- ALT1: ... that Ladislav Zgusta encouraged his students to steal supplies and forge his signature? Source: Farina 2007, p. 2
- ALT2: ... that Ladislav Zgusta's escape from Czechoslovakia to the United States was described by a colleague as a "veritable cloak-and-dagger episode worthy of a movie"? Source: Hock 1997, p. 1
- ALT3: ... that Ladislav Zgusta joked that the typos in his book hadn't been caught because he had to escape from political persecution in Czechoslovakia before he could see the final proofs? Source: Landau 2007, p. 2
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/First Baptist Church–West
ThaesOfereode (talk) 21:21, 7 February 2026 (UTC).
| General: Article is new enough and long enough |
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Policy compliance:
- Adequate sourcing:
- i can not access the sources for ALT0 and ALT2, please can you provide a quotation? everything else is all good, and given the other two hold up, i'm happy to agf until then. - Neutral:
- Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
| Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation |
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| QPQ: Done. |
Overall: 
this is a really interesting one, truly fascinating guy! my preference would be for ALT0 or ALT2 if we can get those squared. --Plifal (talk) 04:31, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
- @Plifal: No worries at all, thanks for reviewing and the kind words. For ALT0, the source is actually here not Kachru, but the quote reads: "Through ingenuity, good fortune, and a plan prepared in league with his wife OLGA ZGUSTA and their children, Richard and Monika, he found a way in 1969 to make a fantastic journey, including an elephant ride, to his new found land, his American home, by way of Rome, Cairo, Bombay, and Delhi."
For the ALT2: "[...] then [escaped] Communism, from which, after the 'Prague Spring' had been forcibly crushed, he escaped with his family in a veritable cloak-and-dagger episode worthy of a movie - first to India, at that time a reluctant host, and almost immediately on to the United States, where in a single year he was in quick succession affiliated with three universities - Cornell, Texas, and Illinois." Let me know if this works! ThaesOfereode (talk) 15:43, 14 February 2026 (UTC)- perfect, thanks! approving.
--Plifal (talk) 03:01, 15 February 2026 (UTC)
- perfect, thanks! approving.
