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The result was: promoted by Lightburst (talk) 14:09, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Ludovic Antal

Antal in 1968

• ... that in 1968 actor Ludovic Antal (pictured) recited a Romanian nationalist poem in front of tourists from Soviet Moldavia, causing them to flee for their bus for fear of a "provocation"? Source: (in Romanian) Nicolae Turtureanu, "Opinii. Glose la Eminescu", in Ziarul de Iași, June 15, 2021: pentru prima dată, după ani şi ani, [venise] un autocar cu turişti din Basarabia. Atunci şi acolo, actorul (cu voce de aur) Ludovic Antal a recitat - tot pentru prima dată în public - „Doina” („De la Nistru pân-la Tisa,/ Tot românul plânsu-mi-s-a” ş.a.m.d.). Basarabenii s-au speriat, au crezut că-i o... provocare, că vor fi anchetaţi, arestaţi (la întoarcerea în „Republică”) şi s-au repliat spre autocar. My translation: "for the first time in years, [there was] a busload of tourists from Bessarabia. There and then, actor Ludovic Antal recited - also for the first time in public - Doina ('From the Dniester to the Tisza,/ All Romanians have complained to me' etc.). The Bessarabians got scared, they thought it was... some provocation, that they would be investigated, arrested (upon their return to the '[Moldavian] Republic'), and rushed back into their bus". Technically, Bessarabia could also mean that they were from some parts outside the Moldavian SSR, but the reference to the SSR is clarified by Turtureanu's mention of "the Republic" -- in this context, "Bessarabians" is a totum pro parte.
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Created by Dahn (talk). Self-nominated at 11:18, 13 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Ludovic Antal; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

Interesting detailed article, on plenty of good sources, foreign and offline sources accepted AGF. The image is licensed and shows him well. The hook works for me. - I wonder why we have US date format for a Romanian topic. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:24, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

• Thanks, Gerda! Concerning the dates: I got used to writing articles in the US spelling, including dates, back when there was no enforced "orthodoxy" that all of us east of the GMT need to follow British conventions; I also sound out the dates like the Americans do, in my mind, and it is distracting to have to focus on reverting them while I have to write them down (especially if the sources are newspapers that need to be precisely dated -- if I want to write fast and properly, I tend to reduce the variables that I could botch up and go with what is most natural to me). Let those who enforce the supposed rule also edit the articles and switch the dates around, if they must (they tend to do it either way). Dahn (talk) 12:05, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

  Understand ;) - I just wondered, no defense needed --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:08, 15 August 2023 (UTC)