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A fact from Polyptych of Saint Barbara (Palma Vecchio) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 March 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Saint Barbara (pictured) in Palma Vecchio's Polyptych of Saint Barbara has been said to express the noble serenity of a saint who is still a woman?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/March. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Polyptych of Saint Barbara.

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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 Cielquiparle (talk) 09:57, 15 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Palma's Saint Barbara

... that Palma Vecchio's Saint Barbara (pictured) has been said to express "the noble serenity of a saint who is still a woman"? Source: https://archive.org/details/veniceitshistory01yria/page/260/mode/2up?view=theater
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Al-Fa'iz bi-Nasr Allah

Created by Ficaia (talk). Self-nominated at 13:02, 12 February 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Polyptych of Saint Barbara (Palma Vecchio); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Is the hook implying that women generally don't have a noble serenity? That's how I'm reading it, at least... theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 09:57, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think "noble serenity" is a pretty rare quality. I think he's saying she has the best divine characteristics of a saint and the best human characteristics of a woman. 𝕱𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖎𝖆 (talk) 10:03, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The article is new enough and nominated timely. It is long enough and is well referenced and cited. I found no copyright violations; AGF for the sources that are not available online. The hook is interesting and sourced, and its length is OK. The image is excellent and is in the public domain; the caption is OK. QPQ was done. So overall it passes for DYK. However I have two questions for the author: I wonder if the hook might be clearer if it said "Palma Vecchio's polyptych of Saint Barbara" instead of simply "Palma Vecchio's Saint Barbara"? And a question about the article's title: Why is the title "Polyptych of Saint Barbara (Palma Vecchio)" instead of simply "Polyptych of Saint Barbara"? There are no other articles about polyptychs of Saint Barbara so I don't see the need for disambiguation. Let's discuss these two issues. -- MelanieN (talk) 17:32, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@MelanieN: 1. I think the source is talking about the Saint Barbara panel specifically, not the whole altarpiece. 2. On second thought, I've moved the article as you suggest. 𝕱𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖎𝖆 (talk) 01:19, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, looks good to me. Ready to go. -- MelanieN (talk) 03:34, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note to promoting administrator: The title of this article, and the title of the nomination template, have been changed from "Polyptych of Saint Barbara (Palma Vecchio)" to "Polyptych of Saint Barbara". -- MelanieN (talk) 03:40, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]