Template:Did you know nominations/Prayer for Ukraine

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 18:59, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Prayer for Ukraine

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Oreya performing in a church service in 2009

... that the chamber choir Oreya (pictured) chose the spiritual anthem Prayer for Ukraine, published in 1885, as the first track and title of their 2000 album? Source: several
- Reviewed: Peter Walker (dancer)
- Comment: This article expansion is the labour of love of many authors. I try one hook, biased of course as I took the picture which appeared already on DYK in 2016. I'd like to see Ukrainian people pictured, rather than a music sheet. It also shows them European but in folk appearance. - ~~As for expansion: we started at 660 characters, and at present (but I'm sure it will grow) are at 4196, but DYKcheck seems to look at an in-between version which had a text version presented as prose.~~ The article is now expanded enough, and GA also. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:53, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Expanded by Gerda Arendt (talk), Микола Василечко (talk), and DanCherek (talk). Nominated by Gerda Arendt (talk) at 17:45, 28 February 2022 (UTC).

alt 1: ... that Saturday Night Live on 26 February 2022 replaced its cold open with a Ukrainian chorus singing the hymn Prayer for Ukraine? Cbl62 (talk) 18:08, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
Thank you, and sure more sensational. "hymn" is often understood as a church song, which would be right for this one but not enough, - perhaps no description? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:19, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
Or crib “spiritual anthem” from the first proposal. —Michael Z. 15:14, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
Yes source. First track in album - TWENTY YEARS OF CREATION (2009) See link. --Микола Василечко
Also album and first track - PRAYER FOR UKRAINE (2000) --Микола Василечко
There's a related discussion on DYKTALK:

ALT1a: ... that the 1885 spiritual anthem Prayer for Ukraine was performed by a choir from New York on Saturday Night Live? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:36, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
An absolutely beautiful piece. Article underwent a 6.4x expansion in the two days before nomination (and was promoted to Good Article status four days after nomination), and is long enough, sourced, neutral, and plagiarism-free. I'd recommend hedging The anthem is sung at the end of meetings of by throwing a "some" in there (unless it's not needed? The sourcing seems like it points to individual examples of these). ALT1a is verified to Variety, and it is cited inline and interesting. QPQ checks out. In short, this meets all of the DYK criteria :) unfortunately, I'm still placing this on hold pending the resolution of SL93's RfC. If there is consensus to run this hook, we'll be good to go with ALT1a! your virtual hugs have been received and appreciated :) theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 08:14, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
I added the "some" as suggested. DanCherek (talk) 21:45, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
This is now allowed to proceed after the recent RFC close. SL93 (talk) 18:59, 17 March 2022 (UTC)