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A fact from Crossing a Line appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 April 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Crossing a Line compares Palestinian political expression on either side of the Green Line between Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Crossing a Line (book).

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On 21 May 2025, it was proposed that this article be moved from Crossing a Line (book) to Crossing a Line. The result of the discussion was moved.

Did you know nomination

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

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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.[reply]

Length	Newness	Cited hook	Interest	Sources	Neutrality	Plagiarism/paraphrase
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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

ِALT2 is more interesting so that should work.

Makeandtoss (talk) 21:28, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Support per nom and the spirit of WP:SONGDAB. Mdewman6 (talk) 18:23, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]

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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)}}

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}}

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

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)[reply]

"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)[reply]

I suppose we could replace the wiktionary link with a

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

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

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