---
pattern: 2
type: success
name: Undue Emphasis on Notability/Media
pack: en-content
language: en
---

# Pattern 2 (en): Undue Emphasis on Notability/Media — Success Case

## Input Text

> A small bakery on Elm Street has garnered significant attention from food lovers across the region. Its sourdough loaves have been widely recognized as some of the finest in the state, and the shop has attracted widespread interest since opening last spring. The owner credits her grandmother's recipes for the bakery's growing reputation.

## Expected Output

> A small bakery on Elm Street sells about 300 sourdough loaves a week, up from 40 when it opened last April. Eater Portland named it one of five new bakeries to watch in its September 2025 roundup. The owner uses a starter culture and flour ratios from her grandmother's notebook, written in the 1960s.

## Applied Pattern

- Pattern 2 (Undue Emphasis on Notability/Media): "garnered significant attention", "widely recognized", and "attracted widespread interest" — three unattributed notability claims in a single paragraph about a local bakery, with no named publication, reviewer, or concrete metric.

## Judgment

**Success** — The fire condition is clearly met: three separate claims of broad attention and recognition appear without citing a single named source, publication, or measurable figure. A neighborhood bakery does not self-evidently command regional fame; the text needs to show it rather than assert it. The corrected version replaces vague acclaim with verifiable specifics: weekly sales volume, a named publication with a date, and a concrete detail about the recipes.
