A fact from Zhenjiu dacheng appeared on Wikipedia's
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Did you know... that the 1601 medical text Zhenjiu dacheng recommends
acupuncture-based cures for mental illness?
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... that the Zhenjiu dacheng has been described as "the greatest comprehensive survey of
acupuncture in China ever to be produced during classical times"?
Article was created within 7 days of nomination. Prose is over 1,500 characters. Article is written in a neutral tone with inline citations. QPQ is done. The hook seems based on subjective opinion though; I think having the hook based on how the writings were reprinted over 53 times before 1911 might be a more interesting fact.
lullabying (
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19:44, 26 December 2022 (UTC)reply
Lullabying Hey, thanks for the review, but I am struggling to see why the average reader would be interested to know that something was reprinted x number of times. It seems exceedingly pedestrian.
KINGofLETTUCE 👑🥬20:16, 26 December 2022 (UTC)reply
This is exactly what
WP:AESTHETIC is about -- we are appropriately mentioning how this work is received and giving the reader an idea as to its place in the acupuncture/medical literature. Of course it's a subjective opinion from one individual, but so what? We are not endorsing it, just reporting what has been said about it (and not by a nobody, mind you!)
KINGofLETTUCE 👑🥬 20:44, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
KINGofLETTUCE 👑🥬20:44, 26 December 2022 (UTC)reply
Based on the sources provided, it's only one person that said this and to any common reader like myself, you'd also have to describe the significance of the person making the statement. I think you could add some clarity in the hook by stating who made this statement.
lullabying (
talk)
01:52, 27 December 2022 (UTC)reply
A fact from Zhenjiu dacheng appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 January 2023 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the 1601 medical text Zhenjiu dacheng recommends
acupuncture-based cures for mental illness?
This article is within the scope of WikiProject China, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
China related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ChinaWikipedia:WikiProject ChinaTemplate:WikiProject ChinaChina-related articles
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.
... that the Zhenjiu dacheng has been described as "the greatest comprehensive survey of
acupuncture in China ever to be produced during classical times"?
Article was created within 7 days of nomination. Prose is over 1,500 characters. Article is written in a neutral tone with inline citations. QPQ is done. The hook seems based on subjective opinion though; I think having the hook based on how the writings were reprinted over 53 times before 1911 might be a more interesting fact.
lullabying (
talk)
19:44, 26 December 2022 (UTC)reply
Lullabying Hey, thanks for the review, but I am struggling to see why the average reader would be interested to know that something was reprinted x number of times. It seems exceedingly pedestrian.
KINGofLETTUCE 👑🥬20:16, 26 December 2022 (UTC)reply
This is exactly what
WP:AESTHETIC is about -- we are appropriately mentioning how this work is received and giving the reader an idea as to its place in the acupuncture/medical literature. Of course it's a subjective opinion from one individual, but so what? We are not endorsing it, just reporting what has been said about it (and not by a nobody, mind you!)
KINGofLETTUCE 👑🥬 20:44, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
KINGofLETTUCE 👑🥬20:44, 26 December 2022 (UTC)reply
Based on the sources provided, it's only one person that said this and to any common reader like myself, you'd also have to describe the significance of the person making the statement. I think you could add some clarity in the hook by stating who made this statement.
lullabying (
talk)
01:52, 27 December 2022 (UTC)reply