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
Cwmhiraeth (
talk) 07:25, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
... that the Great Wall of China's Wild Goose Pass—now a AAAAA-rated tourist site on the Ming-era Inner Great Wall—was first fortified during the Warring States Era to protect Zhao's recent conquests from their former owners?
ALT2:... that the inconvenience of getting to Wild Goose Pass(pictured) makes it one of the less crowded AAAAA-rated sites along the Great Wall of China?
5x expanded by
LlywelynII (
talk). Self-nominated at 08:53, 15 January 2018 (UTC).
Massively expanded within the required timeframe, of high quality, well sourced and comprehensive. Hooks are interesting, and references check out. I've made some tweaks to the hooks for legibility and to link to relevant articles. QPQ done. I find it hard to choose from among the hooks; as a history buff, I find the first most interesting, but it will probably overwhelm the casual reader with too many strange names. Probably the third hook will cause more interest. Anyhow, well done, a very well-written article!
Constantine ✍ 11:22, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
Thank you,—especially for the kind words,—but removing the extraneous links. They do nothing to help the page the nominators have worked on.
Here, e.g.,
Cwmhiraeth (or one of the other promoters), though well meaning, sent more than twice as many clicks to the wrong article instead of leaving the promoted article as the only link in the hook. If people are curious what Zhao or the AAAAA ratings mean, they can click through via the article that's been worked on. That's why we're here in the first place: some of those extra click-throughs will stay and see things in the articles, possibly even noticing problems or omissions and improving them.
Also, fwiw, links about World War II in the Chinese theatre should point at
Second Sino-Japanese War rather than
WWII as a whole. (Although, again, that shouldn't matter for these hooks; there's no policy necessitating extraneous links; I don't want them; and they're unhelpful for what the project is here for in the first place.) —
LlywelynII 13:52, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
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
Cwmhiraeth (
talk) 07:25, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
... that the Great Wall of China's Wild Goose Pass—now a AAAAA-rated tourist site on the Ming-era Inner Great Wall—was first fortified during the Warring States Era to protect Zhao's recent conquests from their former owners?
ALT2:... that the inconvenience of getting to Wild Goose Pass(pictured) makes it one of the less crowded AAAAA-rated sites along the Great Wall of China?
5x expanded by
LlywelynII (
talk). Self-nominated at 08:53, 15 January 2018 (UTC).
Massively expanded within the required timeframe, of high quality, well sourced and comprehensive. Hooks are interesting, and references check out. I've made some tweaks to the hooks for legibility and to link to relevant articles. QPQ done. I find it hard to choose from among the hooks; as a history buff, I find the first most interesting, but it will probably overwhelm the casual reader with too many strange names. Probably the third hook will cause more interest. Anyhow, well done, a very well-written article!
Constantine ✍ 11:22, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
Thank you,—especially for the kind words,—but removing the extraneous links. They do nothing to help the page the nominators have worked on.
Here, e.g.,
Cwmhiraeth (or one of the other promoters), though well meaning, sent more than twice as many clicks to the wrong article instead of leaving the promoted article as the only link in the hook. If people are curious what Zhao or the AAAAA ratings mean, they can click through via the article that's been worked on. That's why we're here in the first place: some of those extra click-throughs will stay and see things in the articles, possibly even noticing problems or omissions and improving them.
Also, fwiw, links about World War II in the Chinese theatre should point at
Second Sino-Japanese War rather than
WWII as a whole. (Although, again, that shouldn't matter for these hooks; there's no policy necessitating extraneous links; I don't want them; and they're unhelpful for what the project is here for in the first place.) —
LlywelynII 13:52, 23 January 2018 (UTC)