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A fact from Qian Xiuling appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 April 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Qian Xiuling(pictured) interceded with the German General Falkenhausen to save nearly a hundred Belgians from execution?
@Victuallers: The IPs that keep adding the "Ashkenazi Jew" nonsense are socks of the blocked user:ProfessorJane who's been stalking my edits since I got them blocked from their favourite haunts. See my talk page. -Zanhe (talk) 17:52, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
@Zanhe: Thanks for the tip off - we can protect it if necessary, but obviously the idea is to get +ve additions. I'm pleased to see this has got a good position at DYK. Cheers Victuallers (talk) 18:42, 22 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The article indicates that Qian moved to Paris in 1939 in hopes of working at the Curie Laboratory, but was unable to do so because the lab had moved to the US because of the war (i.e.: WWII). An article (Curie_Institute_(Paris)) on what is probably the Curie laboratory mentioned, however, makes no mention of such a move. Also, Paris wasn't seriously threatened in 1939. Thus the information is suspect. Terry Thorgaard (talk) 14:14, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Terry, I think that's true to the source..... but may not be true. Do feel free to reflect that ambiguity in the article. Victuallers (talk) 15:02, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the suggestion. I have so-modified the sentence. Having read Zhao's account ("... However, the laboratory had moved to the United States to escape German occupation, and Qian had to return to Belgium deeply disappointed. The peace of Herbeumont itself was soon broken by German invasion. ..."), I conclude that the story is even more doubtful. The invasion of Belgium was in the Spring of 1940: Zhao has the timeline mixed up. :) Terry Thorgaard (talk) 16:19, 24 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
