Talk:The Beijinger

A fact from The Beijinger appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 March 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that The Beijinger had an advertisement for renting foreigners?

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The Beijinger and That's Beijing are separate publications. The two Wikipedia pages should not be merged.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 221.123.161.85 (talk) 05:12, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination[edit]

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 20:12, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the company Rent A Laowai ran an ad on The Beijinger for renting foreigners? Source: Farrar, Lara (2010-06-29). "Chinese companies 'rent' white foreigners". CNN. Archived from the original on 2022-02-21. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
The article notes: "In China, white people can be rented. ... "Occasionally companies want a foreign face to go to meetings and conferences or to go to dinners and lunches and smile at the clients and shake people's hands," read an ad posted by a company called Rent A Laowai (Chinese for "foreigner") on the online classified site thebeijinger.com."
- ALT1: ... that The Beijinger had an ad for renting foreigners?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Lauren Cohen

5x expanded by Cunard (talk). Self-nominated at 08:59, 22 February 2022 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

I've made a few copyedits, but the article looks good. Either hook would be fine. —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 09:24, 26 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]