Talk:Lauk Shein

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Did you know... that Governor Lauk Shein of Bassein fled the city along with "ten elephant loads of gold and silver", but could not outrun the pursuing Hanthawaddy troops?

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Did you know nomination

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 Bruxton (talk) 14:20, 27 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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ALT0: ... that Gov. Lauk Shein of Bassein fled the city by taking "ten elephant loads of gold and silver" with him but could not outrun the pursuing Hanthawaddy troops? Source: (Fernquest 2006: 8), (Pan Hla 2005: 190–191)
ALT1: ... that Gov. Lauk Shein of Bassein fled the city along with "ten elephant loads of gold and silver" but could not outrun the pursuing Hanthawaddy troops? Source: (Fernquest 2006: 8), (Pan Hla 2005: 190–191)
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mr Right (song)

Created by Hybernator (talk). Self-nominated at 00:39, 14 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Lauk Shein; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

I will be reviewing this article/hook, comments to come. ThadeusOfNazereth(he/him)^{Talk to Me!} 01:20, 26 August 2023 (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 eligibility:

Cited:
Interesting:
Other problems:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: AGF on sources. This is a very well-written, interesting article! As soon as I get clarification/confirmation on the two minor issues, we should be good to go :) ThadeusOfNazereth(he/him)^{Talk to Me!} 01:51, 26 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

ThadeusOfNazereth, thanks for the review. The quote "ten elephant loads of gold and silver" is from (Fernquest 2006: 8) (https://www.burmalibrary.org/sites/burmalibrary.org/files/obl/docs4/4.2Fernquest.pdf). I've moved the citation next to the quote in the article as well.
Re: your suggested hook, yes, it reads better. Thanks. Hybernator (talk) 22:27, 26 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Perfect! You linked the wrong Fernquest paper here but its correct in the article. ALT1 is approved! ThadeusOfNazereth(he/him)^{Talk to Me!} 22:48, 26 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Hybernator: It would be good for you to include something here in the nomination so that a source can be confirmed. Every source in the article is offline. I say that you have more than 100 QPQs so I will AGF. We will see if the promote-to-queue administrators require more. Bruxton (talk) 14:18, 27 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]