Template:Did you know nominations/Liu Shunyao

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 20:02, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

Liu Shunyao

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... that Liu Shunyao stepped down as commander of the Chinese Air Force because of illness, and died a few months later? Source: The New Chinese Leadership p. 102 mentions his vacating of his post due to illness, and obituary in Chinese

Reviewed: Shuping Wang

Created by Zanhe (talk). Self-nominated at 05:02, 29 September 2019 (UTC).

New article that is long enough as well as well referenced. There are no copyvio problems, QPQ is done, and the hook is interesting as well as in-line cited. However, I could not find the information that he stepped down in February 2002 - as far as I could see, this date was not in the book or the obituary. Did I just overlook it or did you forgot to add another reference? As soon as this problem is solved, this would be good to go. Applodion (talk) 21:17, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

@Applodion: Thanks for your review. Yeah, the date is a bit hard to spot: it's buried in footnote 143 of the Shambaugh book , p.159. -Zanhe (talk) 21:21, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Ah, there it is! Thank you. Well, then, good job! Applodion (talk) 21:25, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Hi, I came by to promote this, but I fail to see what's hooky here. It reads like a line in an obituary. Yoninah (talk) 20:45, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

@Yoninah and Applodion: I think it's hooky because it's unusual for a general to resign due to a fatal illness, but I guess not everyone sees it the same way. How about ALT1:

ALT1 ... that under the leadership of Liu Shunyao, the Chinese Air Force began emphasizing the need to fight offensive battles? Source: Scobell & Wortzel, p. 259

-Zanhe (talk) 21:09, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

Seeing that no one else has come forward the review ALT1, I hope that I am allowed to step in. The new hook is in-line referenced and I found it in the referenced book. Furthermore, I think that ALT1 is interesting (though I believed that in the first case as well ^^). Applodion (talk) 22:17, 9 October 2019 (UTC)