Jump to content

Template:Did you know nominations/Zhang Shengmin

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Yoninah (talk) 23:03, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

Zhang Shengmin[edit]

Created by Zanhe (talk). Self-nominated at 05:35, 17 November 2017 (UTC).

I checked the English-language sources for this article, but I don't know Chinese and thus had to assume good faith for the Chinese-language sources in this article. Also, the article is long enough (around 1,900 characters, which is greater than the necessary 1,500 characters), there are no serious issues with plagiarism or close paraphrasing (indeed, I don't think that you could improve on this without ruining this article: https://tools.wmflabs.org/copyvios/?lang=en&project=wikipedia&title=Zhang+Shengmin&oldid=&action=search&use_engine=1&use_links=1&turnitin=0 ), the hook here is interesting, and your QPQ here is done. While your QPQ here could be a little bit more thorough, I think and hope that it is good enough even as it is right now. Anyway, overall, this DYK? nomination appears to be good to go! Futurist110 (talk) 06:30, 18 November 2017 (UTC)
Also, using Google Translate, it appears that the information in the source for your hook here is accurate: "After the earthquake, he led more than 1,000 officers and soldiers, first rushed to the disaster-stricken area to carry out post-disaster reconstruction work." Futurist110 (talk) 06:34, 18 November 2017 (UTC)
I think my only question, which any promoter should look into and decide on, is whether the title "General" should be used in the hook (probably not), since as best I can tell he wasn't a general back in 2010 and only became one a couple of weeks ago; in 2010 he appears to have been a "political commissar". BlueMoonset (talk) 21:39, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
@BlueMoonset: He became full general just now, but was probably a lieutenant or major general back then. But I went ahead and struck the title, as it's unessential anyway. -Zanhe (talk) 23:16, 19 November 2017 (UTC)