Talk:Book of Roads and Kingdoms

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:31, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

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Map of the Persian Gulf

• ... that the Book of Roads and Kingdoms includes illustrations so geometric that they are barely recognizable as maps? Source: Pinto, Karen (2016). Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press.
  Quote (available in linked preview) from the bottom of page one: "These images employ a language of stylized forms that make them hard to recognize as maps. Scholars of Islamic science and geography often ignore and belittle these maps..."
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  • Comment: This is my second DYK submission. I've included a potential image but am fine running without the image. I wasn't sure about that part of the process.

5x expanded by Rjjiii (talk). Self-nominated at 06:15, 11 July 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Book of Roads and Kingdoms; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

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

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - see below
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

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

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Hi, Rjjiii (writing out the username took me forever), review as follows: article is new enough, long enough, neutral and plagiarism-free. However, the "notable examples" section is unsourced. The hook is cited (AGFing on source) and interesting. Pic is free, used and clear at 100px. QPQ not needed. Pamzeis (talk) 04:56, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

@Pamzeis: [1] The links from that section have been moved into the existing prose or see also section. Also, if you need to look at the source, it's available in the preview linked [2] on that page at the bottom of the first page of the book. Regards, Rjjiii (talk) 05:54, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

• The preview doesn't seem to be loading for me, but that's fine. Looks good to go! Pamzeis (talk) 10:52, 15 July 2023 (UTC)