Talk:The Beijinger

Latest comment: 2 years ago by SL93 in topic Did you know nomination

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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

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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 SL93 (talk20:12, 5 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

  • ... 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."

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

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
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  • 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