Template:Did you know nominations/Stealing Peaches

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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:47, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Stealing Peaches edit

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... that "Stealing Peaches" describes the Indian rope trick?

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Tenable

Created by Kingoflettuce (talk). Self-nominated at 14:02, 16 November 2016 (UTC).

This is my first DYK review ever, so I would not mind a second pairs of eyes on this to make sure I'm doing this right. The article was nominated to DYK within an hour of creation, so meets the "new" criterion. Above 1500 characters, so long enough. The article and the sourcing look excellent, but I have to assume good faith, as all of them appear to either be in print or require purchase for an electronic copy. The hook is definitely short enough and appears in the article with an inline citation. QPQ requirement met. My only concern is that I think the hook could appeal to a broader audience if there was just a teensy bit more context, such as explaining what "Stealing Peaches" is (a short story). What do you think? Mz7 (talk) 05:36, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

great idea Mz7. Alt1: ... that the Pu Songling short story "Stealing Peaches" describes the Indian rope trick? Kingoflettuce (talk) 13:53, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

@Kingoflettuce: Yes, that's exactly along the lines of what I was thinking. ALT-1 looks good to go! (Note: I made a very minor copyedit: put quotation marks around "Stealing Peaches") Mz7 (talk) 20:49, 30 November 2016 (UTC)