Template:Did you know nominations/Yanmen Pass

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:25, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Yanmen Pass

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5x expanded by LlywelynII (talk). Self-nominated at 08:53, 15 January 2018 (UTC).

  • Massively expanded within the required timeframe, of high quality, well sourced and comprehensive. Hooks are interesting, and references check out. I've made some tweaks to the hooks for legibility and to link to relevant articles. QPQ done. I find it hard to choose from among the hooks; as a history buff, I find the first most interesting, but it will probably overwhelm the casual reader with too many strange names. Probably the third hook will cause more interest. Anyhow, well done, a very well-written article! Constantine 11:22, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Thank you,—especially for the kind words,—but removing the extraneous links. They do nothing to help the page the nominators have worked on. Here, e.g., Cwmhiraeth (or one of the other promoters), though well meaning, sent more than twice as many clicks to the wrong article instead of leaving the promoted article as the only link in the hook. If people are curious what Zhao or the AAAAA ratings mean, they can click through via the article that's been worked on. That's why we're here in the first place: some of those extra click-throughs will stay and see things in the articles, possibly even noticing problems or omissions and improving them.

    Also, fwiw, links about World War II in the Chinese theatre should point at Second Sino-Japanese War rather than WWII as a whole. (Although, again, that shouldn't matter for these hooks; there's no policy necessitating extraneous links; I don't want them; and they're unhelpful for what the project is here for in the first place.) — LlywelynII 13:52, 23 January 2018 (UTC)