Talk:Barley

Did you know nomination

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 Lightburst talk 05:55, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

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H. vulgare (Barley)

• ... that barley (pictured) was once used as a form of money? Source: offline source p10 (it was used as currency) and The first form of money used in Mesopotamia was barley.
  • ALT1: ... that barley (pictured) has been used to make food, and coffee? Source: in Tibet tsampa is a staple food and Barley coffee is a non-alcoholic drink that is consumed as a substitute for espresso coffee
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Robbery Bob
  • Comment: Also reviewed 2024 WNBA season which was part of a double hook for Template:Did you know nominations/List of WNBA seasons

Improved to Good Article status by Chiswick Chap (talk). Nominated by Bruxton (talk) at 16:41, 3 February 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Barley; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• On it, and thanks for the work improving the article! — LlywelynII 20:42, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
  
  for ALT0. Well long enough [16.67k chars.]; obviously within general policies (although e.g. no need to bold the Latin name, some odd grammar here and there, #Name and an anchor for #Etymology is better than naming the section Etymology, using the Wiktionary entry to extend the etymology beyond Old English, distinguishing that, no, beer is actually unrelated, and similar minor unnecessary tweaks of course come to mind); timely submission; earwig finds massive amounts of plagiarism but presumably all the other way; QPQ done-ish (I see now I should've QPQ'd that one instead); image out of copyright; image caption a bit flat (fixed but you're welcome to tweak it or change it back); ALT1 goes 0-60 in no time flat, "of course it's food" to "wtf that's NOT coffee", just inviting a flamewar over people annoyed that you called it coffee without sneerquotes or any hedging. I mean, sure, anger is a strong form of engagement but we don't really need excess here. ALT0 is a biiiit silly in the grand scheme of things: of course at the beginning of agriculture, the stuff being farmed was the primary medium of exchange. That said, it's unusual/weird enough now for most people to think about that it still works as a hook. (The really interesting bit is that it led directly to the shekel but, jeez, don't even get the internet started on that topic at the moment.) — LlywelynII 21:03, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
  
  Just save the other WNBA QPQ for future use. — LlywelynII 21:11, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

I checked the Earwig matches and the article history matches with the sources copying from Wikipedia. for instance the Flickr match was from 2016 and going back to the article's 2016 version shows that they copied. They also credit Wikipedia, same for the other matches. Good article. Lightburst (talk) 05:54, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

◆ Ganesha811 didn't make a note of it here but they held up the nomination over WP:RS issues. See User_talk:Chiswick_Chap#Issue_with_DYK_for_barley. — LlywelynII 19:22, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

As noted on my talk page, I've replaced the challenged ref. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:47, 10 February 2024 (UTC)