Talk:British Club (Bangkok)

A fact from British Club (Bangkok) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 September 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that following World War II, members of Bangkok's British Club were able to reclaim their building (pictured) thanks to a mortgage that helped preserve its land deeds?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/British Club (Bangkok).

Thailand Low‑importance

	Thailand portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Thailand, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Thailand-related articles on Wikipedia. The WikiProject is also a part of the Counteracting systematic bias group aiming to provide a wider and more detailed coverage on countries and areas of the encyclopedia which are notably less developed than the rest. If you would like to help improve this and other Thailand-related articles, please join the project. All interested editors are welcome.ThailandWikipedia:WikiProject ThailandTemplate:WikiProject ThailandThailand articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

British Empire Low‑importance

	British Empire portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject British Empire, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of British Empire on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.British EmpireWikipedia:WikiProject British EmpireTemplate:WikiProject British EmpireBritish Empire articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

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 Theleekycauldron (talk) 01:25, 29 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

(

Comment or view
Article history

)

The British Club Bangkok

... that Bangkok's British Club (1912 postcard pictured) was founded following a dispute among members of the main Westerners' social club at the time? Source: "History does not record what the ‘dispute’ was, that led to a serious falling out amongst its members only that on 24th April 1903 senior members of the United Club, who were British businessmen and diplomatic civil servants, formed the most British of entities, “a committee”, to establish a British Club in Bangkok, in the style enjoyed by their peers in the British Empire throughout the world."[1]
- ALT1:... that following World War II, members of Bangkok's British Club were able to reclaim the building (1912 postcard pictured) thanks to a mortgage that helped preserve its land deeds? Source: "After the end of the Second World War, there was some local confusion over the ownership of the premises, which was initially given to the YMCA, fortunately the Club was lucky in that its two land deeds (‘chanotes’) were mortgaged to the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank and thus survived the war." (same source)

Reviewed: Bob Wells (vandweller)

Created by Paul_012 (talk). Self-nominated at 17:38, 4 August 2021 (UTC).[reply]

@Paul 012: New and long enough, a copyvio check finds 12% which is OK but not great (could be improved by tweaking the wording), and well referenced. I think ALT1 is more interesting than the main hook, but both look OK. A possible ALT3 might be something around it being an anciement monument, if you're interested? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:11, 10 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for the review. "Ancient monument" might seem interesting at first glance, but it's really just the official Thai term for "listed building", which number in the thousands. Playing on the unusualness of the term could work for DYK purposes, but I'd prefer not to unless there's no better option. --Paul_012 (talk) 19:21, 10 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  - OK, let's leave it with ALT1 as preferred, or the original hook could be used if the posting admin prefers. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:29, 10 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

To T:DYK/P7