Talk:Japan–Ming trade-ship flag

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Did you know... that a flag was used to facilitate trade between Momoyama Japan and Ming China?

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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 Yoninah (talk) 00:38, 13 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Japan-Ming trade ship flag

... that a flag (pictured) was used to ~~regulate~~facilitate trade between Momoyama Japan and China at the time of the Great Ming?

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Alonso Martínez de Espinar (or 1/6 thereof...)

Created by Maculosae tegmine lyncis (talk). Self-nominated at 15:57, 25 August 2020 (UTC).[reply]

reviewing DTM (talk) 10:15, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This is such an interesting and well laid out article! Thank you for creating it. The review: This is a new article, nominated in time. No English language copyvios and passing other languages in good faith. Everything seems to be adequately referenced. The image is in the public domain with adequate resolution. QPQ in progress/ will pass this criteria. gtg DTM (talk) 10:28, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I came by to promote this, but I don't see anything in the article about "regulating" trade. Do you mean "facilitating" trade? Yoninah (talk) 23:46, 12 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I was using regulate in the etymological sense, from the Latin regula or "rule", as the "rule" was for the flag to be raised when they made harbour - but yes, facilitate would work at least as well, as it would presumably have served to make trade more facile (facilis being Latin for easy, if my facilties still serve me right), Maculosae tegmine lyncis (talk) 23:55, 12 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Restoring tick per DTM's review. Yoninah (talk) 00:35, 13 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]