Talk:Palácio das Cinzas

A fact from Palácio das Cinzas appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 January 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that in 2006 The New York Times described the Palácio das Cinzas, then the presidential palace of East Timor, as "a glorified bungalow really"?

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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 Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 16:52, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that in 2006 The New York Times described the Palácio das Cinzas, then the presidential palace of East Timor, as "a glorified bungalow really"? Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/14/world/asia/14letter.html
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Created by Bahnfrend (talk). Self-nominated at 11:38, 3 January 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Hi Bahnfrend, review follows: article created 2 January; article is well written and exceeds minimum length; I didn't pick up any overly close paraphrasing from a sample of the English-language sources (there is a little similarity with The Age article which might be worth reviewing; eg: "a parade of cutlass-bearing tribesmen and a flag-raising" but nothing too worrying); hook is interesting, mentioned in the article and checks out to the source cited; I added the year to the hook as a clarification, let me know if any issue with this; awaiting a QPQ. Interesting article on a little-covered region, thanks for creating this - Dumelow (talk) 08:50, 4 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Dumelow: Thanks for the review. I've now done the QPQ. I really liked the comments about the cutlasses and the goosestepping, etc. Highly evocative. When I ran the article through Earwig's Copyvio Detector, the assessment was "Violation Unlikely", so I left those comments as they were. As for the subject matter, East Timor is one of my regulars. Much of the time I translate de.wikipedia articles created by J. Patrick Fischer, who has created literally thousands of East Timor articles for de.wikipedia. But this time the de.wikipedia article was a little sparse, so I created the en.wikipedia article from scratch. Bahnfrend (talk) 07:48, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Bahnfrend, good to go - Dumelow (talk) 09:23, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Promoting the main hook to Prep 4 – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 16:52, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]