Template:Did you know nominations/History of the Great Wall of China

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The result was: promoted by Allen3 ^talk 13:59, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

History of the Great Wall of China

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... that while the most visible structures date from the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), the history of the Great Wall of China reaches back to the 7th century BC?

Moved to mainspace by Underbar dk (talk). Self nominated at 09:29, 14 January 2014 (UTC).

First of all, thanks for the monumental amount of work you must have done researching and writing up this article. This is one of the most impressive new articles I've seen! There are a few relatively minor issues, as some paragraphs lack inline references, which I will mark in the article. -Zanhe (talk) 01:11, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Zanhe! I have filled in the missing references. _dk (talk) 15:33, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing the references. Another issue: the current hook is not completely accurate. It gives the impression that nothing from before the Ming remains today, which is not true. The attached picture, in fact, shows the ruins of a Han Dynasty watchtower. -Zanhe (talk) 06:39, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Good point. Would changing "current structures" to "the most prominent stretches" be better? _dk (talk) 07:20, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

That would be fine, or "most of the extant structures". The key is it needs to be directly supported by reliable sources. We need to find a source that says something to that effect (which shouldn't be too difficult), add the statement and the source to the article, and revise the hook. -Zanhe (talk) 08:09, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

I have changed the hook and added a sourced line in the lede of the article. I actually don't know if most of the extant structures are from the Ming since I don't exactly know how much still exists. For example, an insignificant line of mud bumps could be determined to be a part of an early Great Wall, is that still "extant"? _dk (talk) 13:11, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

The current hook is directly supported by inline reference and good to go. (I made the minor change of removing the word "only" from the hook). -Zanhe (talk) 21:09, 25 January 2014 (UTC)