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The result was: promoted by Crisco 1492 talk 14:33, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

Sack of Delhi (1757)

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... that during the Afghan sacking of Delhi, over 30 to as high as 300 million rupees worth of goods were plundered?

Source: Ahmad Shah Durrani: Father of Modern Afghanistan - Gandha Singh pg. 186

Reviewed:

Improved to Good Article status by Noorullah21 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Noorullah (talk) 16:20, 22 October 2024 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
Interesting:
Other problems: - Can we say something like "between 30 and 300 million rupees"? The grammar is a little weird here.

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Let's clean up the hook, but otherwise good to go. Congrats on the GA.. ThaesOfereode (talk) 01:31, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

@ThaesOfereode: So, something like this; "that during the Afghan sacking of Delhi, between 30 and 300 million rupees worth of goods were plundered?" Noorullah (talk) 01:44, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

@Noorullah21:

Yep, that works for me. Approved. ThaesOfereode (talk) 02:02, 23 October 2024 (UTC)