Template:Did you know nominations/Tolui
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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 18:46, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
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Tolui
- ... that a Mongol army commanded by Tolui was alleged to have killed three million people in less than two months? Source: Boyle 1968, pp. 313–315; Man 2004, pp. 176–177; Morgan 1986, p. 74.
- ALT1: ... that while Tolui was recorded to have sacrificed himself to free his brother Ögedei from a curse, historians have theorised that Ögedei ordered his death? Source: Atwood 2004, p. 542; Atwood 2008, p. 193; May 2018, pp. 97–98.
- ALT2: ... that Tolui's subjugation of Khorasan in 1221 was so brutal that the region had not recovered by the 20th century? Source: Jackson 2017, p. 79; Manz 2010, pp. 134–135; Boyle 1968, p. 312.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Humayun Shah
Improved to Good Article status by AirshipJungleman29 (talk). Self-nominated at 09:16, 16 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Tolui; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
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Article created by Wackyslav on June 22, 2004; it is promoted to Good Article status on August 15, 2023, Good job by User:AirshipJungleman29. Everything looks fine. ALT0 is interesting. It is GTG. RV (talk) 08:03, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
- @AirshipJungleman29: I looked in the article for the hook but could not find it. Can you lead me to the two month 3 million bit in the article? Bruxton (talk) 18:38, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
- Bruxton, a combination of different events. Tolui was alleged to have ordered the deaths of 1.3 million at Merv in early March (see second paragraph of "Khorasan campaign (1221)" section) and the deaths of 1.75 million at Nishapur in early/mid-April (see fourth paragraph in same section). This adds up to a total of more than three million alleged deaths in less than two months (in fact, less than six weeks). Please ping me if this is insufficient. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 19:13, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
- @AirshipJungleman29: I do prefer to have an easier to find hook sentence where I am not required tom do maths, but your explanation checks out. Congrats on the GA, it is interesting to imagine such a murderous Mongol. Bruxton (talk) 20:17, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
- Bruxton, a combination of different events. Tolui was alleged to have ordered the deaths of 1.3 million at Merv in early March (see second paragraph of "Khorasan campaign (1221)" section) and the deaths of 1.75 million at Nishapur in early/mid-April (see fourth paragraph in same section). This adds up to a total of more than three million alleged deaths in less than two months (in fact, less than six weeks). Please ping me if this is insufficient. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 19:13, 17 August 2023 (UTC)