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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) 04:27, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

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Torture

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Waterboarding a captured North Vietnamese soldier, 1968
Waterboarding a captured North Vietnamese soldier, 1968
  • ... that despite being prohibited under international law, torture (pictured) is practiced by most countries around the world?
    • ALT1: ... that the prohibition of torture (pictured) is honored in the breach by denial, outsourcing, and the use of non-scarring techniques?
    • ALT1a: ... that the prohibition of torture (pictured) is circumvented by denial, outsourcing, and the use of non-scarring techniques?
    • ALT2: ... that torture (pictured) causes a higher risk of trauma than any other known human experience?
    • ALT3: ... that democracies pioneered new methods of non-scarring torture (pictured) to avoid detection?
    • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Gamaliel's principle

Improved to Good Article status by Buidhe (talk). Self-nominated at 10:49, 28 February 2022 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Recent GA article and it easily meets length requirements. This is a very heavy topic, but the page seems neutral and based on well informed sources. It looks like the article is well cited throughout, so no issues there. Earwig picks up a lot of copyvio but it looks like that's mostly common terms, names, etc. The hooks are cited in article and are of interest. I just have a couple of notes. ALT1 as a hook is fine but I think the term "honored in the breach" should be changed for something more common. I'm not sure most readers will be immediately familiar with it (I wasn't even though I got the gist). The second thing is the photo. Technically it's fine (free, in article, clear enough) but I don't know if we want to run a picture of someone being tortured on the front page. BuySomeApples (talk) 20:25, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

  • BuySomeApples Thanks for your review! I've provided multiple hooks, so if you don't think ALT1 would work, you could strike it (I can't think of a good rephrase). I don't think the picture is too graphic for the main page, but it's for the promoter to decide. (t · c) buidhe 21:05, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
  • BuySomeApples Sure, I think that works. Added it as ALT1a above. (t · c) buidhe 21:27, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
  • Awesome! I approved all of the hooks, and I'll leave the photo up to the promoter. BuySomeApples (talk) 21:32, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Promoting ALT2 to Prep 3, with the image. I feel ALT1a is too technical for a lay reader. As an aside note, rarely do we get such important and heavy articles at DYK. Thanks for all your efforts! – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 04:27, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

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