Template:Did you know nominations/Tourism in Syria

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 PFHLai (talk) 10:20, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Tourism in Syria

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~~... that in 2013, revenue of tourist industry of Syria was decreased by 94% since start of Syrian civil war of 2011?~~
ALT1: ~~... that war tourism in Syria is increasing since start of Syrian civil war of 2011?~~
ALT2: ~~... that hotels in Syria are occupied by refugees instead of tourists?~~

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/List of writers who have returned the Sahitya Akademi Award

Created by Human3015 (talk). Self-nominated at 13:08, 15 November 2015 (UTC).

Not really a review, but I just took a quick look at this and the English needs to be improved a bit. Daniel Case (talk) 22:40, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

The article was nominated on time and at 2978 prose characters, is more than long enough. However, as Daniel Case notes, the article needs a copyedit; without improvement, it should not be linked to from the main page, so there's no point in doing a detailed review here until the copyedit is complete. I'm also wondering why there is no mention of the deliberate destruction of a number of religious sites by ISIS, which I read and heard about a couple of years ago; won't future tourism be harmed by such places no longer existing as a tourism draw? BlueMoonset (talk) 18:05, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

@BlueMoonset: Thanks for your review. I have done some copy-edit. And there is mention of Syrian Civil War in article which also includes ISIS. There is also mention of fact that various tourist places are destroyed in shelling. Moreover, page named List of heritage sites damaged during the Syrian Civil War is linked from article. --Human3015^TALK 20:17, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Human3015, the edits you made were very minor, and they actually caused additional problems with the opening sentence. The entire article needs work; I recommend very strongly that you immediately file a request for a copyedit with the Guild of Copy Editors. There are only nine requests pending at the moment, so yours shouldn't have to wait all that long. BlueMoonset (talk) 21:04, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Human3015, I see that the Guild of Copy Editors have done their edits, and greatly improved the article's prose. However, there's a bare URL reference remaining, which is not allowed under DYK rules. Please let me know when you have filled in the reference. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:23, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Done. --Human3015^TALK 18:59, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

I've just done a significant edit to the article, adding facts and removing some information that seemed irrelevant or inappropriate. I've also just struck ALT1 (not supported in article) and ALT2 (present tense based on a 2013 report; for all we know refugees may no longer be in hotels). The original hook has some grammatical issues, so I'm relisting it below as ALT3; at this point, I think the article needs a new reviewer. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:15, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

ALT3: ... that by 2013, the revenue of Syrian tourist industry had decreased by 94% since the start of Syrian civil war in 2011?

Reviewer needed to check ALT3 and also generally check the article after recent edits. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:15, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

New article, long enough, within policy, no obvious problems. QPQ done. ALT3 Hook interesting, cited. Zeete (talk) 15:55, 1 January 2016 (UTC)