Template:Did you know nominations/Vaikuntha Chaturdashi
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The result was: promoted by — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:23, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
Vaikuntha Chaturdashi
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- ... that Brahmin ladies, specialized in making cotton wicks offer 125,000 of these to the deities Shiva and Vishnu (pictured) on this occasion at Vananasi Temple?
Created/expanded by Nvvchar (talk), Redtigerxyz (talk). Nominated by Nvvchar (talk) at 00:03, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
- How would this sound as an alt?
- ALT1: ... that on Vaikuntha Chaturdashi, a Hindu festival day, worshippers offer earthen lamps and cotton wicks to Shiva and Vishnu (pictured) at the Varanasi Shiva Temple?
- --Odie5533 (talk) 05:33, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
- Very nice. Thank you for ALT1: hook.--Nvvchar. 10:01, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
Review needed now that hooks are set. BlueMoonset (talk) 23:23, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
Review: New enough (created day of nomination), long enough, by policy. Problem is with the hooks. Original hook does not flow well and Alt1 is nicely written. But Alt1: 1. I corrected spelling of worshipers (from worshippers) so no big problem, 2. That line is not supported directly by citation and a citation needs to follow the sentence that starts "Then they offer lighted deeps...", 3. Since not all worshipers do the same thing according to the article, I think a new alt should specify where the earthen lamps are offered (as opposed to the flour lamps). Since Alt1 is fairly short, specifying the location should be possible. AbstractIllusions (talk) 17:29, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
- 1. worshippers is British/Indian English. 2. Done. 3. Modified. --Redtigerxyz Talk 16:43, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
ALT1 meets DYK requirements. (Worshippers is preferred usage and the single 'p' version doesn't even appear to be usually the case in U.S. news publications when I looked into it, they are inconsistent.) AbstractIllusions (talk) 17:18, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
