Template:Did you know nominations/Yuxian (Qing dynasty)
- 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 Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:47, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
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Yuxian (Qing dynasty)
[edit]... that the "butcher of Shan-hsi" Yuxian is said to have supervised the Taiyuan Massacre – execution of Western missionaries and their families?
Moved to mainspace by Madalibi (talk). Nominated by Skr15081997 (talk) at 10:01, 12 August 2014 (UTC).
- Madalibi has asked me on my talk page to comment: The hook is not quite accurate, as recent research (cited in the second paragraph of the lede and in the Taiyuan Massacre article), has shown that the reports from the time were based on hearsay (the Western eyewitnesses had been murdered) and concludes that it was a mob killing, not Yuxian's order. How about a revised hook something along the lines of
- ALT1: ... that Yuxian was called the "Butcher of Shanxi" and blamed for ordering the Taiyuan Massacre – execution of Western missionaries in 1900 – but he probably only witnessed it and did not order it?
Full review needed. BlueMoonset (talk) 20:12, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
New enough, long enough, well referenced. Most sources are offline; online sources show no close paraphrasing. Offline hook ref AGF and cited inline. The article is nicely written and informative. There is just the matter of a piece of a sentence and a citation needed for the third paragraph under Official Career. No QPQ needed for non-self-nomination. I tweaked the grammar at the end of the hook. Yoninah (talk) 23:10, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
- Both the issues have been fixed now.--Skr15081997 (talk) 05:52, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
