Template:Did you know nominations/Hachijō-jima


 * 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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:48, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Hachijō-jima

 * ...that Hachijō-jima was home to kaiten—a type of suicide submarine—during the final days of World War II? Source: It's in the article.
 * Reviewed: Sideways (comics)

Improved to Good Article status by Nihonjoe (talk), Centipede92 (talk), MChew (talk), Dendrite1 (talk), and Hoary (talk). Nominated by Nihonjoe (talk) at 21:16, 19 March 2018 (UTC).


 * Will be doing the full review within the next few days, but so far so good: it meets the newness requirements (promoted to GA in the required timeframe). Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 03:16, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Symbol question.svg Article meets all the requirements of newness, length (both GA), sourcing, copyright, being interesting, images licensing, and QPQ. However, the proposed image in this nomination is not used at all in the article; this might need to be fixed. In addition, while the hook is interesting, there are many other facts in the article that could work as hooks as well: for example, hooks about Ulysses Grant visiting the island and Hachijo Royal Resort (among others) might prove to be interesting as well. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 17:04, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't know that the image has to be used in the article, but I've added it now. As for other possible interesting hooks, feel free to propose them. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 17:54, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Symbol voting keep.svg I suppose this is good to go now as everything now checks out (including the image); the source for the hook is offline so it is AGF accepted. As for my proposals:
 * ALT1: ...that Hachijo Royal Resort, a now-abandoned French baroque-style luxury hotel on Hachijō-jima, was one of the largest in Japan, and attracted visitors from all over the country?
 * ALT2: ...that Ulysses S. Grant visited the island of Hachijō-jima in 1877, where he was ceremonially adopted by the village chief and given a name meaning "courageous general" in the local dialect?
 * Thoughts ? Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 01:37, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Of the two ALTs, I like ALT2 the best. I find it equally as interesting as the original one I proposed. ALT1 is too wordy. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 06:37, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Symbol redirect vote 4.svg New reviewer needed for ALT2. Moving this back to WP:DYKN so more eyes will see it. Yoninah (talk) 23:37, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Could you not review ALT2? Everything else has been okayed, so it would take you perhaps 2-3 minutes. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 23:51, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Symbol voting keep.svg No problem. Offline ALT2 ref AGF and cited inline. Rest of review above. Yoninah (talk) 23:54, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Awesome, thanks! ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 23:55, 18 April 2018 (UTC)