Template:Did you know nominations/Hirebenkal

Hirebenkal

 * ... that the megalithic site of Hirebenkal (pictured), built over 2000 years ago, feels like a ghost town?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Kirikuküla, Kaarma Parish

5x expanded by Nvvchar (talk), Rosiestep (talk). Nominated by Rosiestep (talk) at 21:33, 9 February 2013 (UTC)


 * ALT1: ... that the first published reports on Hirebenkal (pictured) were made in 1835 by Philip Meadows Taylor who was under the service of the Nizam of Hyderabad? --Rosiestep (talk) 05:07, 15 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Symbol question.svg interesting, on good sources, Italian ref accepted AGF. Both hooks don't excite to me, one not,one too specific. What do you think about something like:
 * ALT2: ... that the megalithic site of Hirebenkal (pictured), built over 2000 years ago, is with roughly 400 megalithic funerary monuments reported to be the largest necropolis in South India? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:26, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
 * ALT2 is fine.-- Nvvchar . 17:56, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg ALT2, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:05, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Symbol question.svgSymbol redirect vote4.png Can we please have an independent confirmation on the several new hook facts introduced in ALT2? I also think that hook could be more effective if it were less wordy; I strongly recommend deleting "with roughly 400 megalithic funerary monuments", which also solves a wording issue. BlueMoonset (talk) 20:41, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting keep.svg 5x expansion verified. New enough, long enough, adequately sourced, no close paraphrasing seen. ALT2 hook refs verified (first half) and AGF (second half of hook). I agree with BlueMoonset that the middle phrase should be deleted in the interests of wordiness and hookiness. Here is the approved hook:
 * ALT3: ... that the megalithic site of Hirebenkal (pictured), built over 2000 years ago, is reportedly the largest necropolis in South India? Yoninah (talk) 21:41, 2 March 2013 (UTC)