Template:Did you know nominations/Oei Tjie Sien


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The result was: rejected by Yoninah (talk) 12:20, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Oei Tjie Sien

 * ... that the tycoon Oei Tjie Sien (1835-1900) fought in the Taiping Rebellion before moving to colonial Indonesia, where he founded Kian Gwan in 1863, a company that later became Southeast Asia's largest conglomerate in the early decades of the twentieth century? Source:https://books.google.com/books?id=PIgGCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA92&dq=%22oei+tjie+sien%22+%22taiping%22+%22kian+gwan%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwifjKbu6NreAhUJr48KHUZyCY8Q6AEIPjAD#v=onepage&q=%22oei%20tjie%20sien%22%20%22taiping%22%20%22kian%20gwan%22&f=false

Created by ClaraElisaOng (talk). Nominated by ClaraElisaOng (talk) at 06:42, 17 November 2018 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg Hooks should be under 200 characters, preferably less. This one is 258 characters, so I struck it. Please provide a new hook and label it ALT1. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 23:18, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Symbol possible vote.svg The nominator has not edited Wikipedia since November 18. If someone else would like to take this on, please do, otherwise I'll mark it for closure. Yoninah (talk) 20:59, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
 * It might be for the best to close this, the nominator still hasn't responded and it's been almost a week since your comment. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 11:11, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Symbol delete vote.svg Agreed. Yoninah (talk) 12:20, 27 December 2018 (UTC)