Template:Did you know nominations/Osorkon IV


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The result was: promoted by Victuallers (talk) 21:30, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Osorkon IV

 * ... that Pharaoh Osorkon IV vanished into obscurity?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Dragonfly

Improved to Good Article status by Khruner (talk). Nominated by Calvin999 (talk) at 20:55, 16 March 2015 (UTC).


 * Symbol possible vote.svg Article promoted to GA status on 16 March 2015. Every paragraph is sourced. QPQ was performed. The only problem is that content of the hook is not cited to a reliable source within the article. In the article it states, "Shortly after, Osorkon IV and his dynasty vanished into obscurity", but no source is present to verify this. N ORTH A MERICA 1000 01:41, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Look at the end of the next sentence, I assume. —  ₳aron  09:04, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi : Per WP:WIADYK, section 3B, to qualify, "Each fact in the hook must be supported in the article by at least one inline citation to a reliable source, appearing no later than the end of the sentence(s) offering that fact " (underline emphasis mine). Since these are the rules, I can't buck them. N ORTH A MERICA 1000 09:27, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Hello, I was summoned here, sorry for the delay. The source is at the end of the next sentence, but I dare to suggest a different hook. I mean, "vanished into obscurity" as a hook seems vague to me; Osorkon IV did not literally vanished into obscurity (obviously) and anyhow, he was not famous for that (he was not famous at all). I don't know... May I suggest something other, like "...Osorkon IV saved his kingdom with a dozen horses?" Khruner (talk) 18:23, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
 * ALT1: ... that Osorkon IV saved his kingdom with a dozen horses?
 * (posted per the comment directly above). N ORTH A MERICA 1000 22:29, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Symbol question.svg Hook ALT1 is close enough to what is in the article, has a citation but I have no access to this book. The horse gift is confirmed in From Slave to Pharaoh: The Black Experience of Ancient Egypt and Ancient Israel and Its Neighbors: Interaction and Counteraction but it indicates that this was at a trading post, rather than at the point of an immanent invasion. Can you confirm that the gift saved an invasion in the Kitchen book? Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:32, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Can someone confirm the citation so we can move this on? Fuebaey (talk) 19:56, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delay. I can cite directly Kitchen's work (§ 336): "Finally, in 716BC Sargon II struck again at Philistia and towards Egypt. (...) The Assyrian cohorts were now but 120 miles away from Tanis itself (...) Osorkon IV found it politic to buy off his dangerous new neighbor with a handsome present: Shilkanni, King of Egypt, a remote place..." etc (i.e. Sargon's speech already mentioned in your first link above). Story reprised in Grimal (1992, pp.342-3); Wilkinson (pp.399-400) is more laconic, simply stating that Osorkon IV sent "a lavish diplomatic gift to the ruler of Assyria when he unespectedly turned up on Egypt's northeast frontier with a large army in low." Khruner (talk) 08:30, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg OK given the above text we could accept this hook alt1, which is short enough. The article is also long enough to qualify, and I could find no copyvio in it. Good to go with alt1. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 12:17, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
 * But we should wait for a reply by Calvin999. As the nominator, he may disagree with my alternative hook. Khruner (talk) 12:53, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't think we need to. He can pop in with something to say prior to closure, or propose an alt2. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 13:11, 25 May 2015 (UTC)