Template:Did you know nominations/Oxus Treasure

Oxus Treasure

 * ... that the Ancient Persian Oxus Treasure (armlet illustrated) in the British Museum "has passed through places of evil repute and cannot have come out quite unscathed"?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Conquest of Kucha

5x expanded by Johnbod (talk). Self nominated at 16:04, 29 June 2013 (UTC).


 * Symbol possible vote.svg Length (>5x expansion) and date verified. All refs appear to be RS but at least one paragraph is missing a reference so that needs attention. I'm not fond of 1 or 2 sentence paragraphs, and there are multiples of these, so a bit of re-arranging might be in order, though not required. There are too many images within the body of the article which are a detraction from reading it, so moving some of the images to a Gallery section, or at least decreasing their size, would help with reading flow, but this, too, is not a requirement. QPQ done. The hook, interesting and of appropriate length, lacks an inline citation, so this review is incomplete. This is a really good article otherwise. --Rosiestep (talk) 20:46, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
 * The only "paragraph" without a citation says, in its entirety: "The surviving objects, an uncertain proportion of the original finds, can be divided into a number of groups." and is just an organizing point, whose content is referenced elsewhere. The hook is cited with note 36. Johnbod (talk) 02:30, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Well no, the hook sentence (The circumstances of the discovery and trading of the pieces, and their variety of styles and quality of workmanship, cast some doubt on their authenticity from the start, and "necessitate a cautious treatment of the Oxus Treasure, for it has passed through places of evil repute and cannot have come out quite unscathed", as Dalton put it in 1905.) is not cited with note 36; the next sentence is. As for the sentence/paragraph which lacks a reference, I'll agree that the D2 exception, "...paragraphs which summarize other cited content", can be applied here. --Rosiestep (talk) 03:58, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Both sentences are & the quotes are both from the same page. But I will repeat the reference if it makes you happy. Johnbod (talk) 12:04, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Symbol voting keep.svg As, of course, it's a DYK rule/requirement (not mine), thanks for the adding the inline citation. I'm unable to upload the pdf (I'm on vacation and having a bit of trouble with the ISP), so hook's offline ref accepted AGF by seasoned editor. GTG. --Rosiestep (talk) 20:39, 1 July 2013 (UTC)