Template:Did you know nominations/Sogdia


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The result was: rejected by  MPJ  -DK 22:35, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Sogdia

 * ...that Sogdians, an Eastern Iranian people, built Zoroastrian fire temples in various cities of Imperial China during the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD)?



5x expanded by PericlesofAthens (talk). Self-nominated at 15:24, 30 August 2016 (UTC).

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 * &#x2717; This article was not created or 5x expanded within the past 7 days. This article has been expanded from 20049 characters to 37475 chars of readable prose since 08:09, 22 August 2016 (UTC), a 1.87-fold expansion, 62770 short of a 5x expansion.
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 * Symbol delete vote.svg Regrettably, this article is not eligible under DYK rules. Even treating this as a slightly late nomination, with the expansion starting on August 21 when it had 14922 prose characters, it is not close to a 5x expansion even today, with 40254 prose characters (not even 2.5x, I'm afraid), though still an impressive addition of over 25K prose characters. I'm afraid that the only chance that the article has to qualify for DYK at this point is to become a Good Article, for which it would need to be nominated for and passed as a GA, and thus meet the Good Article criteria. Best of luck in getting it to that state, PericlesofAthens; if you do, be sure to renominate the article for DYK within seven days of it achieving GA status. Thanks for submitting to DYK, and I hope you will do so again in future. BlueMoonset (talk) 02:24, 17 September 2016 (UTC)