Template:Did you know nominations/Xiangshawan


 * The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as |this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:19, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

Xiangshawan

 * ... that Xiangshawan, a desert area in Inner Mongolia, is literally translated as "Resonant Sand Gorge" due to the loud boom and whistling sound created when sliding down the sand dune?
 * Reviewed: Hold

Created by Muzzleflash (talk). Self-nominated at 19:25, 11 October 2017 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg Nominated for DYK three days after creation, and is just under 2400 bytes (about 2000 when excluding quoted text), satisfying length and date criteria. Ref #5 (here) states "reception of 10,000 person-time per day", which I assume means 10,000 visitors per day as you stated in the article. The text has a two-word quotation "singing sound" that I cannot find in ref #1. The text also states "...slide down a 110-meter-high, 45-degree sand dune..." but the two associated sources differ about the height (one says 90m, the other 110m). Hook is OK and sourced, though the source has other translations for the name (Singing Sand Ravine, Resonant Sand Bay, Resonant Sand Gorge, etc.) I've modified the hook as ALT1 - what do you think of it? QPQ doesn't appear necessary, as this is the nominator's third DYK submission. Mind  matrix  20:22, 11 October 2017 (UTC)


 * ALT!:... that the name of the desert area Xiangshawan (literally, "Resonant Sand Gorge") in Inner Mongolia derives from the loud boom and whistling sound created when sliding down its sand dune?
 * I fixed the article so that the content was more agreeable with the citations as you had pointed out. The alternative hook looks better. Muzzleflash (talk) 21:04, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
 * The change looks OK. You still need to address the two-word quotation "singing sound", as I cannot find it in the sources provided (refs 1 and 6). Mind  matrix  23:22, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Looks like I confused "singing sand" for "singing sound" so I changed it to quoting only "singing". Muzzleflash (talk) 07:59, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg I figured it was something like that. Good to go. Mind  matrix  13:15, 12 October 2017 (UTC)