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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 Victuallers (talk) 20:28, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

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Byzantine units[edit]

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The remains of the Milion, old Constantinople's zero-mile marker

  • ... that Byzantine units varied depending on the fertility of the land being measured?

Created/expanded by LlywelynII (talk). Self-nominated at 14:58, 12 April 2015 (UTC).

  • For a second I thought it said, "extracted confessions" -- I thought, Ouch! EEng (talk) 01:34, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
    • It's kind of rough going for (essentially) a list page, but you've got a pretty good ear for this kind of thing if you don't mind clicking over and seeing if there's anything that would work better hookwise. I actually ended up trying to clean up the mess at mile and yard from working on this page but I've got some Dumbarton Oaks papers I can use to add some more material later if you don't see anything. — LlywelynII 14:54, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the compliment. I've only just glanced at it, but when I got back I may be able to make something of the empress-bust-weight. EEng (talk) 16:26, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
Hmmmm... this isn't easy because all these weird-sounding words gum up the wordplay. How about:
ALT3 ... that some Byzantine steelyards employed bronze empresses?
EEng (talk) 00:48, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
  • Nice, @EEng:, but the "empress" expression only appears in a caption, and is unsourced. Yoninah (talk) 15:38, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
On mobile for a while but if you try steelyard empress (sounds like a rock band) in Gbooks there are plenty of sources that could be used. No reason hook can't come from a caption. EEng (talk) 15:49, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
  • Of course a hook that comes from a caption is fine. @LlywelynII: can you supply a source for the "bronze empresses" description? Yoninah (talk) 19:08, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
Added a source supporting ALT3. EEng (talk) 06:16, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
  • I chuckled at ALT3. Article is new, long enough, and within policy (no copyright violations found using this tool). QPQ is good; having an image of the bust would ruin the effect of the hook, so none necessary. 23W 17:36, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
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