Template:Did you know nominations/al-Dana, Syria

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The result was: promoted by Redtigerxyz ^Talk 07:13, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

al-Dana, Syria

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• ... that the town of al-Dana in northern Syria is identified with "Adennu," the first Aramaean city to be captured by Assyrian emperor Shalmaneser III?

Reviewed: Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130

Created/expanded by Al Ameer son (talk), Zozo2kx (talk). Nominated by Al Ameer son (talk) at 23:22, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

• New: Created Oct. 16, nominated just in time. Length: Good. Policy: See comments below. Hook: Good.
  • Some of the references go to books.google.com.jp - Is there a particular reason for this (i.e. you can't preview the book in other languages) or can this be converted to the English .com version?
  • The Lipinsky reference confirms that the city was one of the first conquered, but it doesn't say by whom or when. It in turn does reference something, but I'm not familiar with the format of that citation (RIMA III text A.0.102.2, p. 23, line 88).
  • It looks like the reference to Shalmaneser III is actually in the Yamada reference, so maybe all that's needed is re-arranging the footnotes to clarify things.
  • Buckingham and Davis are cited, but their writings are not listed in the bibliography. That's a problem.
• Other than that last comment, this looks fine. Once those citations are added I think you're good to go. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 05:34, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

• I am a contributor to the article, and I'm based in Japan, so the GBooks website I use is the co.jp one. Apologies, fixed with a script.
• The title to the subsection (on the previous page) is "Shalmaneser III's campaign in 853 B.C." and he's talking about Al-Dana in that context. So both books reference that fact explicitly, and since its a hook fact I think leaving both citation is favorable.
• Davis and Buckingham both added to the biblio section.

Thanks for your review. Yazan (talk) 15:37, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Thank you, this looks good! Hersfold non-admin^(t/a/c) 14:55, 24 October 2012 (UTC)