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A fact from Li Zhaoxing appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 May 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Li Zhaoxing (pictured), a former Chinese minister of foreign affairs, has published more than 200 poems and was known as a "poet minister"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/May. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Li Zhaoxing.

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pic: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/pix/2005/43722.htm

Did you know nomination

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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 19:33, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Li Zhaoxing

... that during his 40 year tenure in the Chinese Foreign Ministry, former Minister of Foreign Affairs Li Zhaoxing (pictured) published over 200 poems and was known as a 'poet minister'? Source: 李肇星：出身青岛农家爱好写诗富贵不忘本
- ALT1: ... that Li Zhaoxing (pictured) said that China does not have direct elections as "China is too big and some places have inconvenient transportation"? Source: https://www.voachinese.com/a/article-20120305-wukan-china-141426843/944837.html
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Kiro Gligorov and Template:Did you know nominations/UT Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros football

5x expanded by Toadboy123 (talk).

Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 31 past nominations.

Post-promotion hook changes will be logged on the talk page; consider watching the nomination until the hook appears on the Main Page.

Toadboy123 (talk) 13:33, 10 April 2024 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: 5X expanded recently; all cited; hook is very interesting; picture is under CCA4; waiting for QPQ so this should be afterwards GTG.Makeandtoss (talk) 16:09, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

- @Makeandtoss Completed the QPQs. Let me know if it is good to go now. - Toadboy123 (talk) 09:08, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GTG now

. Makeandtoss (talk) 09:31, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Toadboy123 and Makeandtoss: article's a bit WP:PROSELINE in places, can this be remedied?--Laun chba ller 16:00, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

... that during his 40 year tenure as the Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Li Zhaoxing (pictured) published over 200 poems and was known as a 'poet minister'? Makeandtoss (talk) 17:56, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Makeandtoss and Launchballer: "40 year tenure as the Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs" seems misleading as it implies he served as Foreign Minister for 40 years when in reality he only served from 2001 to 2007. If we can't fix the PROSELINE issue, then I suggest using ALT1. Toadboy123 (talk) 22:27, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We can go with ALT1 then.Makeandtoss (talk) 08:49, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. But I managed to edit the part where the hook is located which had the PROSELINE issue. Let me know if it is good and if we can proceed with the original hook. - Toadboy123 (talk) 09:00, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I said the article has proseline issues, not the hook. Almost the entirety of the Foreign Minister and Later career paragraphs begin exactly the same way. This should be reworded. (And preferably a few more subheadings added, although I'm not going to spike this over it.)--Laun chba ller 09:11, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Launchballer: I made some improvements regarding WP:PROSELINE in the article. Let me know if it is good now. - Toadboy123 (talk) 09:41, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I'll promote this when there's room in prep.--Laun chba ller 09:47, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]