Talk:Tan Teck Soon

A fact from Tan Teck Soon appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 August 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Chinese intellectual Tan Teck Soon, who was the son of a Christian missionary, became a supporter of Buddhist revivalist Anagarika Dharmapala in his later years?

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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 Lightburst (talk) 14:15, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Chinese intellectual Tan Teck Soon, who was the son of a Christian missionary, became a supporter of Buddhist revivalist Anagarika Dharmapala in his later years? Source: Turner, Cox & Bocking 2020, p. 117.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Italian Quarter, Dublin

Created by Kingoflettuce (talk). Self-nominated at 12:44, 21 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Tan Teck Soon; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Doing... ミラP@Miraclepine 01:36, 23 August 2023 (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: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Great article, interesting irony in the hook. ミラP@Miraclepine 01:46, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Miraclepine and Kingoflettuce: None of the references are accessible. For the future, it would be helpful to include the relevant text from the source in the nomination. I am working blind on this nomination and I have to promote based on the AGF principal. Lightburst (talk) 14:14, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]