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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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:53, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

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Nundinae[edit]

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The nundinal letters on a fragment of the Fasti Praenestini
The nundinal letters on a fragment of the Fasti Praenestini
  • ... that ancient Rome's weekends came only every eight days?
    • ALT1:... that the markets ancient Rome held every 8 days were called the Nundinae ("9th Days") because the Romans hadn't mastered exclusive counting?
    • ALT2:... that, because of a superstition against Roman market days occurring on New Year's Day, its priests continued to tinker with the calendar even after its reform under Julius Caesar?
    • ALT3:... that the occurrence of the ancient Roman weekend was supposedly manipulated by republican priests because they forgot what Servius Tullius's birthday had been?
    • ALT4:... that the unusual 10-month year supposedly established by Romulus lasted exactly 38 nundinal cycles before its unorganized winter period?
    • ALT5:... that ancient Rome's 8-day week probably originated with the schedule of royal audiences for Etruscan kings?
    • ALT6:... that the ancient Romans blamed Lepidus's failed rebellion on the bad luck that inevitably followed having Rome's market day fall on the New Year?
    • ALT7:... that students in ancient Rome had the day off during its 8th-day markets?
    • ALT8:... that many Romans avoided trimming their fingernails in silence during the nundinae, believing it would cause havoc on their finances?
    • ALT9:... that slaves and priests were both watched closely to keep them out of trouble during ancient Rome's nundinae?
  • Reviewed: Will do Rise of Macedon A.P. Halfhill.
  • Comment: @Potential reviewers: Don't worry. You don't need to go through all the hooks, just the one(s) that most interest you.

Created by LlywelynII (talk). Self-nominated at 08:48, 28 March 2017 (UTC).

  • I love ALT8. — JFG talk 15:29, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

@LlywelynII:

General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: As a pedantic point, the last two paragraphs need referencing. I like the first hook, it's short and interesting, if not quirky. It has a good reference. I think although the article is DYK eligible the referencing needs tidying. Several {{sfn}} links point to references missing from the reference list (and several items in the reference list are not linked to). I suggest using HarvErrors in Javascript, see WP:User scripts/List#References Thincat (talk) 09:22, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

  • Thank you for your review. The last paragraph has a cite, so I assume you meant the penultimate paragraph? I think the referencing at the linked article on dominical letters more than covers their existence and WP:IAR applies, but I've moved it to the talk page pending the completion of your review, after which it'll be restored back to its rightful place in the article. (In the future, consider noticing needless makework like this and opting not to bother with it. The policy is there to avoid balderdash and badly-referenced articles full of OR. This patently isn't one of them.)

    I'm not sure what "errors" you're talking about since they don't display and every listed reference is used somewhere. They aren't germane to the DYK process but you're welcome to note any problems on the article's talk page. I won't run needless javascript if I can help it but I'm certainly interested in having the articles I create be good and well-formatted ones. — LlywelynII 13:08, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

I have put a note on the talk page as you suggest. I'm sorry I missed one of the references. It had not been my intention to suggest anything was removed but, again, this is not a matter for DYK. Best wishes. Thincat (talk) 14:33, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

I am approving the original hook. Alt3 and alt8 are also particularly good but I haven't formally reviewed them for referencing. Thincat (talk) 14:52, 12 April 2017 (UTC)


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