Template:Did you know nominations/Anastasius I Dicorus

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) 06:13, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

Anastasius I Dicorus edit

  • ... that when Byzantine emperor Anastasius I died he left a treasury with over 23,000,000 gold solidi, more than 420 tons of gold? Source: Norwich, John (1988). Byzantium: the Early Centuries. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-670-80251-4, p. 183.
    • ALT1:... that ? Source:

Improved to Good Article status by Gog the Mild (talk). Self-nominated at 12:35, 8 July 2018 (UTC).


General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited: Yes - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
  • Interesting: Yes
QPQ: Done.

Overall: epicgenius (talk) 16:10, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

@Epicgenius: Thanks for picking this up so quickly. Apologies for the missing cite. Sloppy; both I and the GAN reviewer missed that. Now added. Appropriate weight now added to the article. Gog the Mild (talk) 15:21, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

@Gog the Mild: You're welcome. Thank you for your quick response. This article is good to go. epicgenius (talk) 16:10, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
  • The article says 420 tons of gold but the hook says 120, which is it? Gatoclass (talk) 01:00, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
  • @Gatoclass: 420 tons. Hook amended. Someone has thumb fingers, probably me. Thank you for picking this up. Gog the Mild (talk) 09:49, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
Replacing tick. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:13, 23 July 2018 (UTC)