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 Yoninah (talk) 22:58, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
Promoted to Prep 4 by Cwmhiraeth

Bahra 1

  • ... that Bahra 1 in Kuwait is the oldest permanent settlement south of Mesopotamia? Source: "Science, vol. 335, Issue 6070, p. 790, DOI: 10.1126/science.335.6070.790" [1]

Created by Aszu23 (talk). Self-nominated at 17:15, 2 March 2020 (UTC).

  • New, long and neutral enough. I'd add Kuwait to the hook. But I can't see the hook fact in the article, though it does check out from the linked ref. Please add. Johnbod (talk) 15:56, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
As far as I can tell the relevant quote is ...which would make it the oldest cult building not only in Kuwait but in the whole Persian Gulf region; however, this appears to be referring only to a specific complex and not the settlement as a whole. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 23:05, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
It's very clearly stated in the linked source - it just needs adding to the article. Johnbod (talk) 00:21, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
The nominator hasn't edited since the day of the nomination, so I've left them a message. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 00:18, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
I added information and a source from the hook, thank you! Aszu23 (talk) 23:11, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
Resuming. Hook & source now ok, but Earwig, which I hadn't done before, now picks up:

Article: "Objects found inside the settlement attest to the strong ties with southern Mesopotamia. Contacts with Ubaid centers in Mesopotamia are evidenced mainly by a large number of imported pottery, both richly-decorated luxury vessels and undecorated storage vessels. Small objects of fired clay, possibly personal adornments, are also typical of the Ubaid culture. However, Bahra 1 also yielded objects typical of the so-called Arabian Neolithic: pottery (so-called Coarse Red Ware)"

[pcma.uw.edu.pl/en/2019/04/21/bahra-1-2 Source]:"...but at the same time to have had strong relations with southern Mesopotamia. Contacts with Ubaid centers in Mesopotamia are evidenced by a large number of imported pottery, both richly-decorated luxury vessels /6, 7, 8/ and undecorated storage vessels. Small objects of fired clay /11/ – possibly personal adornments /12/ – are also typical of the Ubaid culture. However, also found were objects characteristic of the so-called Arabian Neolithic: pottery (so-called Coarse Red Ware ..."

That's the only problemmatic bit, but it's too much. Notifying nominator. And "in Kuwait" still needs adding imo. Johnbod (talk) 18:19, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

I corrected and added new sources, sorry for the delay Aszu23 (talk) 18:35, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
  • Ok, sorted, GTG. Johnbod (talk) 14:19, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
  • Hi, I came by to promote this, but the referencing is a bit of a mess. The citations are all repeated twice, in the notes and the bibliography, but there's no connection between them as there would be with Harvard footnotes. Could you consider using Help:Sfn? Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 19:19, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
Yuk! Yoninah, please don't push a specific form of referencing, especially that one! They aren't all repeated, just most. Few of my articles' references connect in this way, & it's certainly not a DYK requirement. Johnbod (talk) 20:57, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
  • Somehow I knew you would say that. All right, good luck to the reader. Yoninah (talk) 01:02, 12 April 2020 (UTC)