Template:Did you know nominations/Gao You

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) 07:23, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Gao You edit

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... that Lu Zhi taught both the warlords Liu Bei and Gongsun Zan, but it was Gao You who carried on his master's studies to complete a full commentary on the Huainanzi?
- ALT1:... that the majority of Liu An's Huainanzi survives thanks to its inclusion in Gao You’s commentary on it?
- ALT2:... that the current organization of the Strategies of the Warring States was established by Gao You centuries after it was written?
- ALT3:... that Liu Bei's schoolmate Gao You composed commentaries on the Huainanzi, the Xiao and Shanhaijing, Mr Lü's Spring & Autumn Annals, the Mengzi, the Zhanguo Ce, and the Lunheng?
- ALT4:... that the Han scholar Gao You had to quit school owing to widespread rebellion?
- ALT5:... that the Han scholar Gao You—responsible for our present editions of the Huainanzi and Zhanguo Ce—had to quit school owing to widespread rebellion?
- ALT6:... that the Han scholar Gao You‘s footnotes on his hometown's pronunciation of Chinese characters is used to help researchers reconstruct the pronunciation of old Chinese?
- ALT7:... that Gao You‘s commentaries let us know that Mr Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals was about a third longer in AD 200 than it is now?
- ALT8:... that Liu Bei's schoolmate Gao You worked in middle management for Cao Cao?
- ALT9:... that Lu Zhi taught the warlords Liu Bei and Gongsun Zan, as well Gao You, a scholar and bureaucrat under Cao Cao?

Reviewed: ~~Will do~~ Kwaku Kwarteng.
Comment: Note to potential reviewers: Don't worry—you just need to review the hook(s) that are most interesting to you.

5x expanded by LlywelynII (talk). Self-nominated at 12:52, 17 December 2017 (UTC).

Looks interesting for scholars, on good sources, offline sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. Please fix refs Theobald. I disregard all hooks beginning with his teacher who will also be unknown. It looks to me as if his main importance is focused on Huainanzi, which will again be unknown. How about a hook mentioning a work of his with an interesting title, such as Strategies of the Warring States, and let readers find out more in the article? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:03, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

@Theobald ref links: Take it up with the template people. They simply can't deal with multiple dates pointing at the same cite; this formatting is still better than repeating the whole website formatting each time. I can add the anchors (done) but they don't really work until there's more white space at the bottom of the page. I did what I could, but it's not really an issue for DYK purposes.

@Rest: I don't really see what the problem is for the rest. You mentioned you dislike hooks referring to Lu Zhi. You just dislike all of the hooks? or what is the actual reason to hold up the nomination? You just preferred English translations for the names in ALT3? I think it would run long.

You are aware that it's a minor and scholarly subject and that the main hook is its obscurity: people going 'huh'? and clicking through for more? — LlywelynII 07:40, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Curious: for simple me, a citation has a date or year, one, - how do several dates refer to the same citation? It gives me a bright red fat error message, and I will be not the only one to see that. - I won't word a hook for you, because I couldn't review it them. I picked now one of those offered.

ALT5. No time to strike all the others. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:55, 30 December 2017 (UTC)