Template:Did you know nominations/Turkish Military Cemetery

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) 07:17, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

Turkish Military Cemetery edit

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... that the Turkish Military Cemetery in Marsa, Malta has been called "the Ottoman Taj Mahal"? Source: "The contemporary writer and artist, T.M.P. Duggan has referred to Galizia’s cemetery as “the Ottoman Taj Mahal.”" (Thake, Conrad (1 February 2014). "The Ottoman Turkish cemetery a plea for its conservation". Malta Today.)
- ALT1:... that Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz awarded the Order of the Medjidie to the Maltese architect Emanuele Luigi Galizia for designing the Turkish Military Cemetery? Source: "For his efforts in completing the Muslim cemetery, Galizia was bestowed by the Ottoman Sultan with the Order of Medjidie (fourth class), which was a prestigious military and knightly order of the Ottoman Empire." (Thake, Conrad (1 February 2014). "The Ottoman Turkish cemetery a plea for its conservation". Malta Today.)
- ALT2:... that a British colonial administrator called the Turkish Military Cemetery and the adjacent Jewish Cemetery in Marsa, Malta "the only place in the world where Arabs and Jews lie peacefully together"? Source: "...as Sir Harry Luke, Malta's former Lieutenant Governor stated, "it is the only place in the world where Arabs and Jews lie peacefully together"." (Gauci, Matthew (2009). "New light on Webster Paulson and his architectural idiosyncrasies". Proceedings of History Week: 143.)
  - ALT2a:... that Sir Harry Luke called the Turkish Military Cemetery and the adjacent Jewish Cemetery in Marsa, Malta "the only place in the world where Arabs and Jews lie peacefully together"?

Note: The mention of the Jewish Cemetery, Marsa in ALT2 was added after I submitted the nomination. If this hook is chosen I will review another article so as to conform with QPQ requirements.
Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi

Created by Xwejnusgozo (talk). Self-nominated at 12:11, 9 December 2018 (UTC).

Reviewing ... Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:50, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

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: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Very nice article, well written and well sourced, fully worthy of the main page. Any of the three hooks could be used; my personal preference is for ALT2, which could be shortened slightly by writing "Sir Harry Luke" instead of "a British colonial administrator" (NB non-visible source for ALT1 accepted in good faith). An image would be good here, I think, but this is ready to go as it stands. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:12, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

@Justlettersandnumbers: Thanks for the review. Since the review, the article has been considerably expanded by Continentaleurope (talk · contribs) so do you mind taking another quick look? I replaced hook ALT2 by ALT2a, as suggested in the review.

View of the Turkish Military Cemetery

When I wrote the article, there were few images of the cemetery on Commons so I didn't include one in the nomination. However, since then quite a few photos have been uploaded by Continentaleurope. Perhaps we can use the photo on the right? There shouldn't be any problems since the photo was taken by the uploader and it is free to use.

In the case that ALT2a is used, I have reviewed another nomination (Template:Did you know nominations/John Steele House (Toquerville, Utah)) for QPQ purposes.

Xwejnusgozo (talk) 19:39, 16 December 2018 (UTC)