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Siege of Jerusalem (63 BCE)

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as 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 Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle}

• ... that after his successful Siege of Jerusalem, Pompey the Great entered the Temple's Holy of Holies (15th-century painting by Jean Fouquet, pictured), where none but the High Priest were allowed?

• Reviewed: Great Forest Park Balloon Race‎

Created/expanded by Poliocretes (talk). Self nom at 12:26, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
Please add a comment and signature (or just a signature if endorsing) after each aspect you have reviewed:
Hook

• Length, format, content rules: Daniel Case (talk) 19:13, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
• Source: Assuming we no longer have any problem with people citing contemporaneous histories of events more than a thousand years old because they weren't subject to modern review processes (and in any event a modern source is also cited, although it's one that can't be reviewed online), we're good. Daniel Case (talk) 19:13, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
• Interest: Daniel Case (talk) 19:13, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
• Image suitability, if applicable: 15th-century French painting ... can't get more PD than that. Daniel Case (talk) 19:13, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

I also clarified that the picture was not painted as the events were unfolding. Daniel Case (talk) 19:22, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

• ALT hooks, if proposed:

Article

• Length: Daniel Case (talk) 19:13, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
• Vintage: Daniel Case (talk) 19:13, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
• Sourcing (V, RS, BLP): Daniel Case (talk) 19:13, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
• Neutrality: Daniel Case (talk) 19:13, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
• Plagiarism/close paraphrasing: Multiple Google tests turned up nothing.
• Copyvio: As with above. Daniel Case (talk) 19:13, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
• Obvious faults in prose, structure, formatting:

Comments/discussion:

• In the hook paragraph's lede sentence, we should probably reword to avoid the "however" (It used to be on the words to avoid list; while I am more tolerant of its use in intros or things like DYK hooks it should, I think, still be avoided in body text). If Pompey's entry alone desecrated the Holy of Holies, it matters nought that he touched nothing in it (although that fact is worthy of note as well). Daniel Case (talk) 19:22, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

• Thanks, I've removed the word "However" and added two additional online references for the hook. Poliocretes (talk) 15:41, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

OK now. Daniel Case (talk) 18:20, 2 August 2011 (UTC)