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A fact from Al Qarara Cultural Museum appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 December 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Al Qarara Cultural Museum, housed in a former grain silo, contained 6000 years of history?

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The result was: promoted by PrimalMustelid talk 17:17, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the Al Qarara Cultural Museum, housed in a former grain silo, contained 6000 years of history? Source: *"housed in a former grain silo" & "6000 years" in same article = https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2021/0914/In-Gaza-a-museum-filled-with-history-picked-up-along-the-way
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Coins of the New Zealand pound
- Comment: I drew a bit of a black with the hook, so other suggestions are welcome

Created by Lajmmoore (talk). Self-nominated at 16:16, 10 November 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Al Qarara Cultural Museum; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

It's nice to have a new article about art and heritage to be able to review. This is a well-written article, which meets the length criterion and was nominated five days after its creation. The hook is properly formatted and combines two interesting facts, stated in the article and verifiable in the cited English-language source. Other factual claims can be verified by Google-translating the Arabic sources. The article is properly structured and carefully sourced with inline citations. The text is original; the one long quotation is properly attributed.
It would be good to have more metadata about the sources and external links so readers know what they are clicking on. For example, both links could be attributed to Jinha agency and the auto-translated titles could be included. Similarly, the citations could show which news site they are links to. A query: the sentence "On 19 October, the Church of Saint Porphyrius was also destroyed in an airstrike." This fact needs to be connected to the rest of the article somehow. Is the church a neighbouring building to the museum? With these minor queries sorted out, the article will be ready. MartinPoulter (talk) 16:20, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much for the kind review MartinPoulter, I've made the references more detailed - have I picked up what you spotted? Please let me know if there are other bits to improve. I've also added an intro to the destruction of the church - context is Gaza's cultural heritage being destroyed Lajmmoore (talk) 17:49, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The citations are much more usable now; thanks. The bit about the church has been removed by another user, but the article body text is still long enough without it, so this is good to go.

MartinPoulter (talk) 22:12, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relevance of mention of Church of Saint Porphyrius bombing

I don't see any relevance between the two beyond being culturally significant sites that were bombed by the IDF. It could go into the 'see also' page but I don't think it deserves it's own sentence in the article. Traumnovelle (talk) 03:01, 28 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, removed. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 03:13, 28 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Al Qarara Cultural Museum's opening/founding date

Al-Jazeera says the museum opened in 2016.

Cairo 24 says the museum was established in 1958.

I assume 2016 is the accurate date, but wanted to raise the issue in case there is an error here. Hours-of-oats (talk) 16:30, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]