Talk:Gao Xiaoxia

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:51, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Gao Xiaoxia

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... that just before the US government banned Chinese students from returning home, Gao Xiaoxia abandoned her Ph.D. studies and left America in 1951 on one of the last China-bound ships? Source: "American government passed an act to forbid Chinese students and scientists in America including Qian Xuesen to return the new Communist China. ... Gao Xiaoxia and he immediately decided to return to China even though she was just about to get her PhD. ... boarded the "General Gordon" cruise, which was the one of the last three cruises heading toward China right before the act was put into force."

Reviewed: Suvorov Square (Saint Petersburg) (second of two QPQs)

Created by Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk). Nominated by Zanhe (talk) at 18:45, 7 June 2019 (UTC).[reply]

Needs the year she fled, for context. I assumed at first it was a reference to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1934, and was surprised to see it was a later much less publicized visa incident in the 1950s. 47.185.218.146 (talk) 22:56, 16 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@47.185.218.146: I've added the year to the hook. -Zanhe (talk) 23:45, 16 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Full review needed. BlueMoonset (talk) 21:41, 26 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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:

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Cited:
Interesting:
Other problems: - The hook is barely under 200 characters and can be shortened.

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Shorter is better, and this hook (193 characters) can be shortened without changing the meaning. How do you feel about this 154-character alternative?

ALT1: ... that Gao Xiaoxia abandoned her PhD studies to leave America in 1951, just before the US government banned Chinese students from returning home?
Kim Post (talk) 20:28, 6 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the more succint suggestion. I've made a very minor change "and left" ==> "to leave" which you may revert if you disagree. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 13:48, 7 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sensible. The nomination is ready, then. Kim Post (talk) 07:39, 8 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A fact from Gao Xiaoxia appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 July 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Gao Xiaoxia abandoned her PhD studies to leave America in 1951, just before the US government banned Chinese students from returning home?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2019/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gao Xiaoxia.

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