Talk:The Soul (film)

A fact from The Soul (film) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 July 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Chang Chen lost 12 kilograms (26 lb) for his role in The Soul?

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Did you know nomination

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 Desertarun (talk) 07:59, 29 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Chang Chen lost 12 kilograms for his role in The Soul? Source: "张震为了扮演患癌症的检察官，不但剃了光头，还减肥了12公斤"[1]

Reviewed: The Embroidered Couch

Created by Mx. Granger (talk). Self-nominated at 19:37, 26 June 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General eligibility:

New enough:
Long enough: - have to err on the side of caution here - according to DYK's length counter this article is just 3 characters above the minimum character amount of 1500 character

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing: - source #3, #5, and #7 is marked as unreliable in Wikipedia's list of perennial sources.
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Please resolve the issues above. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 14:50, 27 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Jeromi Mikhael: Thanks for the review. I'll add some more content to address the length concern. Could you please clarify your concern about the sourcing? I don't see Pengpai or Douban listed at WP:RSP, and the listing for Xinhua says that it's "generally reliable for factual reporting" (with some exceptions that don't apply here). —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 16:13, 27 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Mx. Granger: Douban is listed as a "user generated source" in WP:NPPSG based on a [RfC]. The former is kind of weird, since Headbomb's userscript that detects unreliable source marks this source as a "generally unreliable source". It's late night in here and I'll return to this tomorrow. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 17:14, 27 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Mx. Granger: Sina.com (1, 2, 3)

As noted in the third discussion you linked, Sina is an aggregator. In the case at hand, it published a report from Xinhua (新华网), which is a reliable source for this information.

As for Douban, of course it would not be a reliable source for factual details like budget or production information, but here it's being used as a primary source for the film's average rating on Douban. If you'd like, I can try to find a secondary source reporting on that rating instead. —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 15:15, 28 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Jeromi Mikhael: I've added more content to the article, added an additional citation for the information from Xinhua, and replaced the Douban citation with a secondary source about the former Douban rating. What do you think? —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 15:47, 28 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Mx. Granger: Thank you. Now that the problem is resolved I

approve this article for a DYK.