Template:Did you know nominations/Anunnaki
- 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) 07:23, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
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Anunnaki
[edit]- ... that the Anunnaki were a group of deities honored in ancient Mesopotamian religions, but modern pseudohistorians have argued that they were actually aliens from the planet Nibiru? Source: "The Anunnaki (also transcribed as Anunaki, Anunna, Ananaki, and other variations) are a group of deities that appear in the mythological traditions of the ancient Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, and Babylonians... In his 1976 book The Twelfth Planet, Russian-American author Zecharia Sitchin claimed that the Anunnaki were actually a race of extraterrestrial beings from the undiscovered planet Nibiru, who came to Earth around 500,000 years ago in order to mine gold."
- ALT1:... that, in Sumerian mythology, a group of gods known as the Anunnaki put the goddess Inanna on trial for her attempt to conquer the Underworld? Source: " In Inanna's Descent into the Netherworld, there are only seven Anunnaki, who reside within the Underworld and serve as judges. Inanna stands trial before them for her attempt to take over the Underworld; they deem her guilty of hubris and condemn her to death."
- Comment: The article Anunnaki was promoted to GA status yesterday morning, so it is eligible for DYK. I am very unfamiliar with how DYK works and the only other nomination I have ever made is the article Pythagoras, which I just nominated a few minutes ago. --Katolophyromai (talk) 17:08, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
Created/expanded by Katolophyromai (talk). Self-nominated at 17:08, 3 February 2018 (UTC).
On it.
Timely; well long enough; obviously well within policy or wouldn't've been promoted to GA status (which is to say, there are little hiccups here and there like the LEADCITE violation; the lack of page cites for Robertson; and the less TERSE "etymology" where "name" or "names" suffices, but there's no need to relitigate the entire GA process just to get it through DYK); QPQ unneeded; Earwig finds massive copyvio, but by other websites cribbing this article, not the other way round; I'm most curious about how sentencing a death goddess "to death" is supposed to work, but the hooks both have cites. I prefer ALT1 as the other morons just deserve their obscurity, but defer to the promoter if s/he finds it more hookish. Thanks for your work. — LlywelynII 10:45, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
- I would be fine with using the second hook; I did not know how to nominate an article for DYK after Inanna became a Good Article, so this I guess could kind of make up for it. If you are wondering how the sentencing part works, there is a much more in-depth description of it at Inanna#Descent into the Underworld. --Katolophyromai (talk) 10:55, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
- Oh, and LlywelynII, I also nominated the article Jonah for DYK after I did this one. I did not mention it here because I did not realize it was still eligible until after I finished this one. --Katolophyromai (talk) 10:57, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
- I would be fine with using the second hook; I did not know how to nominate an article for DYK after Inanna became a Good Article, so this I guess could kind of make up for it. If you are wondering how the sentencing part works, there is a much more in-depth description of it at Inanna#Descent into the Underworld. --Katolophyromai (talk) 10:55, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
