Template:Did you know nominations/Yalain

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The result was: promoted by BlueMoonset (talk) 17:02, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

Yalain

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• ... that the Yalain have been proposed as one of the three most important Maya polities in the Petén Basin of Guatemala during the Postclassic period (c. AD 1000–1697)?

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Created/expanded by Simon Burchell (talk). Self nom at 14:04, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

• New Enough: check (created today). Long enough: check (4,500 characters). No plagiarism: checked 10 sentences and no hits, so check. Hook Length: 198 characters. Problem is that the "hook fact must be stated in the article, and must be immediately followed by an inline citation". It appears that the hook fact is this sentence "The Yalain appear to have been one of the dominant polities in Postclassic central Petén, alongside the Kowoj and the Itza" The source (Cecil) comes at the end of the paragraph though ("citing the hook fact at the end of the paragraph is not acceptable" from WP:DYKDN), it needs to immediately follow the hook fact. Hook is supported by Cecil source, so it is just a matter of putting the source directly after the hook claim. Also, the article sentence should probably specify 'three' simply to make the hook fact and article content related (suggestion: "The Yalain appear to have been one of the three dominant polities in Postcalssic central Petén, alongside the Kowoj and the Itza") AbstractIllusions (talk) 19:27, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

• Well it is a very short paragraph so I don't really see any problem here. However, I've made all changes as suggested. Simon Burchell (talk) 21:04, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Looks great! Spanish source accepted (both on good faith and because I speak the language) and hook is interesting. AbstractIllusions (talk) 00:32, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

• Thanks for the review, best regards, Simon Burchell (talk) 08:50, 27 November 2012 (UTC)