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The result was: promoted by
RoySmith (
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Pass—new enough, just long enough, QPQ done, sourced with RS citations and well written; Earwig says copyvio-free. Hook is interesting (I do not care for medicine but the hook intrigued me). Actually, the article is quite fascinating—short but sweet and I loved reading it! I noticed that you provided no reference for this DYK, but the relevant text is cited in the article. Source verifies text, can be read on
Google Books here, p. 53. 𓃦LunaEatsTuna (
💬) 01:33, 24 November 2022 (UTC)reply
GA Review
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Will get to this later today or in the early hours of tomorrow morning (UTC). ツLunaEatsTuna(
💬)— 17:19, 17 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Nice work on the changes! Happy now to pass it for GA status. Congrats on this short but sweet GA! Keep up the work. ツLunaEatsTuna(
💬)— 21:13, 18 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Copyvio
Earwig says good to go.
Prose
In the first efn note, is there a reason "Materia Medica" is not italicised in Newly Revised Materia Medica?
Materia Medica is italicised by default and it seems that conventionally when a usually italicised phrase is in an intalicised title, you'd un-italicise it. Certainly that's the case in the sources I've read, but I wonder if our style guides differ on this
KINGofLETTUCE 👑🥬 11:37, 18 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Ah, I see. Should be fine in that case. ツLunaEatsTuna(
💬)— 21:11, 18 May 2023 (UTC)reply
"headed by editor-in-chief Su Jing" – use the ill template as you do so later in the article.
I basically have to obligatorily ask given how short it is—can Contents be expanded at all? For instance, are there any other particularly notable drugs given in any of the sources?
The difficulty is the original text and illustrations are lost. I've extracted as much as I can from the sources - I'd daresay our entry is one of the most substantial ones on the topic that you can find anywhere on the Web
KINGofLETTUCE 👑🥬 11:37, 18 May 2023 (UTC)reply
From the spotchecks I did I would honestly say I agree. ツLunaEatsTuna(
💬)— 21:11, 18 May 2023 (UTC)reply
"because of an "imperial taboo"." – does the source say anything else about this/can more context be given for readers?
I would like to know too! However the source doesn't say more. Buell (2017) similarly notes that his name was changed due to a "naming taboo" but doesn't elaborate.
KINGofLETTUCE 👑🥬 11:37, 18 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Are there any freely-licensed images of the Xinxiu bencao? Would be fascinating to see what it looks like.
Can't find any at the moment, unfortunately - besides it would be images of the copy since the original has been lost for quite some time
KINGofLETTUCE 👑🥬 11:37, 18 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Passes spotcheck on refs 1 (cited six times) and 5 (cited twice).
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