Talk:Canton Coolie Corps
Latest comment: 2 years ago by RoySmith in topic Did you know nomination
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 | A fact from Canton Coolie Corps appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 October 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Did you know nomination
edit- 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 RoySmith (talk) 19:34, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
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- ... that recruitment to the British Canton Coolie Corps suffered because of false rumours that the men would be used as human shields in the Second Opium War? Source: "Desertion was the first problem facing the Canton Coolie Corps .... Rumours circulated among the coolies that the British were recruiting them as 'human shields' for the British soldiers" from: Kwong, Chi Man (10 February 2022). Hong Kongers in the British Armed Forces, 1860-1997. Oxford University Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-19-284574-0.
Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 12:47, 17 October 2022 (UTC).
New enough. Long enough. All paragraphs and the interesting hook well-cited. QPQ done. Earwig found no issues. An enjoyable read. NPOV maintained. I have added "(pigtails)" to "having their queues cut off", as by the time the reader gets to the second mention of queues they may have forgotten what they are - at least I did. Edwardx (talk) 21:20, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
