Talk:Swedish Levant Company

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:35, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Swedish Levant Company

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• ... that the creation of the Swedish Levant Company was controversial? Source: "In many ways, establishing the Levant company was a controversial issue, a fact reflected in the riksdag of 1738."

• ALT1: ... that the creation of the Swedish Levant Company in 1738 was controversial? Source: "In many ways, establishing the Levant company was a controversial issue, a fact reflected in the riksdag of 1738."
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sulayman ibn Sa'd al-Khushani
• Comment: This is my first time with WP:DYK. I created the article and submitted it to WP:AFC.

Moved to mainspace by Bkissin (talk). Nominated by MJL (talk) at 02:04, 24 May 2019 (UTC).

• I'll do a full review soon, but right now I have concerns about both hooks: they're not exactly eye-catching or hooky. Like, instead of saying that the creation of the company was controversial, it might be a good idea to include the context for that in the hook. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 02:45, 24 May 2019 (UTC)

I also have to note that, while you have done a QPQ, as you have less than five DYK nominations, you are not required to do a QPQ (you can still do one of course if you want, it's just optional right now). Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 02:49, 24 May 2019 (UTC)

I figured it'd be the polite thing to do –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 02:52, 24 May 2019 (UTC)

• ALT2: ... that the creation of the Swedish Levant Company in 1738 was controversial because of a disagreement between the merchants and the Hat Party? --valereee (talk) 13:10, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

@Valereee and Narutolovehinata5: Oh my gosh I love that one!!! Only correction would be to change the merchants to several Swedish merchants because according to the source the merchant elite supported the English model. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 16:08, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

• ALT2a: ... that the creation of the Swedish Levant Company in 1738 was controversial because of a disagreement between several Swedish merchants and the Hat Party? --valereee (talk) 16:38, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

ALT2a is really good. I have however seen some typos in the article, for example "At major issue was" instead of "a major issue was". Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 00:11, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Narutolovehinata5, I've done a quick copyedit --valereee (talk) 17:47, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

• Full review needed; prior reviewer has not returned after four weeks. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 21:27, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall: The article is a great introduction; ALT2a is best. (I've unlinked the year; we don't link dates like that.) Some suggestions:

• Thorough citation is good, but review WP:CITEDENSE; quite a few of your footnotes would be fine merely being at the end of the paragraph.
• You have a tendency to WP:OVERLINK. For example, outside of discussion of economic theory it's usually not necessary to link something like "profit".
• Take care with what you cite. If you cite a chapter in an edited volume, for example, you should be citing the chapter title. (If it's a chapter from a monograph it's not necessary.) The editor of the volume is not an author of that chapter.
• External links to catalogs like Worldcat aren't that useful; mainly link if (partial) access to the text is available.
• Expand the lead; it should summarize what's in the article so it can be a bit longer.

I think this is ready for promotion. Kim Post (talk) 17:33, 29 June 2019 (UTC)