- 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) 07:08, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
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Depukhu
- ... that in the Newar festival of Depukhu, young men compete for hours, for the possession of the carcass of a virgin she-goat which is first sacrificed by drowning in the Deopokhari pond in Khokana, Nepal? Source:The Kathmandu Post, Reuters and Nagarik News (in Nepali)
- Reviewed: QPQ exempt (only two previous DYK credits, will try to review one later but can't promise success)
Created by Usedtobecool (talk). Self-nominated at 18:42, 6 November 2019 (UTC).
- Drive by comment: doesn't "she-goat" sound weird in this hook.~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 01:31, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- CAPTAIN MEDUSA, perhaps, but AFAIK, that would be the limitation of the English language, alternatives are doe and nanny, neither of which can be used without the -goat suffix, and the word for baby goat is gender-neutral too. Usedtobecool TALK ✨ 18:05, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Also a drive-by comment, but the hook might need to be copyedited as it's a bit hard to understand right now. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 00:45, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
Reviewing: article is new and long enough; inline citations are used; No copyright infringement detected. The hook scrapes in at 199 characters excluding the "that" and "?". So any changes have to not add to it. Checking out the veracity of the hook, the facts are in the article, references confirm most, but not that it takes "hours" or that the goat is a "virgin". So I am going to propose a slightly reduced hook as alt1 below. No image and QPQ not required. putting on the rereview red symbol so someone else will look at the alt1 hook. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 04:22, 30 November 2019 (UTC)- alt1 ... that in the Newar festival of Depukhu, young men compete for a young female goat which is first sacrificed by drowning in the Deopokhari pond in Khokana, Nepal?
- (Usedtobecool) In my defence, the third source mentions "virgin" in the title. I had learnt that is goes on for hours while researching for the article but don't intend to go looking for sources that say exactly that. The alt hook is fine by me, except I wish the carcass part could be added to it. I know sacrifice covers the death but think it's easy to read over on casual viewing.
- alt2 ... that in the Newar festival of Depukhu, young men compete for the carcass of a young female goat which is first sacrificed by drowning in the Deopokhari pond in Khokana, Nepal?
- Can't find the word that quite gives the accurate sense of what the tug-of-war is actually for. Every word I can think of could give the misimpression that men beat each other up. Anyway,
- Whichever of alt1, alt2 and alt3 the promoter agrees more with, is fine by me. Thank you Graeme Bartlett for reviewing. Usedtobecool TALK ✨ 05:30, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
OK for alt2 and alt3 they are short enough, article contains this and has it referenced and confirmed. Good to go with alt2 or alt3. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 06:21, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
