- 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) 05:51, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
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Gao Xiaoxia
edit- ... that just before the US government banned Chinese students from returning home, Gao Xiaoxia abandoned her Ph.D. studies and left America in 1951 on one of the last China-bound ships? Source: "American government passed an act to forbid Chinese students and scientists in America including Qian Xuesen to return the new Communist China. ... Gao Xiaoxia and he immediately decided to return to China even though she was just about to get her PhD. ... boarded the "General Gordon" cruise, which was the one of the last three cruises heading toward China right before the act was put into force."
- Reviewed: Suvorov Square (Saint Petersburg) (second of two QPQs)
Created by Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk). Nominated by Zanhe (talk) at 18:45, 7 June 2019 (UTC).
- Needs the year she fled, for context. I assumed at first it was a reference to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1934, and was surprised to see it was a later much less publicized visa incident in the 1950s. 47.185.218.146 (talk) 22:56, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- @47.185.218.146: I've added the year to the hook. -Zanhe (talk) 23:45, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
Full review needed. BlueMoonset (talk) 21:41, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
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- The hook is barely under 200 characters and can be shortened.
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Shorter is better, and this hook (193 characters) can be shortened without changing the meaning. How do you feel about this 154-character alternative?
- ALT1: ... that Gao Xiaoxia abandoned her PhD studies to leave America in 1951, just before the US government banned Chinese students from returning home?
Kim Post (talk) 20:28, 6 July 2019 (UTC)- Thanks for the more succint suggestion. I've made a very minor change "and left" ==> "to leave" which you may revert if you disagree. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 13:48, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
