- 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 Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 17:13, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
Jieba
Jieba ceremony being performed
- ... that a practice called Jieba (pictured), where a Buddhist monk will ritually burn scars into their head, was banned by the Chinese government for 300 years? Source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/shi-yan-fan-shaolin-temple_b_833281 Quote: "Then, in 2007, the Chinese government allowed the partial lifting of a 300-year-old ban of an ancient ceremony at the Northern Shaolin Temple..."
Created by Aoidh (talk). Self-nominated at 20:20, 21 August 2022 (UTC).
- Comment only: The first source (also available on google books) is both written and published by Derek Padula. Not that I doubt he's telling the truth, but it would be great to have outside confirmation on e.g. the Chinese characters. Surely he himself has been using some other sources? --LordPeterII (talk) 23:20, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
- @LordPeterII: You were absolutely correct to question the Chinese characters and I'm absolutely embarrassed that I took him at his word on it. 印度 does not mean yìnba or "seal scars", it literally means India, as in the country (see zh:印度). I have removed that source and added one that does verify the 戒疤 characters for jieba. - Aoidh (talk) 04:28, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
- Err... lol XD I know zero Chinese and only randomly noticed that the book wasn't published by "United States" (which I had initially and erroneously thought). That there was indeed such a (funny!) error I didn't think, but kudos @Aoidh for identifying and fixing that so quickly :D --LordPeterII (talk) 08:56, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
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Overall: 
The issue discussed above being solved, I don't see anything else wrong with this nomination. My only question is: Do you not want to use the picture in the nom Aoidh? I found it rather interesting, would be a fresh thing compared to the usual "portrait or building" pictures in DYK. I'd approve it, but it's your choice as the nominator. --LordPeterII (talk) 09:12, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
- @LordPeterII: I don't know why it didn't even occur to me, but I just added the image if you'd like to update your review of the hook. - Aoidh (talk) 16:18, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
- Approve image as well. --LordPeterII (talk) 16:35, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
The issue discussed above being solved, I don't see anything else wrong with this nomination. My only question is: Do you not want to use the picture in the nom Aoidh? I found it rather interesting, would be a fresh thing compared to the usual "portrait or building" pictures in DYK. I'd approve it, but it's your choice as the nominator. --LordPeterII (talk) 09:12, 22 August 2022 (UTC)