Template:Did you know nominations/Religion in South Ossetia

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 18:20, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Religion in South Ossetia

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... that the Alans remained pagan after converting to Christianity? Source: Foltz, Richard (2019). "Scythian Neo-Paganism in the Caucasus: The Ossetian Uatsdin as a 'Nature Religion'". Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature & Culture. 13 (3): 316. doi:10.1558/jsrnc.39114. "It was through their political relations with the Byzantines—and also through the inmuence of missionaries from neighbouring Georgia to the south—that the Alan elite nominally accepted eastern Christianity during the tenth century. This seems to have had little effect on the general Alan population, however, and the thirteenth-century Flemish traveller William of Rubruck states that of Christianity ‘they know nothing apart from the name of Christ’."
- ALT1: ... that the capital of South Ossetia once had more Jews than Georgians or Ossetians? Source: "Цхинвали" [Tskhinvali]. Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia (in Russian). Vol. 9. 1999.
- ALT2: ... that there were no churches at all in South Ossetia during the Soviet period? Source: Matsuzato, Kimitaka (Spring 2010). "South Ossetia and the Orthodox World: Official Churches, the Greek Old Calendarist Movement, and the So-called Alan Diocese". Journal of Church and State. 52 (2): 274. JSTOR 23921867.
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- Comment: I've gotten mixed feedback on which one of these hooks is the best, so I'm nominating them all to get some more opinions. I can't decide which one is my favorite!

Converted from a redirect by Sawyer-mcdonell (talk). Self-nominated at 21:28, 26 February 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Religion in South Ossetia; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

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: None required.

Overall: QPQ is not required as this appears to be the nominator's first DYK hook according to the QPQ checker, verifying this could be appreciated. I am approving ALT2 in particular. ALT0 doesn't seem very interesting in my opinion, and unless I'm missing something, ALT1 is not verified within the article itself (the Jews outnumbering Georgians is, but not the Ossetians) and therefore this leaves ALT2. If it turns out I'm missing something, then I believe ALT1 to be more interesting, but I'll leave it up to whoever promotes this hook further. λ NegativeMP1 22:47, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

@NegativeMP1 It's not my first DYK nom, but it is my 4th, so QPQ is still unnecessary. I've clarified the information relating to ALT1 in the article, so it should be more easily verifiable now (it was in the sources, just not explicitly stated in the article itself). Personally, I do think ALT0 is interesting, because generally you become Christian when you convert to Christianity. Either way, thanks for the review! sawyer * he/they * talk 23:02, 5 March 2024 (UTC)