Talk:The Korea Daily News

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Review: January 30, 2025. (Reviewed version).

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A fact from The Korea Daily News appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 March 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that after dodging censorship for years, The Korea Daily News was finally bought out and turned into a publication of the Japanese colonial government in Korea?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/March. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Korea Daily News.

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Did you know nomination

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 PrimalMustelid talk 03:12, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that after dodging censorship for years, The Korea Daily News was finally bought out and turned into a publication of the Japanese colonial government in Korea? Source: [1] The paper that had once defied the Japanese government's steps to colonize Korea was now nothing more than a propaganda tool for the very government it had opposed.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ibedul succession dispute

Created by Toobigtokale (talk). Self-nominated at 03:53, 29 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/The Korea Daily News; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

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:

Good to go! I've also made some formatting changes and added a photo on commons from the 구 서이면사무소. Prosperosity (talk) 20:46, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Red links

Just wondering if they can be piped to Korean(?) through {{ill}}? _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 00:28, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've verified on the Korean and generally Japanese Wikipedias that there are no corresponding articles. It is possible (although I think unlikely) that these articles exist on other language Wikipedias, but information about many of these topics in English/Korean/Japanese is already pretty niche or hard to find. toobigtokale (talk) 09:14, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

Passed. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 09:07, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This review is transcluded from Talk:The Korea Daily News/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Seefooddiet (talk · contribs) 23:00, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Sammi Brie (talk · contribs) 04:46, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)
It is reasonably well written. a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists): It is factually accurate and verifiable, as shown by a source spot-check. a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism): It is broad in its coverage. a (major aspects): b (focused): It follows the neutral point of view policy. Fair representation without bias: It is stable. No edit wars, etc.: It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate. a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall: Pass/Fail:
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A few copy changes to take a look at, but that's about all. Solid article. Ping me when addressed. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 04:58, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know? If you fancy doing so, I always have plenty of GA nominees to review. Just look for the all-uppercase titles in the Television section. Reviews always appreciated.

Copy changes

The newspaper was sold after Bethell's death in 1909, and became Remove comma (WP:CINS)
However, Cowen was secretly supportive of Japan, and unbenownst to Bethell, Correct some comma and spelling errors. However, Cowen was secretly supportive of Japan and, unbeknownst to Bethell,
Try "left for Japan" not "left to Japan"
Three straight paragraphs start with a date: "On 21 February 1907", "On 23 May 1907", "In 1907". Consider reshuffling a sentence to improve variety of paragraph starts.
Bethell eventually won his second trial at the British Supreme Court for China in December 1908, and defiantly immediately returned to continue reporting. Remove comma (CINS)
The paper stopped publishing in English, and Remove comma CINS

Sourcing and spot checks

I reviewed 1, 5, and 6. No issues found. The largest Earwig text issue is the attributed blockquote.

Images

The two newspaper scans are public domain. Normally, I'd suggest adding alt text, but here the only workable alt text is "Refer to caption".

Discussion

@Sammi Brie: Hi, thank you for the review! I think I did everything you suggested. seefooddiet (talk) 05:06, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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