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Image	Article	Goal	Current Status
	The Great Mecca Feast	FA	GA
	Huang Shaoqiang	GA	GAN
	Tobie Goedewaagen	GA	~~
	Hermanus Johannes Lovink	GA	~~
	Victor Jacob Koningsberger	GA	~~
	Song Zhenzhong	GA	~~
	Yan Ruisheng	FA	GA
	Murder of Wang Lianying	FA	GAN
	Kho Ping Hoo	GA	~~
	Emancipation Pictorial	GA	~~
	Zheng Zhegu	FA	GA
	Black Slave's Cry to Heaven	FA	FAC
	Two Stars in the Milky Way	FA	GAN
	Lingnan School	FA	GAN
	Mingxing	FA	GAN
	Spring Willow Society	GA	~~

DYK for Kwan Man-ching

On 28 December 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kwan Man-ching, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Kwan Man-ching (pictured), who directed more than fifty films in forty years, entered the industry hoping to meet his celebrity crush? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kwan Man-ching. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Kwan Man-ching), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Z1720 (talk) 00:02, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

But did he??? Panini! • 🥪 03:25, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

• Source don't say, unfortunately. She wasn't in any of the films he worked on (at least that made it into the article); that much is clear.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 12:56, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

Some more 4As

		Four Award
		Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 06:29, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

		Four Award
		Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on Amir Hamzah. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 06:29, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

		Four Award
		Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on Si Tjonat. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 06:29, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

		Four Award
		Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on Fakih Usman. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 06:29, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

		Four Award
		Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on Roekiah. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 06:29, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

• Thank you! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 12:55, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

Gao Qifeng scheduled for TFA

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DYK for Sing-Song Girl Red Peony

On 1 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sing-Song Girl Red Peony, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the titular songstress in Sing-Song Girl Red Peony, a contender for China's first sound film, was overdubbed by a man? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sing-Song Girl Red Peony. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Sing-Song Girl Red Peony), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

RoySmith (talk) 00:18, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

story · music · places

Thank you for music on the Main page to start a new year, - may it be happy for you! I wanted a Bach cantata there, with trumpet fanfares that first sounded OTD in 1725, but it landed OTD, as DYK had no room for it. Looking forward to doing things together, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:40, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, BWV 123, my story today 300 years after the first performance, is up for GAN. Dada Masilo will be my story tomorrow. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:04, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

• Nice! Best of luck! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 21:05, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

  Thank you! My story today is about a composer who influenced music history also by writing. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:49, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

  Today a violinist from Turkey, Ayla Erduran, whom you can watch playing Schubert chamber music --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:48, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

  ... and today, pictured on the Main page, Tosca, in memory of her first appearance on stage OTD in 1900, and of principal author Brian Boulton. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:20, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

  I saw that! I've been doing some work on a group that did Tosca myself. Some interesting things happening. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 18:38, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

DYK for An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896–1937

On 2 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896–1937, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that An Amorous History of the Silver Screen, an exploration of more than four decades of film in China, argues that cinema is a "modern folk tale"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896–1937. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896–1937), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 00:02, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Zheng Zhegu

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DYK for Chen Dingshan

On 2 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Chen Dingshan, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Chen Dingshan has been called the last heir of the Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies school? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Chen Dingshan. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Chen Dingshan), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Z1720 (talk) 12:03, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Featured picture candidates/Self-Portrait (Ellen Thesleff)

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Omakuva Ellen Thesleff 1894-1895 Ateneum.webp, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Misplaced Pages:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust 14:06, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

DYK for Civilized drama

On 3 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Civilized drama, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that critics argued that involving actresses in civilized drama would promote obscenity? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Civilized drama. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Civilized drama), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Z1720 (talk) 00:02, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

DYK for The King of Comedy Visits Shanghai

On 3 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The King of Comedy Visits Shanghai, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that The King of Comedy Visits Shanghai depicted Charlie Chaplin in China fourteen years before it happened? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The King of Comedy Visits Shanghai. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, The King of Comedy Visits Shanghai), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Z1720 (talk) 12:03, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

Happy new year!

For your (very brief) perusal: Liang Lingxian. The Liang family is always a great subject to study... Cheers, --The Lonely Pather (talk) 16:41, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

• That's impressive, TheLonelyPather. I've been on a reprieve for a bit, but I was working on a draft about Li Minghui (the daughter of Li Jinhui). It's missing almost seventy years of her life, so I'm hoping that the resource exchange can get me a copy of her biography in the Shanghai Dictionary... oddly enough, the Chinese-language sources are almost entirely Sohu and other user-generated content.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 17:43, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

  @Crisco 1492 One should not expect great standards for Chinese-language sources. Chinese Misplaced Pages-equivalents are more or less of a wild west. Also be aware that the Shanghai Dictionary, being compiled by official committees, would only present people's biographies in politically suitable ways. I wish you luck! Cheers, --The Lonely Pather (talk) 01:42, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

  Yep, I expected as much. Unfortunately, English-language sources seem to have stopped looking into her past 1931, and Baidu claims that she was acting until 1938. State-sponsored sources are better than none at all, especially given that Li doesn't appear to have involved herself in politics all that much.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 02:17, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Zheng Zhegu

The article Zheng Zhegu you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Zheng Zhegu for comments about the article, and Talk:Zheng Zhegu/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Kusma -- Kusma (talk) 20:42, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

DYK for An Amorous History of the Silver Screen

On 5 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article An Amorous History of the Silver Screen, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that An Amorous History of the Silver Screen has been read as a biographic metafilm, paralleling its lead's rise from prostitution into film stardom? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/An Amorous History of the Silver Screen. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, An Amorous History of the Silver Screen), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Black Slave's Cry to Heaven

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Your GA nomination of Black Slave's Cry to Heaven

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DYK for Black Slave's Cry to Heaven

On 5 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Black Slave's Cry to Heaven, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the first modern Chinese play was based on an American novel and staged in Tokyo? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Black Slave's Cry to Heaven. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Black Slave's Cry to Heaven), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

♠PMC♠ (talk) 12:02, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Featured picture candidates/Pipa

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Pipa MET DP216710.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Misplaced Pages:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust 15:02, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

A WAM Barnstar for you!

	Misplaced Pages Asian Month 2024 contest
	Crisco 1492 Thank you for your additions in Misplaced Pages Asian Month 2024.19 of your articles have been accepted. Warm Regards, ZI Jony 18:38, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Air Mata Iboe

Hi, {{sfn|Soerabaijasch Handelsblad 1941, Sampoerna theater}} is undefined and causes a Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors. If you could provide the missing source it would be appreciated. DuncanHill (talk) 20:36, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Commane rvdeltion

Please see: Talk:Commane#Copyright violation Kellycrak88 (talk) 21:49, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

can you please undo the delete? Kellycrak88 (talk) 21:50, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

• Hi Kellycrak88, I've reviewed the deleted material, and it is clearly in violation of our copyright policy. The very first sentence of the body is lifted wholesale from a previously published book. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 21:56, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

  There is no sentence. There are headings "Earl Given Names" and lists of names, date of birth and locations Kellycrak88 (talk) 21:58, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

DYK for Two Stars in the Milky Way

On 8 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Two Stars in the Milky Way, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the soundtrack of Two Stars in the Milky Way (scene pictured), one of the few surviving early Chinese films, has been lost? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Two Stars in the Milky Way. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Two Stars in the Milky Way), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

RoySmith (talk) 12:02, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

DYK for Zhang Xinsheng (film)

On 9 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Zhang Xinsheng (film), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 1923 film Zhang Xinsheng featured close-up views of internal organs? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Zhang Xinsheng (film). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Zhang Xinsheng (film)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

1=Launchballer 00:52, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Featured picture candidates/The Tailor (Moroni)

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Promotion of Beauty Revealed

Congrats! 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) 10:41, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

• Thanks! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 11:37, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

DYK for Lingnan School

On 10 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lingnan School, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Chinese Lingnan School faced condemnation during the Second Sino-Japanese War, even as it spread anti-Japanese messages? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lingnan School. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Lingnan School), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

RoySmith (talk) 12:02, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

DYK for Wuju

On 13 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Wuju, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Chinese theatre dance known as wuju blends influences of ballet and traditional opera? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Wuju. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Wuju), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:03, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

DYK for The Valiant Girl White Rose

On 14 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Valiant Girl White Rose, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the "white rose" in The Valiant Girl White Rose refers to both its star and character, but neither share a name? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Valiant Girl White Rose. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, The Valiant Girl White Rose), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

Two files

1. File:Cher am i blue.jpg: You seem to have missed to undelete the first revision of this file before transferring it. Looking at the history, it says that a bot has reduced the file, then a bot reduced the file a bit more and finally you reverted to the first bot reduced version, but the original full-size image is missing.
2. File:Bride of the Desert.jpg: You removed Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons with hidden file revisions, claiming that there's no evidence that the book was published in 1929. However, if you click on the URL in the source field, it says HOEL, Arthur. Bride of the Desert. New York: Jacobsen Publishing Co, (1929). Therefore, I suspect that it was published in 1929. --Stefan2 (talk) 21:13, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

• Hi Stefan2. For the Cher image, the earliest revision was fully deleted by Skier Dude on August 18, 2011. Consequently, it did not show up as a previous version in the history. I can upload it from history though.

For the Bride image, that information should ideally have been on the page prior to submission for administerial review. Although the film was 1929, it is not automatically guaranteed that the novelization was released at the same time.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:09, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

• Both items are now on Commons. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:13, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
  • Thanks!

I think that full deletion was the only way to delete old non-free revisions in the past and so all files reduced before some date had their old revisions removed by that method, whereas after that it changed so that they would usually be removed using the new method. Usually, it's useful to have all old revisions on Commons no matter which method the administrator used for revision deletion. --Stefan2 (talk) 22:27, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

Wu Suxin

Thanks for coming up with a wording in Wu Suxin that we can agree on. When I saw that you'd reverted my good-faith (though snarkily explained) edit I was prepared to defend it, but you came up with something much better. I'm pleasantly surprised and sincerely grateful.

I will say this, though: Although "oeuvre" has been adopted into English, it is still obviously a French word, and more important, it still looks like a foreign word. I'm pretty sure at least half of the world's readers of English—especially those whose only language is English—wouldn't know what it means. When they encountered it, they'd either have to guess what it means from the context, or consult a dictionary, or just skip past it. In any case, it would have disrupted their reading, something we don't want to do unnecessarily.

I was prepared to substitute your first correction, "body of work" (which you mentioned in the explanation of your edit reinstating "oeuvre"), for "oeuvre", because more readers of English would understand what "body of work" means than would as easily understand what "oeuvre" means, and imparting information is our most important responsibility. But brevity shines like gold (and obviously is not a virtue I have), so I congratulate and thank you for your excellent resolution. 38.49.72.163 (talk) 03:00, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

• Thanks, 38. I do try and figure out a middle-point. You had a good point about "extant", both at Wu's article and at Valiant, and although I personally feel that oeuvre is a fairly well understood loan word (similar to premiere and coup d'état) I appreciate that my own background probably informs that perspective. I agree that the new wording is much better; it keeps it brief while still referring to the entirety of her body of work. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 11:47, 15 January 2025 (UTC)