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On 28 December 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Walls of Babylon, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the walls of Babylon (reconstruction pictured) were included in many early lists of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Walls of Babylon. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Walls of Babylon), 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 nominate it.

Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 00:02, 28 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, you didn't respond to my post to the talk page on 6 January. At the time I found that almost 50% of the prose came from the older article, which is more than 20%. TSventon (talk) 23:42, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @TSventon: thanks for the prod, and apologies for taking time to reply. I had set a reminder to respond – I just wanted to see how the current edits from another editor settled first.

As an aside, I have appreciated your comments greatly, particularly the way you have made them on the talk page so as not to add complexity to the DYK nomination page.

On the %s below, it is definitely much closer to 20% now, and I could move it below 20% quickly by consensing some repetitive points. I added it all in because your earlier comment had suggested you liked the content on that page, so I would just need to do it carefully to ensure retention of the core information when cutting it down.

What I really want to do when I have more time is create historical population tables for the regions (today’s Israel and Palestine separately) and particularly the major historical Christian population areas within each. This isn’t for the DYK, but will make for interesting reading.

Onceinawhile (talk) 00:14, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

On 10 January 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Old City of Haifa, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Roman and Byzantine Old Haifa, Medieval Old Haifa, and the Old City of Haifa are all different places? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Old City of Haifa. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Old City of Haifa), 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 nominate it.

—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:04, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Historical myths has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mclay1 (talk) 14:30, 17 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia’s War Against Biblical Archaeology - Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology. See also Philadelphia Church of God Szmenderowiecki (talk · contribs) 04:41, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

More of a blog than the news, and although published it's not clear if Eames has any academic qualifications. If he did, he might have known better than to repeat sensationalized claims by a regular Wikipedia critic on X, rather than coming to check for himself.

See also discussion at Talk:Yeho'ezer ben Hosh'ayahu seal.

Onceinawhile (talk) 05:49, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Namely the Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology: [1]. FYI-ping to @ImTheIP and @Zero0000, you're in there too. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:14, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, someone already told you. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:14, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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