A fact from Lauk Shein appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 September 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Governor Lauk Shein of Bassein fled the city along with "ten elephant loads of gold and silver", but could not outrun the pursuing Hanthawaddy troops?
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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 Bruxton (talk) 14:20, 27 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
ALT0: ... that Gov. Lauk Shein of Bassein fled the city by taking "ten elephant loads of gold and silver" with him but could not outrun the pursuing Hanthawaddy troops? Source: (Fernquest 2006: 8), (Pan Hla 2005: 190–191)
ALT1: ... that Gov. Lauk Shein of Bassein fled the city along with "ten elephant loads of gold and silver" but could not outrun the pursuing Hanthawaddy troops? Source: (Fernquest 2006: 8), (Pan Hla 2005: 190–191)
Overall: AGF on sources. This is a very well-written, interesting article! As soon as I get clarification/confirmation on the two minor issues, we should be good to go :) ThadeusOfNazereth(he/him)Talk to Me! 01:51, 26 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Re: your suggested hook, yes, it reads better. Thanks. Hybernator (talk) 22:27, 26 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Perfect! You linked the wrong Fernquest paper here but its correct in the article. ALT1 is approved! ThadeusOfNazereth(he/him)Talk to Me! 22:48, 26 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Hybernator: It would be good for you to include something here in the nomination so that a source can be confirmed. Every source in the article is offline. I say that you have more than 100 QPQs so I will AGF. We will see if the promote-to-queue administrators require more. Bruxton (talk) 14:18, 27 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]