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A fact from Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 August 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Dalai Lama's 2008 Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy was a proposal aiming for autonomy rather than full independence for Tibet?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/August. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy.

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 02:04, 27 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the Dalai Lama's middle way approach sought genuine autonomy rather than independence for Tibet? Source: the Dalai Lama long ago conceded claims for independence in favour of autonomy under his "middle way" approach; "The essence of the Middle Way Approach is to secure genuine autonomy for the Tibetan people within the scope of the Constitution of the PRC... We remain firmly committed not to seek separation or independence."

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Brijmohan Lall Munjal

Created by DiplomatTesterMan (talk). Self-nominated at 03:22, 16 August 2021 (UTC).[reply]

New (3 days from creation to nomination); long enough; no sign of copyvio (there was one list of items where the role of quotation marks was difficult to decide; I added the quotation marks); generally follows Wikipedia policy. I smoothed out a bit of the English. However, the hook is not justified literally, since finding a source that can objectively decide when autonomy is "genuine" or not, and whether or not the Dalai Lama's approach was really seeking that or not, is a matter of judgment.
I propose ALT1. The aim is to focus on the document itself - the Memorandum - rather than on what the Dalai Lama's intentions were or whether the autonomy would have been genuine or not. I also inserted full as a redundant adjective to reduce the chance of misunderstanding of what counts as autonomy and what counts as independence. Would ALT1 (or a new ALT2 or ALT3...) be acceptable? Boud (talk) 03:14, 18 August 2021 (UTC) I forgot to mention: QPQ - yes. Boud (talk) 03:25, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
ALT1: ... that the Dalai Lama's 2008 Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy was a specific proposal aiming for autonomy rather than full independence for Tibet? Boud (talk) 03:15, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Boud, thank you for the changes to the article. I prefer ALT1 over ALT0. DTM (talk) 06:21, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Looks good to go with ALT1. Boud (talk) 10:33, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  - Just a reminder to the closer: you should in principle double check that ALT1 is acceptable. Boud (talk) 12:52, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  - do consider it checked. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/them) 02:04, 27 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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