Template:Did you know nominations/Bintulu

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:25, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

Bintulu[edit]

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Bintulu downtown

... that according to one theory, Bintulu (pictured) got its name from the gathering of severed heads from the headhunting activities in Sarawak, Borneo?

ALT1:~~... that Bintulu (pictured) has the earliest state legislature system in Malaysia?~~

Improved to Good Article status by Cerevisae (talk). Self-nominated at 09:10, 2 April 2016 (UTC).

Reviewed: Carlos Brewer
GA passed recently enough. Image is fine. Both hooks look good, but first (headhunting) hook preferred. No close paraphrasing or copyright infringement found. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:51, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks for your approval of this article for DYK. :-) Cerevisae (talk) 14:31, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

The first hook fact is sourced to a non-reliable source (angelfire). Yoninah (talk) 23:13, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Dear Yoninah, I have replaced the angelfire source with a more reliable one. More detailed explainations of this one is only found in Malay language sources cited in the paragraph. Cerevisae (talk) 06:31, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you, @Cerevisae: that's much better. It's perfectly fine to use foreign-language sources at DYK. I was looking at your very in-depth presentation and noticed that you also used a few blogspots as sources. Are you able to get around using them, as they are also not reliable sources? Yoninah (talk) 09:43, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

Dear Yoninah, I have removed the blogspot reference regarding the 100th anniversary of Council Negri Monument. Unfortunately, no other secondary sources provide such detailed information regarding the old Bintulu airport and the history of Bintulu library. I found no other references that can replace these. Besides, the person who is writing this blog, Mahmud Yussop, is known as"Bintulu historian" in this local newspaper, therefore, his writings should have some credibility. Cerevisae (talk) 14:53, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
OK, fine. DYK does not require that every sentence be cited. If you feel that Mahmud Yussop's blogspot is legit, you can certainly use it for historical information. Thank you for deleting the other blogspots. Restoring tick per Chris Woodrich's review. Yoninah (talk) 20:00, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the promotion. Cerevisae (talk) 23:25, 5 April 2016 (UTC)