Template:Did you know nominations/Manchurian plague

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The result was: promoted by The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 02:52, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Manchurian plague

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Plague workers wearing personal protective equipment

~~... that the Manchurian plague of 1910–1911 set a precedence for widespread use of cloth face masks and quarantine to contain the spread of disease, especially in epidemics and pandemics?~~ Source: Plague Masks: The Visual Emergence of Anti-Epidemic Personal Protection Equipment

Created by Caorongjin (talk) and Bangalamania (talk). Nominated by Caorongjin (talk) at 08:43, 25 April 2020 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: I would suggest removing the extra links in your hook so only " Manchurian plague" is linked. You want people to click on your article and not any of the others. Image is OK after a crop. b uidhe 19:13, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Comment: Thanks! I have removed most of the extra links. Caorongjin (talk) 10:08, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I came by to promote this. As we've run quite a few "cloth face masks" hooks lately, I'm wondering what you think of this alt:
ALT1: ~~... that the origins of the modern hazmat suit can be traced to the first use of personal protective equipment (plague workers pictured) during the Manchurian plague of 1910–1911?~~ Yoninah (talk) 11:46, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi @Yoninah: That makes sense. Although, I wonder if it would be better to foreground the plague (and use fewer wikilinks). Not sure which is found to render more clicks! So:
ALT2: ~~... that the Manchurian plague of 1910–1911 set a precedence for widespread use of personal protective equipment such as the modern hazmat suit (plague workers pictured)?~~ --Caorongjin (talk) 12:56, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, but I'm trying to catch readers' attention with the well-known hazmat suit and leading them to the Manchurian plague. Your wording set a precedence (should be "precedent") is also a little wordy. My hook doesn't need so many links:

ALT1a: ~~... that the origins of the modern hazmat suit can be traced to the first use of personal protective equipment during the Manchurian plague of 1910–1911 (plague workers pictured)?~~ Yoninah (talk) 13:18, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

@Yoninah: Thanks for that. That's fine. Though, I would be cautious not to name it the first use of PPE, given that it can be understood in a generic sense. Also, would not PPE be sufficient as opposed to "personal protective equipment"? Perhaps:

ALT1b: ... that the origins of the modern hazmat suit can be traced to the use of PPE during the Manchurian plague of 1910–1911 (plague workers pictured)? --Caorongjin (talk) 18:40, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

That's fine, though we should link PPE. @Buidhe: could you take a look at ALT1b please? Yoninah (talk) 19:20, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

ALT1b per previous review. Thanks for the suggestion, Yoninah! b uidhe 19:30, 26 May 2020 (UTC)