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Canaanite ivory comb

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  • ... that the Canaanite ivory comb that contains the earliest sentence in a phonetic alphabet was categorized as a miscellaneous artifact for five years before gaining significance as an important discovery?
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  • Comment: An image would be excellent for this entry. The images are there in the internet but I have been unable to find a suitable one that can be uploaded to commons with proper licensing. Please help me find/upload a picture for this artifact.
Created by Raydann (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

❯❯❯ Raydann(Talk) 20:21, 9 November 2024 (UTC).

  • Comment: So, between 2004 and 2010 or so, I did a lot of reading about artifacts like this. It turns out that it is extremely common for items like this to be set aside for years, decades, perhaps even a century or more, before someone comes along and decides to give them a second look. I only bring this up because while I like your hook, I could see others objecting to it as mundane. Viriditas (talk) 23:35, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
While I get the point of the hook, it's a bit hard to read. Maybe something along the lines of:
ALT1 ... that the Canaanite ivory comb contains the earliest-known sentence in a phonetic alphabet?
ALT2 ... that the Canaanite ivory comb was categorized as a miscellaneous artifact for five years before gaining significance as an important discovery?
Basically, splitting the original hook into two separate hooks. ALT2 lacks context, but arguably it might encourage a reader to click and learn why it was an important discovery. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 03:25, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

 Reviewing... Flibirigit (talk) 03:08, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: None required.

Overall: The article was created on November 8, and nominated the next day for DYK. The length is adequate and the article is neutral in tone. Sourcing needs a bit of work. Please see where citation needed tags were added. I found no plagiarism concerns despite that Earwig highlights directly attributed quotes and titles of works. I have struck ALT0 and ALT2 since it is common for the importance of many artifacts to be known much later on. ALT1 is an interesting hook to a broad audience, mentioned in the article, and verified by the source. I remain open to considered other hooks proposed. There is no image used in this nomination, and the image in the article is freely licensed on the Commons. The QPQ is not required for this nomination. Flibirigit (talk) 03:27, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

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