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DYK for Languages of Palestine

On 6 July 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Languages of Palestine, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that diglossia is a major feature of ancient and modern languages used in Palestine? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Languages of Palestine. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (Languages of Palestine), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:04, 6 July 2026 (UTC)

Nomination of Reem Riyashi for merging into 2004 Erez Crossing bombing

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Rainsage (talk) 23:39, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

How to Produce Shochu and Soju

Hello! I noticed you added information on the articles Soju, Arak, and Arkhi sourced to the book How to Produce Shochu and Soju. I was curious about the form ara-soju, and went to look at the source, but the link 404ed, and I could find no record of the book or its author existing, nor any other source for the fact. I don't disbelieve that it exists or that the information sourced to it in these articles is correct, but I was wondering if you had an updated link, or any reference to the book being real at all (ISBN, or anything), both for my curiosity and for proper citation. Ookap (talk) 23:26, 23 August 2026 (UTC)

Hello @User:Ookap, It is deeply unfortunate the link no longer works because I do not have any additional information about the book, as I found it through online searches. I can assure you the information is a faithful transcription of what I read there. I did find two other sources that may help corroborate it. The first is The SAGE Encyclopedia of Alcohol Social, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives on page 630 which mentions the Mongol role in introducing soju, in a paragraph following a discussion of araki and araq. The second, which I am currently unable to access in full as I have not edited Wikipedia ten times this past month may also provide more detailed information generally useful to the articles in question. Hopefully, it will also contain the specific information about ara-soju. It is Soju and Arak. When I get my access back I will check it myself too. Thank you for raising this issue. Tiamut (talk) 16:50, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

I see; thank you for the response. It's strange that the book would disappear without a trace like that, but I believe you. I've looked over both the sources and it's very clear anyhow that soju came from arak, though alas I've not found anything on "ara-soju". I think I'll have to put a pin in it for now; it was just a minor curiosity anyway. Ookap (talk) 20:27, 24 August 2026 (UTC)