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A fact from An Amorous History of the Silver Screen appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 January 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that An Amorous History of the Silver Screen has been read as a biographic metafilm, paralleling its lead's rise from prostitution into film stardom?

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 18:59, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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... that An Amorous History of the Silver Screen has been read as a biographic metafilm, paralleling its lead's rise from prostitution into film stardom?

Source: *Zhang, Zhen (2005). An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-98238-0.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/James Alexander Ulio Template:Did you know nominations/Revant Himatsingka

Created by Crisco 1492 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 720 past nominations.

— Chris Woodrich (talk) 21:57, 9 December 2024 (UTC).[reply]

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:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Thanks for the easy review, Chris. Recommend the promoter link metafilm as is and Xuan Jinglin for "its lead", with a softer suggestion to link prostitution. ThaesOfereode (talk) 03:23, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]