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A fact from Humayun Shah appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 September 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that according to a popular legend, the tomb of Humayun Shah split open when he was interred?
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Comment: @AmateurHi$torian:, The new article seem to be good effort on your part. As such various levels of cruelty was common enough feature of pre-modern punishments. So only saying XYZ was known as "the cruel" does not seem to bring out enough information. If you prepare hook with parts of sentence ".. thrown before a tiger, who proceeded to maul and devour him, while some of his followers were cast into boiling cauldrons. Elephants and other wild animals were released upon others. .." no doubt can become interesting but the problem is the later scholarship mentioned by you in the article and some other I checked on google books, seem to think Humayun Shah had only short reign out of that last one and half year or so might have been of some cruel punishments, but still might not be very unique enough to call him the only cruel among other medieval. So using WP:Wikivoice becomes problematic. Still you can form alternate hooks having content from the discussed sentence with attribution. Besides I would recommend to have some other alternative hooks too.
I am not sure I would be able to give full time this DYK would deserve, so that I leave to other users.
Frankly this DYK reminded me sentence of a senior fellow Wikipedian RoySmith ".. DYK should be an observer of article quality. To some extent it's also a driver of quality improvement which is a good thing. ..". I hope this will inspire you for further improvements in times to come. Happy editing and cheers Bookku (talk) 12:26, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Hm, apart from the descriptions of his cruel punishments there is nothing particularly interesting about the king as he only had a three year reign. I've thought of an alternate hook "that according to a popular legend, the tomb of Humayun Shah split open when he was interred?" AmateurHi$torian (talk) 18:16, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
He wasn't the only cruel one during the period, but the title Zalim (cruel/oppressive/tyrranical) has become so attached to him that it's what he is popularly called in a lot of sources, Humayun Shah Zalim. Like Ivan the Terrible, or Suleiman the Magnificent. Anyway thanks for your comment and cheers!AmateurHi$torian (talk) 18:23, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Only considering ALT0: ... that according to a popular legend, the tomb of Humayun Shah split open when he was interred?
