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Witch-hunts in Nepal
- ... that in one of the vigilante witch-hunts in Nepal, an 18-year-old girl was dragged from her home and tortured for hours in public on International Women's Day, 2018? Source:TKP and NN
- Reviewed: Unqualified (my first DYK). Will review others' once I know I did this one right.
- Comment: Moved to mainspace on 29 June.
Moved to mainspace by Usedtobecool (talk). Self-nominated at 22:07, 2 July 2019 (UTC).
- Substantial and interesting article--it might take me a bit of time to review this. Drmies (talk) 15:24, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
It's long enough, it's new enough, and so far all I've seen is well-verified--though I am waiting to hear from Template:U about the reliability of the journal cited in note 1. But here is the thing: the article needs cleanup. I suspect that the citations were done by a bot: they show all the hallmarks thereof, including, for instance, citing news sources with a "cite web" template. That means, for instance, that citations from The Kathmandu Post are rendered with "website=http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com", which is ugly and useless, rather than (properly italicized automatically" "newspaper=The Kathmandu Post". So these need to be cleaned up, with "cite news" just to be on the safe side. In addition, many citations need other forms of cleaning up--there are names in all caps, organizations names need to be filled in (and again, those URLs instead of names need to be handled), dates are missing (see note 7, "Which is witch"), etc. I've done some copyediting but more needs to be done.Finally, the hook is mostly fine--except for the "dragged from her home" part, which isn't in the Kathmandu Post article, and the My Republica article is so poorly written that it's not clear from that as well. I wonder if it wouldn't be a stronger hook if that cop who got fired was put in there. Drmies (talk) 15:48, 6 July 2019 (UTC)