Talk:Regent International Center

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. You can locate your hook here. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: rejected, closed by Zzz plant (talk) 00:04, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

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Regent International Center

• ... that the Regent International Center (pictured) can house approximately 30,000 people?

• Source: https://parametric-architecture.com/a-closer-look-at-the-dystopian-apartment-block-in-china/?srsltid=AfmBOopnOsQbKjhdW5dK5OtIo36q-hF8oT9s3-lUqHzvhhdS45hRGXzw

• • ALT1: ... that the world's largest apartment building was originally designed to be a hotel? Source: https://colombiaone.com/2025/09/20/world-largest-apartment-building-china-regent-international/
  • ALT2: ... that the Regent International Center (pictured) is the world's largest apartment building? Source: https://colombiaone.com/2025/09/20/world-largest-apartment-building-china-regent-international/
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Created by Commandant Quacks-a-lot (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Commandant Quacks-a-lot (talk) 03:55, 13 December 2025 (UTC).

• Article is new enough, long enough, 2.9% on Earwig. The hook is interesting, with me preferring ALT1 or ALT2. Many sources online agree that this is the largest apartment building, so I'd say the ones used are reliable for that fact. Roast (talk) 17:06, 13 December 2025 (UTC)
  • @Commandant Quacks-a-lot and Guerreroast: I reviewed this for promotion. ALT1 and ALT2 include the WP:DYKDEFINITE claim that this is the world's largest apartment building. This is sourced to ColombiaOne.com, which is also the source for many of the statements in the article. This does not appear to be a reliable source, and definite claims require substantial reliable sourcing. The listed author, Abdul Moeed, is not listed on the site's staff page, and most of the author's content appears to be content aggregated from other places, not original sourcing. The sources I can find that say this is the world's largest apartment building are generally unreliable sources like the Sun, the Daily Mail, or unbylined WP:NEWSORGINDIA content. Meanwhile, the Parametric Architecture source does not support the 30,000 people claim. As for sources, this article is based on unreliable sources. Sina.com, WP:THESUN, a personal blog, Unilad (see WP:LADBIBLE), another clickbait blog, and the above-mentioned Parametric Architecture, which appears to be a content marketing site for an architecture training platform. Basically the only source I'd consider even debatable for reliability is Hangzhou.com.cn, and that only because I don't know enough about it and the language barrier makes it difficult to tell. I consider the fact that there are virtually no reliable sources in this article an insurmountable obstacle to this nomination moving forward and am thus marking it for closure. Dclemens1971 (talk) 00:34, 20 January 2026 (UTC)