Talk:Koumasa

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Should include which museums now have the finds from the dig, and what articles talk about the objects.

Did you know nomination

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The result was: rejected by reviewer, closed by Launchballer talk 07:00, 11 June 2025 (UTC)

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• ... that a Minoan tomb at Koumasa in Crete was designed so that sunlight could illuminate its interior precisely at sunrise on the summer solstice?

• Source: This refers to Tholos E at Koumasa, which is oriented at a 67° azimuth to align with the solstice sunrise. On that day, the sun shines through the entrance and casts a beam of light up to 7 meters into the chamber—an effect lasting about 20 minutes. This precise alignment suggests a deliberate connection between funerary architecture and celestial events.

• • Reviewed:

5x expanded by Mykne (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Mykne (talk) 05:43, 27 May 2025 (UTC).

• Reviewing. RecycledPixels (talk) 18:10, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - Not all paragraphs contain at least one in-line citation. Example, Site description, Excavations (first paragraph). Some unsourced information in remainder of article. Article tagged for inline citations since August 2023
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited: - No citation given in nomination, article text is cited to reference #9, Ayash 2018, which appears to have an invalid doi. Article publication date also appears to be mis-cited, volume is correct, issue number is not provided, several different page number ranges are provided, then the entire 20 page range of the article is given at the end. The abstract of the article states that the interior is lit by the morning sunlight throughout the summer months, but on the summer solstice, the light reaches almost to the back of the tholos. Sole article author is listed as a PhD candidate, may have issues with reliable source.
• Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: RecycledPixels (talk) 18:34, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

@RecycledPixels and Mykne: Prose size is determined by character count not bytesize, on which basis this has been expanded 8.25x. You'll need to remedy the tags in the article before this can go anywhere though.--Launchballer 16:13, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

Apparently, I was looking at Prose size (including all HTML code) instead of Prose size (text only) on the original revision. Sorry about that. I've changed the "new enough" tag. RecycledPixels (talk) 16:23, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

@Mykne: The remaining issues still need resolving; I will close this in a week if they are not resolved by then.--Launchballer 21:15, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

@Launchballer: The nominator hasn't edited since May 27th, and is part of a Wikipedia Education class. Their instructor has also not been active on-Wiki recently. Given that this is close to your one-week deadline, how should this move forward? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:15, 11 June 2025 (UTC)