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A fact from Archaeological Site in Wanggung-ri appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 March 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that researchers confirmed that they had discovered toilets at the Archaeological Site in Wanggung-ri by finding a high concentration of parasite eggs there?
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... that ancient toilets at the Archaeological Site in Wanggung-ri were the first to be discovered in South Korea? Source: [1]This was the first large ancient toilets found in Korea as an important archeological discovery comparable with its counterpart in Japan. I used the lighter scope of "South Korea"; idk if North Korea discovered any ancient toilets and South Korea tends to use "Korea" to refer to "South Korea".
The hook needs to be reworded since the source mentions that these were the first "large" ancient toilets to be found, implying that smaller toilets have been found dating to an even earlier time period. -AmateurHi$torian (talk) 12:33, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Date, size, QPQ, spotchecks, all fine. But I concur with AmateurHi$torian about the qualification needed in the hook, based on the reference cited. Ideally this could be clarified with academic sources (papers) discussing this find (the article is based on tertiary sources), but this is not something I'd insist for a DYK (it's more of a GA-level concern). Ping me if the hook is revised or other changes are made. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here01:28, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Piotrus: I'm going to revise the hook. I don't think the source I used was very sound. ALT1 ... that researchers were able to confirm that they had discovered toilets at the Archaeological Site in Wanggung-ri because they found a high concentration of parasite eggs there?
Source: [2]어떻게 화장실이라는 것을 알았을까요. 확실한 방법이 있죠. 화장실 바닥 흙을 채취해서 분석해보니 기생충 알이 g당 1만8000건이 검출됐답니다. 사람들의 분변에서 검출된 기생충알이 분명했던거죠. -> How did they know it was a toilet? Using a surefire method. They took a sample of the toilet floor and analyzed it, and found 18,000 parasite eggs per gram. It was clear that these were eggs that are found in human feces.seefooddiet (talk) 21:14, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Date, size, QPQ, spotchecks, all fine. But I concur with AmateurHi$torian about the qualification needed in the hook, based on the reference cited. Ideally this could be clarified with academic sources (papers) discussing this find (the article is based on tertiary sources), but this is not something I'd insist for a DYK (it's more of a GA-level concern). Ping me if the hook is revised or other changes are made. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 01:28, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
Good now. A bit scary/disgusting but hey, it should draw some views :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:39, 25 February 2025 (UTC)