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Turkestan Autonomy is currently a World history good article nominee. Nominated by CitrusHemlock at 21:39, 27 October 2025 (UTC) Any editor who has not nominated or contributed significantly to this article may review it according to the good article criteria to decide whether or not to list it as a good article. To start the review process, click start review and then save the page. See the good article instructions. Short description: Former state in Central Asia

A fact from Turkestan Autonomy appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 December 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Stalin told the Turkestan Autonomy to invade the Soviet Commissariat in Tashkent instead of asking him to dissolve it? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2025/December. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Turkestan Autonomy.

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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: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:14, 26 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Flag of the Turkestan Autonomy

• ... that the Turkestan Autonomy (flag pictured) was founded after the Turkestan Sovnarkom barred Muslims from joining their government?

• Source: Khalid, Adeeb (2015). Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. pp. 71–72. ISBN 978-0-8014-5409-7.

• ALT1: ... that Stalin told the Turkestan Autonomy (flag pictured) to invade the Soviet Commissariat in Tashkent, instead of asking him to dissolve it? Source: Bergne, Paul (2003). "The Kokand Autonomy, 1917–1918". In Everett-Heath, Tom (ed.). Central Asia: Aspects of Transition. Central Asia Research Forum. London and New York: Routledge. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-7007-0957-1.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Portrait of Emilie Flöge

5x expanded by CitrusHemlock (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 5 past nominations.

CitrusHemlock 22:11, 27 October 2025 (UTC).[reply]

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

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: No objections on this one, passes all criteria, but I'd prefer ALT1 since its more quirky compared to the much more general fact nature of ALT0. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 03:41, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The flag needs a source. Yue🌙 (talk) 22:10, 17 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]