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edit- ... that Tomas Fung founded the predecessor of the restaurant Ling Nam with only 3,000 Philippine pesos?
The restaurant founded with only 3,000 pesos was not the Ling Nam but was the Wa Yan restaurant which was founded five years earlier in a different place. That was a separate business with different partners and staff and it was sold off and so has a separate history. The only connection seems to be one of the partners. So, this is not a significant fact about the subject topic and so violates WP:DYKGRAT which states that we should "avoid hooks that are primarily about an incident the subject is only tangentially related to".
Note that this was pointed out when the hook first tried to claim that the fact was about the Ling Nam. When this falsehood was detected, the hook was fudged with the "predecessor" addition. The problem seemed to be that the nominator was not the author of the article and so didn't fully understand the topic. The actual author said that "This DYK is not true" and so is not culpable.
Note also that 3,000 pesos was worth over a thousand US$ back in 1945 and this seems a reasonable amount of capital for such a venture then. So, it's an unremarkable fact about a different restaurant and we shouldn't distract our readers with such trivia. I spent some time drilling down on this hook when I wondered what it meant by "predecessor" and feel that this is a wild goose chase contrary to the spirit of WP:EASTEREGG.
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edit- File:Equus quagga quagga, coloured.jpg didn't we have a discussion last year or two about false colorization images? How did that turn out? Therapyisgood (talk) 00:41, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- In this diff, @Ravenpuff: changed "(colourised example pictured)" to "(example pictured)". Z1720 (talk) 00:56, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
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