Talk:Mur de la peste

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The result was: promoted by Launchballer (talk) 00:57, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

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• ... that in 1721, a two meter high long dry stone wall was built to stop the advance of the Great Plague of Marseille?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Nicholas Dockery, Template:Did you know nominations/Catullus 96

Created by Thriley (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 217 past nominations.

Thriley (talk) 01:06, 26 June 2026 (UTC).

• Will review this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 22:16, 26 June 2026 (UTC)

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:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article looks mostly good. However, reading the sources has me confused as to whether the wall is 27 km or 100 km. @Thriley: The ICI source reads À la manière d’une ligne de défense, ce mur en pierre sèche s’étendait sur 27 kilomètres, entre Lagnes, Cabrière-d'Avignon, Murs, Le Beaucet et le col de la Ligne – "Acting as a line of defense, this dry-stone wall stretched for 27 kilometers, running between Lagnes, Cabrières-d'Avignon, Murs, Le Beaucet, and the Col de la Ligne pass." Le Progres reads, Pour freiner la maladie, il est décidé de créer un mur sanitaire en pierres sèches de 2 mètres de haut. D’une longueur de 20 km, il relie Monieux à Cabrières. – "To halt the disease, a decision was made to build a 2-meter-high dry-stone sanitary wall. Stretching 20 km, it connected Monieux to Cabrières." Finally, Le Pelerin says, Le long de ses 27 km, la muraille comprend des dizaines de guérites et d'enclos qui, jadis, abritaient les soldats et leurs réserves de nourriture. – "Along its 27-kilometer stretch, the wall features dozens of sentry boxes and enclosures that once sheltered soldiers and their food supplies." Am I missing something? Where does it say that the wall is 100 km? BeanieFan11 (talk) 22:35, 26 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your review. Le Pelerin states "Au printemps 1721, les représentants du roi de France et ceux du Comtat décident donc de former une ligne commune militarisée, longue de 100 km. Celle de la dernière chance. Sur cette ligne, ce mur de pierres sèches est construit dans l'urgence. Son tracé est confié à Antoine d'Allemand, architecte à Carpentras." I took this to mean that the wall was initially that long, but with the harvest of stone from it and general decay, only 27km survives/has been restored. Thriley (talk) 18:02, 27 June 2026 (UTC)

@BeanieFan11: Perhaps a hook without the length? ALT1: ... that in 1721, a two meter high long dry stone wall was built to stop the advance of the Great Plague of Marseille?Thriley (talk) 14:30, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

Sorry for delay. Given that there appears to be a conflict of how long it was from the sources (you might be right about only 27km surviving and the original length being 100km, but it doesn't seem entirely certain given that many sources only mention 27km), I will approve with preference for ALT1. BeanieFan11 (talk) 15:56, 2 July 2026 (UTC)