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GA review
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- This review is transcluded from Talk:Setkya Dewi/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Nominator: Htanaungg (talk · contribs) 07:45, 1 December 2025 (UTC)
Reviewer: Векочел (talk · contribs) 18:13, 21 January 2026 (UTC)
- GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)
- It is reasonably well written.
- It is factually accurate and verifiable, as shown by a source spot-check.
- a (reference section):
b (inline citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism):
- a (reference section):
- It is broad in its coverage.
- a (major aspects): b (focused):
- a (major aspects):
- It follows the neutral point of view policy.
- Fair representation without bias:
- Fair representation without bias:
- It is stable.
- No edit wars, etc.:
- No edit wars, etc.:
- It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
- a (images are tagged and non-free content have non-free use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
- a (images are tagged and non-free content have non-free use rationales):
- Overall:
- Pass/Fail:
- Pass/Fail:
Review to follow. Векочел (talk) 18:13, 21 January 2026 (UTC)
Source spotcheck
- Nyo Mya 1998, p. 302. "Setkya Dewi was born Supaya on 22 December 1813 at the House of Thayet in the Amarapura Palace, Amarapura, during the reign of her great-grandfather King Bodawpaya."
- “စကြာဒေဝီ၏ ငယ်နာမည်မှာ စုဖုရားပင်ဖြစ်သည်။ သာယာဝတီမင်း၏ အဂ္ဂမဟေသီ ကျပင်းမင်းသမီးမှ ဖွားမြင်သည်။”
- Translation: “Setkya Dewi’s childhood name was Supaya. She was born to Tharrawaddy Min’s chief queen, the Princess of Kyabin.”
- Comment: I forgot to add another source to confirm her date of birth, and it was 23 December in fact.
- Than Win Hlaing 2015, p. 80. “သက္ကရာဇ် ၁၁၇၅ ခု၊ ပြာသိုလဆန်း ၂ ရက် (ခရစ် ၁၈၁၃ ခု၊ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၂၃ ရက်) ကြာသပတေးနေ့ တွင် ဖွားမြင်တော်မူသည့် သမီးတော်ဖြစ်သည်။”
- Translation: “She was born on Thursday, the 2nd waxing of Pyatho 1175 ME (23 December 1813 CE), as a royal daughter.”
- “စကြာဒေဝီ၏ ငယ်နာမည်မှာ စုဖုရားပင်ဖြစ်သည်။ သာယာဝတီမင်း၏ အဂ္ဂမဟေသီ ကျပင်းမင်းသမီးမှ ဖွားမြင်သည်။”
- Maung Maung Tin 2004b, p. 54. "Setkya Dewi had seven siblings, five of whom died young; her elder brother was Pagan Min, who later abdicated in favour of her husband, Mindon Min."
- “သားတော် သမီးတော်တို့ကား… သီရိပဝရ တိလောကမဟာရတနာ ပဒုမာဒေဝီ မိဖုရားခေါင်ကြီးတွင်မြင်သည့် သားတော် ပုဂံမင်း သီရိသုဓမ္မတိလောက ပဝရ မဟာရာဇာဓိရာဇာ မင်းတရားတစ်ပါး၊ နှမတော် ငယ်ကလွန်သည် တစ်ပါး၊ ညီမတော် သီရိပဝရ မဟာရာဇိန္ဒာဓိပတိ ရတနာဒေဝီ မင်းတုန်းမင်းတရားကြီးဘုရား မိဖုရားခေါင်ကြီး တစ်ပါး၊ မောင်တော် ငယ်ကလွန်သည်တစ်ပါး၊ နှမတော် ငယ်ကလွန်သည်တစ်ပါး၊ ညီမတော် ငယ်ကလွန်သည်တစ်ပါး၊ မောင်တော် ငယ်ကလွန်သည်တစ်ပါး၊ ပေါင်း ခုနစ်ပါး။”
- Translation:“As for the sons and daughters: by the Chief Queen Thiri Pawara Tiloka Mahā Ratana Padumadevi were born seven children in total—one son, King Pagan Min, Thiri Sudhamma Tiloka Pawara Mahārājādhirāja; one younger sister who died young; one younger sister, Thiri Pawara Mahārājindādhipati Ratanadevi, who became the Chief Queen of King Mindon; one younger brother who died young; another younger sister who died young; another younger sister who died young; and another younger brother who died young.”
- “သားတော် သမီးတော်တို့ကား… သီရိပဝရ တိလောကမဟာရတနာ ပဒုမာဒေဝီ မိဖုရားခေါင်ကြီးတွင်မြင်သည့် သားတော် ပုဂံမင်း သီရိသုဓမ္မတိလောက ပဝရ မဟာရာဇာဓိရာဇာ မင်းတရားတစ်ပါး၊ နှမတော် ငယ်ကလွန်သည် တစ်ပါး၊ ညီမတော် သီရိပဝရ မဟာရာဇိန္ဒာဓိပတိ ရတနာဒေဝီ မင်းတုန်းမင်းတရားကြီးဘုရား မိဖုရားခေါင်ကြီး တစ်ပါး၊ မောင်တော် ငယ်ကလွန်သည်တစ်ပါး၊ နှမတော် ငယ်ကလွန်သည်တစ်ပါး၊ ညီမတော် ငယ်ကလွန်သည်တစ်ပါး၊ မောင်တော် ငယ်ကလွန်သည်တစ်ပါး၊ ပေါင်း ခုနစ်ပါး။”
- Maung Maung Tin 2004a, p. 377. "Setkya Dewi was bestowed the newly established honour of Jīvita Dāna(Burmese: အသက်ဒါနဆု, Athet Dāna Hsu; lit. 'Life release award'), granting her authority to acquit individuals on death row."
- “ငါ့သမီးတော်က အသက်ဘေးမှနုတ်ယူလျှင် သမီးတော်အား အသက်ဒါနဆုကို ပေးတော်မူသည် အမိန့်တော်ရှိပြီးလျှင်”
- Translation:“[...] if my daughter rescues (the condemned) from the danger of death, I shall bestow upon her the Jīvita Dāna award—so the royal order was proclaimed.”
- “ငါ့သမီးတော်က အသက်ဘေးမှနုတ်ယူလျှင် သမီးတော်အား အသက်ဒါနဆုကို ပေးတော်မူသည် အမိန့်တော်ရှိပြီးလျှင်”
- Yar Kyaw 1968, p. 325. "Acting as an adviser to her father".
- “ပိဋကတ်ဗေဒင်၊ လောကဓမ္မ အကျိုးအပြစ် မြှော်မြင် ကျွမ်းကျင်လိမ္မာတော်မူ၍ ခမည်းတော် အမြဲတိုင်ပင်တော်ခံရသည်။”
- Translation:“She was well-versed in the Pitaka and in astrology, possessed foresight and discernment regarding the merits and demerits of worldly affairs, and was constantly consulted by her father for counsel.”
- “ပိဋကတ်ဗေဒင်၊ လောကဓမ္မ အကျိုးအပြစ် မြှော်မြင် ကျွမ်းကျင်လိမ္မာတော်မူ၍ ခမည်းတော် အမြဲတိုင်ပင်တော်ခံရသည်။”
- Yi Yi 1982, p. 136. "Mindon Min and Setkya Dewi's coronation ceremony was held on 14 May 1857 at the newly built Mandalay Palace."
- “We now come to the most important court ceremony of all--the rajabhisik coronation.[...] On 14 May 1857, Mindon had an abhiseka ceremony. It was Thursday the 7 Waning of Kason [...]."
Prose
- "On 31 May 1837, she was granted the appanages of Sagaing, Myede, Kyangin, Dala, and Tharrawaddy." Could you write a brief description about what these appanages signified?
- "Mindon Min ascended the throne following a succession conflict with his half-brother Pagan Min." What was the relationship between Mindon Min and Setkya Dewi?
- "Through her intervention, approximately fourteen people were absolved of their guilt". Do we have any indication of some of the charges against these people?
- In the "Illness and death" section, the words myosa and wundauk are used. Can you please provide in footnotes an explanation or translation for these terms?
Векочел (talk) 16:53, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
- @Векочел: Sorry for the long wait. I’ve fixed the prose issues. I’ve left the “source spot-check” part as it is because I’m not quite sure what the problem is there. Could you explain that to me as well? Thank you. Htanaungg (talk) 11:14, 1 March 2026 (UTC)
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Did you know nomination
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- ... that Setkya Dewi, the chief queen consort of Mindon Min, was the only Burmese princess ever granted the power to commute death sentences? Source: (Mi Mi Gyi 2006, p. 23)
- ALT1: ... that Setkya Dewi, chief queen of Burma, studied Western astronomy and English and was once gifted a telescope by a British envoy because of her interest in science? Source: (Maung Maung Tin 2004b, p. 160) (Mi Mi Gyi 2006, p. 28)
- ALT2: ... that British officials described Burmese chief queen Setkya Dewi as a “bluestocking” because of her reputation as a learned woman interested in science? Source: (Dalhousie 1932, p. 70)
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Stardew Valley
Improved to Good Article status by Htanaungg (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 13 past nominations.
Htanaungg (talk) 16:08, 4 March 2026 (UTC).
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Overall: 
Really interesting article. I have a preference for ALT1. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:57, 6 March 2026 (UTC)