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Wu Zetian was a good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
February 21, 2008	Peer review	Reviewed
April 17, 2008	Good article nominee	Not listed

Current status: Former good article nominee

Combining sentences

@Friend505: Combining small sentences into longer sentences may seem like an improvement, but research has consistently shown that sentence length is strongly tied to reader comprehension.[1][2][3] According to research by the American Press Institute:

With average sentences of 8 words or less, readers understood 100% of the information.
At 14 words, they understood 90% of the information.
At 43 words, they understood less than 10%.

So even though short sentences may seem awkward, they dramatically increase the chances that our readers will understand the content. Kaldari (talk) 14:31, 4 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, but it seems repetitive, since it has already talked about the Wu family at that point. Thank you. Friend505 (talk) 20:09, 4 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Combining sentences

@Friend505: Combining small sentences into longer sentences may seem like an improvement, but research has consistently shown that sentence length is strongly tied to reader comprehension.[4][5][6] According to research by the American Press Institute:

With average sentences of 8 words or less, readers understood 100% of the information.
At 14 words, they understood 90% of the information.
At 43 words, they understood less than 10%.

So even though short sentences may seem awkward, they dramatically increase the chances that our readers will understand the content. Kaldari (talk) 14:31, 4 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, but it seems repetitive, since it has already talked about the Wu family at that point. Thank you. Friend505 (talk) 20:09, 4 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Guilt-ridden Nightmares?

The article states, "Empress Wang and Consort Xiao were killed on orders by the new Empress Wu. After their deaths, Empress Wu was often haunted by them in her dreams." Since there's no citations for this I assume it just vandalism and should be removed but if there is any evidence that she had guilt-ridden nightmares, kinda like that Macbeth chap, we can keep it if someone can provide the citations. Cheers! Xenomorph erotica (talk) 19:03, 17 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]