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A fact from Lac qui Parle County seat controversy appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 October 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that one 1886 night 150 people broke into a courthouse and began moving it 15 miles (24 km), before getting stuck in a blizzard?

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 00:16, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that on the night of November 12, 1886, 150 people broke into the Lac qui Parle County Courthouse and started physically moving it to Madison, Minnesota, 15 miles away?

Source: [[1]]

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- ALT1: ... that a county seat war in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota inspired Johannes B. Wist's serial fiction in the Decorah-Posten?
- ALT2: ... that during a night in 1886, 150 people broke into the Lac qui Parle County Courthouse, started physically moving the building 15 miles away, but were later stuck in a blizzard along the route?
- Reviewed:
- Comment: This is my first nomination, so I apologize if things are formatted incorrectly.

Moved to mainspace by Cedar Tree (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Cedar Tree 19:48, 22 September 2024 (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:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: This seems good to me, ~~except unfortunately for the newness criteria. Maybe you can improve it to a GA and nominate as DYK then?~~ and it was moved to mainspace two days before nom. Theodor Langhorne Franklin (talk) 17:28, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I like ALT0 but I think we could improve it a little. I recommend stating that they physically moved "the building" instead of "it" because it was the shocker that pulled me in and even though it's grammatically correct I didn't fully believe it. I also recommend removing the details of the month and day because they don't really help would, maybe removing the year would add to the intrigue, and removing the city of Madison because very few will know it. Maybe then there's space to add in that it was stuck in a snowstorm in the way? Theodor Langhorne Franklin (talk) 12:14, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cedar Tree, can you give an Alt to improve it a bit? Theodor Langhorne Franklin (talk) 02:49, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Theodor Langhorne Franklin I just did. Please let me know if you have any more suggestions :) Cedar Tree (talk) 07:24, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I tweaked Alt2, and I think it's good now. Dumelow, any issues? Theodor Langhorne Franklin (talk) 03:06, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I've not reviewed other than to check the date it was nominated as it is relatively unusual for nominations to be out of date. I won't be claiming a QPQ on this, so happy to leave to you to do a full review - Dumelow (talk) 09:40, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

~~<removed possible vote symbol> Just placing this template to prevent this from being closed as a fail.~~ Theodor Langhorne Franklin this article was moved from draftspace on 22 September and so is eligible- Dumelow (talk) 20:47, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Whoops, I missed that. Thanks for keeping this alive. Theodor Langhorne Franklin (talk) 12:14, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Striking Dumelow's possible vote symbol because this is resolved now. Theodor Langhorne Franklin (talk) 17:42, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]