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A fact from Belgian Building appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 April 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that an exhibition hall for the 1939 New York World's Fair later hosted athletic events at a historically Black university in Virginia?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Belgian Building.

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Bruxton talk 20:08, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that an exhibition hall for the 1939 New York World's Fair later hosted athletic events at a historically Black university in Virginia? Source: "Basketball complex planned for Va. Union"
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Shank Hall

5x expanded by DrOrinScrivello (talk). Self-nominated at 13:14, 12 March 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Belgian Building; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[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: Done.

Overall: Nice work on the expansion. (On a completely unrelated note, I never thought I'd see a 1939 World's Fair building pop up in Virginia, but then again we don't have that many remaining 1939 World's Fair buildings in NYC either, besides maybe this one and this one.) Epicgenius (talk) 15:07, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Epicgenius: Thanks for your review. (And I had no idea either - coming across little surprises like this is my favorite part of Wikipedia) Thanks again! DrOrinScrivello (talk) 15:40, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We are in WP:QPQ backlog mode. Double reviews are required.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 07:10, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dr Orin Scrivello has less than 20 nominations.--Laun chba ller 10:18, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the confustion.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 18:42, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]