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A fact from Brad Olsen appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 September 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that as a child, New Zealand economist Brad Olsen would write notes about stock market trends while watching the evening news?

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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet talk 04:19, 24 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that as a child, New Zealand economist Brad Olsen would write notes about stock market trends while watching the evening news? Source: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/real-life-brad-olsen-the-26yo-who-has-become-the-face-of-economics-in-new-zealand/YDNOWXYS2VCZPFEMGOGGX7SYUQ/
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Korea Job World

Created by Panamitsu (talk). Self-nominated at 00:57, 17 September 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Brad Olsen; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

I'll review this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 02:46, 19 September 2023 (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: Done.

Overall:

Appears to meet all the criteria. Hook is interesting (note that I removed "the" from the part "that as a child, the New Zealand economist Brad Olson..."). BeanieFan11 (talk) 02:50, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Who won" ???

In the sententence about the Problem solving competition in America the sub-sentance "... who won." does not explain anything. Was it his team that won? Or did America win?

Who won? 157.157.114.190 (talk) 07:25, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The "who" is referring to the team Olsen took part in. It could be made more clear, but I'm not sure how myself. —Panamitsu (talk) 07:49, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That did confuse me initially before I realized it was a reference to his team. I've changed it to "; his team won". Heavy Water (talk • contribs) 22:46, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]