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A fact from El-Tigani el-Mahi appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 June 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that El-Tigani el-Mahi pioneered studies on magic and zār and their relationship to mental health?
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Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
Interesting:
QPQ: Done.
Overall: Biggest problem is possible copyvio. Second biggest problem is QPQ needed. Once that's fixed, we can look at ALT1, the most interesting hook here. 〜 Festucalex • talk06:08, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@FuzzyMagma: Waiting for you to do the QPQ. Meanwhile, I'll ping @BorgQueen for advice on the copyvio situation, because it's indeed the quote that's tripping earwig up. This is only my second ever review, I'm not entirely confident in ignoring the 44.8%. 〜 Festucalex • talk05:16, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@BorgQueen: maybe you did that already, but would it possible for to click on "Earwig's Copyvio Detector" and see if "a bit of rewriting" is still warranted. FuzzyMagma (talk) 15:44, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Festucalex: not to overstep, but if you can copy edit the text of an article, that is always good (at least that is what I do). But if it’s beyond repair you can just tag it and ask the promoter to fix it. As for this specific case, you can go through the edit history in the article and see what BorgQueen did, which basically reducing the size (while keeping the core message) of the quotation to address your concerns about copyvio 19:25, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
ALT1 needed some slight tweaking as I feel like it was not worded just right. I have made the hook mirror the article text without changing the intent.