Talk:Mike Shenk

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A fact from Mike Shenk appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 December 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Mike Shenk once constructed an entire crossword puzzle by hand in an hour?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/December. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mike Shenk.

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Did you know nomination

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 20:14, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Mike Shenk once constructed an entire crossword puzzle by hand in an hour? Source: ref8
- ALT1: ... that Mike Shenk published five crossword puzzles a week in his college newspaper? Source: ref1/ref4
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/WTAC-TV

Moved to mainspace by Hameltion (talk). Self-nominated at 20:44, 13 November 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Mike Shenk; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

I'll review this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 15:45, 14 November 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. BeanieFan11 (talk) 15:57, 14 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]