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A fact from Mike Veeck appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 October 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Mike Veeck's baseball promotions include Disco Demolition Night, a game with no fans, and the world's largest pillow fight?

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

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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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 19:06, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Mike Veeck's baseball promotions include Disco Demolition Night, a game with no fans, and the world's largest pillow fight?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Winfield Blake

Converted from a redirect by Muboshgu (talk) and Omnis Scientia (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 536 past nominations.

– Muboshgu (talk) 20:23, 6 September 2024 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

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Adequate sourcing: - y ~~I note the DOB is not sourced; if you’re able to add a ref, great, otherwise it should either be removed or replaced with an approximate birth year that can be sourced, per BLP policy.~~
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Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
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QPQ: Done.

Overall: Thank you for this entertaining entry! Great piece of pop culture to record. I made a pair of minor copy edits for clarification in the first paragraph under career, to specify which Veeck you were talking about and that Anti-Disco Night and Disco Demolition Night were the same thing, but please revise if I’ve misunderstood anything. Once the DOB is sorted, I think you’ll be good to go! Innisfree987 (talk) 07:47, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Innisfree987, birthdate is now sourced inline.[1] – Muboshgu (talk) 17:11, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Great thanks for the quick add! All set. Innisfree987 (talk) 20:45, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]