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A fact from Patrick Berry appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 November 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that puzzle maker Patrick Berry has been called the "Thomas Pynchon of crosswords"?

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

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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 Vaticidalprophet talk 19:41, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that puzzle maker Patrick Berry has been called the "Thomas Pynchon of crosswords"? Source: ref4/ref5
- ALT1: ... that Patrick Berry's Crossword Constructor's Handbook started off as a For Dummies book? Source: ref12
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Congressional office lottery

Moved to mainspace by Hameltion (talk). Self-nominated at 21:11, 13 November 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Patrick Berry; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

... New enough, long enough, QPQ provided, no copyvio issues, reads well. Hooks are interesting, short enough, and are in the article, followed by inline citations to sources containing hook facts. Whispyhistory (talk) 08:01, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]