Talk:The Song of Iowa

A fact from The Song of Iowa appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 June 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Major Byers wrote "The Song of Iowa" after being inspired by hearing Confederate soldiers playing "Maryland, My Maryland" outside his prison cell and used the same tune?

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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 Desertarun (talk) 07:54, 19 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The tune of "The Song of Iowa"

... that Major Byers wrote "The Song of Iowa" after being inspired by hearing Confederate soldiers playing "Maryland, My Maryland" outside his prison cell and used the same tune (included)? Source: Newspapers.com

Reviewed: The Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism
Comment: Expansion made excluding the lyrics

5x expanded by The C of E (talk). Self-nominated at 10:32, 4 June 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Approved - article looks fine. I've linked Maryland, My Maryland in the hook. File looks to be appropriately-licensed. Ideally we'd have a version with lyrics, but that's not necessary. Elli (talk | contribs) 06:38, 5 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]