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A fact from WPCE appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 September 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a 1967 promotion by Virginia radio station WHIH, anticipated to receive 15,000 entries, instead received nearly 180 million?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/WPCE.

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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 Yoninah (talk) 17:44, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that a 1967 promotion by Virginia radio station WHIH, anticipated to receive 15,000 entries, instead received nearly 180 million? Source: p41

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Fanaura Kingstone
Comment: Some overlap to WOWI, but there's more than enough unique material here.

5x expanded by Raymie (talk). Self-nominated at 00:48, 9 August 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Hi Raymie, review follows: article more than 5x expanded 8-9 August and exceeds minimum length (even if discounting some of the overlapping content); article is well written and cited inline throughout to reliable sources; I didn't pick up any issues with overly close paraphrasing from a spot check on the sources; hook is excellent, mentioned in the article and checks out to the sources cited; my only recommendation is that you expand the lead to summarise the article content per WP:LEAD, but I won't hold up the approval because of this - Dumelow (talk) 14:14, 9 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I came by to promote this. Which source verifies the 180 million figure? Yoninah (talk) 15:06, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Yoninah: Page 41 in the linked PDF. It's in the top of the second column: "WHIH put an empty warehouse to use to store the final tally—some 179,824,623 votes in all!" Raymie (t • c) 16:49, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Restoring tick per Dumelow's review. Yoninah (talk) 17:42, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]