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

Did you know... that in the same year, an Illinois radio station lost its station manager in a car crash and its advertising revenue to flooding?

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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) 03:05, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that in the same year, an Illinois radio station lost its station manager in a car crash and its advertising revenue to flooding? Source: https://quincypublicil.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?k=wzlz&i=f&d=01011838-12312021&m=between&ord=k1&fn=quincy_herald_whig_usa_illinois_quincy_19930501_english_16&df=1&dt=10 AND https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Archive-RandR/1990s/1993/RR-1993-09-10.pdf p19
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5x expanded by Sammi Brie (talk). Self-nominated at 18:10, 16 April 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/WQCY; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[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: @Sammi Brie: Good article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 18:56, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I was able to confirm the hook with the source for the loss of revenue. Station had a different set of letters prior to the flood. Bruxton (talk) 03:06, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]