Talk:Zacharias Stopius

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A fact from Zacharias Stopius appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 August 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Zacharias Stopius was ennobled by the king of Poland, while his daughter became the first female diplomat of Sweden?

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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 Yoninah (talk) 12:51, 4 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Zacharias Stopius was ennobled by the King of Poland, but his daughter Catharina Stopia became the first female diplomat of Sweden? Source: Here (in Swedish)
- ALT1:... that Zacharias Stopius's estate evolved into the municipality of Stopiņi?

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Claude Mercier-Ythier

Created by Yakikaki (talk). Self-nominated at 19:46, 15 July 2020 (UTC).[reply]

New enough. Long enough. No issues with the sources. No copyright problems. Everything is fine, except that the hook lacks punch. I submitted an alternative. Edelseider (talk) 06:47, 16 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't really understand the "but" in the first hook. I'm changing it to "while". Yoninah (talk) 12:51, 4 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]