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A fact from Death of Richard Swanson appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 August 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Richard Swanson died while trying to dribble a soccer ball from Seattle to São Paulo?

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Latest comment: 26 days ago3 comments3 people in discussion

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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 22:29, 13 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

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... that police did not think Richard Swanson was dribbling a soccer ball when he died? Source: Tomlinson, Stuart (2013-06-17). "Neskowin man arrested in death of soccer ball dribbler Richard Swanson". The Oregonian. Retrieved 2024-07-25.
- ALT1: ... that Richard Swanson died while trying to dribble a soccer ball from Seattle to São Paulo? Source: Barnard, Jeff (2013-05-14). "Seattle man killed while dribbling soccer ball to Brazil". USA Today. Associated Press. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Executioner's Tax (Swing of the Axe)
- Comment: Thanks for reviewing!

Created by Bsoyka (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 21 past nominations.

Bsoyka (t • c • g) 13:54, 31 July 2024 (UTC).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:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Preference for ALT 1, but looks good. Sohom (talk) 14:50, 2 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

GA?

Latest comment: 6 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion

@Bsoyka: Hope you're enjoying your move to college! Fun, stressful, exciting, or at least that's how it was for me. Anyways, while you've been doing all that, I've been tripling this article's length, and I think it's just about ready for a GA nomination. Would you like to do that nomination together? If not, I'm happy to handle this myself. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe) 06:50, 2 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

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