A fact from Dmitrii Milev appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 June 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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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.
ALT1: ... that writer Dmitrii Milev's version of the "Moldavian language", developed in the 1920s for his Soviet readers, has been labeled as "gibberish"? Source: Eugen Lungu, "Panait Istrati 'tradus' la Balta", in Vatra, Vol. XXIV, Issue 275, February 1994, p. 20.
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
Interesting:
QPQ: Done.
Overall: A very fine article on an interesting writer and political activist. No plagiarism according to Earwig. AGF on offline Romanian sources. One very minor quibble: the DYK subject ought to precede all other wikilinked articles. Just rearrange the syntax of the opening of ALT0 to give Milev precedence and I'll approve the article. —CurryTime7-24 (talk) 00:20, 15 May 2023 (UTC)Reply
Many thanks, CurryTime7-24. I wasn't aware of this rule (and I must admit I cannot find in the guidelines and supplementary guidelines -- are you sure you don't have it confused for the need to have a link on a word in its first mention?); in any case, I have amended ALT0. Dahn (talk) 10:32, 16 May 2023 (UTC)Reply
You're right. Sorry about making you go through the trouble of amending ALT0. A fellow editor made me rearrange the syntax on a number of my early DYKs, which led me to the mistaken belief that having the bolded link appear first was some kind of rule. I apologize. Approving both DYK alts. —CurryTime7-24 (talk) 16:26, 16 May 2023 (UTC)Reply