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A fact from Seventh East Press appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 April 2022 (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.
... that the independent student newspaper, Seventh East Press, discussed the campus ban of the sale of shoe mirrors (example pictured) in their April Fools' Day issue? Source: "Shoe-mirrors, part of a local fad, have been determined incompatible with the BYU Honor Code, according to Standards official Carmichael Whitaker. In accordance with this recent determination, shoe-mirrors will no longer be sold in the BYU bookstore" April Fool's day issue on archive.org
ALT0b:... that the independent student newspaper, Seventh East Press, discussed the campus ban on the sale of fictional "shoe mirrors" (example pictured) in their April Fools' Day issue?
ALT0c:... that the independent student newspaper, Seventh East Press, discussed the campus ban of fictional "shoe mirrors" (example pictured) used by students to look upskirt in their April Fools' Day issue?
ALT1:... that Brigham Young University banned the on-campus sale of the Seventh East Press? "Paul Richards, BYU Public Communications director, informs Dean Huffaker, editor of Seventh East Press, that the paper cannot be "sold at the campus bookstore or on campus newsstands after Feb. 16."Anderson Dialogue article pg. 19-20
Overall: Article is new enough, long enough and sourced. Earwig is not picking up any apparent copyvio. qpq has been done, both hooks are cited and interesting. I'm proposing ALT0b and ALT0c to make it clearer that "shoe mirrors" were made up. BuySomeApples (talk) 04:06, 7 August 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Rachel Helps (BYU) and BuySomeApples: I know this approved and all, but I think this would make a great April Fools' Day hook if you don't mind waiting until next year... either discussing the April fools in the hook, or reworking with a bit of an easter egg link to maybe use the headline from that day? DYK has our own April fools pranks and this would be a meta one if you're interested. Kingsif (talk) 03:54, 11 August 2021 (UTC)Reply
Hi Kingsif, that's a great idea! I'd like this hook to run with its picture, because I so rarely have a good picture to go along with my hooks. Would that be possible with the April Fool's day set? I have a family vacation this weekend and will respond next week. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 15:43, 11 August 2021 (UTC)Reply
We can request an image slot, and since this doesn't give away the joke, it's probably a good choice. I'd also like to use the image, if it's appropriately licensed, because it's a bit different to the images we usually get. So how about ALT2 ... that shoe-mirrors (pictured)are banned at Brigham Young University? Kingsif (talk) 16:27, 11 August 2021 (UTC)Reply
I believe such a misleading hook is in the spirit of April Fool's day. I added another in-line citation for the sentence about shoe-mirrors on the 7EP page. Can I approve a hook for my own nomination? How do we move this to the April Fool's day queue? Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 17:04, 16 August 2021 (UTC)Reply
You can't review your own nom, unfortunately. As for moving it, well, approved noms go to a different project page automatically, and from there they can be manually moved to a holding section for April Fool's Day. Kingsif (talk) 18:16, 16 August 2021 (UTC)Reply
Article is new enough, long enough and sourced. Earwig is not picking up any apparent copyvio. qpq has been done, both hooks are cited and interesting. I'm proposing ALT0b and ALT0c to make it clearer that "shoe mirrors" were made up. BuySomeApples (talk) 04:06, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
@Rachel Helps (BYU) and BuySomeApples: I know this approved and all, but I think this would make a great April Fools' Day hook if you don't mind waiting until next year... either discussing the April fools in the hook, or reworking with a bit of an easter egg link to maybe use the headline from that day? DYK has our own April fools pranks and this would be a meta one if you're interested. Kingsif (talk) 03:54, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
I believe such a misleading hook is in the spirit of April Fool's day. I added another in-line citation for the sentence about shoe-mirrors on the 7EP page. Can I approve a hook for my own nomination? How do we move this to the April Fool's day queue? Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 17:04, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
You can't review your own nom, unfortunately. As for moving it, well, approved noms go to a different project page automatically, and from there they can be manually moved to a holding section for April Fool's Day. Kingsif (talk) 18:16, 16 August 2021 (UTC)