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A fact from Shantaram Siddi 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 Shantaram Siddi is the first Indian legislator of African descent?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/August. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Shantaram Siddi.

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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 The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 16:44, 3 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

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... that Shantaram Siddi is the first Indian legislator of African descent? Source: "Meet Karnataka MLC Shantaram Siddi - first legislator of African descent in India"[1]

Created by SignificantPBD (talk). Self-nominated at 20:34, 25 July 2020 (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:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Thank you for this article - this subject certainly deserves recognition. As this is your third DYK nom, no QPQ is needed. Storye book (talk) 09:53, 27 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

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