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A fact from Constitutional Amendment (Adult Suffrage) Act 1894 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 August 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that South Australia became the first place in the world to give women the right to stand for parliament due to an opponent's "great miscalculation"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/August. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Constitutional Amendment (Adult Suffrage) Act 1894.

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How this article came to be written[edit]

The Dictionary of Lost Words, page 245: "She is Australian, apparently. Perhaps it is the right to speak in her own Parliament that gives her confidence to speak in ours." --Shirt58 (talk) 10:32, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination[edit]

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 Chipmunkdavis (talk) 15:33, 10 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that South Australia became the first place in the world to give women the right to stand for parliament due to an opponent's "great miscalculation"? Source: "His efforts have been dubbed a "great miscalculation" [1]
- ALT1:... that South Australian women became the most enfranchised in the world in 1894 by accident? Source: "leading to South Australian women becoming at the time "the most enfranchised women anywhere in the world"" [2]

Reviewed: Phyllis Le Cappelaine Burke

5x expanded by Melcous (talk). Self-nominated at 13:10, 24 July 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Article is long enough and has been 5x expanded recently. Hook is interesting and entertaining, and supported by its source. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:28, 24 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

To T:DYK/P3