User talk:BuySomeApples

DYK for Fallout: Equestria

On 24 July 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Fallout: Equestria, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a 620,000-word My Little Pony fanfiction work based on Fallout has developed a fandom of its own? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Fallout: Equestria. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Fallout: Equestria), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:03, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you for your reviews of DYK. Grimes2 (talk) 11:06, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

through the 1970s

I find this odd. Does this mean that Winston Churchill lived through the 19th century or Emmeline Pankhurst lived through the 20th or that because I went to Vietnam to celebrate New year in 1990 then I lived though the 1990s in Vietnam? It's obvious that thousands of enslaved people were not freed on the correct day and that there may have been one case in 1973 but to merge those two facts is quite misleading. I suggest that adding ...and one in 1973... clears up my issue. But I'm quite happy to stand back now I've made my point if you are doing a review. Victuallers (talk) 07:46, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

@Victuallers: I thought we had already changed it from "through the 1970s" to "into the 1970s"? Either way I'm more than happy to work on an alt that makes it clear these examples were spread over a span of time, from the mid 19th Century until the 1970s. Sometimes hooks take a bit of work to hit just the right phrasing. Besides, my rule of thumb is that if even one editor is confused by phrasing, then its likely many readers will be as well. BuySomeApples (talk) 20:50, 1 August 2021 (UTC)