Talk:Fonner Park

A fact from Fonner Park appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 June 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Fonner Park in Grand Island, Nebraska, was described as having become "the center of the horse racing world" during the COVID-19 pandemic?

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

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Did you know nomination

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 Yoninah (talk) 12:36, 15 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the COVID-19 pandemic caused horse races at the "boutique" Fonner Park track in Nebraska to receive national and international exposure? Source: [1][2]
- ALT1:... that Fonner Park in Grand Island, Nebraska was described as having become "the center of the horse racing world" during the COVID-19 pandemic? Source: [3]

Reviewed: Unix Expo

Created by ViperSnake151 (talk). Self-nominated at 06:29, 26 May 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: @ViperSnake151: Both hooks are good, I prefer the alt, though, if you have no objection to that RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 04:59, 30 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah! ViperSnake151 Talk 05:01, 30 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]