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Did you know nomination

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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 Theleekycauldron (talk20:00, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Created by Huey117 (talk). Self-nominated at 09:32, 25 September 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Good to go Hawkeye7 (discuss) 07:36, 26 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

To T:DYK/P2

Currency in 'Background' section

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The 'Background' section says, "Macari then sold a fish and chip shop he owned to his eldest brother Bernard for roughly $6,500" . Since the transaction took place in the UK, surely the value should also appear in £/GBP as well as (presumably Australian) dollars? I'm not sure what the 1969 conversion rate was, though. This currency converter makes it about £3,043, but I'm not sure whether Wikipedia regards such things as a reliable source. JezGrove (talk) 10:37, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not entirely sure, the figure comes from a 1972 article of The Age which can be found here, I would think the amount was converted from pounds to Australian dollars, however I don't want to assume anything so it might be best to just remove it from the article considering it's not very relevant. Huey117 (talk) 12:17, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]