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A fact from Cemetery prairie appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 February 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that many surviving remnants of North American prairie grasslands are in cemeteries?

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The result was: promoted by BorgQueen (talk) 04:26, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Tallgrass prairie in Illinois

... that many surviving remnants of North American prairie grasslands (pictured) are in cemeteries? Source: http://images.library.wisc.edu/EcoNatRes/EFacs/NAPC/NAPC12/reference/econatres.napc12.rbetz2.pdf
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Michał Węsławski

Created by Jengod (talk). Self-nominated at 07:04, 27 January 2023 (UTC). Note: As of October 2022, all changes made to promoted hooks will be logged by a bot. The log for this nomination can be found at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Cemetery prairie, so please watch a successfully closed nomination until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Inline cited to Proceedings of the 12th North American Prairie Conference which, insofar as I can tell, is RS for purposes of this claim; hook is extremely interesting and article is new enough (January 24 creation), long enough, and NPOV. The image is correctly CC licensed. Earwig returns "violation possible," however, on closer examination this is a false positive from a quote block. QPQ done. Looks good. Chetsford (talk) 03:07, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Jengod: Is the picture a picture of an actual cemetery prairie? The way the caption and the hook read, it seems to suggest it's just a tall-grass prairie which looks like a cemetery prairie (also because there is no gravestones in it)...? (This is the question I have asked myself every day as I scroll past.) Somehow it's unclear. Cielquiparle (talk) 16:15, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No this is a stand of Generic remnant/original/virgin tallgrass prairie with a similar species mix as you'd find in a cemetery prairie but it's not a cemetery prairie. I couldn't find any free photos of a cemetery prairie so the article is illustrated with a mix of photos of rural-looking Midwestern cemeteries and this nice Peterwchen CC BY-SA 4.0 photo of flowers from an Illinois prairie preserve. jengod (talk) 16:42, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]