A fact from Hungerford police murders appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 December 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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... that 145 years ago today, two police officers were murdered(memorial cross pictured) by two brothers who had poached just two pheasants and a jay? Source: "both admitted their guilt, and said that they were returning home after shooting two pheasants and a jay" [1]
Comment: If this gets promoted I'd like it to be held for 11 December to tie in with the anniversary... MIDI (talk) 21:05, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Created by MIDI (talk). Self-nominated at 21:05, 23 November 2021 (UTC).[reply]
Overall: Shame this won't make December 11, it's a fine piece of work. I notice the source says "I have been and killed two plicemen" and you corrected the spelling - do you think the source was wrong, this wasn't the dialect? GRuban (talk) 20:24, 13 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, @GRuban:. I suspect it's a typo – in the source, there is an errant mid-sentence double space so I'm inclined to think it was introduced when transcribing. That said, I've found another source which has a slightly different wording of the quote, but without the [mis]spelling, so I've added that in. In terms of the hook:
Either of those will do; I have the faintest preference for ALT1 (assuming this doesn't take another month to appear on DYK!). --GRuban (talk) 14:52, 15 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]