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A fact from I, Rocket appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 October 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Ray Bradbury's short story "I, Rocket" won an award 76 years after it was first published?

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 20:28, 27 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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alt0: ... that Amazing Stories called "I, Rocket" by Ray Bradbury "the first story ever written in which the viewpoint character and first-person narrator is a fully conscious, intelligent and aware spaceship"?

source:	https://archive.today/20230820234808/https://amazingstories.com/2014/05/rocket-ray-bradbury-introduction-jm-stine/
	"I, Rocket" ... is also the first story ever written in which the viewpoint character and first-person narrator is a fully conscious, intelligent and aware spaceship.

alt1: ... that Ray Bradbury's short story "I, Rocket" won an award 76 years after it was first published?

source:	https://archive.today/20230820234843/https://www.thehugoawards.org/2020/07/1945-retro-hugo-awards-announced/
	1945 Retro-Hugo Awards Announced ... JULY 30, 2020 ... BEST SHORT STORY ... "I, Rocket", by Ray Bradbury (Amazing Stories, May 1944)

reviewed: the fortress unvanquishable, save for sacnoth
comment:
note that alt0 is as long as it is because i wanted to use an attributed quote (without eliding any qualifications) to avoid the issues we generally encounter with hooks stating that the featured subject was the first to do something.
also, personally, i think alt0 is more interesting than alt1, but am offering alt1 in case alt0 is considered too specialist. alt1 is admittedly probably not that interesting to people aware of the retro hugo awards.

created by dying (talk). self-nominated at 23:53, 27 August 2023 (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:

@Dying: Good article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 23:44, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]