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A fact from Snake Saturday appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 March 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Missouri's annual Snake Saturday parade originally began in a hotel parking lot with only four floats?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/March. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Snake Saturday.

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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 Bruxton talk 18:33, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Missouri's annual Snake Saturday parade originally began in a hotel parking lot with only four floats? Source: [1]
- ALT1: ... that Missouri's annual Snake Saturday parade originally began in a hotel parking lot with temperatures of only 10 °F (−12 °C)? Source: [2]
- ALT2: ... that Missouri's annual Snake Saturday parade and festival event has donated $1.8 million to local charities? Source: [3] [4]
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Threepence (New Zealand coin)

Moved to mainspace by Bsoyka (talk). Self-nominated at 03:57, 12 March 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Snake Saturday; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

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Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
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Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: [5] is not a reliable source, and looks primary to me. Wolverine XI ^{(talk to me)} 04:31, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Wolverine XI: Self-published sources aren't immediately considered unreliable per WP:SELFSOURCE, but alright. I've changed the source for ALT0 to an independent archived newspaper article and striked out ALT1 as I can't find another source that has the exact temperature, only those saying it was very cold. Bsoyka (t • c • g) 13:14, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Bsoyka: Please go with the original, as it's more interesting. Wolverine XI ^{(talk to me)} 06:41, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Wolverine XI: Sorry, not sure what you mean. Could you clarify what you mean by the original? Bsoyka (t • c • g) 14:26, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Bsoyka: Strike out alt2 and use the one on top. Wolverine XI ^{(talk to me)} 11:07, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Wolverine XI: We could do that, or we can just leave the options open for whoever promotes this hook to a queue in case one fits better than the other. (Note to the promoter to clarify: ALT0 is preferred if possible.) Per the reviewing instructions though, nothing can happen until you officially approve the nomination with {{subst:DYKtick}}. Bsoyka (t • c • g) 13:03, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We are in WP:QPQ backlog mode. Double reviews are required.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 07:18, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bsoyka has less than 20 nominations, so does not require a second QPQ.--Laun chba ller 10:19, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't really trust the QPQ tool that much because it barely counts 40% of my own nominations. But If the nominator agrees that they have done less than 20 noms this can go forward.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 18:44, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Neither do I, which is why I go through contribution histories.--Laun chba ller 19:30, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If it helps put your minds at ease a bit, I do track my QPQs on this page—each bold article link is one of my nominations. Bsoyka (t • c • g) 23:42, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]