Talk:Tom Forrestall

A fact from Tom Forrestall appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 January 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Canadian artist Tom Forrestall spent six months painting his own car?

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Did you know nomination

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) 18:46, 14 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the Canadian artist Tom Forrestall spent six months painting his car? Source: The hook fact has 3 citations in the article, including the exhibition catalogue, which is not online. From the Mercedes-Benz press release: "For the six months while Forrestall meticulously painted the car, the public was invited to watch his progress and in the late summer of 2014, the car was officially unveiled at the dealership."[1] From the caption to image 7 in this photo story: "Forrestall worked on the car for six months." [2]
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bothie (dog)

Moved to mainspace by HazelAB (talk). Self-nominated at 13:58, 10 January 2023 (UTC).[reply]

New enough, long, enough, neutral, well referenced, with no close paraphrasing from online sources. I love the hook, which is cited and verifiable. QPQ is done. Nice work! 97198 (talk) 07:55, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]