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A fact from Battle of the Frogs appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 July 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the 1754 Battle of the Frogs was commemorated on banknotes (detail pictured)?

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

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The result was: promoted by Lightburst talk 02:44, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Detail from banknote

... that the 1754 Battle of the Frogs was commemorated on banknotes (detail pictured)?

Source: The frog vignette appears on the $1, $2, $3, $5 and $10 notes in the lower right corner. The old notes reminded everyone that touched them about the then-famous battle of the frogs...

Piano score for the Frog Chorus

- ALT1: ... that an opera based on the Battle of the Frogs (piano score pictured) was compared to the fictional musical Springtime for Hitler? Source: Mr. Brouillard said that the operetta's story line is on the order of Springtime for Hitler, the musical in the Mel Brooks film, The Producers, that is so bad it is funny and becomes a Broadway hit.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Barbara's Rhubarb Bar

Improved to Good Article status by Gobonobo (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 120 past nominations.

gobonobo ⁺ ^c 16:29, 20 June 2024 (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:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article was nominated for DYK within 7 days of reaching Good Article status. Article is over 1,500 words in prose and is well-sourced. Earwig picked up a copyright violation of 44.8% with "violation possible" as a status, but most of the detected violations were just the phrase "Battle of the Frogs" or quotes that were already properly cited. AGF on print sources. ALT0 is a good hook and the image associated is great. Image has no copyright violations as it is public domain. lullabying (talk) 06:41, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Lullabying and Gobonobo: I went to confirm the hook {citation 10) and there is no page number - it was on page 4. Some other sources also have no page numbers. For accuracy can you add the correct page numbers to sources? If it is a matter of multiple pages you could use a system like this {{r|Weaver|p=4}}. I think it is a source=to=text integrity issue per WP:DYKCITE. Lightburst (talk) 00:58, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Lightburst: Thank you for catching that. I've added an inline ref for that sentence from the Paper Money source, which goes into more detail. I've also added page numbers where I could. gobonobo ⁺ ^c 17:27, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Note to the promoting administrator that earwig is not working for me. Lightburst (talk) 02:42, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Number of frog statues

How many statues of frogs are there at the bridge?

Early in the article, we read, ‘known as the "Frog Bridge" for the four enormous copper frogs that perch at each corner.’ Most likely, “each end” is meant, and that would give eight. I myself think of bridges’ having indeed four corners, i.e., two at each end, as in a phrase such as “the SW corner of the bridge.” That would give sixteen, but I am no pontifex.

Later in the article, we read, “The bridge….features four 11-foot (3.4 m) tall copper frogs atop giant concrete spools on either side of the bridge.” Does that give eight again?

Retracting slightly my remark about pontifex, I build the bridge in my imagination with four frogs in total.

Thanks to the people who produced the article. Entertaining.

Walter Turner 217.252.138.207 (talk) 16:02, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@217.252.138.207: Nor a pontifex am I. It should be four frogs, total. Manny, Willy, Windy and Swifty. I've adjusted the wording, hopefully lifting that fog of uncertainty. gobonobo ⁺ ^c 05:55, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]