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A fact from Charlie Gray appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 September 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Major League Baseball pitcher Charlie Gray was billed as his team's pitcher "of six fingers and six toed fame" and called "a freak" by the Sporting Life?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Charlie Gray.

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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) 13:41, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Major League Baseball pitcher Charlie Gray was billed as his team's pitcher "of six fingers and six toed fame" and called "a freak" by the Sporting Life? Source: David Nemec (2012). The Rank and File of 19th Century Major League Baseball. McFarland. p. 40 ("SL noted that his new manager 'signed a freak for the club.' ...Gray was billed as the club's new pitcher 'of six fingers and six toed fame.' ... cited his main attribute as beng 'known as the six-fingered pitcher.'")
- Reviewed: Missy Gray
- Comment: This was an AfD rescue. The AfD will close shortly.

5x expanded by Cbl62 (talk). Self-nominated at 02:10, 25 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Charlie Gray; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

I'll review this, but per WP:DYKCOMPLETE, only after the AFD is over. ミラP@Miraclepine 03:33, 25 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: Now that the AFD is over, I can finally review this. ミラP@Miraclepine 10:28, 26 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Cbl62: I am trying to learn whether he had six fingers or it was just a nickname? I allso sectioned the article because it looked like a stub. Bruxton (talk) 13:41, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]