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A fact from Ken Goldin appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 August 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Ken Goldin has sold more than US$1.3 billion in collectibles?

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

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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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 12:17, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Ken Goldin has sold over US$1.3 billion in collectibles?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Oliver Golden
- Comment: I'm a few days tardy with the nom because I forgot to get it done before going out of town for the weekend, but it got to size in the time period.

Created by Muboshgu (talk), Pasdue (talk), Alansohn (talk), and TulsaPoliticsFan (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 535 past nominations.

– Muboshgu (talk) 01:13, 7 July 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 eligibility:

Cited:
Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Can you identify the source(s) for the hook and cite the relevant excerpt(s). Very likely I missed it among the multiple cites for that sentence. Thanks. —Bagumba (talk) 19:18, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I will look at this today. I didn't write that part of the article and I didn't check it before my nom. I may have to rewrite and provide a new hook. – Muboshgu (talk) 15:40, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Updating you here Bagumba, I should have taken more time to verify this myself before nominating, but I was traveling over July 4. Not an excuse. His website says as collectors ourselves who have sold over $2B in collectibles, which of course won't verify our hook. I can't otherwise find "$2 billion". I will rewrite the article this weekend, culling low quality sources and adding a couple of better ones I've found, and propose a solid hook. – Muboshgu (talk) 16:04, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I cut cruft. This source says he has sold $1.3 billion, so I'm changing the hook to that Bagumba. – Muboshgu (talk) 00:10, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Muboshgu: The lead conflicts, saying that it's the company with $1.3B: ... his company, Goldin Auctions, which has sold $1.3 billion in memorabilia related to sports, history, and pop culture. The body is also ambiguous with "Goldin" (i.e. Ken Goldin or Goldin Auctions?) whether it's him or the company w/ $1.3B: In 2012, Goldin established Goldin Auctions.[ Goldin has auctioned more than $1.3 billion worth of collectibles, including sports memorabilia and historical artifacts.—Bagumba (talk) 22:27, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Bagumba: apologies for the delay, I've been a bit distracted lately. I'm correcting the lead to make it clear that it covers his entire career. Patch says Throughout his career, Goldin has sold more than $1.3 billion in sports, history and pop culture memorabilia. Also this source (not in the article yet but I'll add it) says Goldin himself has sold more than $ 1.3 billion in memorabilia, so I think it passes V. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:26, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hook is now consistent with the article text and cited sources.—Bagumba (talk) 10:15, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]