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A fact from Negative pricing appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 April 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that prices can be negative?

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I may have gotten into too much detail on RECs and PTCs, so please feel free to cut that down if it is too detailed for this article. Upjav (talk) 01:23, 4 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet (talk) 05:43, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that prices can be negative? Source: "Negative commodity prices are nothing new" [1]
- ALT1:... that in 1956 the price of onions went negative? Source: "In the 1950s, the US regulators closed the onion futures market on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange as the price of the root vegetable fell into negative territory." [2] "One of the most famous examples of worthless commodities comes from 1956, when traders hoarded onions and then flooded the market with supply, driving prices for a 50-pound bag full of onions down to 10 cents, less than the empty bag was worth."[3]
- ALT2:... that German power prices went negative more than 100 times in 2017? Source: "Prices for electricity in Germany have dipped below zero — meaning customers are being paid to consume power — more than 100 times this year alone, according to EPEX Spot." [4]

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5x expanded by Mx. Granger (talk) and Upjav (talk). Nominated by Mx. Granger (talk) at 19:51, 4 April 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Article has indeed been 5x expanded (317 B of readable prose size to 8199 B). Long enough, neutral, stable, well-sourced. Earwig clocks in at a solid 6.5%. Hooks are interesting and properly cited. I personally think that ALT1 is the hookiest. QPQ taken care of. The only tweak I would suggest is that WP:REFBOMB at the end of the paragraph beginning "In March and April 2020...". Kncny11 ^(shoot) 14:38, 5 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review, and you're right about those refs. I've cleaned them up so it's clear which ones support which sentences. —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 19:00, 5 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]