Talk:Simon de Graaff

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A fact from Simon de Graaff appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 June 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that, as minister, Simon de Graaff would receive daily shipments of documents by bicycle?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/June. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Simon de Graaff.

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 15:35, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Simon de Graaff designed and implemented a plan to divide Java in three?

Source: Fasseur, C. "Graaff, Simon de (1861-1948)" (in Dutch). Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands. Archived from the original on 31 October 2019. Retrieved 9 May 2024.

ALT1: ... that, as minister, Simon de Graaff would receive daily shipments of documents by bicycle? Source: Fasseur, C. "Graaff, Simon de (1861-1948)" (in Dutch). Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands. Archived from the original on 31 October 2019. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Terror Train

Created by Crisco 1492 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 662 past nominations.

— Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:19, 10 May 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Date, length, hook, qpq, earwig close paraphrase check works out. I prefer the main hook over ALT1. --Soman (talk) 11:08, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]