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A fact from WAQX-FM appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 April 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that one of the original co-owners of New York state radio station WAQX-FM did much of the construction himself?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2022/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/WAQX-FM.

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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 Theleekycauldron (talk) 05:32, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that one of the original co-owners of New York state radio station WAQX-FM did much of the construction himself? Source: https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1970s/1978/RR-1978-10-13.pdf p42
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ramona Lubo
- Comment: DYKcheck will not flag as a 5x because of very old (2013) revisions that were crufty and unsourced. There were 372 chars readable prose prior to my edits, and there are now 2,860.

5x expanded by Sammi Brie (talk). Self-nominated at 08:34, 17 March 2022 (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: Article was nominated within 7 days of being 5× expanded. It is well-sourced and uses inline citations, with neutral coverage of its topic and no copyright violations according to Earwig. The hook is quite interesting and stated in the prose while being backed by a reliable source. QPQ requirement met. This one is good to go. Aria1561 (talk) 17:32, 18 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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