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A fact from Yemi Mobolade appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 June 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Yemi Mobolade is the first Black person and the first non-Republican to be elected the mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado?

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

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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) 02:27, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Mobolade in 2019

... that Lagos-born Yemi Mobolade (pictured) is a minister, restaurant entrepreneur, and mayor-elect of Colorado Springs, Colorado?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Kay Moonsamy
- Comment: He's an interesting guy and this hook is the "throw it all in there" variety. I'll try to think of hook-y alts.

Created by Muboshgu (talk). Self-nominated at 04:34, 17 May 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Yemi Mobolade; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing:
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: - possible WP:CLOP

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: - Not done
Overall: @Muboshgu: Good article. Though, you could probably create a hook of Yemi being the first black and non-republican mayor elected to the city. Also, earwig reports what looks to seem like WP:CLOP though I could be wrong. Also needs QPQ. Onegreatjoke (talk) 00:47, 18 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Onegreatjoke, QPQ and ALT1 provided. I also checked into the CLOP. Some terms have to be repeated, but my rewordings decreased Earwig's percentage from 20% to 9.9%. – Muboshgu (talk) 15:27, 18 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- ALT1 ... that Yemi Mobolade (pictured) is the first Black person and non-Republican elected mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado?

Better. Onegreatjoke (talk) 19:01, 18 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ethnic heritage

He's of Yoruba heritage, isn't he? If so, we should add this basic information to the article, in order to help make it more properly encyclopedic. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 00:20, 18 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Only if we can support that with a reliable source. – Muboshgu (talk) 15:31, 18 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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