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A fact from Michael M. Thomas appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 August 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that it took over a decade for Michael M. Thomas to secure a publisher for his eighth novel, which was rejected by approximately 25 publishing houses?
A fact from Michael M. Thomas appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 August 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that it took more than a decade for Michael M. Thomas to secure a publisher for his eighth novel, which was rejected by approximately 25 publishing houses?
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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:35, 24 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
... that it took over a decade for Michael M. Thomas to secure a publisher for his eighth novel, which was rejected by approximately 25 publishing houses? Source: The New York Observer
ALT1:... that Charlotte Curtis described Michael M. Thomas' early works as "extremely unkind to the rich and fashionable" and magazine articles as "indulg[ing] in gratuitously cruel people-bashing"? Source: The New York Times
Comment: Eligible per Rule 1d, because it is only scheduled to appear in the "Recent Deaths" section of ITN and not as a bold link.
5x expanded by Bloom6132 (talk). Self-nominated at 20:52, 17 August 2021 (UTC).[reply]
Long enough, eligible and the hook (ALT0) caught my attention; it's sourced and appropriate. I'm not liking some possible minor close paraphrasing in the article, here, with "Buckley School, where he was an editor of the literary magazine" and "and served on the boards of 20th Century Fox and the Los Angeles Rams". (The rest of what Earwig suggests is just quotes and things like institution names that can't be rewritten.) Otherwise, this is looking great. — Bilorv (talk) 00:33, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Bilorv: thanks for the review! I've tweaked the two sentences – hope that's better now. —Bloom6132 (talk) 01:30, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
