Talk:Derek Parish

A fact from Derek Parish appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 June 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that NFL player Derek Parish once ate seven pounds (3.2 kg) of steak in one sitting?

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/Derek Parish.

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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) 03:13, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that NFL player Derek Parish once ate seven pounds of steak in one sitting? Source: USA Today
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Dominic Olejniczak

5x expanded by BeanieFan11 (talk). Self-nominated at 23:39, 11 May 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Derek Parish; 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: 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: @BeanieFan11: Well written and well sourced article with an interesting hook. Once QPQ is completed this should be good to go. Newtothisedit (talk) 19:03, 4 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Newtothisedit: Reviewed Template:Did you know nominations/Dominic Olejniczak as a QPQ. BeanieFan11 (talk) 17:00, 27 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
QPQ done. 〜 Festucalex • talk 13:23, 3 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]