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A fact from Bank of England £100,000,000 note appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 July 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that £100,000,000 notes known as "Titans" are locked away in the Bank of England?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2019/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bank of England £100,000,000 note.

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Some comments[edit]

I think the biggest problem is there is no lede to the article, see WP:LEDE. Thus, the reader is plunged into the minutiae of things much too quickly. The lede is a useful summary, that can quickly brief the reader.
Another issue is the lack of any history on how these notes came to be. Was there a time when such banknotes had to be backed by gold, and then that changed (around 1914 I would guess) with banknotes used instead becoming greater in denomination with time?
You should give a date for the webpages used as sources where that is mentioned on the page.

I'll keep making more comments as things develop.--Wehwalt (talk) 01:16, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the feedback Wehwalt! I've since acted on the 1st (lede) and 3rd (source dates) bullet points and also submitted the article to be featured as a DYK, however, in terms of the 2nd bullet point, I can't seem to find a site that gives any history on the backing of these notes or how they came to be. In the meantime I'll keep searching. --TheBestEditorInEngland (talk) 17:06, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I will give the article another look whenever you're ready. And I'll see if I can find anything about it--Wehwalt (talk) 19:43, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

DYK (only for future reference)[edit]

Nominated and approved for DYK - Template:Did you know nominations/Bank of England £100,000,000 note — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheBestEditorInEngland (talk • contribs) 16:52, 17 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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) 06:34, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Bank of England £100,000,000 note

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... that the Bank of England prints £100,000,000 notes known as "Titans", however, they do not circulate? Source: "the "titan" - a banknote that promises to pay its bearer £100m." [1]
- ALT1:... that there are £100,000,000 notes known as "Titans" printed by and stored in the Bank of England? Source: "the "titan" - a banknote that promises to pay its bearer £100m". [2]
- ALT2:... that there are £100,000,000 notes known as "Titans" locked away in the Bank of England? Source: "the "titan" - a banknote that promises to pay its bearer £100m". [3]
- ALT3:... that the highest denomination of pound sterling banknote is the £100,000,000 note printed and locked away by the Bank of England? Source: "the "titan" - a banknote that promises to pay its bearer £100m". [4]

Created/expanded by TheBestEditorInEngland (talk). Self-nominated at 21:21, 11 June 2019 (UTC).[reply]

No Copyvio, expanded 5x fine. No close paraphrasing. I much prefer ALT1, as the simple idea of the note existing is plenty hooky. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 09:47, 17 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]