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A fact from Trans Canada Microwave appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 July 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Trans-Canada Skyway made Hockey Night in Canada possible?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Trans Canada Microwave.

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I moved the Importance variable from Start class to Stub class because this article lacks much text. Jimj wpg (talk) 20:25, 8 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination[edit]

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 MeegsC (talk) 20:30, 18 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the Trans-Canada Skyway was the longest microwave relay in the world, making possible Hockey Night in Canada? Source: https://www.itu.int/newsarchive/wtsa2000/english/media/timeline.pdf

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ben Purse
Comment: DKY Check says last article was only 350 chars, but it's not counting bullets so I put it closer to 1k.

5x expanded by Maury Markowitz (talk). Self-nominated at 12:20, 29 June 2021 (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 eligibility:

Cited:
Interesting:
Other problems:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Good to go eh? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:18, 30 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Hawkeye7 and Maury Markowitz: I saw this in the approved list and I think this can be hookier, possibly going in the final spot as a quirky hook. What about:

ALT1: ... that the Trans-Canada Skyway made Hockey Night in Canada possible?
ALT2: ... that the Trans-Canada Skyway allowed carolers from across Canada to sing together on television?

Thoughts? Z1720 (talk) 13:28, 12 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm certainly good with ALT1. But I did change it to Skyway because I think that is even cooler sounding. I'm still waiting on the official citation from CBC archives for the second one though, so I think ALT1 is the way to go. Maury Markowitz (talk) 14:06, 12 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

My opinion is that Trans Canada Microwave is more likely to catch the reader's attention because many will think of the microwave machine, causing them to click on the hook to find out how a microwave made a television program possible. However, as the nominator I will give deference to you. Z1720 (talk) 15:57, 12 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

ALT1 approved. I'm not seeing the reference to Christmas carols in the source [1] for ALT2. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:36, 12 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]