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A fact from Randall Lane (journalist) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 September 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that The New York Times named Forbes magazine editor Randall Lane one of the 922 most powerful people in America?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Randall Lane (journalist).

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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 Yoninah (talk) 12:46, 21 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Randall Lane, editor of Forbes magazine, created the Forbes 30 Under 30 list?</ Source: "He returned to Forbes in 2011 and helped focus on young entrepreneurs by introducing a Forbes 30 Under 30 and also expanded the company’s famous lists to include a Philanthropy and The Just 100 issue." [1]
- ALT1: ~~... that Randall Lane, editor of Forbes magazine, once compared some Wall Street traders to users of steroids in the MLB?~~ Source: [2]
- ALT2: ~~... that Randall Lane is the Chief Content Officer and editor of Forbes Magazine?~~ Source: [3]

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Alvin Clark (schooner)

Moved to mainspace by TheSandDoctor (talk) and Coffee (talk). Nominated by TheSandDoctor (talk) and Coffee (talk) at 00:07, 20 September 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Interesting life on good sources, no copyvio obvious. I prefer ALT2, and don't like ALT1 much because of the abbreviation MLB. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:20, 20 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Gerda Arendt: What about

ALT3: ... that Randall Lane, editor of Forbes magazine, was identified by The New York Times as one of the 922 most powerful people in America?" (source) as a replacement alt for ALT1? I could also just expand ALT1 if desired. I personally prefer (in order) ALT0 and the suggested one here, and ALT2. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 23:33, 20 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the offer, - I say ALT0 and ALT3 like this:

ALT0a: ... that Randall Lane, editor of Forbes magazine, created the Forbes 30 Under 30 list?

ALT3a: ... that Randall Lane was identified by The New York Times as one of the 922 most powerful people in America, as editor of Forbes magazine?"

I approve all but ALT1, but we should strike more, to make life easier for the prep builder. Your turn ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:29, 21 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Overciting in lead[edit]

Please remove all those uncontroversial cites from the lead and insert them at the appropriate places in the body of the article. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 12:44, 21 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]