MicroWiki:Did you know/Nominations

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Nominations for Did you know? entries.

Criteria

A good Did you know? entry is:

  1. Well-written: An entry should be easily understandable, engaging, concise, with correct spelling and grammer to match.
  2. Verifiable: An entry should at least have one piece of collaborating evidence, but more fantastical claims may require more supporting sources.
  3. Neutral: An entry shouldn't be written in a way that unfairly glorifies and bolsters a certain party of group.
  4. About something that Happened: An entry should be about something that happened, they should ideally not be solely about etymology or government structure.
  5. Physical: An entry should ideally be about a physical event, something that could have been seen when it happened or tangible after creation.

Process

After reviewing the criteria, an editor should nominate the entry on the nominations page. These nominations can then be commented on, supported, or objected to by other editors, to which the original nominator should take any suggestions and attempt to address them in a respectful and constructive way.

Nominations and their votes will be reviewed three times a year by administrators at the end of April, August, and December, at which point four will be chosen to be featured on the main page alongside two entries that had been previously chosen. This is due to the abundance of possible facts that could be submitted, and to make sure that both new and old ones have a chance of being shown.

If your nomination is accepted, good job! If your nomination wasn't accepted, please consider reworking and tweaking it to give it a better chance in the next cycle. Not many entries will be chosen, and to prevent an endless list of nominated facts each user can only nominate one fact per cycle.


Nominations

Nominate or vote for a Factoid!

...that Northwood-Oregon was mentioned during the 92nd graduation commencement of Clay High School in 2022?

Nominator: 𝄞 StrubberContributions 20:44, 9 March 2023 (UTC) Reply[reply]
Comment by nominator: Probably the coolest thing i've ever finagled.
Source: Can be found at 1:09:10 or the selected time in this video of the commencement.
  • Support – interesting, fact mentioned in article, and citation correct. ZabëlleNB ♥︎ (formerly Z Luna Skye) (talk | edits) 23:18, 15 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]


...that the word micropatrology was coined in 1973 by the International Micropatriological Society?

Nominator: ZabëlleNB ♥︎ (formerly Z Luna Skye) (talk | edits) 20:48, 9 March 2023 (UTC) Reply[reply]
Comment by nominator: I think this is fascinating as most micronationalists seem to think that it was coined in 1995, not two decades prior!
Source: Subversive Sovereignty: Parodic Representations of Micropatrias Enclaved by the United Kingdom, page 51
  • Support - Very nice was suprised to see this nominated so quickly after the rework of all this honestly.
SUPPORT - The Republic of Satoshi (talk) 16:54, 26 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

...that Saspearian did not have a national flag until two years later from its foundation after a flag contest was held?

Nominator: Emperor Anthony I (talk) 00:43, 10 March 2023 (UTC) Reply[reply]
Source: Flag Contest
  • @Emperor Anthony I: Comment - I think that this is a good fact, but I think it's a bit too long. Can I suggest changing it to "...that Saspearian didn't have a national flag until a flag contest was held two years after its foundation?" It makes it more succinct and retains all important information.
  • @Strubber: Thank you for the feedback! Technically, Saspearian celebrated its second year of foundation on October 20, 2019, while the flag contest was ongoing, but it would be accurate to say that Saspearian had its national flag after the flag contest was held. I have shortened the nomination; while slightly different, I think it still works. Emperor Anthony I (talk) 04:52, 5 June 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Support for Strubber's alt hook. Good article, interesting fact, and cited. ZabëlleNB ♥︎ (formerly Z Luna Skye) (talk | edits) 23:18, 15 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

...that the Imperial Communist Empire of The Grandest of Korzanastan Declared war on Panama though nobody won or were injured/killed due to panama not knowing that korzanastan declared war on them?

Nominator: MARSTHEMAN99 9:38, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
Comment by nominator: it’s true and we say that we won though we didn’t
Source: Korzanastan files on the page about Korzanastan

...That the name of the nation of Bolgajna also originates from the Slovak, Kun and Szigetközian Hungarian languages?

Nominator: G.Márton 10:42, 27 June 2023 (UTC) Reply[reply]
Source: The 1930 scientific journal Earth and Human and the Szigetközi dialect dictionary and Slovak-Hungarian dictionary.

that the name Tajuri comes from the name of a street in Brazil?

Foi uma idéia pensada pelo Príncipe de Tajuri, em que definiu o nome inalterável da micronação de Tajuri! KaiqueM (talk) 00:19, 11 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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N Oranasia (talk) 13:49, 24 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]