Talk:Central Iowa Regional Association of Local Governments

A fact from Central Iowa Regional Association of Local Governments appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 February 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that in 1979, the initials CIRALG were said to "spell power in central Iowa"?

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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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:52, 14 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that in 1979, the initials CIRALG were said to "spell power in central Iowa"? Source: [1]
- ALT1:... that the Central Iowa Regional Association of Local Governments was dismantled after being found to have improperly spent $731,000 in federal funds? Source: [2]

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Band of the National Police of Peru
Comment: A little different fare from me...

Moved to mainspace by Raymie (talk). Self-nominated at 06:18, 5 February 2020 (UTC).[reply]

@Raymie: I'll take this. I have to go somewhere now, but will continue this later. epicgenius (talk) 20:10, 7 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

General eligibility:

New enough:
Long enough:
Other problems: - Just a comment that all of the content seems to be history, but that's fine since this is a historical topic.

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:

Either hook is interesting. For ALT0, I suppose it "spells" power in another interpretation of the word. epicgenius (talk) 20:10, 7 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]