A fact from Maija Perho appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 May 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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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 Kingsif (talk) 19:44, 18 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
... that Finnish politician Maija Perho(pictured) encouraged future president Sauli Niinistö to join the National Coalition Party in the 1960s? Source: "Maija Riitta Perho ... encouraged Sauli Niinistö to join the student organisation of the National Coalition Party of Finland in 1968." [1]
Created by DanCherek (talk). Self-nominated at 20:01, 29 April 2021 (UTC).[reply]
The president of Finland is a nonpartisan position. It would be more relevant to mention him being the party leader during the late 90s (and that she served as the party secretary around the same time). Joofjoof (talk) 06:22, 30 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Overall: Approve ALT0. ALT1 is not approved because the article doesn't mention that Sauli became chair of the party, thus I have struck it out. I'm fine with mentioning that Perho recruited the future president into the party, even if the president is a non-partisan position, as presidents seem to be elected under a party banner. I support adding the exact year of Niinisto's recruitment (1968) instead of "in the 1960s" to the hook. Ping me if there are any concerns. Z1720 (talk) 21:05, 15 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Approve ALT0. ALT1 is not approved because the article doesn't mention that Sauli became chair of the party, thus I have struck it out. I'm fine with mentioning that Perho recruited the future president into the party, even if the president is a non-partisan position, as presidents seem to be elected under a party banner. I support adding the exact year of Niinisto's recruitment (1968) instead of "in the 1960s" to the hook. Ping me if there are any concerns. Z1720 (talk) 21:05, 15 May 2021 (UTC)