Talk:1978 Chicago Marathon

A fact from 1978 Chicago Marathon appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 July 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Mark Stanforth won the 1978 Chicago Marathon despite running the last few miles with blisters?

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Did you know nomination

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 Desertarun (talk) 12:21, 27 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Mark Stanforth won the 1978 Chicago Marathon despite running the last few miles with blisters? Source: [1]

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Lucas Covolan, Template:Did you know nominations/Leeds Tiger
Comment: Mark Stanforth new, 1978 Chicago Marathon 5x expanded. Some overlapping content, but enough unique content in each article

5x expanded by Joseph2302 (talk). Self-nominated at 17:17, 13 July 2021 (UTC).[reply]

all looks good to me - the hook fact is cited in both articles, both qualify for DYK under the terms mentioned above, no prose issues or citations missing, and there's no copyright violation. Good work, thanks. — Amakuru (talk) 14:07, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]