A fact from Poverty in ancient Rome appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 August 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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The result was: promoted by Z1720 (talk) 00:12, 19 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
Interesting:
QPQ: Done.
Overall: Everything appears good. QPQ done. AGF on the source which I can't access. BeanieFan11 (talk) 15:19, 11 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Just as a note the wrong source is listed above, it's actually the source Poverty in the Roman World which is referenced in the article. I am able to confirm that page 95 of that book does indeed verify the text in the hook: The association of the poor with dogs recurs in different forms in other epigrams of Martial. It then goes on to describe various things "the pauper" will do that is like a dog. The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome is available through the Wikipedia Library and is in a searchable form and does not, to the best that I can tell, mention anything about comparing the poor with dogs, but the Poverty in the Roman World source absolutely does. - Aoidh (talk) 11:07, 13 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Graearms: I added a citation needed tag to the article. Can you resolve this? Thanks, Z1720 (talk) 23:32, 18 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I just fixed it. Thank you for notifying me of this issue and helping me improve this article. Graearms (talk) 23:37, 18 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]