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A fact from WZHR appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 September 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the owners of Florida radio station WPAS blamed an Associated Press teletype machine for starting a fire that burned it down?

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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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:38, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the owners of Florida radio station WPAS blamed an Associated Press teletype machine for starting a fire that burned it down? Source: [1]
- ALT1:... that a disc jockey at a competing radio station burglarized Florida station WPAS and stole equipment that was found at the other station three years later? Source: various, most succinct is [2]

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Hermann Deiters

5x expanded by Raymie (talk). Self-nominated at 04:26, 19 September 2020 (UTC).[reply]

New and long enough, Earwig finds no copyvios, QPQ done. Once sentence near the beginning of the History section needs a cite. First hook checks out. Second hook needs some thought—the source says the defendant wasn't convicted due to the statute of limitations expiring; see WP:SUSPECT. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 08:17, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@John P. Sadowski (NIOSH): Citation done. That citation might get replaced if the FCC can get me the history card set for the station which should exist but isn't uploaded; I have an email in for that, but it shouldn't matter. The disc jockey in question is not the newspaper owner (Webb); he confessed to the crime in 1973, though the statute of limitations had expired when he made the confession. Raymie (t • c) 08:31, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Raymie: Ah, I see, thanks for correcting me on that. I think parts of both hooks could be combined to make it more interesting; the elements that the station was burglarized after a fire, and that the owner got off on statute of limitations, are interesting elements. Otherwise both ALTs would be fine. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 00:07, 21 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@John P. Sadowski (NIOSH): That'd be a little too long, in my opinion. Raymie (t • c) 00:21, 21 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, both hooks check out then. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 01:32, 21 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]