Template:Did you know nominations/2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 18:44, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election

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... that the 2023 election of the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives was the first in 100 years to require multiple ballots?
ALT1 ... that the January 2023 election of the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives was the longest speaker election since December 1859 – February 1860?
- Reviewed: Claiming the seventh DYK credit of nine from the nine-article hook at Template:Did you know nominations/Arellano Chiefs basketball
- Comment: There were a few thousand edits made to this page during the week. Digging deep into the history, this is the pre-expansion version of December 23, with 4498 characters of prose. That would require an article size of 22,490 for a full 5x, and as of this moment, it is 22,978.

5x expanded by Muboshgu (talk), Davide King (talk), Novemberjazz (talk), ElijahPepe (talk), CX Zoom (talk), and Natg 19 (talk). Nominated by Muboshgu (talk) at 16:13, 7 January 2023 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

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:

@Muboshgu: Article seems good. You could probably do some more expansion while also cutting down the lead to four paragraphs per MOS:LEAD. But this can still pass I believe. Onegreatjoke (talk) 22:15, 7 January 2023 (UTC)