A fact from Ken Lyotier appeared on Wikipedia's
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Did you know... that Vancouver-based
binner turned social entrepreneur Ken Lyotier took the
2010 Winter Olympics torch with him so that other binners could take photographs with it?
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The result was: promoted by
SL93 (
talk) 00:57, 5 January 2022 (UTC)reply
Created by
Ktin (
talk). Self-nominated at 03:21, 23 December 2021 (UTC).reply
New enough, long enough, and adequately sourced. QPQ done. Earwig found only proper noun phrases as similar text, not problematic. Interesting hook, adequately sourced. I wasn't previously familiar with the word "binning" (in my vernacular it would be "dumpster diving") and thought it sounded British rather than Canadian, but if it's the word the Globe & Mail used then it's the right word for the hook. Good to go. —
David Eppstein (
talk) 00:43, 27 December 2021 (UTC)reply
A fact from Ken Lyotier appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 January 2022 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Vancouver-based
binner turned social entrepreneur Ken Lyotier took the
2010 Winter Olympics torch with him so that other binners could take photographs with it?
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to
join the project and
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Canada on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
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This article is within the scope of WikiProject Vancouver, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
Vancouver,
British Columbia,
Canada and the surrounding metropolitan area on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.VancouverWikipedia:WikiProject VancouverTemplate:WikiProject VancouverVancouver articles
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
SL93 (
talk) 00:57, 5 January 2022 (UTC)reply
Created by
Ktin (
talk). Self-nominated at 03:21, 23 December 2021 (UTC).reply
New enough, long enough, and adequately sourced. QPQ done. Earwig found only proper noun phrases as similar text, not problematic. Interesting hook, adequately sourced. I wasn't previously familiar with the word "binning" (in my vernacular it would be "dumpster diving") and thought it sounded British rather than Canadian, but if it's the word the Globe & Mail used then it's the right word for the hook. Good to go. —
David Eppstein (
talk) 00:43, 27 December 2021 (UTC)reply