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check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Iowa's Matchstick Marvels Museum has large models created out of thousands of matchsticks that are glued one at a time?
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... that the Matchstick Marvels Museum in Iowa has large models (video clip featured) created out of thousands of matchsticks which are glued one at a time?
Comment: One of the books is self-published by a company named Colorfx, but the
author is an expert in things that have to do with Iowa, his books have some reliable coverage such as this
one, and the book is held in libraries (I even checked my copy out from a library).
I’m not sure what to use in place of (pictured) or if I still use it with a video. I did ask another DYK contributor on their talk page, but I never received a response for some reason. I’m hoping that it was just looked over on accident, but as someone with high functioning autism, I get highly frustrated when it appears that I’m being ignored for no good reason (story of life in school and sometimes now in real life).
SL93 (
talk)
01:55, 24 August 2020 (UTC)reply
SL93, sorry for the delay, I'm having trouble with the inbox on a new laptop. I think you just mean do we use something besides (picture)? I think video clip featured sound good...we've used a couple of video clips in the past couple months, let me check what we used on them.
—valereee (
talk)
12:47, 24 August 2020 (UTC)reply
SL93, if the "someone else" you attempted to contact was
in this edit, please note that attempted pings such as that do not work. A successful ping requires that you mention a user and leave your signature all in the same edit. So she wasn't ignoring you, because she never received a ping. (And the other user may have thought that you were just asking the attempted pingee rather than him.)
MANdARAX•XAЯAbИAM22:56, 29 August 2020 (UTC)reply
A fact from Matchstick Marvels Museum appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 September 2020 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Iowa's Matchstick Marvels Museum has large models created out of thousands of matchsticks that are glued one at a time?
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Museums, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
museums 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.MuseumsWikipedia:WikiProject MuseumsTemplate:WikiProject MuseumsMuseums articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the
United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions.
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.
... that the Matchstick Marvels Museum in Iowa has large models (video clip featured) created out of thousands of matchsticks which are glued one at a time?
Comment: One of the books is self-published by a company named Colorfx, but the
author is an expert in things that have to do with Iowa, his books have some reliable coverage such as this
one, and the book is held in libraries (I even checked my copy out from a library).
I’m not sure what to use in place of (pictured) or if I still use it with a video. I did ask another DYK contributor on their talk page, but I never received a response for some reason. I’m hoping that it was just looked over on accident, but as someone with high functioning autism, I get highly frustrated when it appears that I’m being ignored for no good reason (story of life in school and sometimes now in real life).
SL93 (
talk)
01:55, 24 August 2020 (UTC)reply
SL93, sorry for the delay, I'm having trouble with the inbox on a new laptop. I think you just mean do we use something besides (picture)? I think video clip featured sound good...we've used a couple of video clips in the past couple months, let me check what we used on them.
—valereee (
talk)
12:47, 24 August 2020 (UTC)reply
SL93, if the "someone else" you attempted to contact was
in this edit, please note that attempted pings such as that do not work. A successful ping requires that you mention a user and leave your signature all in the same edit. So she wasn't ignoring you, because she never received a ping. (And the other user may have thought that you were just asking the attempted pingee rather than him.)
MANdARAX•XAЯAbИAM22:56, 29 August 2020 (UTC)reply