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 Kingsif ( talk) 05:06, 16 December 2022 (UTC) reply

• ... that Sonia Levitin was inspired to write Boom Town after reading a historical reference to a California girl who baked $11,000 worth of pies during the Gold Rush? Source: "After reading a reference to a young lady who used a frying pan to bake eleven thousand dollars' worth of pies during the Gold Rush, Levitin wrote a sequel to Nine for California. In Boom Town" from "Sonia Levitin". Authors and Artists for Young Adults vol. 48 (2003). Via Gale In Context: Biography; and "A young lady who learned to improvise baked $11,000 worth of pies in a small iron skillet" from Warren A. Beck and David A. Williams, California: A History of the Golden State (New York: Doubleday, 1972), 147.
  • ALT1: ... that Sonia Levitin's Boom Town includes a recipe for gooseberry pie? Source: "Readers inspired by the baking business will find Amanda's recipe for gooseberry pie overlaid on a California map on the endpapers" from Margaret A. Bush, review of Boom Town in The Horn Book Magazine 74, no. 2 (March–April 1998): 215, via Gale Academic OneFile.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Tuệ Tĩnh
  • Comment: Running the page through Earwig triggers what looks like copyvio, but if you look closely you'll see it's pinging the Amazon sale page, and the overlaps are primarily just the Wikipedia page's "Critical reception" section quoting book reviews that are also quoted by the Amazon page.

Created by P-Makoto ( talk). Self-nominated at 07:03, 29 November 2022 (UTC). reply

• Charming book and well-written article. New enough and long enough. Satisfies WP:NBOOK. Hook is interesting and cited using reliable sources. Article is well-supported and neutrally phrased. No copyvio detected - quoted material is appropriately cited, enclosed in quotation marks, and distinctive enough that it should not be paraphrased. QPQ completed. Good to go. The first proposed hook is a more intriguing factoid, so I recommend ALT0. Topshelver ( talk) 23:01, 1 December 2022 (UTC) reply
• @ P-Makoto and Topshelver: Is there a reason the article says "allegedly", but the hook doesn't? theleekycauldron ( talk • contribs) (she/her) 11:54, 15 December 2022 (UTC) reply

@ Theleekycauldron: Good question; I don't really remember. The Authors and Artists for Young Adults source doesn't seem to have that ambivalence. I've changed the page so it doesn't have that word anymore. P-Makoto ( talk) 17:49, 15 December 2022 (UTC) reply