Talk:Oak Industries

A fact from Oak Industries appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 October 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Oak Industries was the largest American maker of TV tuning dials in 1980?

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Did you know nomination edit

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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 RoySmith (talk) 01:45, 2 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

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... that Oak Industries was the largest American maker of TV tuning dials in 1980? Source: https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780810395022/page/1269/
- ALT1: ... that Oak Industries, originally a manufacturer of electrical switches, started a subscription TV service in the late 1970s and purchased two makers of railroad maintenance equipment in the 1980s? Source: Switches: 0; Subscription TV: 1 ; Railroad maint.: 2 3
- ALT2: ... that products made by Oak Industries included cable TV converters, railway maintenance equipment, optical lasers, and the film Psycho II? Sources, in order: Kinsman and Clifford 1984 (offline) and others; railway equipment (Young 1992 in article); lasers; Psycho
- ALT3: ... that shareholders accused Oak Industries of purposely holding its 1984 annual meeting in a small town in upstate New York to discourage them from attending? Source: [1] (Young 1992 in article)
- Reviewed: Reptilia (manga)

Created by DigitalIceAge (talk) and Sammi Brie (talk). Nominated by DigitalIceAge (talk) at 03:01, 20 September 2022 (UTC).Reply

Contributed ALT2 and ALT3 as well as a QPQ. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 03:50, 20 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

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.

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@DigitalIceAge

good article. QPQ is done, article is new and long enough, and its hook is good. I'm going to assume good faith due to the offline source however Im still approving the hooks due to the fact that it's good. Onegreatjoke (talk) 23:56, 1 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

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