A fact from 1997 Ontario teachers' strike appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 October 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that a leaked memo indicating that a government official would receive a bonus payment if she cut $667 million from Ontario's education budget contributed to the 1997 Ontario teachers' strike?
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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.
... that a leaked memo indicating that a government official would receive a bonus payment if she cut $667 million from Ontario's education budget contributed to the 1997 Ontario teachers' strike? Source: Maclean's
"while some schools remained open under the supervision of non-teaching staff, nearly all of the province's 4,742 public schools were closed." → "nearly all of the province's 4,742 public schools were closed, with a few remaining open under the supervision of non-teaching staff."
""foundation of education in the province."" → ""foundation of education in the province"." per MOS:LQ
Done.
As mentioned below, the heavy quoting in the second paragraph borders on overquoting; are there areas where you feel it can be trimmed down/paraphrased without losing the message?
Paraphrased one of the quotes, but it looks like the Earwigs score is also being spiked by some long proper titles of bills and organizations, e.g. Fewer School Boards Act, Ontario Teachers' Federation, etc.
No colon needed after "among leaders of the teachers' unions"
Done.
""...of the opposition on the education front."" → ""...of the opposition on the education front"." per MOS:LQ
Done.
"During and in the aftermath" → "During and after"
An access date is needed on [2] (Crisis? What Crisis?)
Done.
Glasbeek is put in the bibliography section but is actually only referenced once and can probably be moved to the main reflist
Done.
World Socialist Web Site is marked as unreliable on one of my scripts, but since it appears to be referencing basic factual information and not being used for value judgment, I'm ok with it
Images are properly licensed and relevant to the article
I don't particularly love the placement of the Mike Harris photo due to the MOS:SANDWICH issue happening, but I'm also not sure if there's a better place for it
No stability concerns in the revision history
Earwig score is a little high due to attributed direct quotes
Mostly minor prose/MOS things! Putting on hold for now to allow nominator to address comments. — GhostRiver 17:15, 11 October 2021 (UTC)Reply
@GhostRiver: Hi, thanks for taking on this GAR. Response to your notes above. Morgan695 (talk) 21:00, 11 October 2021 (UTC)Reply
Looks all good now, happy to pass! — GhostRiver 21:29, 11 October 2021 (UTC)Reply
Article and hook meet criteria, and both are very interesting! Good to go. ezlev (user/tlk/ctrbs) 03:03, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
