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Just a heads up that I nominated the Sakhela Buhlungu article for the DYK section on Wikipedia's main page, since it has been expanded fivefold in the last week. The nomination page is here: Template:Did you know nominations/Sakhela Buhlungu, if you want to participate in the process. -- Patar knight - chat/contributions 08:21, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
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On 16 February 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sakhela Buhlungu, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Sakhela Buhlungu's anti-corruption efforts at the University of Fort Hare led to a failed assassination attempt that killed his bodyguard? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sakhela Buhlungu. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Sakhela Buhlungu), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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