Talk:James Edward Smith (politician)

A fact from James Edward Smith (politician) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 May 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that James Edward Smith won the mayoralty of Toronto by one vote?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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 Theleekycauldron (talk) 02:17, 19 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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James Edward Smith

... that James Edward Smith (pictured) won the mayoralty of Toronto by one vote? Source: "Finally, Smith was nominated and was successful by one vote" [1]
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Michael George Levy

5x expanded by Z1720 (talk). Self-nominated at 01:17, 29 April 2022 (UTC).[reply]

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New enough:
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Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
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QPQ: Done.

Overall: Recently expanded and is long enough. I see no problems with the article grammatically or spelling wise. The image is in the public domain and is pretty good. The hook is very interesting and I always love learning about elections that were decided by small margins. Pretty good job @Z1720: Jon698 (talk) 07:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]