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 Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 10:24, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

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• ... that La Poutine Week is the world's largest poutine festival, with 700 restaurants serving 350,000 people? Source: The Suburban "La Poutine Week is back" "La Poutine Week has become the largest poutine festival across the world, with 350,000 yearly participants". and Cult MTL "La Poutine Week is on!" "Of the 700+ restaurants in Canada that are participating in la Poutine Week, over 120 of them are in Montreal."
  • ALT1: ... that the decentralized nature of La Poutine Week protected the food festival from the COVID-19 pandemic? Source: Montreal Gazette "A Montreal-born, Canada-wide pizza party is imminent" "With its decentralized approach, Adam and Rassam unintentionally pandemic-proofed their festivals and that gave Canadians something to do during an otherwise dismal year"
  • ALT2: ... that IBM supercomputer Watson created poutines for La Poutine Week? Source: Toronto Star "Poutine inventions offer new wheys to eat your curds" ProQuest 1650084755 "Watson helped a team of chefs develop five new poutine recipes based on some of the largest ethnic populations and taste preferences in Toronto, which will be showcased at a La Poutine Week tasting event"
  • ALT3: ... that an argument over hamburgers led to the world's largest poutine festival? Source: Montreal Gazette "La Poutine Week plays around with a classic; From plantains to pork filet, restaurants push the boundaries" ProQuest 1864523449 "The founders of the greasy week of festivities, Na'eem Adam and Thierry Rassam, came up with the idea as a followup to their wildly successful Le Burger Week (held each September). The two met through friends at a restaurant and got into a heated discussion about the city's best burger." and as per ALT0 for largest poutine festival.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Parel Relief
  • Comment: Special occasion to run for 1 February, the first day of the 10th edition of the festival. I prefer ALT0 or ALT1.

Created by Reidgreg (talk). Self-nominated at 23:17, 1 January 2022 (UTC).

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.

Overall: Article long and new enough, well-sourced, well-written. Earwig picks up nothing above quotations. Each hook is cited and interesting, with no other eligibility problems. I'm actually partial to ALT2 and ALT3, but all are good and I'm happy for the promotor to make the final call. A thorough QPQ was done. Looks great, and good to go for 1 February (well in time!). Chocmilk03 (talk) 03:03, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

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Promoting the main hook (ALT0) to Prep 7 as a special occasion hook for February 1. – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 10:24, 28 January 2022 (UTC)