Talk:Helmac
Add topicLatest comment: 2 months ago by GGOTCC in topic Did you know nomination
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 | A fact from Helmac appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 May 2026 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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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. Track your hook after promotion. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by GGOTCC (talk) 03:23, 19 May 2026 (UTC)
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- ... that Nicholas McKay formed the Helmac Products Corporation in 1956 to manufacture and sell his invention: the lint roller?
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5x expanded by Ayji (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.
Ayji (talk) 19:00, 26 April 2026 (UTC).
Article is new enough and recently expanded. Hook factoid is interesting and verified in the HFN source, cited inline. QPQ is not yet needed, and copyvio check seems clear (there is a 20% score from a direct quotation but that is fine), so good to go. Juxlos (talk) 03:23, 29 April 2026 (UTC)
