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A fact from Camp Lakeview appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 December 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Minnesota and Wisconsin National Guards may have shot cannonballs across the Mississippi River at each other during artillery competitions at Camp Lakeview?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2025/December. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Camp Lakeview.

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The result was: promoted by HurricaneZeta (talk) 13:55, 5 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

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... that the Minnesota and Wisconsin National Guards may have shot cannonballs across the Mississippi River at each other during artillery competitions at Camp Lakeview?

Source: "Once Shot Up, Land Now Needs Cleanup". Star Tribune. 23 October 2011. p. B7. Retrieved 2 December 2025.

- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Kururin Squash!, Template:Did you know nominations/Hi Walter! I got new gf today!

Created by Darth Stabro (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 57 past nominations.

~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 01:46, 3 December 2025 (UTC).Reply

Will review this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 02:55, 3 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

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: @Darth Stabro: The article looks good. Nice work. The only issue is that I don't see the Mississippi River mentioned in the article? BeanieFan11 (talk) 03:07, 3 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

- Lake Pepin is technically part of the Mississippi River; it's just a really, really wide section of it. I can make that more clear. ~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 03:11, 3 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
  - Should be good now. BeanieFan11 (talk) 16:10, 3 December 2025 (UTC)Reply