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A fact from Five Bullets appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 February 2026 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the author of Five Bullets was unaware for a year that Fear and Fury was also being written about the same 1984 shooting, and for the same publishing house?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2026/February. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Fear and Fury.

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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. You can locate your hook here. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by TechnoSquirrel69 (talk) 16:27, 27 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

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... that the authors of Five Bullets (2026) and Fear and Fury (2026) were unaware for at least a year that they were writing about the same 1984 shooting for the same publishing house?

Source: Segal 2026

- Reviewed: Bernadine Anderson and 2004 Alabama Amendment 2
- Comment: A lot of text is copied between the two versions, but if you split it up equally, there's 1500B of original prose in each pretty easily.

Created by Theleekycauldron (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 80 past nominations.

theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 00:00, 26 January 2026 (UTC).Reply

New enough, long enough. Well-sourced, neutral, BLP-compliant, and no obvious copyright issues. Presentable. Hook cited, short enough, interesting. Book cover images permitted per fair use. QPQ done, no other issues come to mind. Mariamnei (talk) 12:41, 26 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Theleekycauldron and Mariamnei: I assume the quote in the source supporting this hook is "Williams was surprised to learn, a year into his research, that his Goetz book had company." Maybe this is splitting hairs a bit, but this doesn't verify that Thompson was also "at least a year" into writing her book. Can we rephrase to avoid creating that implication? —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 02:58, 27 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

This is a little wishywashy, but that article also says that Thompson pivoted to Goetz around 2021, while Williams started writing "a few years" before 2026, which sounds like Thompson got there first. If they learned of each other at the same time, that would suggest that it's at least a year. I can try and nail down the dates more definitively. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 03:12, 27 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

Ah, screw it.

ALT0a: ... that the author of Five Bullets (2026) was unaware for a year that Fear and Fury (2026) was also being written about the same 1984 shooting, for the same publishing house?

Ended up being shorter, too! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 03:16, 27 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

Sounds good to me. Mariamnei (talk) 08:46, 27 January 2026 (UTC)Reply