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A fact from Jim Fletcher appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 March2026(check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that, when Jim Fletcher appeared as Jay Gatsby in Gatz, his father– a physician with no acting experience– portrayed Gatsby's father?
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... that when Jim Fletcher played Jay Gatsby in Gatz, his father, a physician with no prior acting experience, commuted from Washington, D.C., to New York City to play Gatsby's father?
Source: And off the stage, Dr. Fletcher is the real-life father of the actor who portrays the title character: downtown New York theater regular Jim Fletcher. For seven years, Dr. Fletcher has commuted from Washington, D.C., to appear in GATZ. The first-time actor says he was offered the role because “they were looking for someone that looked like my son’s father, and I fit.”
ALT1: ... that after Jim Fletcher played an "Indian" in The Wooster Group's adaptation of Troilus and Cressida, an indigenous artist collective invited him to dinner and recruited him as a collaborator? Source: "In 2015, Fletcher dressed as an “Indian” in “Cry, Trojans!,” the Wooster Group’s glitchy production of Shakespeare’s “Troilus and Cressida” that cast the Iliad as a colonial allegory [...] Rather than denounce him for wearing redface, the New Red Order invited him to dinner and recruited him."
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Comment: I would include a link to New Red Order in the alt hook and submit this as a dual nom but that page isn't ready yet.
Created by BrechtBro(talk).
Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.
Overall: Article is new enough and long enough. Referencing is solid. Images are provided, but I don't think they're of sufficient quality to run on the main page (also, not part of this nomination). Copyvio detector shows no issues. (Note that hook fact is cited to a college radio, which is fine for a non-controversial bit of information). I prefer ALT0, though it could be tightened a bit. —Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:35, 22 February 2026 (UTC)Reply
Article is new enough and long enough. Referencing is solid. Images are provided, but I don't think they're of sufficient quality to run on the main page (also, not part of this nomination). Copyvio detector shows no issues. (Note that hook fact is cited to a college radio, which is fine for a non-controversial bit of information). I prefer ALT0, though it could be tightened a bit. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:35, 22 February 2026 (UTC)