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A fact from The Late Report appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 June 2023 ( check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that in a segment filmed for The Late Report, comedian John Safran got frisked by police after going to a McDonald's restaurant dressed up as Ronald McDonald?

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Did you know nomination

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 BorgQueen ( talk) 04:39, 25 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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... that in one segment of the show The Late Report, the host sent a remote-controlled, cigarette-carrying seagull into a live cricket match in attempt to make a player break his no-smoking contract? Source: Doherty, Ben (21 June 2002). "Musical Muckraking". Herald.
- ALT1: ... that in an unaired segment of The Late Report, comedian John Safran got frisked by police after going to a McDonald's restaurant dressed up as Ronald McDonald? Source: "INTERVIEW: John Safran on Music Jamboree". dvd.net.au. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Maria Giustina Turcotti
- Comment: Article on an Australian satire series, expanded from sub-stub. All offline sources cited are available through Wikipedia Library's ProQuest subscription. This is my fifth nomination; QPQ done on Maria Guistina Turcotti here.

5x expanded by Gnomingstuff ( talk). Self-nominated at 16:35, 25 April 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/The Late Report; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page. reply

Comments @ Gnomingstuff: Can you add {{Infobox television}} to the article? And the stub template will need to be removed. BorgQueen ( talk) 16:44, 25 April 2023 (UTC) reply

Sure, will do (forgot the template, I assume this is in Start class territory by now). Gnomingstuff ( talk) 16:51, 25 April 2023 (UTC) reply
@ BorgQueen: Added as much of the infobox as I could with the info that's there and removed stub template. Gnomingstuff ( talk) 19:09, 26 April 2023 (UTC) reply

@ Gnomingstuff: Thanks. Now I realize that most references are not linked. Are they unavailable on the net? BorgQueen ( talk) 19:12, 26 April 2023 (UTC) reply
@ BorgQueen: I mentioned this in the nomination, but all references are accessible through the Wikipedia Library's ProQuest subscription. As far as I know, they are not available un-paywalled otherwise. Gnomingstuff ( talk) 18:54, 29 April 2023 (UTC) reply

@ Gnomingstuff: OK, but paywalled sources can still be linked in the article. BorgQueen ( talk) 18:59, 29 April 2023 (UTC) reply

Nevermind. I'll do it for you lol. BorgQueen ( talk) 19:36, 29 April 2023 (UTC) reply

Apologies, I've been away on vacation and just got back. Gnomingstuff ( talk) 00:41, 30 April 2023 (UTC) reply

Done. I've linked them all and the Citation Bot has added the ProQuest id to each of them. But then now I'm too involved to review this. Need another reviewer. BorgQueen ( talk) 20:21, 29 April 2023 (UTC) reply

Article was new and long enough when nominated. QPQ has been completed. The article has the correct inline citations and Earwig does not alert to copyright issues. ALT1 is interesting and cited in the article, however the segment was aired (on another channel}, so without objection I will tweak the hook to:

- ALT1a: ... that in a segment filmed for The Late Report, comedian John Safran got frisked by police after going to a McDonald's restaurant dressed up as Ronald McDonald?

This might make a good quirky hook.^(
?) Bruxton ( talk) 00:10, 25 May 2023 (UTC) reply