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A fact from Marc Fogel appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 January 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that American teacher Marc Fogel was sentenced to 14 years in Russian prison for possessing a small amount of marijuana, but has gotten little public attention compared to Brittney Griner?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/January. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Marc Fogel.

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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 Theleekycauldron (talk) 10:31, 6 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that American teacher Marc Fogel was sentenced to 14 years in Russian prison for possessing a small amount of marijuana, but has gotten little public attention compared to Brittney Griner? Source: “In May, the State Department determined that Griner was being “wrongfully detained,” a designation that established the legal basis for her release this week in a one-for-one prisoner exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.
Fogel, by contrast, has garnered little public attention. The State Department has not granted him “wrongfully detained” status, despite repeated appeals from a bipartisan group of lawmakers and Fogel’s lawyers.” Politico
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Perry County, Tennessee

Created by Thriley (talk) and Patapsco913 (talk). Nominated by Thriley (talk) at 07:35, 16 December 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Thriley:
- general: article is new enough and long enough.
- policy: article is sourced and neutral. earwig returns a 41.2% similarity rate with the sportsgrail source, which appears to have been published on the same day that this nomination was made, so it is likely that the sportsgrail copied from wikipedia without attribution. earwig shows nothing else of concern.
- qpq: provided.
- hooks: hook is under 200 characters, interesting, accurate enough, cited, and neutral. technically, fogel was sentenced for drug trafficking rather than marijuana possession, but attempting to make this more clear within the limited space of a hook may end up leading to more confusion.
- points outside of the dyk criteria:
  - the article was tagged as a stub when the prose consisted of only two sentences, but i think the tag no longer applies.
  - the washington post source mentions that fogel was "home in Pennsylvania for the summer break in 2021", so i am not sure if he has been living in russia since 2012. the cited time source states that he had been working in moscow since 2012, but does not appear to explicitly state that he had been living there since 2012 as well.
  - would the article on hostage diplomacy be an appropriate target for the "wrongfully detained" link?
  - the second instance of "wrongfully detained" is enclosed in curly quotation marks, contrary to mos:curly.
  - the cited time source appears in the list of references twice.

alt0 approved. dying (talk) 12:53, 18 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Medical Marajuana

Is this the correct phrase to use? To me the 'medical' part seems pretty meaningless. Its already made clear it was perscribed and it is not a distinction that be made in any other comparable context, say for example if one was caught with taking Alprazolam over the border one would not call them 'Medical Alprazolam/xanax'.

Secondly, to avoid making a new topic, should we use the more formaly accepted term 'Cannabis' over the word 'marijuana', a US slang term that, as far as I understand, was invented to cut racialised propaganda. SP00KYtalk 19:12, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've gone ahead and changed the link text from 'Medical Marajuana' to 'Medical Cannabis' for now because that's what the page its linked to is seemingly actually called, but somone had gone out of their way to link it as 'marajuana'. SP00KYtalk 19:20, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]