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A fact from March on Rome (88 BC) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 May 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that in 88 BC, Lucius Cornelius Sulla carried out the first coup d'état in Roman history?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/May. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/March on Rome (88 BC).

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Minor factual stuff

Some minor factual issues, mostly on emphasis rather than accuracy (I broadly believe the article to be accurate), below. I think in general the article is a good addition; we needed a modern one on this topic and I'm very happy to see it! Ifly6 (talk) 15:11, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pompeius deposed

I think the disagreement as to whether Pompeius Rufus was deposed should be made more equivocal and moved from notes into the body. Ifly6 (talk) 14:52, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The sources were mostly of the view that he was deposed. T8612 (talk) 08:22, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Prosecuting Sulla

Re His goal was perhaps to convict Sulla and therefore strip him of his command, but the move was illegal as a magistrate holding imperium had immunity. Would not any prosecution have disposed of the issue by invoking the precedent from Caepio to abrogate Sulla's imperium? Ifly6 (talk) 15:11, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sources didn't say. Someone wrote that Cinna just wanted to boost his popularity, but I couldn't find who. T8612 (talk) 08:22, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Copyediting

I also hope that the copyediting I've been doing isn't bothersome. In general they're mostly MOS stuff (like placement of quotes and full stops). I know English and French styles differ on a lot of these. (Though I would definitely prefer some French styles such as spaces before semicolons and currency marks after the numbers.) Ifly6 (talk) 15:03, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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 PrimalMustelid talk 15:44, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that in 88 BC, Lucius Cornelius Sulla made the first coup d'état in Roman history? Source: Harriet I. Flower, Roman Republics, Princeton University Press, 2010, p. 159. ISBN 978-0-691-14043-8
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- Comment: No QPQ done as I have nominated less than 5 articles.

Created by T8612 (talk).

Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.

Post-promotion hook changes will be logged on the talk page; consider watching the nomination until the hook appears on the Main Page.

T8612 (talk) 11:27, 22 April 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Article nominated five days after creation. More than long enough, meets proper sourcing requirements. Earwig didn't find anything noteworthy, WP:AGF on the bibliography sources. I was able to access the source used in the hook and the passage being referenced (p. 159) seems to be good. Definitely interesting! No QPQ needed, great work on the article! Looks good to go. B3251 (talk) 21:27, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]