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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. No further edits should be made to this page.
Comment: Somewhat begrudgingly nominated at the request of Dominic. I still have quite a bit I intend to add to this article once I finish my summer class stuff in the next couple of days (I believe I could double its length with the sources I have, and I could probably find more), so I would be grateful if this didn't receive the swiftest review. Open to alternative hook suggestions, but struggling to think of something more interesting to say.
Article meets DYK requirement for being new, and for length. No QPQ, but this is first nomination. Citations are well used, and a range of good sources. There is an outstanding citation tag for the status of the food bank as a charity. Other than that it seems fine and reasonably well written. Could definitely benefit from including the logo and infobox type information (founder, turnover etc.). OwainDavies(about)(talk) edited at 14:09, 5 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Erm, not my first. This is my third or fourth, so still no QPQ necessary, but definitely not my first. Anyway, I think I'm nearing the limits of my ability to expand this article. I'd like to replace the one flagged source with a better source; I think the one I cited is adequate, but I recall there being other sources that say it more directly (in fact, I am certain I found something somewhere that attributed part of Midwest's success to its ability to ship food across the country easily). I also need a source for the continued use of family food boxes. Every post-COVID article on their disaster relief efforts mentions them by name, but that's technically OR; there was an article somewhere where someone said that family food boxes weren't going anywhere, I'm hoping that will be adequate. Give me a little bit for those, though, I've opened perhaps a hundred articles in the process of researching this and it will take time for me to find the specific sources I need again.
There are also a few other things I'd like to do: the 99% of money goes directly to programs statistic is expressed differently in different articles, I'd like to make another pass to synthesize the clearest expression of them; it would be nice to include the $40 million dollars of food distributed on an $860,000 budget figure, but that's just within a single state, so integrating that will be a bit clunky; I should include the total food donations nationwide; I'd like to rewrite the inflation surge paragraph to flow better, and while I'm at it, I should mention how the withdrawal of pandemic-era stimulus and welfare exasberated things; I might delete the priding itself on low admin costs statement (the source is slightly dubious, and it doesn't fully match the tenor of some of Midwest's employees' own quotes on the subject); there's a heck of a lot of different figures on how much food Midwest can buy with a dollar, I'll need to reread the dozen or so articles that mention the stat and write a footnote explaining the differences; I should fill out some more of the infobox fields (and cite them); and the lead is a bit stilted and could benefit from a copy-editing pass.
To be clear, I'm writing all of this for my own sake (so I remember), not because you need to do anything with the information. I think the only thing technically standing in the way of approving this for the main page is the need to track down a source for the continued use of family food boxes for disaster relief. —Compassionate727(T·C)18:57, 16 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Owain.davies: Alright, I believe this is DYK-eligible now. I'll make the last minor changes I want to make before this is featured sometime between now and then, they shouldn't take too long. —Compassionate727(T·C)16:34, 18 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Apologies, I was in a road accident, and concussion meant that couldn't really use a screen for a couple of weeks. Glad someone else has picked it up and approved. OwainDavies(about)(talk) edited at 07:29, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Article meets DYK requirement for being new, and for length. No QPQ, but this is first nomination. Citations are well used, and a range of good sources. There is an outstanding citation tag for the status of the food bank as a charity. Other than that it seems fine and reasonably well written. Could definitely benefit from including the logo and infobox type information (founder, turnover etc.). OwainDavies (about)(talk) edited at 14:09, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
A new reviewer is needed as the original reviewer is not active at the moment. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:26, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
Not a thrilling hook, but I'll approve it. --evrik (talk) 19:04, 27 August 2022 (UTC)