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A fact from Barry Leibowitz appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 April 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that basketball player Barry Leibowitz, despite being drafted by the New York Knicks and playing in the ABA, chose to play in Israel instead because of its sea, hummus, and tahini?
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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.
Source: Irad Tzafrir (November 14, 2017). "Barry Leibovitz: "What did I stay in Israel for? Sea, hummus and tahini with olive oil,"Haaretz " 'You're talking about hummus and tahini, right? That's what settled me in Israel. It's interesting that I didn't get fat all these years with everything I ate. ' You also loved the sea. Yes, that was part of the satisfaction. Sea and hummus and tahini with olive oil. What did I stay for?" (translation is by Google Translate, but this sense is clarified in the article title.))
ALT1: ... that despite basketball playerBarry Leibowitz having been drafted by the New York Knicks and played a year in the ABA, he chose to play in Israel instead because of its sea, hummus, and tahini with olive oil? Source: This is the hook as suggested by the IP editor, but it's too long. My version above is trimmed, but there may be other ways of trimming it.
Comment: Nominated on behalf of an IP editor (see my talk page) who has also provided the QPQ. That said, I shall paste a note that this IP left on my talk page. Schwede6623:40, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
"Note - I should perhaps point out that I have opened up a conversation with an editor who has to my surprise stripped RS-supported mention of Leibowitz from half a dozen articles today between 14:40 and 14:50 (see[1]). But while I've opened up discussion with the editor, I don't believe that impacts the DYK itself, as that editor has not as of yet sought to delete the same text from this article. --2603:7000:2101:AA00:6103:B31A:D0F4:8A0E (talk) 03:23, 27 February 2025 (UTC)"[reply]
5x expanded by Schwede66 (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 168 past nominations.
Looks good. Nice work. Preference for the original hook. BeanieFan11 (talk) 01:32, 1 March 2025 (UTC)