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A fact from Grain Belt Beer Sign appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 March 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the annual operating cost of the Grain Belt Beer Sign (pictured) dropped from $48,000 to $7,500 after it was renovated with LED lighting?

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The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 01:15, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The Grain Belt Beer sign

... that after being renovated with LED lighting, the annual operating cost of the Grain Belt Beer Sign (pictured) dropped from $48,000 to $7,500?

Source: "Iconic Grain Belt Beer sign ready for rehab". KARE11. May 31, 2017. Retrieved January 22, 2025.

ALT1: ... that after going dark in 1975, the Grain Belt Beer Sign (pictured) was relit in 2017? Source: Iverson-Sechi, Kari (December 31, 2017). "Grain Belt Beer sign shines bright, first time since the 90s". FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul. Retrieved January 22, 2025.
Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/David of Sassoun (statue)

Created by Darth Stabro (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 21 past nominations.

~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 05:15, 22 January 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Done. Cool article on a local landmark. ~~Article still needs minor copyedits~~ (looks like one other editor gave it a try recently but more are needed). Earwig shows a few matches that could easily be cleaned up and rewritten. ALT0 also needs copyedits ("Did you know that after a renovation with LED lighting, the annual operating cost of the Grain Belt Beer Sign went from $48,000 to $7,500?" You could also modify it by using "dropped" or "decreased" from $48,000 to $7,500 in ALT0 instead of "went from" for a dramatic touch. Viriditas (talk) 22:08, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Howdy Viriditas, your concerns should be taken care of. Possible I missed some more copyediting things because it's my own text so it's easy to overlook but I found a few more things and fixed them. ~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 02:36, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Darth Stabro: I'm not sure how strict WP:DYKIMG is enforced, and it's an odd thing because from an abstract POV, we already have an "image" of the sign in the article from different angles. However, DYKIMG seems to imply that we need this image in the article to use it in the hook. Not sure if that is true or if I'm reading it wrong. It might be a good idea to add it anyway to forestall any objections. I think it's a great image because it shows the LED lights in contrast with the backlight of twilight. If you look at the timestamps of the other signs, this is the only one that captures the twilight effect at the earliest (or latest, depending on how you look at it) time. I would just add it right-aligned to the see also section, but that's just me. I think the other two images are pretty good, so you might want to leave them, I don't know. But if it's ok to use this new hook image without having it in the article (not clear on that), then don't do anything. Viriditas (talk) 02:52, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Viriditas: Good catch, I've incorporated it into the infobox in the NRHP section. ~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 03:14, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Approve both hooks. Image has been added. There were three editors working on this at the same time and unfortunately I encountered multiple edit conflicts. Please review the page history and restore anything you think deserves to be added back if I accidentally removed it. Good to go. Viriditas (talk) 03:32, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]