Talk:Yama Wayama

A fact from Yama Wayama appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 October 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that as a senior in high school, manga artist Yama Wayama began drawing male–male romance manga as a hobby?

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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.

The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 23:06, 11 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

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... that manga artist Yama Wayama based her pen name on her nickname from high school? Source: 1
- ALT0a: ... that manga artist Yama Wayama derived her pseudonym from her high school nickname "Yama-san"? Source: 1
- ALT1: ... that as a senior in high school, manga artist Yama Wayama began drawing male-male romance manga as a hobby? Source: 1
- ALT2: ... that after a self-published manga series by Yama Wayama was acquired by a professional publishing house, it sold out three printings in one month? Source: 2
- Reviewed: 2 Columbus Circle

Created by Morgan695 (talk). Self-nominated at 00:18, 20 September 2022 (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:

QPQ: Done.

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Might I suggest a slight tweak? "... that manga artist Yama Wayama derived her pseudonym from her high school nickname "Yama-san"?" Gen. Quon_[Talk]^{(I'm studying Wikipedia!)} 15:43, 4 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

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