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A fact from Statue of Darth Vader appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 July 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine was transformed into a statue of Darth Vader?

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The result was: promoted by History6042 talk 18:23, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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... that a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine was transformed into a statue of Darth Vader?

Source: https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/lenin-statue-in-ukraine-turned-into-darth-vader/

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/1979 New York prison guards' strike

Created by ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 13 past nominations.

ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk) 18:45, 1 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

That's funny. Will review this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 20:11, 1 July 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:

QPQ: Done.

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Article looks good. Nice work. Hook is interesting. Should be good to go. BeanieFan11 (talk) 20:20, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]