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A fact from Mainz Rose Monday parade appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 September 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Mainz Rose Monday parade includes more than 9,000 participants from Germany and abroad?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2025/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mainz Rose Monday parade.

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The result was: promoted by Earth605 talk 14:52, 14 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

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... that since 1838, the Mainz Rose Monday parade has followed 35 different routes?

Source: Schenk, G. (1986). "Als sich zum Prinzen die Prinzessin gesellte. Der Mainzer Rosenmontag im bürgerlichen Zeitalter (1856-1878)" [When the princess joined the prince. Rosenmontag in Mainz during the bourgeois era (1856–1878)]. Mainz. Vierteljahreshefte für Kultur, Politik, Wirtschaft, Geschichte (in German). 6 (1): 6. ISSN 0720-5945.

- ALT1: ... that the Mainz Rose Monday parade includes over 9,000 participants from Germany and abroad? Source: See "Composition and participants" section.
- ALT2: ... that offensive carnival speeches threatened the 1863 Mainz Rose Monday parade? Source: Schütz, F. (1999). "Mainz. Die Geschichte der Stadt". In Dumont, F.; Scherf, F.; Schütz, F. (eds.). Die moderne Mainzer Fastnacht [Modern carnival in Mainz] (in German) (2 ed.). Mainz, Germany: Philipp von Zabern. p. 821. ISBN 3-8053-2000-0.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Claus Peymann

Moved to mainspace by Manvi1820 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 35 past nominations.

~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 20:40, 3 August 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.

Overall: ALT1 is good to go, but ALT0 and ALT2 are on hold unless relevant quotes can be provided. Epicgenius (talk) 19:40, 29 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Note: pulling the following comment out from within the DYK checklist template so it can be seen and the pings from reviewer Epicgenius go through:
- Pinging Manvi1820 as article creator and AirshipJungleman29 as nominator. Per the second paragraph of WP:DYKCITE, is it possible to provide the quote for ALT0 and ALT2? ALT1 does check out though.

BlueMoonset (talk) 10:49, 3 September 2025 (UTC)Reply