A fact from Lee Erwin (organist) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 July 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Lee Erwin spent six years scoring every one of Buster Keaton's silent features?
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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 Desertarun (talk) 12:07, 27 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
... that "Moneybags" was credited as singularly responsible for the revival of a genre? Source: "Among his jobs was to appear on camera as Moneybags Erwin on the Arthur Godfrey Show." [1]; "Lee Erwin was one of the very few musicians fortunate enough to get to single-handedly revive a music genre." [2]
ALT1:... that Lee Erwin was performing in two theatres at age of twelve? Source: "..I was given permission to play the supper show in both theatres any time I wanted to.... a real prize for a twelve-year-old boy....." [3]
ALT2:... that Lee Erwin spent six years scoring each of Buster Keaton's silent features? Source: "Erwin spent about six years composing scores for all of Buster Keaton's movies" [4]
The article is long enough and new enough. I assume good faith on the references that I can't read. A QPQ has been completed. All of the hooks are directly cited and the promoter can choose the hook. SL93 (talk) 01:23, 25 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
