Talk:Minimal BASIC

A fact from Minimal BASIC appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 May 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that after four years in the making, the Minimal BASIC standard was described as "more a toy than an actual language"?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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 Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 19:32, 15 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that after four years in the making, the Minimal BASIC standard was described as "more a toy than an actual language"? Source: Luehrmann, see in the quote box. Luehrmann was one of the ANSI participants

Created by Maury Markowitz (talk). Self-nominated at 00:15, 26 April 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.

Overall: Good to go Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:25, 28 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hawkeye7 I don't see a QPQ. SL93 (talk) 20:26, 28 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

AAargh. You're right. I will notify the nominator. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:47, 28 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Hawkeye7: reviewed Atomitat Maury Markowitz (talk) 15:07, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Good to go. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:40, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]