A fact from Emil Aaltonen appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 January 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Emil Aaltonen went from being a 13-year-old shoemaker's apprentice to owning and running the largest shoe manufacturing business in the Nordics?
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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.
... that Emil Aaltonen(pictured), a Finnish industrialist and philanthropist, went from a 13-year-old shoemaker's apprentice to owning and running the largest shoe manufacturing business in the Nordics? Source: [1]
The content of the hook is mentioned in the article where it is referenced with a foreign-language source that is AGF. The hook is interesting and is just short enough. The article looks good: it's new and long enough, no copyright violations are detected by the Earwig tool, a reference at the end of the "early life" section should probably be added, but that's not a huge enough issue to not give this article a tick. Image is free. This is the nominator's first submission to DYK, so no QPQ is needed yet. Good work! ❯❯❯ Mccunicano☕️06:56, 31 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
References
^"Emil Aaltosen elämä". EmilAaltonen.fi (in Finnish). Emil Aaltonen Foundation. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
Hi @Mccunicano: Thank you for your review and positive comments. Thanks also for pointing out that the reference to the Finnicisation of names was unsupported; I've now cited two sources (primary, but expert, so hopefully okay). Cheers, and Happy New Year! :) --DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:39, 31 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
