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A fact from Ri Jong-yol appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 July2024(check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Source: Caesar, Ed (19 April 2021). "The Incredible Rise of North Korea's Hacking Army". The New Yorker. Retrieved 9 July 2024. After winning another silver medal, Ri took his chance. He walked out of the dorm where he was staying and hailed a cab to the airport, where—with the help of a friendly airline worker—he found the address of the South Korean consulate. He took another taxi there and told a South Korean diplomat that he wished to defect. He then spent seventy days in Hong Kong, waiting nervously while the South Korean delegation negotiated his safe passage to Seoul.
Hi Yue, review follows: article created 10 July and exceeds minimum length; article is well written and cited inline throughout to what look to be reliable sources; I didn't pick up on any issues with overly close paraphrasing; hook fact is interesting, mentioned in the article and checks out to sources cited; a QPQ has been carried out. Good to go. I am not sure why this qualifies as an Olympic special occasion hook though? I couldn't see any obvious connection between the Maths Olympiad and the Olympic Games? Dumelow (talk) 11:20, 11 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Dumelow: The SOHA box was placed in good faith by Schwede66. I have removed it because I did not intend for this hook to be held for the Olympics as the International Mathematics Olympiad is not related to the Olympics, only similarly named. Yue🌙20:43, 11 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Yue, we are using a few hooks as a "warm-up" for the Olympics, and Olympiad is close enough for that to work. This isn't so much about "holding" the hook but more about speeding things up. I have this one scheduled for 24 July (or earlier, if I have to shuffle things around) and the lowest prep set available at the moment is to be published on 21 July. Therefore, chances are that this will see the hook published earlier than it otherwise would be. Is that ok with you? If it isn't, I'll simply remove it from the Olympic hooks table. Schwede6600:44, 12 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
I can not read Korean, but this source might have something I searched the internet for other information on the person, and have not had any results yet. Will finish review soon now, in a day or two.
I asked on their talk page about the review yesterday and haven't received a response yet despite them continuing to make contributions on the site. To me, it seems like this review is abandoned, so I think it would be more productive for Yue to request a new review by following the steps in WP:GAN/I#N4a. Gramix13 (talk) 19:15, 28 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
