Talk:Salad oil scandal
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 | A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on July 21, 2026. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that so much fake inventory was created during the salad oil scandal that one storage facility claimed to store more salad oil than existed in the entire country? | |||||||||
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Did you know nomination
- 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. Track your hook after promotion. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Beta Beta Beta (talk) 03:16, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
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- ... that so much fake inventory was created during the salad oil scandal that one storage facility claimed to store more salad oil than existed in the entire country?
- Source: "During 1963 the oil supposedly stored at Bayonne, according to warehouse receipts, swelled to almost twice as much as the Census Bureau counted in the entire country." The Great Salad Oil Swindle (pg 104)
- Reviewed:
Improved to Good Article status by Abandeali (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.
abandeali (talk) 22:40, 13 July 2026 (UTC).
Wow, this is a really hilarious scandal I've never heard of before. Really good hook, and it checks out with the source; and is cited in-article. The article is in good condition and eligible via GA promotion. No QPQ needed; I think we're good to go! Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 14:40, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
Aligning bank victims in lead and body
The lead should summarise the body of the article, yet Bank Leumi is mentioned in the lead and not the body whereas Chase Manhattan is mentioned in the body but not the lead. Perhaps the lead and body could be aligned by mentioning the same banks in both. Jontel (talk) 13:57, 21 July 2026 (UTC)
- When I was editing this article, I left most of the existing lead intact. I had assumed the source it cited (New Yorker) mentioned those companies. I just checked the source and it doesn't seem to be the case. So I will pull the information from the body into the lead since that's cited. abandeali (talk) 23:22, 21 July 2026 (UTC)