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Did you know nomination

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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 Hey man im josh talk 18:40, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • ... that the shopping cart is "the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing" according to the shopping cart theory?
Created by Soulbust (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 38 past nominations.

Soulbust (talk) 22:57, 14 June 2024 (UTC).[reply]
The DYK check tells me this article was created on June 7 and nominated a week later, which satisfies the seven-day requirement. The article has 4,408 characters of prose according to DYK check, well above the 1,500 needed. The Ringer source cited backs up the statement in the hook. Earwig states that a copyright violation is unlikely, and a quick check reveals the 27.0% rating to be from attributed quotes. Hook is very interesting. QPQ has not been done, and it's been a week since the nomination, but I like this hook so much that I'll donate my own QPQ for Katie Nimon under Template:Did you know nominations/Vanessa Weenink. I'm going on a wikibreak for a while and don't want to leave a review hanging. Cheers, Bremps... 06:27, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In need of context

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As someone living in Europe, I have trouble understanding the custom of leaving your shopping cart after you are done with your purchases.

In Europe, we typically need to put a coin to have the cart be unlocked, and we then put the cart back to get our coin back. I suspect this article is about a custom in the USA. Is the coin system not used in the USA? Could someone add some context into this article? Veverve (talk) 09:50, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not every retailer uses it, and I believe it is more common than not to not have this coin system. However, the shopping cart deposit system involving coins is found in the U.S. I'll see if there is a way to include this information in the Background section of this article without making it too tangential. Soulbust (talk) 21:37, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]