Template:Did you know nominations/Giuseppe Panini

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The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 19:49, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

... that Giuseppe Panini, the founder of sticker company Panini, had a personal collection of over 750,000 stickers?

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Source: [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-guardian-stickingtoanideathatca/25013975/ The Guardian] ("Owing his success to figurine [football stickers], he created a personal archive of more than 750,000 specimens which he donated to Modena city council in 1992")}}
ALT1: ... that Giuseppe Panini turned a batch of unsold stickers in 1960 into a company which had produced over 150 billion trading cards by 1996? Source: [https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/panini_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ Dizionario Biografico] ("Nel 1960 Giuseppe acquistò dall’editore Nannina di Milano un lotto invenduto di figurine dei calciatori del campionato italiano, che fece confezionare in bustine da quattro l’una. La vendita di tre milioni di bustine, con un utile di circa 10 milioni di lire, consentì di avviare la produzione industriale delle figurine. Nel 1961 uscì la prima raccolta prodotta direttamente da Giuseppe: Calciatori 1961-62. [In 1960, Giuseppe purchased an unsold batch of Italian championship football player stickers from the publisher Nannina in Milan, which he had packaged in packets of four. The sale of three million packets, with a profit of around 10 million lire, allowed the industrial production of stickers to begin. In 1961, the first collection produced directly by Giuseppe was released: Calciatori 1961-62.]") / [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-guardian-stickingtoanideathatca/25013975/ The Guardian] ("Since its foundation, the company has peddled a total of around 150 billion trading cards")
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BeanieFan11 (talk) 22:24, 6 February 2025 (UTC).

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|comments = Overall, this looks good to me! Good thing you've run into a native Italian speaker... : D Both hooks sound interesting, although I would slightly edit ALT1 by adding a wiki-link to the Panini Group (the "company" itself) and maybe removing "in 1960", just to make the phrase a bit clearer and smoother. On a side note, the article is running a bit thin on sources at the moment, but I don't think it's a big deal, since we can always look for more later.

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Thanks for the review. Here's an ALT with your suggestions for ALT1: ALT2 ... that Giuseppe Panini turned a batch of unsold stickers into a company which had produced over 150 billion trading cards by 1996? BeanieFan11 (talk) 00:37, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
:{{Reply to|BeanieFan11}} Perfect, I think we're good now! Oltrepier (talk) 14:02, 14 February 2025 (UTC)

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