Talk:Cam McCormick

Latest comment: 9 months ago by Bruxton in topic Did you know nomination

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 Bruxton talk 16:29, 5 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Created by Red-tailed hawk (talk). Self-nominated at 05:03, 21 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Cam McCormick; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:  
  • Interesting:  
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   A very well done article on an interesting athlete! I had actually wondered recently what the record was for most college football seasons; now you've answered it for me!   Either hook works; the second one I found interesting because I actually wrote Webb's article. Looks good to go! BeanieFan11 (talk) 02:17, 23 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

We equivocate with " thought to be" in ALT0 and maybe that is ok. The "first" hooks get scrutiny. Bruxton (talk) 15:53, 5 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
@BeanieFan11 and Red-tailed hawk: Found what I think is WP:CLOP in the personal life section. Please take a look and ping me when you have. Bruxton (talk) 16:04, 5 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Bruxton: More or less that entire section (aside from the estrangement part) was added by a new user (an IP from Bend, Oregon and wentleft) after BeanieFan had reviewed. I noted some concerns about it in article talk, though I have to fix the article. There were some image copyright issues that I had fixed after the user’s edits, but I had missed the CLOP aspect.
I’ve no objection to removing the second paragraph in its entirety pending a rewrite—which would need to be fairly substantial given the sourcing and CLOP. Alternatively, I can try to re-write it in the AM tomorrow (UTC). Please let me know which you’d prefer. — Red-tailed sock (Red-tailed hawk's nest) 16:16, 5 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
@BeanieFan11 and Red-tailed hawk: Thank you for the note, please address it and then ping me and I will promote. I like ALT0 and have a spot for it. Bruxton (talk) 16:21, 5 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Bruxton: I’ve removed the offending paragraph. I’ll try to re-write it at some point before I go for GAN, but I think that the omission of the content is fine at DYK. — Red-tailed sock (Red-tailed hawk's nest) 16:26, 5 February 2024 (UTC)Reply


Personal life/charitable contributions section

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I'm looking at the content on charitable contributions, and while there's one apparently independent source, the remainder seem to be Press Releases ([1] [2]) or a Tweet (albeit one that links to an independent article). The section also might need some revisions as far as WP:WIKIVOICE and tone are concerned. I'll try to get on that before the page goes live on DYK. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 16:19, 25 January 2024 (UTC)Reply