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A fact from Cam McCormick appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 February 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Cam McCormick is thought to be the first college football player to be granted a ninth year of NCAA eligibility?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/February. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cam McCormick.

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton talk 16:29, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Cam McCormick is thought to be the first college football player to be granted a ninth year of NCAA eligibility? Source: AP, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
- ALT1: ... that when Cam McCormick scored a touchdown against Eastern Washington in 2022—his first touchdown since 2017—he donned the same jersey number as that of his late friend and teammate, Spencer Webb? Source: The Register-Guard, The Oregonian
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ad fructus uberes
- Comment: QPQ to kome. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 05:03, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  QPQ posted above. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 05:15, 21 January 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]

I'll review this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 21:01, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

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

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]