Talk:Dave Kufeld

A fact from Dave Kufeld appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 April 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Yeshiva University basketball star Dave Kufeld was the first Orthodox Jew ever to be selected in the NBA draft?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Dave Kufeld.

Wikipedia

This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.

If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page.

Biography: Sports and Games

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	Sports portal This article is supported by the sports and games work group (assessed as Low-importance).
	An editor has requested that an image or photograph be added to this article.

New York City Low‑importance

	New York City portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject New York City, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of New York City-related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.New York CityWikipedia:WikiProject New York CityTemplate:WikiProject New York CityNew York City articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Israel Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Israel, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Israel on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.IsraelWikipedia:WikiProject IsraelTemplate:WikiProject IsraelIsrael-related articles

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Project Israel To Do:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Assess : Rate the Unassessed Israel-related articles and Unknown-importance Israel-related articles.
Cleanup : Cleanup listing for this project is available. See also the list by category and the tool's wiki page.
Collaborate : Participate in WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration.
Copyedit : Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2005
Deletion sorting : Participate in discussions at WikiProject Deletion sorting/Israel.
Expand : Ayala Procaccia, Diamond industry in Israel, Edna Arbel, Levin Kipnis, Rami Kleinstein, Sephardic Haredim, Zman Tel Aviv, Nachum Heiman, Public Defence (Israel), Prisoner of Zion, Trial of Benjamin Netanyahu, Day to Mark the Departure and Expulsion of Jews from the Arab Countries and Iran, Pre-Modern Aliyah
See also Articles needing translation from Hebrew Wikipedia.
Geographical coordinates : Add geographic coordinates to Israel articles missing geocoordinate data.
Infobox : Add infoboxes to Israel articles needing infoboxes.
Maintain : See Israel articles needing attention.
Map : See discussion at Module:Location map/data/Israel. Add maps to articles in Wikipedia requested maps in Israel.
NPOV : Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries
Photo : Add pictures to articles in Wikipedia requested photographs in Israel.
Stubs : See Israel stubs.
Update : Basic Law proposal: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People
Other :
- Translate to Hebrew : David Bar-Hayim, Guy Bavli, and Guy Oseary.

National Basketball Association Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject National Basketball Association, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the NBA on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.National Basketball AssociationWikipedia:WikiProject National Basketball AssociationTemplate:WikiProject National Basketball AssociationNBA articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

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. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 19:39, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(

Comment or view
Article history

)

... that Yeshiva University basketball star Dave Kufeld was the first Orthodox Jew ever selected in the NBA draft? Source: https://www.ijn.com/nba-draft-a-yeshiva-player/
- ALT1: ... that with the 205th pick in the 1980 NBA draft, the Portland Trail Blazers selected Dave Kufeld, the first Orthodox Jew ever to be chosen in the NBA draft? Source: https://www.macslive.com/post/top-yu-macs-of-the-70s-and-80s
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Stefano Vukov

Created by Longhornsg (talk). Self-nominated at 18:23, 17 March 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Dave Kufeld; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

New enough, long enough, neutral and cited. There was a little bit of close paraphrasing but I resolved the issues I could find myself. ALT0 is interesting (ALT1 too detailed). @Longhornsg: As this is your sixth DYK nomination, a WP:QPQ will be required. Hameltion (talk | contribs) 18:32, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks @Hameltion:! Reviewed your Stefano Vukov nomination here. Longhornsg (talk) 19:59, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  - Thanks for the reciprocity. A suggestion, might want to add {{Infobox basketball biography}} for some at-a-glance info if there's enough to make it worth it. Hameltion (talk | contribs) 20:19, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Just investigating the claim of first. 2022, Ryan Turell took the next step in his journey of trying to become the first Orthodox Jewish player in NBA history Saturday when he was selected No. 27 overall - Kufeld gets mentioned here as first drafted. Dave Kufeld gets mentioned only in Jewish press, probably because he was such a late pick, was in the pros for four days and never played pro. I was not confident in the publication Jews in the City so I added The Times of Israel to our article. Bruxton (talk) 15:27, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Earwig is down. Bruxton (talk) 15:34, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, @Bruxton:. Kufeld is the first, and the distinction with Turell is that Turell was drafted in the NBA G League draft (minor league), not the NBA draft.

@Longhornsg: I want to beef up the RS. See here. Bruxton (talk) 18:54, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]