Talk:Drew O'Connor

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A fact from Drew O'Connor appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 July 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that after going undrafted into the National Hockey League, four teams heavily recruited Drew O'Connor (pictured) upon the conclusion of his collegiate career?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Drew O'Connor.

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 Edge3 (talk) 04:34, 25 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that upon concluding his collegiate career, Anaheim Ducks vice president of hockey operations David McNab mailed Drew O'Connor hand-written letters to recruit him onto his team? Source: Drew O'Connor's journey from undersized and unnoticed to prime Penguins prospect "McNab mailed hand-written letters from the Ducks."
- ALT1: ... that after going undrafted into the National Hockey League, four teams heavily recruited Drew O'Connor upon him concluding his collegiate career? Source: Drew O'Connor's journey from undersized and unnoticed to prime Penguins prospect
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Muhammad Rapsel Ali

5x expanded by HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk). Self-nominated at 17:07, 1 April 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Drew O'Connor; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Article was expanded by 5x or more; hook options are under 200 characters; no unreliable sources; the hook is cited by a reliable source; no known copyright violations; only thing missing now is QPQ. Trillfendi (talk) 18:08, 1 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Trillfendi, QPQ done. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 18:20, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
HickoryOughtShirt?4, I'm not seeing where you link to the nomination you reviewed? Template:Did you know nominations/Muhammad Rapsel Ali is someone else's review... theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 00:23, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Theleekycauldron, the user deleted their DYK (which I had reviewed) but I messaged them on their talk page and encourage them to re create it. I was unsure if I had to review another DYK since the user deleted the one I reviewed. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 02:28, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@HickoryOughtShirt?4: any chance you could give me a deleted copy of the page, so I can see what went down? Quite the odd situation, DYK noms shouldn't normally be G7ed... theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 03:02, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
(My nom) To summarize, the initial hook was pretty bad, I was sleepy and G7'd, HOS?4 came up with a new hook, I renominated, but another user showed up and reviewed it before he could re-review it. But yes, HOS?4 did review it. Juxlos (talk) 16:38, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Juxlos: quick note, HOS?4's pronouns are she/her :) all righty – it's probably more worth it to preserve the page history in that case. HickoryOughtShirt?4 couldn't have done a full re-review, but I'll count the initial review as full. Tick per Trillfendi's original review. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 16:46, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@HickoryOughtShirt?4: A few of the passages in the article are too similar to the copy on the Dartmouth Sports website. Could you please check the matches on Earwig and rephrase in your own words? Cielquiparle (talk) 14:08, 20 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Cielquiparle, is it better now? HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 18:10, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@HickoryOughtShirt?4: Better than before, but we should avoid having exact matches on entire sentences like this one: "His 26 points were second on the team and were the most by a Big Green rookie since Matt Lindblad's 28 in 2010-11." Cielquiparle (talk) 04:08, 8 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Cielquiparle, how about this. It's a bit difficult since it's facts. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 03:11, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@HickoryOughtShirt?4: Could you please fix the sentence I quoted above? How would you say it in plain English? There is no reason that entire sentence needs to be word-for-word identical to the sentence as stated in the source. Or, if you really prefer not to rephrase in your own words, could you present it as a direct quote with explicit attribution – e.g. "According to Dartmouth Sports..." or whatever the source is. Cielquiparle (talk) 03:22, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Cielquiparle, Again, I am unsure how much more I can reword it but I gave it another shot [1]. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 22:50, 21 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Restoring tick. Cielquiparle (talk) 07:30, 23 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Post-promotion comment Adding image to nomination. File:2023-05-09 Deutschland gegen USA (Eishockey-Länderspiel) by Sandro Halank–091.jpg Edge3 (talk) 05:04, 25 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Scholarship offers?

It is stated that he received scholarship offers from DIII colleges. The defining characteristic of an NCAA Division III member is that there are no athletic scholarships. He may have been recruited, but he was not offered a scholarship by any DIII school.

Toyokuni3 (talk) 12:07, 1 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]