Talk:Gavin Thomas

A fact from Gavin Thomas appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 September 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that rugby union flanker Gavin Thomas had his contract cancelled by the Scarlets after he missed more than 26 weeks of the 2008–09 season due to a ruptured Achilles tendon?

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The result was: promoted by Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 08:15, 3 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that rugby union flanker Gavin Thomas had his contract cancelled by the Scarlets after he missed more than 26 weeks of the 2008–09 season due to a torn achilles tendon? Source: "Flanker Gavin Thomas and Kiwi lock Simon Maling are to leave the Scarlets after being injured for more than 26 weeks this season." BBC Sport
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/The Pragmatic Entente: Israeli-Iranian Relations, 1948-1988

5x expanded by PeeJay (talk). Self-nominated at 10:35, 16 August 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Reviewing - Aoidh (talk) 05:54, 3 September 2022 (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:

Prose was expanded and went from 952 characters to 6875 characters within 2 days of this nomination, which is more than a 5x expansion of prose. The source above doesn't explicitly support the Achilles tendon part, but one of the sources at that spot in the article does. Good to go. - Aoidh (talk) 06:02, 3 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]