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A fact from Jaylen Clark appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 April 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that UCLA basketball player Jaylen Clark was named the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year in 2023, after also significantly improving on offense?

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/Jaylen Clark.

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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) 19:12, 25 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that UCLA basketball player Jaylen Clark was named the Pac-12 Conference Defensive Player of the Year in 2023, after also significantly improving on offense? Source: "Clark was not only awarded the Pac-12 defensive honor on Tuesday...In addition to his defensive prowess, Clark has made a significant leap on offense this season..."("UCLA's Jaylen Clark Out for Season With Achilles Injury, per Report" Sports Illustrated)
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/2021 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game

Created by Bagumba (talk). Self-nominated at 11:27, 14 March 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Jaylen Clark; 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
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing:
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: - just a problem.

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Bagumba: Good article. However, it looks like there's some pretty close paraphrasing with the athletic source that I feel should be managed in order for me to approve. Onegreatjoke (talk) 14:43, 15 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Onegreatjoke: Is this the area you were concerned about? Most of it was fixed opponent names and stats, but I tried to mix it up more.—Bagumba (talk) 15:22, 15 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I guess it can be seen as better. Onegreatjoke (talk) 17:44, 17 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]