Talk:Jumbo Brown

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A fact from Jumbo Brown appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 April 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Jumbo Brown gained 68 pounds (31 kg) after he had his tonsils removed?

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The result was: Promoted by Bruxton (talk) 22:50, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Walter "Jumbo" Brown's 1933 Goudey baseball card

... that Jumbo Brown (pictured) began to gain weight when he had his tonsils removed? Source: [1][2]
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ethel_Ogden

5x expanded by Muboshgu (talk). Self-nominated at 17:27, 6 April 2022 (UTC).[reply]

- ALT:1 "... that Jumbo Brown (pictured) gained 68 pounds (31 kg) after he had his tonsils removed? "

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:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Venkat TL (talk) 19:28, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Muboshgu, Adding the weight in the hook will make it more interesting. how about ALT:1 "... that Jumbo Brown (pictured) gained 68 pounds (31 kg) ~~weight~~ after he had his tonsils removed? " Venkat TL (talk) 19:28, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Venkat TL, Except I think the word "weight" after the weight is unnecessary. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:30, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  - Ofcourse, thanks for the catch. ALT0 is good to proceed, Also added ALT1 and a relook of ALT1 by another reviewer.Venkat TL (talk) 19:36, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    - ALT1 is interesting and cited inline in the article - good to go. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 19:54, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]