Talk:Los Angeles Salsa

A fact from Los Angeles Salsa appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 January 2023, and was viewed approximately 3,334 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Los Angeles Salsa, from the United States, attempted to join a Mexican soccer league?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/January. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Los Angeles Salsa.

Wikipedia

Football: American & Canadian Low‑importance

	Association football portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Football, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Association football 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.FootballWikipedia:WikiProject FootballTemplate:WikiProject Footballfootball articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by the American and Canadian soccer task force (assessed as Low-importance).

Los Angeles Salsa U-23

what was the relationship between the Salsa and Salsa U-23? The Salsa played in the APSL in '94 and the Salsa U-23 played in USISL Pro League in '95, but apparently Paul Caligiuri played for the Salsa '95 in the USISL and he was something like 30 years old at the time. So were the Salsa he played for actually the Salsa U-23? Mayumashu (talk) 02:27, 1 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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 97198 (talk) 22:12, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(

Comment or view
Article history

)

... that the Los Angeles Salsa of the United States attempted to join a Mexican soccer league? Source: Los Angeles Times
- ALT1: ... that the Los Angeles Salsa's attempt to join a Mexican soccer league was blocked by CONCACAF? Source: Los Angeles Times
- ALT2: ... that the Los Angeles Salsa earned three red cards in 17 minutes during a CONCACAF Champions' Cup match? Source: Orange County Register (via NewsBank)
- ALT3: ... that a series of exhibition games for the Los Angeles Salsa against teams from Mexico were postponed because of a political boycott? Source: San Diego Union-Tribune; also Oakland Tribune
- Reviewed: Eighth Avenue South Reservoir

5x expanded by SounderBruce (talk). Self-nominated at 06:22, 24 December 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: I would recommend either the main hook or ALT3 as they would be accessible even to non-soccer fans. ~~Eligibility is pending User:SounderBruce's QPQ review, but once that has been satisfied~~ I think this will be a good choice for DYK. Metropolitan90 (talk) 07:10, 24 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Metropolitan90: QPQ added. I don't think the ALT0 is all that inaccessible to non-soccer fans, as the unusual situation of joining another country's league is somewhat well understood. Sounder Bruce 05:03, 28 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

By ALT0, do you mean "... that the Los Angeles Salsa of the United States attempted to join a Mexican soccer league?" I thought that one ("the main hook") was fine. My concern was that non-soccer fans wouldn't know about CONCACAF or red cards. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:25, 28 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Updated to take into account the completion of User:SounderBruce's QPQ. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:30, 28 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]