Talk:Roger Bonk

A news item involving Roger Bonk was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 1 March 2023.

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A fact from Roger Bonk appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 April 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that football linebacker Roger Bonk was nicknamed "the Boinker"?

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/Roger Bonk.

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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 Cielquiparle (talk) 11:51, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that football linebacker Roger Bonk was nicknamed "The Boinker"? Source: Abilene Reporter-News ("Bonk earned the nickname of “The Boinker" within the first five games")
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/WDJT-TV

Created by BeanieFan11 (talk). Self-nominated at 21:05, 28 February 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Roger Bonk; 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: - maybe some changes

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

QPQ: - Not done
Overall: @BeanieFan11: Good article. Though, Earwig is showing some slight copyright and I'm wondering if you could maybe reduce it a bit. Waiting on a QPQ as well. Onegreatjoke (talk) 21:32, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That was fast! I'll make a few changes soon and will get a qpq at some point. BeanieFan11 (talk) 21:33, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Onegreatjoke: Reviewed Template:Did you know nominations/WDJT-TV as a QPQ and I changed the text a bit – let me know if you want it changed further. BeanieFan11 (talk) 14:37, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good. Onegreatjoke (talk) 18:44, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]