Template:Did you know nominations/Cole Sulser

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 20:34, 14 September 2019 (UTC)

Cole Sulser

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• ... that Major League Baseball player Cole Sulser has two degrees in engineering from Dartmouth College? [1]
• ALT1 ... that Cole Sulser has earned two Ivy League degrees and two Tommy John surgeries? Same source
• ALT2 ... that Cole Sulser has earned two Ivy League degrees and has had two Tommy John surgeries? Same source

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Converted from a redirect by Muboshgu (talk) and AdamBGregory (talk). Nominated by Muboshgu at 03:15, 7 September 2019 (UTC).

• @Muboshgu and AdamBGregory: I'll review this. epicgenius (talk) 14:47, 14 September 2019 (UTC)

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 eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting:
• Other problems: - ALT1 is confusing, implying that Sulser has "earned" these surgeries. I think he got them by accident /s But seriously, some people may not get this.

QPQ: Done.

Overall: epicgenius (talk) 14:47, 14 September 2019 (UTC)

• @Epicgenius:, Alt1 rewritten to Alt2. Could be tinkered with to be the more "interesting" hook if it's understandable. If people don't "get it" they may click through to figure it out? QPQ done. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:45, 14 September 2019 (UTC)

• @Muboshgu: ALT0 and ALT2 good to go. I was referring to the fact that people may not understand that Sulser didn't "earn" these surgeries, but rather, got them as a result of accidents. epicgenius (talk) 17:48, 14 September 2019 (UTC)

• Epicgenius, I get your point. In a sense, he did "earn" the surgeries through the continual repetitive motion of throwing putting stress on his UCL of the elbow. I'm okay with any rewrites though. I just thought it's interesting that someone with two Ivy League degrees would be having two Tommy John surgeries, but YMMV. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:53, 14 September 2019 (UTC)