Template:Did you know nominations/D. J. Cooper
Appearance
- The following is an archived discussion of D. J. Cooper's DYK nomination. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page; such as this archived nomination's (talk) page, the nominated article's (talk) page, or the DYK WikiProject's (talk) page. Unless there is consensus to re-open the archived discussion here. No further edits should be made to this page. See the talk page guidelines for (more) information.
The result was: promoted by Carabinieri (talk) 01:03, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
D. J. Cooper
[edit]... that current Ohio Bobcats men's basketball senior point guard D. J. Cooper is the "best passer in the nation" according to Jay Bilas?
- Reviewed: Frank Newman (educator)
- Comment:
Alt1: "... that current Ohio Bobcats men's basketball senior point guard D. J. Cooper recorded the school's first-ever triple-double in 2011–12?
Created by Jrcla2 (talk). Self nom at 19:37, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
- New enough, long enough, no issues with article. I'd go with your main hook so non-basketball people dont need to know about triple-double. However, your direct quote is from the sources text, which is not directly attributed to Bilas. Either remove the quotes, or use an actual direct quote from Bilas. I would also recommend to link point guard or just remove "point guard" altogether.—Bagumba (talk) 00:22, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
- Ah you're right, I didn't mean to misquote that obviously. I agree that it should probably be oriented toward non-basketball people. How about this tweaked hook: "... that current Ohio Bobcats men's basketball player D. J. Cooper is "among the best point guards in the country" according to analyst Jay Bilas?" Jrcla2 (talk) 18:52, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
- WP:LINKSTYLE generally prefers not to have items in quotes linked. Perhaps you can quote "among the best" only, leaving the PG link outside, and replace "country" with "college basketball"?—Bagumba (talk) 19:23, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
ALT2: "... that current Ohio Bobcats men's basketball player D. J. Cooper is "among the best" point guards in college basketball according to analyst Jay Bilas?" Jrcla2 (talk) 22:37, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
(Note: the following line was added after the hook promotion had been made.) BlueMoonset (talk) 06:14, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
- I've raised an issue with this at WT:DYK#Is it appropriate to use cited opinions in DYK hooks?. Ryan Vesey 02:20, 10 February 2013 (UTC)