Template:Did you know nominations/LaMelo Ball
- 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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:29, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
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LaMelo Ball
[edit]... that LaMelo Ball of Chino Hills High School committed to play basketball for UCLA at age 14?Source: "...now it's official: Class of 2019 guard LaMelo Ball will take his talents to UCLA." (Scout.com)
Created by TempleM (talk). Self-nominated at 21:28, 9 February 2017 (UTC).
New enough, long enough, neutrally written, well referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. Image in article is freely licensed. QPQ done. I'm confused by the sourcing for the hook, however. Is this the sentence that the hook fact rests on: In late summer of his freshman season, Ball verbally committed to play college basketball for UCLA? If so, it doesn't accord with the source, which says, It's not often that a prospect commits to a college prior to his freshman year in high school, but despite that rarity LaMelo Ball's pledge to UCLA hardly arrived as a surprise. Yoninah (talk) 23:13, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
- As the page creator has not edited on Wikipedia since nominating this article, I'll go ahead and fix it. The information and sourcing is all in the article, but the source was misquoted and the information was put in the wrong place chronologically. I moved his verbal commitment to UCLA at the age of 13 (per the source) up before his high school career. Here is the correct hook:
- ALT1: ... that LaMelo Ball verbally committed to play basketball for UCLA at age 13?
ALT1 hook ref verified and cited inline. Rest of review above. ALT1 good to go. Yoninah (talk) 20:37, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
