Template:Did you know nominations/Nigel Richards (Scrabble player)
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The result was: rejected by BorgQueen (talk) 21:11, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
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Nigel Richards (Scrabble player)
- ... that Scrabble player, Nigel Richards, won two French Scrabble tournaments without speaking the language? Source: https://theworld.org/stories/2015-07-21/new-french-language-scrabble-champion-doesn-t-speak-french
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Created by Sandman1142 (talk). Nominated by Roastedbeanz1 (talk) at 08:35, 29 May 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Nigel Richards (Scrabble player); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
Fact mentioned in opening paragraph of source. Good going! --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 16:44, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
@Roastedbeanz1: On the other hand, while the thought counts, I regret to inform you (and correct myself in hindsight) that this is unfortunately ineligible for DYK. Article was created back in mid-November 2007, and to satisfy DYK requirements at this writing, should have been either a recent GA or expanded fivefold to ~87.5 KB in the past few days alone. Pardon if I was rather optimistic beforehand, but I'm afraid a decline is in order for the time being. (There's a reason I recently added {{User oops}} among the several dozen UBXes already on my userpage.) Once/if this passes WP:GAN, I'll happily reconsider. Best of luck—I might keep an eye out!For starters, you might try sending this over to PR to find out what needs to be done first. --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 19:13, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
