Template:Did you know nominations/Paul Roach
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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet talk 09:23, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
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Paul Roach
- ... that Paul Roach became so popular for coaching the Wyoming Cowboys football team that people voted for him to be the state's governor? Source: Casper Star-Tribune ("Despite the end-of-the-season slide, the overall success of the four years two WAC titles, three bowl appearances and a 35-11 overall record quickly turned Roach into a legend in Wyoming sports history. Heck, he even got a few votes for governor in the 1990 election.")
5x expanded by BeanieFan11 (talk). Self-nominated at 17:26, 14 September 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Paul Roach; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
- Comment and not a review, but the hook doesn't make it clear that he wasn't an official candidate, didn't actually become governor, and only a few people actually voted for him. The wording of the hook could probably be changed to reflect that. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 04:17, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
- I think that's fine -- write-in candidates are common in American elections -- and that adding it would make the hook weaker (in my forming hook-typology, take it from a "visionary" to a "juxtaposition"). More problematic is that this is now more than a week overdue for QPQ, as are a couple other noms. Vaticidalprophet 04:06, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
- It's been a week already? Sorry about that...I've been overloaded with qpqs to do and had extensive work to deal with in real life recently (not to mention I dislike doing them :D) - but I'll try to get some done today. BeanieFan11 (talk) 12:50, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
- QPQ done. BeanieFan11 (talk) 14:07, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
- It's been a week already? Sorry about that...I've been overloaded with qpqs to do and had extensive work to deal with in real life recently (not to mention I dislike doing them :D) - but I'll try to get some done today. BeanieFan11 (talk) 12:50, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
- I think that's fine -- write-in candidates are common in American elections -- and that adding it would make the hook weaker (in my forming hook-typology, take it from a "visionary" to a "juxtaposition"). More problematic is that this is now more than a week overdue for QPQ, as are a couple other noms. Vaticidalprophet 04:06, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
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@BeanieFan11: Good article. Though i feel like the hook would be better if you mentioned that he didn't run for the election yet still got votes. Onegreatjoke (talk) 18:11, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
- @Onegreatjoke: Something like this, maybe?: ... that Paul Roach became so popular for coaching the Wyoming Cowboys football team that people voted for him to be the state's governor when he wasn't a candidate? BeanieFan11 (talk) 22:51, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
Hook is good. Onegreatjoke (talk) 02:40, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
