Template:Did you know nominations/Wayne Allison (Canadian football)
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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:39, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
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Wayne Allison (Canadian football)
[edit]- ... that Canadian football player Wayne Allison was known as a dual-threat quarterback in college but was converted to play as a defensive back professionally? Source: [1] [2]
Created by BU Rob13 (talk). Self-nominated at 03:28, 16 February 2017 (UTC).
Trying to qpq your excellent reviews, I confess that I am so unfamiliar with this topic that I have a hard time to find a better hook, because for readers like myself, who first would have to look up dual-threat quarterback and defensive back, it's not attractive. I like the "converted" in the lead, that much I got. Should I look up interception and fumble? - I understand much better now why I should link movement and stanza ;) - Having said that, the article looks solid with plenty of sources, no copyvio obvious. Some number of games might be better accessible for us ignorants ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:09, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: Sadly, just the number of games he played wouldn't be terribly interesting, whereas at least this fact is a bit neat. This type of complete position swap between two positions as different as quarterback (the person throwing the ball) to defensive back (the person covering receivers and tackling them) is unusual. The wikilinks are there to help out with understanding. I've reworded a bit to hopefully give you some idea of what's going on. Thoughts on the reworded hook? ~ Rob13Talk 05:07, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
I understand your explanation, but prefer hooks that I understand without looking up two links, and try not to use operatic specific terms, for example. But perhaps I'm the only reader who doesn't know who throws the ball ;) - Next time, please word an ALT, because now a reader of this conversation can't understand it without going to article history. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:33, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
