Talk:Basketball Hall of Fame commemorative coins

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A fact from Basketball Hall of Fame commemorative coins appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 August 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the 2020 Basketball Hall of Fame commemorative coins may become the United States Mint's first color coinage?

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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) 05:24, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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... ~~that the United States Mint is considering colorizing two of the three 2020 Basketball Hall of Fame commemorative coins?~~ Source: "The United States Mint is considering the use of colorization techniques on two of the three coins to be issued in 2020 under the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Commemorative Coin Program." (source)
- ALT1:... that the Basketball Hall of Fame commemorative coins may become the first coins to be colorized by the United States Mint? Source: "The United States Mint is considering the use of colorization techniques on two of the three coins to be issued in 2020 under the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Commemorative Coin Program." (source)

Created by ZLEA (talk). Self-nominated at 14:20, 9 August 2019 (UTC).[reply]

Reviewing... I've done a read through and made some basic checks. I shoudl get back to this in a day or two at worst, otherwise remind me.—Bagumba (talk) 09:38, 14 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing:
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
Other problems: - The comparison between HRs 1235 and 4592 has been tagged for original research. The analysis should be cited to a secondary source if it is to remain.

Hook eligibility:

Cited:
Interesting: - Should included the notable fact that these would be the first colorized coins from the Mint. Hook might also be simplified by removing the "two of the three 2020" text.

QPQ: None required.

Overall: —Bagumba (talk) 08:17, 15 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Bagumba I fixed the original research problem and created an alternative hook that I believe would be more interesting. - ZLEA _T\^C 13:28, 15 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@ZLEA: For ALT1, is it inaccurate to just say "United States coins", as it specifically applies to US Mint coins? Also, in the article it currently says these would be the first legal tender United States coins to feature color. I'm not that knowledgeable about coins, but if someone takes a US Mint coin and colorizes it, is it still legal tender? Alternatively, maybe we more specifically say it may be the first time the Mint will use color.—Bagumba (talk) 09:35, 16 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Bagumba Thanks for pointing that out, I've fixed ALT1 accordingly. - ZLEA _T\^C 12:54, 17 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

ALT1 approved. I also went and copyedited the article re: "legal tender". Feel free to provide a source and restore if it was true.—Bagumba (talk) 13:22, 17 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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