Talk:Marty McHale

A fact from Marty McHale appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 March 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Babe Ruth called Marty McHale "the best goddamn singer I ever heard"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/March. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Marty McHale.

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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) 06:53, 5 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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~~... that Variety once referred to Marty McHale as "baseball's [Enrico] Caruso"?~~
- ALT1:... that Babe Ruth called Marty McHale "the best goddamn singer I ever heard"?
- ALT2:... that baseball player Marty McHale performed professionally in vaudeville with some of his teammates?

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Thomas J. Cram
Comment: All these hooks can be sourced to [1]

5x expanded by Muboshgu (talk). Self-nominated at 23:29, 17 February 2021 (UTC).[reply]

All looks in order: long enough, new enough, neutrally presented and thoroughly referenced. No significant Earwig pings and QPQ is done. I vote for ALT1 as the most widely compelling, with a slight alteration to the punctuation (IMO emphasis is clear either way and reads more smoothly without the exclamation point on Ruth’s quote). If that’s acceptable, then good to go. (ALT2 would be my next choice.) Innisfree987 (talk) 06:49, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]