Template:Did you know nominations/Chad Finchum

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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 13:40, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Chad Finchum

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• ... that NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Chad Finchum started racing as a second grader?
• ALT1: ... that NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Chad Finchum started racing karts at age seven? Source: "Racing since age 7, Chad has more than 200 go-cart wins on dirt and asphalt..." ref 1

• Reviewed: 177th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO
• Comment: The article will show as "expanded" on DYKcheck, as I restored old history from a previous WP:TOOSOON prod.

Created by Willsome429 (talk). Nominated by The Bushranger (talk) at 23:44, 30 November 2017 (UTC).

• New enough, long enough, neutrally written, well referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. Could you please add a reference to the chart under "Xfinity Series"? Also, the source doesn't say he was a second-grader; it says he was 7. Maybe he skipped a grade? QPQ done. Yoninah (talk) 22:02, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

• @Yoninah: I added the ref; as for the grade, I found a source that said "after the second grade", so I've changed the hook to age. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 22:44, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

• @The Bushranger: Thank you. But doesn't every kid race go-karts? The source you provided offers a better hook (I added the information to the article):
• ALT2: ... that by the age of 13, NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Chad Finchum had logged 200 go-kart wins on dirt and asphalt? Yoninah (talk) 14:47, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

• ALT3: ... that NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Chad Finchum began racing go-karts at age 7, logging more than 200 wins by age 13? Yoninah (talk) 14:51, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

• @Yoninah: It has become more prevalant in the last couple decades what with everyone looking for "the next Jeff Gordon" and then (even as others had their careers murdered left and right in said search) "the next Tony Stewart" (which the only person whose career survived that was Juan Pablo Montoya who wasn't quite up to snuff, but I digress-). Anyway, ALT3, I think, would be the best bet here, and thanks for coming up with that. Sometimes I can overlook very obvious things! - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 21:20, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

• Thank you. But since I wrote the hook, I'm calling on another reviewer to approve it. Yoninah (talk) 22:03, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

• ALT3 is interesting, and inline citations check out. --Usernameunique (talk) 02:45, 16 December 2017 (UTC)