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The following discussion 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 Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:48, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Destinee Hooker

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Created/expanded by PM800 (talk). Self nom at 21:51, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

The hook fact is not explicitly stated in the article, although it can be deduced from a two-sentence paragraph in the article that has cited both of the article's sources at the end of the paragraph.
A check on close paraphrasing also finds several phrases in common with the sources, although these are mostly standard forms for representing titles or achievements and are largely unavoidable. I have reworded the most avoidable of the instances found by re-ordering the achievements listed, which the article had in common with *both* sources.
Sincerely, SamBlob (talk) 01:34, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
The explicit statement and a cited source for it have since been added. The only remaining issue is the duplication, and I'm not sure that's a real issue. Could I have a second opinion, please? Sincerely, SamBlob (talk) 02:06, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
I wouldn't really complain about copying phrases like "Texas state champion in the high jump", and many of them are stock descriptions of achievements, like "Most Outstanding Player at the NCAA Division I championship". But there are several quite long phrases that are word-for-word matches:
  • "final round with 101 total points scored 90 kills 8 blocks 3 aces"
  • "started the first six matches of the FIVB world grand prix "
  • "most outstanding player at the NCAA division i volleyball championship"
  • "finished fifth in scoring at the FIVB world championship "
All from [1]. Paraphrasing from the other two sources looks OK. All this from the duplication detector. So I think those, at least, should be fixed. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 04:16, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
Done. - PM800 (talk) 04:26, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
All good! Sincerely, SamBlob (talk) 12:28, 10 August 2012 (UTC)