Template:Did you know nominations/Johnny Gildea
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The result was: promoted by PumpkinSky talk 02:18, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
Johnny Gildea
[edit]- ... that in his rookie season, Johnny Gildea led the National Football League in interceptions with 20 while passing for either two or three touchdowns?
- Comment: WikiCup nomination
Created/expanded by Secret (talk). Self nom at 04:35, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- Reviewed Joey Gase
Made a few minor copy-edits to the article, which has had the unfortunate effect of causing it to be less than 1,500 characters. It's at 1,494 now, according to DYKcheck. Shouldn't be too hard to add a couple sentences to the article to get it over the line, but I found some more issues that could stand to be worked out.
- The hook should probably have National Football League in it instead of just "league". That helps clarify what sports Gildea played.
- "He also finished fifth in the league in passing yards." Source says third for yards, not fifth (another stat showed fifth)
- "Despite the poor statistics, he was selected to his only Pro Bowl that year." Pro Football Reference gives his Pro Bowl year as 1938, not 1937.
- The first part of the above sentence could be considered POV, but fixing the previous problem will likely take care of this one too.
- If it's possible to provide them, page numbers for the two offline cites would be nice.
- Good news is that the sourcing looks okay in other respects (no paraphrasing issues in the sources I accessed online), and the expansion was more than five times. Should be DYK-ready once the issues above are taken care of. Giants2008 (Talk) 18:50, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Fixed Secret account 21:08, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Article is now past the 1,500-character threshold and everything else appears to meet DYK standards. Should be ready to go. Giants2008 (Talk) 01:44, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
