Template:Did you know nominations/Nik Stauskas

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The result was: promoted by  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:47, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Nik Stauskas

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• ... that after Nik Stauskas became Big Ten Conference Freshman of the Week, he scored twenty points in back-to-back games to earn the honor again?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:07, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

• Reviewed: 7th QPQ of 9 against Template:Did you know nominations/Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park
• Comment: Depending on when this runs you might try the hook ... that after Nik Stauskas is Big Ten Conference leader in both free throw percentage and three-point field goal percentage? Obviously the hook might not be valid after Tuesday night's game though.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:07, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Created/expanded by TonyTheTiger (talk). Self nom at 00:07, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

• Article: New w/in 5 days of nomination. Long enough at >5000 characters. Neutral enough, when much is sourced to AnnArbor.com, which can only be so neutral about anything related to Michigan Athletics.  :-) Article is original work, no paraphrase issues.

Hook: I like the main proposed hook myself, not the alternate. Its size is fine, interesting, cited, correct, and neutral.

QPQ is attested to, no image to look at. (Note that this is my first DYK review... I promised months ago that I'd do a few, after my first DYK. I'd appreciate a note on my talk page agreeing or disagreeing with me.) Moishe Rosenbaum (talk) 05:38, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

• I'm concerned about some paraphrasing that's a little too close to the sources. For example, "season due to a hip injury" is identical, and "Michigan is the closest major Division I school to Stauskas' parents home in Ontario" only differs in one word from its source. This needs to be addressed before the article can be approved. The review otherwise looks quite good. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:38, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

• Those instances resolved.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 09:25, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

• Tony, I pulled the "Major Division I school" one because, as you noted in the article comment, Syracuse is closer than Michigan to where Nik's parents live. He may have been misinformed, or just happy that the school was a close as it was, but it isn't the closest, and for accuracy the article shouldn't say so. (I'm assuming "door-to-door" means by car, because nothing else would be reliably as quick.) You could instead use the three-and-a-half hour estimate as a way of showing he's glad he's reasonably close to home, though Google maps gives a rather longer estimate from Ann Arbor to Etobicoke (47 minutes longer), which I doubt includes time for each border crossing. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:51, 18 December 2012 (UTC)