Template:Did you know nominations/Andy Vernon

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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 Yoninah (talk) 22:03, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

Andy Vernon

5x expanded by Yellow Dingo (talk). Self-nominated at 10:39, 19 September 2016 (UTC).

Think you need to jazz up that hook. Endless social media heated arguments= par for the course Ribbet32 (talk) 15:12, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
  • Yeah but two Olympians who are teammates and one a four time gold medalist, I'd say that doesn't happen very often. Happy to add an ALT if more users think it's needed. - Yellow Dingo (talk) 21:39, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
Then work in the bit about their being teammates. I'm too lazy tonight to do it myself. EEng 06:34, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Done Template:Ping. - Yellow Dingo (talk) 06:38, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Much better IMHO. EEng 05:55, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

Symbol redirect vote 4.svg . - Yellow Dingo (talk) 00:12, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

  • Symbol confirmed.svg This article is new enough and long enough. The ALT1 hook fact is cited to a reliable source, the article is neutral and I detected no policy issues. I did however remove the mention of "fellow Olympian" from the hook as that information is not included in the article on Vernon. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:20, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
  • Symbol possible vote.svg I have pulled this from q6 due to a discussion at WT:DYK. Gatoclass (talk) 15:47, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
Not exactly rivetting is it? Most athletes improve their performances over time. Gatoclass (talk) 08:00, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
Unfortunately not. Would a hook around his Universiade gold be interesting? — Yellow Dingo (talk) 08:07, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
  • Symbol redirect vote 4.svg Reviewer needed to check the recent ALT hooks; I've struck the hook that was pulled from prep. BlueMoonset (talk) 06:50, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
  • Symbol question.svg Also noting there is no copyvio, and QPQ was done. ALT4 and ALT5 both are short enough. But ALT4 is contradicted by the article which says that he is a long distance runner. There looks to be no overlap with "middle" and this athlete. So I will propose an ALT4a below though I cannot see that the article says that this is his "best result". That is a bit of OR. ALT5 similarly is not in the article, and he may or may not have attempted a marathon. Also in his earlier years it is not clear that he would be classed as "top", so we need a more carefully worded hook. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 23:07, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
  • ALT5 ... that upon winning the half marathon Great Birmingham Run in October 2016, Andy Vernon said he hopes to add the marathon to his repertoire and qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics?
  • Symbol redirect vote 4.svg New reviewers needed for ALT4a and ALT5. — Yellow Dingo (talk) 04:47, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
Symbol confirmed.svg ALT4a checks out, also checked for copyvios and there don't seem to be any. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 17:19, 5 November 2016 (UTC)