Talk:Washington Wolfpack

A fact from Washington Wolfpack appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 November 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the owner of the Washington Wolfpack said that he initially only wanted to try out some players from his semi-professional team, but they gave him ownership instead?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 00:53, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that when a semi-pro football team owner asked if some of his players could try out for the Washington Wolfpack, he was given ownership instead? Source: Everett Herald ("After the announcement, Thomas reached out to the league to try to get tryouts for the Royals players. That quickly turned into him owning the franchise, he said in an interview. ")
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Djanius Djamin (2/2)
- Comment: Hook will likely need to be changed when the team's name is announced later this month.

Moved to mainspace by BeanieFan11 (talk). Self-nominated at 22:29, 10 October 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Everett AFL team; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing:
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
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Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: ~~Awaiting QPQ.minor:Maybe a link to Semi-professional sports ..?~~ Article may be retitled, but not a reason to withold approval Bogger (talk) 10:30, 16 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Driveby comment: the Arena Football League isn't the primary topic for football leagues called the AFL, given it's not the one we use "AFL season" to refer to the seasons of. This is a bit tricky for this hook's title, though it'll hopefully be resolved once they announce an actual name. Vaticidalprophet 12:04, 16 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Would changing the bold link to see "Everett arena football team" solve the issue? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:47, 17 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Bogger, Vaticidalprophet, and Narutolovehinata5: QPQ done, semi-pro is linked - as for the article title, the name should be announced soon - the vote for the new name was completed three or four days ago and I thought one of the news articles said it will be revealed this month - we could wait until then to feature the hook. BeanieFan11 (talk) 19:54, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. -Bogger (talk) 19:58, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Bogger, Vaticidalprophet, and Narutolovehinata5: Note that the name has been announced and the hook changed accordingly. BeanieFan11 (talk) 17:22, 27 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]