Template:Did you know nominations/Maddie Shevlin

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:21, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Maddie Shevlin[edit]

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... that Australian rules footballer Maddie Shevlin dislocated her thumb in her first match in the AFL Canberra competition? Shevlin dislocated her thumb in her first game for the Jets

Reviewed: ~~tbd~~ Asplenium fontanum

Created by Teratix (talk). Self-nominated at 04:22, 26 May 2019 (UTC).

Newly created article, cited and interesting hook, article over 1500 characters and follows all guidelines. However QPQ is pending. RRD (talk) 13:38, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

@Royroydeb: QPQ is now complete. – Teratix ₵ 10:50, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

Good to go. RRD (talk) 04:03, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

Came to promote; is the fact that a contact-sport athlete got a minor ingame injury interesting enough to be a hook? --valereee (talk) 19:07, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

@Valereee: It was a bit more than a minor injury; she missed ten weeks. It was also her debut in the AFL Canberra, which was likely her first experience in an organised Australian football competition, having only begun playing the sport that year after switching from rugby. Not sure how to synthesise this information into a neat hook, though! – Teratix ₵ 01:36, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

Teratix, it's quite likely my complete lack of sports understanding means I'm underestimating the general interest level for this hook. If you and Royroydeb aren't concerned, I don't object. My concern is always what will happen as it approaches the main page and gets a higher level of scrutiny from people more expert than I in a certain field, so I try to think of possible objections the hook will face. Would this work:

ALT1: ... that Australian rules footballer Maddie Shevlin dislocated her thumb in her debut match in the AFL Canberra competition and missed the next ten weeks? --valereee (talk) 10:37, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

@Valereee: I've been racking my brains over the last few days for a hook and came up with this:

ALT2: ... that Maddie Shevlin dislocated her thumb on debut in her first season of Australian rules football and missed the next ten weeks? – Teratix ₵ 13:33, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

Teratix, is 'on debut in her first season' idiomatic in OzEng or among sporty types? It's fine if it is, just checking. :D --valereee (talk) 14:21, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

I believe so. What I'm trying to convey is that it was her first match in her first season. But I don't want to say 'first match of Australian football' because she might have played some casual games as a child. This was her first match in an organised competition. – Teratix ₵ 03:20, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

ALT2, and I note that ALT0 is also still approved. --valereee (talk) 11:18, 29 June 2019 (UTC)