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A fact from Canada v United States (2012 Summer Olympics) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 February 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the 2012 Olympic women's soccer semifinal between the Canadian and the American national soccer teams was called "the greatest knockout match in major-tournament football" since 1982?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2022/February. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Canada v United States (2012 Summer Olympics).

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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 Theleekycauldron (talk) 10:35, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the 2012 Olympic women's soccer semifinal between Canada and the United States was called "the greatest knockout match in major-tournament football" since 1982 by Scott Murray of The Guardian? Source: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2012/aug/07/the-fiver-women-football-olympics
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/List of NHL players with 500 consecutive games played
- Comment: Tragically, a variation of the obviously great "Megan Rapinoe scored an Olympic goal in an Olympic semifinal" hook was used for her article in 2014, so that is probably off the table. Also, since the DYK nom I reviewed was/is malformed, the review I offered is here, in case that helps.

Created by Giants2008 (talk). Self-nominated at 01:46, 2 February 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Y Article is long enough (13153 characters), new enough (created 2 February, nominated same day), and article is within policy
Y Hook is short enough, interesting, in the article and well cited
Y QPQ done (marking a review as ineligible is fine to use as a QPQ)
Overall, this nomination passes, congratulations. Joseph2302 (talk) 10:40, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Modified ALT0 to T:DYK/P5

Very poor article name[edit]

Currently this article is entitled "Canada v United States (2012 Summer Olympics)". That actually gives very little clue as to the contents of the article. Turns out it;s about a football match. Not, for instance, about, say, the relative positions of Canada and the USA at the 2012 Summer Olympics, or an article on some other discipline in which Canada competed against the USA.

It is, for me, pretty basic that article titles should provide sufficient information to identify the subject matter of the article. The current title fails dismally. --Tagishsimon (talk) 14:46, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Tagishsimon: this was by far the most I've ever struggled to name an article and I wasn't thrilled with it myself. I'm pretty confident that this is the first non-gold medal match article that has been made for an Olympic soccer game, leaving no real examples to borrow from. I opened a thread at WT:FOOTY asking for input, as it would be helpful to nail down a style for such pages. Of course, any comments here would be welcomed as well. I'm open to any half-decent name that you or anyone else comes up with. Giants2008 (Talk) 01:25, 14 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]