Talk:Bill Putnam (basketball)

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A fact from Bill Putnam (basketball) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 August 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Bill Putnam was an All-American and the co-captain of the first UCLA team to win a basketball championship?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/August. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bill Putnam (basketball).

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Did you know nomination

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 Lightburst (talk) 04:25, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Bill Putnam was an All-American and co-captain on the first UCLA team to win a basketball championship? Source: "Bill Putnam, U.C.L.A. guard, notched a defense spot on the all-collegiate second team" Los Angeles Times, "Putnam...was co-captain with Bill Rankin on the 1944-45 team that won the Bruins' first Pacific Coast Conference championship" The Manhattan Mercury, "This is the first time in the history of the Westwood institution that the Bruins have won a basketball championship" The Sacramento Bee
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/2023 British Athletics Championships

Created by Bagumba (talk). Self-nominated at 11:47, 20 July 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Bill Putnam (basketball); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

I'll review this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 14:14, 20 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Appears to meet all the criteria. QPQ done. Looks good to go! BeanieFan11 (talk) 14:22, 20 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]