Talk:NBA anniversary teams

A fact from NBA anniversary teams appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 November 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that only four NBA players have been named to all four of the league's anniversary teams?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/November. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/NBA anniversary teams.

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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) 02:31, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Bill Russell

... that Bill Russell (pictured) is one of only four NBA players to be named to all four of the league's anniversary teams? Source: "Eleven-time NBA champion Bill Russell, Cousy, Mikan and Bob Pettit are the only four players to make all four NBA Anniversary Teams (25th, 35th, 50th and 75th)." (UPI)
- ALT1: ... that only four NBA players have been named to all four of the league's anniversary teams?

Reviewed: Richard Aldrich
Comment: If picture is not used, prefer ALT1 to leave more mystery to the hook.

Created by Bagumba (talk). Self-nominated at 12:48, 27 October 2021 (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:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Nice work, Bagumba! A well written and well cited article. Thanks so much for creating it and nominating it for DYK! I prefer the main hook to the alternate and hope it can run with the photo, but if not, then I agree with Bagumba's point about using ALT1 instead. Michael Barera (talk) 03:47, 29 October 2021 (UTC) To T:DYK/P4[reply]