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A fact from Wasswa Serwanga appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 November 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Wasswa Serwanga and his twin brother were the first two NFL players from Uganda?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/November. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Wasswa Serwanga.

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Links

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/SerwWa20.htm

https://profootballarchives.com/players/s/serw00400.html

https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/625900746/?match=4&terms=wasswa%20serwanga

https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/693609013/?match=1&terms=wasswa%20serwanga

https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/387249050/?match=1&terms=wasswa%20serwanga

BeanieFan11 (talk) 03:14, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

Passed. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 20:10, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Nominator: BeanieFan11 (talk · contribs) 19:21, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: WikiOriginal-9 (talk · contribs) 19:51, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism):
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Pass/Fail:

"Ugandan-born" get rid of born. According to the early life section, it looks like he IS Ugandan.
- Changed.
Add NFL and AFL to lead.
- Added.
Added cat
Any later life?
- No articles that I could find. There's two California "Wasswa Serwanga"s on LinkedIn – one here and one here (the second one is definitely him, the first I can't tell as it doesn't let me view the whole thing). Should I add something from there?
You forgot to add the PFA cite for his 5 AFL starts.
- I did? PFA is ref 1 and I read He appeared in five games for the Avengers, all as a starter, totaling 37 tackles, four pass breakups, an interception and a forced fumble.[1][35]
He had 31 solo tackles and 6 assisted in the AFL. Body just says 31.
- Fixed.
I changed the high school formatting in the infobox, not wrong though but that's the standard now so whatever.

I think that's all. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 19:51, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@WikiOriginal-9: Responded. BeanieFan11 (talk) 20:05, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The AFL counted assists as half tackles, so I revised the infobox and body accordingly. Everything is good now. Nice work! ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 20:09, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Crisco 1492 talk 14:24, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Wasswa Serwanga and his twin brother were the first two NFL players from Uganda?

Source: PFR

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies
Comment: Could expand his twin brother's article (Kato Serwanga) to add to the hook if needed. Might also work to have a hook on the aspect of his wealthy father narrowly surviving an attempted murder from Idi Amin and selling his possessions in exchange for a plane ticket to bring Wasswa to the U.S. (not sure how it'd be best worded though...). Also, the QPQ will be done within 24 hours.

5x expanded by BeanieFan11 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 258 past nominations.

BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:15, 7 October 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Hi @BeanieFan11: This article, which was promoted to good article status on the 30 September, is new enough, long enough, well-sourced, BLP-neutral, copyvio free, and presentable. I think the citation you've provided is a bit close to WP:OR for comfort. Could you replace it with this WaPo article or this ChimpReports article? Best, Tenpop421 (talk) 12:09, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @Tenpop421: Added in the WaPo article. BeanieFan11 (talk) 22:19, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  - QPQ done. Interesting hook. Good to go. Tenpop421 (talk) 22:36, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]