Template:Did you know nominations/Leander Dendoncker

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The result was: promoted by Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 12:28, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

Leander Dendoncker edit

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... ~~that Belgian World Cup player Leander Dendoncker is the son of pig farmers?~~ Source: [1] "Originaire de Passendaele, le fin fond de la Flandre Occidentale, où ses parents sont éleveurs de cochons, Leander Dedoncker a vécu très jeune loin de sa famille" - "Originally from Passendale, in deepest West Flanders, where his parents are pig farmers, Leander Dendoncker has lived far from his family from a young age".

5x expanded by Harambe Walks (talk). Self-nominated at 23:45, 11 July 2018 (UTC).

Doing... review in process. Flibirigit (talk) 23:11, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

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: None required.

Overall: The readable word count was expanded more than five times on July 11th. The hook is cited from the link provided in the nomination, but it does not appear in the article. This information needs to be written into the article, perhaps in a personal life section. I also recommend rewording and expanding the hook, as it has potential to be more interesting. Flibirigit (talk) 23:20, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

Hi Flibirigit. I am new to this so I may have formatted the nomination wrong. In the first line of "Club career", it opens as "Dendoncker was born in Passendale, West Flanders to pig farmer parents.[2]" That source from DH is the one I used in the nomination. Thank you. Harambe Walks (talk) 17:19, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

I separated that information into a "Personal life" section. Do you have time to try expanding his personal information? I think we could improve the hook that way.Flibirigit (talk) 18:12, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

Flibirigit I found some interesting facts about Dendoncker's school days. The source is a newspaper in Dutch that is behind a paywall, the author's official blog has recreated it in full. I have included both in the citation Harambe Walks (talk) 18:57, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

Here is a new and longer hook: ALT1 = ...~~that Belgian World Cup player Leander Dendoncker is one of three brothers born to pig farmers, all of whom became footballers?~~

Looks like an improvement. I will go over the details shortly. Flibirigit (talk) 19:15, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

I have checked ALT1 for sources. It is verified here, and here. I am suggesting a rewording of the hook to...

ALT2 = ...that Belgium national football team player Leander Dendoncker is one of three professional football brothers born to pig farmers?

Thanks again. Flibirigit (talk) 06:07, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Flibirigit Yes that is a good rewording Harambe Walks (talk) 19:05, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

I'm satisfied. This is good to go. Flibirigit (talk) 21:33, 30 July 2018 (UTC)