Template:Did you know nominations/1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:05, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team

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1906 Commodores

...that one sportswriter called the 1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team "the first great Southern team"?

Reviewed: Prusa i3

Improved to Good Article status by MisterCake (talk). Nominated by MisterCake (talk) at 07:31, 27 June 2016 (UTC).

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

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing: - Paragraph 1 in section "Before the season" needs a citation
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: I don't thin this article passes the GA criteria and have mentioned it at WT:GAN. I think we should wait to see whether or not the article is delisted speedily or not. Some of the problems (like bare URLs) aren't even acceptable in a DYK. Yellow Dingo (talk) 11:55, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Hopefully it's been fixed. Cake (talk) 17:47, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

New reviewer needed to check if problems have been addressed. - Yellow Dingo (talk) 13:04, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
- Date, length and hook all OK. Pic licence fine. QPQ done. no close para. good to go. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 10:08, 6 July 2016 (UTC)