Template:Did you know nominations/Carmen Cincotti

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The result was: promoted by Alex ShihTalk 19:36, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

Carmen Cincotti edit

  • ... that Carmen Cincotti ate nearly 1,000 hot dogs in two months while training for the 2017 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, where he ate 62 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes to finish in second place? "Mays Landing competitive eater devours his competition" - "Mays Landing native Carmen Cincotti accomplished that gastric milestone last week at the annual Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island, New York, on Fourth of July. The 2011 Oakcrest High School graduate downed 62 wieners en route to a second-place finish.... He began training for the Nathan’s contest about two months ago, downing an estimated 1,000 over that span."
    • ALT1:... that ...? Source: "You are strongly encouraged to quote the source text supporting each hook" (and [link] the source, or cite it briefly without using citation templates)

Created by Alansohn (talk). Self-nominated at 21:19, 18 July 2017 (UTC).

  • @Alansohn: I will review this article. Wow, that's a huge amount of hot dogs! epicgenius (talk) 01:23, 19 July 2017 (UTC)


General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: Done.

Overall: epicgenius (talk) 01:23, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

Epicgenius, see updates to the wording in the article. Alansohn (talk) 02:53, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
@Alansohn: Since you've reworded it to the best you could, I say it is good to go. epicgenius (talk) 17:31, 19 July 2017 (UTC)