A fact from Sid Justin appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 June 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Sid Justin almost became a Miracle, but he turned it down to play professional football?
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... that football player Sid Justin suffered a season-ending injury while scoring his only career touchdown? Source: PFR verifies he scored only one touchdown, while the Tampa Bay Times verifies that it took him out for the season
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
Interesting:
QPQ: - Not done Overall: Thanks User:BeanieFan11, great work. This is actually a 5x expansion (because it was an existing article already before moved to draft space), but it still passes all criteria for DYK. References for hook are behind paywall, AGF. QPQ needs to be done. -- P 1 9 9✉19:32, 7 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
Added cats Junior college football players and coaches in the United States, Otis College of Art and Design alumni, New Orleans football, African-Americans
"in 1973, after his graduation from Crenshaw" remove comma
Removed.
"Crenshaw, and was" remove comma
Done.
"named All-Pacific Coast Athletic Association" do you know if first or second team? add to infobox
Can't seem to find if it was first / second team - just added to the infobox without the -team selection.
"on August 14, 1980, and" that source says its yesterdays transactions so 13th
Fixed.
"He was waived by Tampa Bay on August 26" same for this
Fixed.
"signed with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League (CFL) on September 8" not sure when but probably not the same day the source was published
Sounds like it was around September 6, so I added "c. September 6"
"signed with the Buffalo Bills in April 1981" PFA has Feb.
Changed.
"placed on injured reserve on August 18" that's probably not Aug 18 either but i dont know
Changed to 17 as that seems to have been when it occurred.
add that he was released by the Bills on 8/31/1981 per PFA
Done.
no date spans for coaching career? I'm not asking you to include that if you dont want because that gets confusing sometimes.
The source didn't really give exact dates.
"charts in Asia for five months" ref 25 says 6 months
Do you think we should go with Justin's website, that of The Miracles, or add a note?