- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:56, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
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Christina Gough
- ... that German cricketer Christina Gough scored 348 runs, at an average of 87.00 and a strike rate of 127.47, in the nine WT20I matches she played in 2020? Source: The year that was – 20 interesting numbers from 2020 Women's Criczone
- ALT1:... that German cricketer Christina Gough achieved the best economy rate, of 2.29, among all bowlers who bowled a minimum of 20 overs in WT20Is in 2020? Source: The year that was – 20 interesting numbers from 2020 Women's Criczone
- ALT2:... that German cricketer Christina Gough, who scored 348 runs in Women's Twenty20 Internationals in 2020, has a Master of Arts in Modern Languages (German) from St Hilda's College, Oxford? Sources: The year that was – 20 interesting numbers from 2020 Women's Criczone and Christina Gough LinkedIn
- ALT1:... that German cricketer Christina Gough achieved the best economy rate, of 2.29, among all bowlers who bowled a minimum of 20 overs in WT20Is in 2020? Source: The year that was – 20 interesting numbers from 2020 Women's Criczone
Created/expanded by Bahnfrend (talk). Self-nominated at 07:38, 18 February 2021 (UTC).
@Bahnfrend: The article is new enough and long enough. QPQ required. The article has no textual issues that I can see, but these hooks are very, very, very dry. Cricket stories to me are positively inscrutable, and I cannot imagine a lot of people will be interested by all the numbers. Can you propose a hook that isn't so reliant on numbers? Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 06:10, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Sammi Brie: Thanks for your review. From your userpage, I suspect you're from North America, which is not really the heartland of cricket. If you were from, say, India, New Zealand or South Africa, you would probably know that Germans are not supposed to be able to play cricket, or top the world tables for WT20I economy rates, and that an average of 87.00 is an amazing statistic for any international cricketer. I can also confirm that lots and lots of en.wiki readers are interested in cricket: of all of the more than 10,000 images I have uploaded to Commons, the one that's most frequently downloaded as part of a Wikipedia page is an image of the captain of the Indian men's team, Virat Kohli (ie File:2015 CWC I v UAE 02-28 Kohli (03) (cropped).JPG) - in some months it is downloaded more than half a million times. But taking your review into account, how about the ALT2 I have added? Bahnfrend (talk) 09:08, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Bahnfrend: I definitely did get the fact that she was German was unusual, but...the thing is that the numbers made me glaze over, and I suspect a lot of US readers would have done likewise. ALT2 is okay but a weird juxtaposition and still a bit too numerical in nature. Also, I can't take this anywhere until you review a nomination for QPQ. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 08:44, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Sammi Brie: Thanks for your review. From your userpage, I suspect you're from North America, which is not really the heartland of cricket. If you were from, say, India, New Zealand or South Africa, you would probably know that Germans are not supposed to be able to play cricket, or top the world tables for WT20I economy rates, and that an average of 87.00 is an amazing statistic for any international cricketer. I can also confirm that lots and lots of en.wiki readers are interested in cricket: of all of the more than 10,000 images I have uploaded to Commons, the one that's most frequently downloaded as part of a Wikipedia page is an image of the captain of the Indian men's team, Virat Kohli (ie File:2015 CWC I v UAE 02-28 Kohli (03) (cropped).JPG) - in some months it is downloaded more than half a million times. But taking your review into account, how about the ALT2 I have added? Bahnfrend (talk) 09:08, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment: For what it's worth to provide a second opinion on the nationality issue, I live in a cricket country and this hook makes no sense to me. "Cricket's scoring system makes no sense to anyone who isn't already a fan" is a long-standing joke even wherever the game's popular. Vaticidalprophet (talk) 15:56, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Sammi Brie: @Vaticidalprophet: QPQ added and ALT2 slightly modified. I've been a fan since the mid-1970s, so perhaps I was assuming too much. Bahnfrend (talk) 09:19, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
I think I'd be fine with this. Biographical info from LinkedIn is seen as OK, I believe, so it should be good to go. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 00:22, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Sammi Brie: @Vaticidalprophet: QPQ added and ALT2 slightly modified. I've been a fan since the mid-1970s, so perhaps I was assuming too much. Bahnfrend (talk) 09:19, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
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