Template:Did you know nominations/Danny Higginbotham

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The result was: promoted by Zanhe (talk) 18:59, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Danny Higginbotham

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Higginbotham with Gibraltar in 2014

... that footballer Danny Higginbotham made his international debut for Gibraltar in their first official match, just two months before he retired from club football?

ALT1:... that Sir Alex Ferguson gave Danny Higginbotham a four-year professional contract whilst Higginbotham was serving a year-long ban from football?

Improved to Good Article status by EchetusXe (talk). Self-nominated at 14:06, 28 March 2016 (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: Done.

Overall: @EchetusXe: - timing, size, QPQ. copyvio check etc. all check out - But there are 10 references that have dead links - some predate the GA review and all pre-date the GA approval. I think the ALT1 text is better, it is one of those "wait what?" kind of things that'd make me want to stop and read more. MPJ-US 15:31, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

OK, I have found a few dead links and replaced or removed them. I can't find ten though? Thanks.Echetus Xe 23:09, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

I checke the ones the tool hit on, they work for me?? weird, but good to go now. passes MPJ-US 23:50, 3 April 2016 (UTC)