Talk:Ripken (dog)

Ripken (dog) is currently a Other sports good article nominee. Nominated by Johnson524 at 23:43, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

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Did you know nomination

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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 19:22, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the dog Ripken wears a GoPro on his back while retrieving used bats and tees at major sporting events? (Source)
- ALT1: ... that fans have booed off players who try to take the dog Ripken's job of retrieving used bats and tees at major sporting events? (Source) (Source)
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/The Horn of Plenty & Template:Did you know nominations/George Bogaars

Created by Johnson524 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 20 past nominations.

Johnson524 11:34, 5 December 2024 (UTC).[reply]

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

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing: - Concerns about the reliability and quality of sources used, especially for the hooks.
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
Other problems: - Article is tagged as needing a copyedit, and I agree. It reads way too informally at points.

Hook eligibility:

Cited: - The Manual (misspelled as The Manuel) used for ALT0 seems to be a clickbait-like website run by Digital Trends, which I would disqualify as a reliable source. InspireMore (used for ALT1) also seems to have journalistic standards and an editorial staff, but is very low quality; surely there's better sources out there?
Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article need some work, especially in the sourcing department. ALT0 would be usable with some cleanup and a better source. Sounder Bruce 04:47, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@SounderBruce: Thank you for the review, and I'm sorry for submitting this article in such a poor state, I didn't realize how many things were wrong with it! I have removed The Manual source from the page, replaced the ALT0 source with a much better one from Golf Digest, and added a supporting source for ALT1. I'm really bad at copyediting, its something I wish I was better at, but I believe I've removed the worst of the informal wording from the page, so please feel free to tell me what other corrections I can do for the page. Thank you again, and cheers! Johnson524 18:51, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @Johnson524: Went through and did a quick copyedit, but there are still major sourcing issues. Sounder Bruce 02:50, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  - @SounderBruce: Thank you for the further copyediting! Can you clarify what you mean by major sourcing concerns? I've removed the InspireMore source if that's what you meant, but your concern sounded plural. Cheers! Johnson524 03:41, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  - @SounderBruce: Pinging. Cheers! Johnson524 09:32, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    - Mediahub (which is linked to a different organization) seems to be a less-reliable version of a student newspaper, so it should be removed. MyModernMet is a blog with very little editorial input, seeing as they just embed Instagram posts for the majority of the article's content. There's also quite a bit that is sourced directly from the owner's website, which really should be replaced as much as possible. Sounder Bruce 07:00, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Johnson524: Please address the above concerns. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:54, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- @SounderBruce:@Narutolovehinata5: Sorry about the late reply, I must have missed this! The issues above have been corrected except for removing the Mediahub source. It is written by the school of journalism at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, by students (according to their about page) that are under the editorial supervision of multiple of their professors. Per WP:RSSM, I do not think this source is unreliable or lacking editorial input. I don't want to waste anymore of your time, however, and since I've already replied late, you can fail this nom if you still disagree, but I really ask that you don't. Happy new years from North Carolina, Johnson524 15:08, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  - Mediahub is not at the same level of reputability as a normal student newspaper (in this case, the Daily Tar Heel), so I cannot approve this nomination. Sounder Bruce 04:52, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    - @Johnson524: If the Mediahub references are not replaced or removed, the nomination will be closed as unsuccessful. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:31, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
      - @SounderBruce:@Narutolovehinata5: Done Johnson524 14:12, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
        ALT0 will need to be modified to use the past tense, but otherwise the article is finally ready. Sounder Bruce 21:22, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]