Template:Did you know nominations/Alphonse Areola

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:50, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

Alphonse Areola[edit]

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... that Alphonse Areola saved two penalty kicks during a penalty shoot-out in the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup final, to help France win their first ever title in the competition?

Improved to Good Article status by Liam E. Bekker (talk). Self-nominated at 13:05, 3 December 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: Article promoted to GA within seven days of nomination by a very experienced reviewer, but additional spot check/skim indicates no concerns with plagiarism, sourcing, or neutrality. User has fewer than five DYKs, so QPQ not necessary. Hook is cited in the article and is within length parameters. Personally I think his club record of 590 minutes with conceding is more interesting than the current hook, and setting such a record seems less common than helping a team win by blocking penalty shots, but I'm not a huge football fan, so what is here should be fine. This one is good to go. Canadian Paul 14:22, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi Paul, thank you for the above. I have added an ALT for you to consider as per your comment. I agree regarding the record being more interesting. If you're fine with it would you mind putting it in the queue for me. I'm not 100% sure how that process works and don't want to upset the apple cart. Thanks, Liam E. Bekker (talk) 08:02, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

@Liam E. Bekker: where is your ALT1 that you would like us to consider? Yoninah (talk) 00:04, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi Yoninah, ALT was removed as it was inaccurate. Original hook can be used.Liam E. Bekker (talk) 16:08, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

@Liam E. Bekker: OK. Next time, please strike it out rather than erase it, so we can see the progress of the thread. Yoninah (talk) 18:11, 18 December 2016 (UTC)