Template:Did you know nominations/Alex Johnson

Alex Johnson

 * ... that in 1971, Alex Johnson said he would prefer "playing in hell" than remaining with the California Angels?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Enamorada de Ti (album)
 * Comment: This dude was so controversial that many potential hooks are also potential BLP violations.

Created/expanded by Muboshgu (talk), 71.54.241.128 (talk). Nominated by Muboshgu (talk) at 22:57, 22 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Symbol confirmed.svg A five-fold expansion that is new enough and long enough. The hook is well referenced. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:36, 23 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Symbol possible vote.svg I would be happier if a little more care was taken with the paraphrasing from the sabr.org source. For example, "should have been placed on the disabled list rather than being suspended" should have been paraphrased, and "pulled a gun on him in the clubhouse during the game" in the article is too close to "pulling a gun on him in the clubhouse during a game". There are a number of other instances; a thorough comparison is in order. I have not checked the other sources. BlueMoonset (talk) 02:36, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I'll use the duplication detector tomorrow to see where else it happened. – Muboshgu (talk) 05:10, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I resourced some of the SABR references if that helps any. If the "pulling a gun on him in the clubhouse during a game" comment seems too similar to how it was phrased in the SABR article, I'm not really sure how else you would phrase that. It's phrased "menacing him with a pistol in the Angel clubhouse" in the Sports Illustrated article that is actually used as the source for that fact. There's no way in hell I was gonna phrase it like that.--71.54.241.128 (talk) 10:02, 24 September 2012 (UTC) --J.S.


 * Here is the duplication detector report on the SABR source. We should be good now. – Muboshgu (talk) 23:20, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Did you also check the other sources? BlueMoonset (talk) 04:18, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Pretty clean, I think. – Muboshgu (talk) 04:25, 25 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Symbol confirmed.svg Thanks for checking. I've modified the gun incident wording slightly: just because it was changed from the SI article doesn't mean, once we're aware that it's now very close to SABR, that we can leave it that close. Now that the paraphrasing is okay, approval is reinstated, based on Cwmhiraeth's review of the article's other points. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:55, 25 September 2012 (UTC)