Template:Did you know nominations/Dusty Allen


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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 00:11, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Dusty Allen

 * ... that Dusty Allen hit a home run in his final Major League Baseball at-bat? Source: Baseball Almanac
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Matthew Stafford, Clayton Kershaw

5x expanded by Lepricavark (talk). Self-nominated at 18:38, 14 November 2017 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg Date, expansion and hook all OK. QPQ done. No close paraphrasing. Good to go.  The C of E God Save the Queen!  ( talk ) 13:10, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol question.svg Hi, I came to promote this, but have two questions: 1) Is Dusty his real name? 2) What happened to him? Why did he stop playing? Any personal life details would also round out the article. Yoninah (talk) 20:35, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I apologize for the delay in responding. I have added some personal life information to the article. Dusty is a nickname based on his first name, 'Dustin'. It is not including in the article because this MOS section on lead sentences advises against including hypocorisms. As far as his baseball career, it basically just followed the natural progression. Once his numbers weren't good even in the minor leagues, he was finished. It did end rather abruptly in Allen's case, but I'd surmise that he realized he was probably done playing in the major leagues and he didn't feel like continuing to play at a minor league level, especially given the business career that was awaiting him. Lepricavark (talk) 14:26, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Are you sure you're not misreading that MOS guideline? If this is a nickname, the lead sentence should begin: Dustin R. "Dusty" Allen... Yoninah (talk) 19:37, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm referring to the part of the MOS that says this: If a person has a well-known common hypocorism, used in lieu of a given name, it is not presented between quote marks following the last given name or initial. I think 'Dusty' is a fairly obvious derivative of 'Dustin' and including both clutters the beginning of the article. Lepricavark (talk) 21:03, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg If you say so; I'm not going to keep arguing. Anyone can have a nickname like Dusty. But I'll restore the tick per The C of E's review. Yoninah (talk) 13:12, 30 November 2017 (UTC)