Template:Did you know nominations/Herb Pennock

Herb Pennock

 * ... that Baseball Hall of Fame manager Connie Mack said that selling Herb Pennock (pictured) was his greatest mistake?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Implicit learning
 * Comment: ALT1: ... that Billy Evans considered Herb Pennock`s (pictured) 1923 World Series performance to be "the greatest pitching performance I have ever seen"? ALT2: ... that the New York Yankees pitching staff without Herb Pennock (pictured) was likened to "a three-stringed ukulele"?

Created/expanded by Muboshgu (talk). Self nom at 21:39, 10 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Article:Character expansion 461% according to the recommended javascript tool; that initially seems short of 500%, but excluding infoboxes and certain other displayed text I believe it's honest to stipulate that the article "prose" has been recently expanded fivefold (and is sufficiently lengthy, obviously). Neutrality: Very mild fawning of subject, but probably noticeable only to experienced Wikipedians; none of it begs for correction and the article honestly treats the subject's outspoken support for segregation. Sources: Solid and several; leans a bit heavily on Baseball-Reference.com and SABR.org but both are fine; the first is dry statistics and the second is very conversational and doesn't seem to have been plagiarized. Skimmed other refs (largely news reports) and didn't find evidence of plagiarism. Hook: Less than half the acceptable 200 characters, and properly formatted. The hook's content has two things that slightly worry me: 1) while most Americans will probably realize that the term "Hall of Fame manager" refers to a baseball team manager who has been inducted into the Hall of Fame, will too many assume Connie Mack himself managed the Hall of Fame itself? 2) Would "...trading away Herb Pennock" be better than "...selling Herb Pennock"? I think so. Other: The hook image is free ( over almost a hundred years old!), used in the article, and shows up well. DYK Timing: The playoffs and the 2012 World Series itself begin October 5 and October 25, respectively; that's only a few weeks from now, so I recommend this hook run sometime during that, perhaps in this form: "... that Baseball Hall of Fame manager Connie Mack said that his greatest mistake was trading away eventual World Series pitcher Herb Pennock (pictured)?" -- →gab  24 dot  grab← 15:23, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for reviewing. Just to clarify on the 5x expansion, the article was 2404 characters of prose before I started expanding, and is 12062 now, so it's a full 5x by a hair (the DYKcheck took helps with the prose counting). I'll provide a QPQ today. As for timing, I have no objection to holding it for the postseason. – Muboshgu (talk) 15:39, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I hate when a party-pooper reviewer is a nudzh for those last few bytes, so I'm glad we've put that potential objection behind us. I should have commented on the form of the citations; it would be ideal to clean them up (although their current form doesn't disqualify the article from DYK, IMHO). Even so, it should be noted that this was a nice meaty expansion with very little filler, congratulations and thanks! -- →gab  24 dot  grab← 16:05, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I certainly intend to fill in those citations properly before GAN. I also hate when some are such sticklers for precisely 5.0, and refuse to be okay with 4.99. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:07, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Request a specially timed appearance (per Template talk:Did you know): The playoffs and the 2012 World Series itself begin October 5 and October 25, respectively; that's only a few weeks from now, so I recommend this hook run sometime during that, perhaps in this form: "... that Baseball Hall of Fame manager Connie Mack said that his greatest mistake was trading away eventual World Series pitcher Herb Pennock (pictured)?" -- →gab  24 dot  grab← 04:08, 16 September 2012 (UTC)