Template:Did you know nominations/Jesse Iwuji


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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:16, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Jesse Iwuji

 * ... that United States Navy officer Jesse Iwuji played college football for the Naval Academy and races in NASCAR? Source: The Navy Times
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/2017 College Football Playoff National Championship

Created by ZappaOMati (talk). Self-nominated at 02:28, 11 January 2017 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg New enough (moved into main space on 10 Jan, nominated on 11 Jan), long enough (2601 characters on 11 Jan), neutrally worded, sourced inline and free from plagiarism. The hook is short enough (111 charaters), correctly formatted, interesting, but has refering issues. That he played for the Navy Midshipmen football team (which is the college football referred to in the hook) is uncited. The NASCAR bit is cited, but the issues with the Navy bit (see below). QPQ complete.
 * Some stuff to fix. It states in the infobox that his military service ended in 2017, but the intro doesn't say former/retired and it isn't mentioned or referenced in the body of the article. This obviously effects the hook as it is worded to suggest that he is rather than was a Navy officer. The last sentence of Racing career is a bit POV and could be better worded, maybe something like "In the K&N Pro Series West, he came second to Salvatore Iovino in the Most Popular Driver Award". Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 18:51, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
 * The Navy Times article discusses his college football career at the Naval Academy (whose football team is known as the Midshipmen): "The Naval Academy came calling in his junior year of high school, so he signed up for one year at the Naval Academy Preparatory School in Rhode Island before heading to Annapolis to play free safety. "I felt like it was the best opportunity to play good college football for a winning team, and also have a career after that," he told Navy Times in the June 8 phone interview. But racing is expensive, and a midshipman football player doesn't have time or money for more than watching."
 * The Navy Times article also stated "His service obligation ends in 2017", hence why the infobox said his service ends in 2017, but I suppose it's better to wait until it actually ends before updating. Changed.  Zappa  24  Mati   22:44, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the rewording and clarifying about the military service. The above and your edits still don't deal with the lack of citation for the football question. If you could add a citation (the Navy Times will do) to "he was a free safety on the Navy Midshipmen football team." that would fix it. To me (who has virtually no knowledge of American football, I'm British) I can't see any sentence cited inline to support him being a college footballer. Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 00:46, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
 * No problem. Done.  Zappa  24  Mati   00:49, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Thank you for that, this is now good to go! Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 00:51, 8 February 2017 (UTC)