Template:Did you know nominations/USA Women’s 3x3 Teams


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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 05:58, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

USA Women's 3x3 Teams

 * ... that despite having only two players in a three-on-three basketball game, the 2011 USA Women's U18 3x3 Team took a game to overtime, almost winning a medal?

Created by Sphilbrick (talk). Self nominated at 15:36, 25 August 2014 (UTC).
 * Reviewed: Mack Horton
 * FYI, while the hook is about the 2011 team, this is timely; the 2014 event is in progress in Nanjing China.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  15:46, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment - In no particular order; Should it really be "Team" in the article title? Or for that matter USA? Or "Women's"? I would think the correct title is "United States women's 3×3 teams" - Ba se me nt 12  (T.C) 00:42, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment Any reason we can't mention "basketball" in the hook? I had no idea what 3x3 was. Maury Markowitz (talk) 11:47, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Good point, and may illustrate my narrow world view :) I changed it.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  14:57, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

DYKcheck passes, newness gets a bye, everything else checks out including inline on the hook. Maury Markowitz (talk) 21:29, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol question.svg Per DYK rules, there should be at least one citation per paragraph, which is not true of some paragraphs. Also, the article references "3x3", not "three on three" as in the hook. Yoninah (talk) 21:45, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * The purpose of a cite is to allow readers to verify potentially questionable claims being made. This hook does not make any sort of claim to the effect of "3x3 is known as three on three". It is making a claim about a specific event that just happens to be in that sport. If you feel that this trivially verifiable point needs a cite, that would suggest that every acronym in every article ever DYKed would need one too. Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:19, 19 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Changed from "three on three" to "three-on-three" reflecting source. Added term to article, with a reference.
 * Added a See also to the general article on 3x3 (basketball)
 * Fixed a redlink
 * Added refs to ensure that each paragraph has a reference.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  12:54, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Thank you, Sphilbrick, those are good changes. Good to go. Yoninah (talk) 20:25, 20 September 2014 (UTC)