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A fact from John Land (field hockey) appeared on Wikipedia's
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check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that 1964 Olympic field hockey player John Land played for England into his late 70s?
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ALT1: ... that northerner John Land was selected for the Great Britain field hockey team at the 1964 Summer Olympics, at a time when it was unusual for players from outside Southern England to make the team? Source: "John was an exceptional athlete, very quick and a rare breed in that he played for England and Great Britain in the 1960s, playing in the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo at a time when most hockey internationals came from the south" from:
"John Land, 1938-2021". Hockey Museum. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
5x expanded by
Dumelow (
talk). Self-nominated at 09:54, 10 December 2021 (UTC).reply
...5X expanded, length ok, no copyvio issues, reads well, referenced and not stub. Both hooks are good and are in the article followed by inline citations which contain the hook facts. QPQ provided.
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A fact from John Land (field hockey) appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 December 2021 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that 1964 Olympic field hockey player John Land played for England into his late 70s?
The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
this nomination's talk page,
the article's talk page or
Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
ALT1: ... that northerner John Land was selected for the Great Britain field hockey team at the 1964 Summer Olympics, at a time when it was unusual for players from outside Southern England to make the team? Source: "John was an exceptional athlete, very quick and a rare breed in that he played for England and Great Britain in the 1960s, playing in the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo at a time when most hockey internationals came from the south" from:
"John Land, 1938-2021". Hockey Museum. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
5x expanded by
Dumelow (
talk). Self-nominated at 09:54, 10 December 2021 (UTC).reply
...5X expanded, length ok, no copyvio issues, reads well, referenced and not stub. Both hooks are good and are in the article followed by inline citations which contain the hook facts. QPQ provided.
Whispyhistory (
talk) 10:55, 10 December 2021 (UTC)reply