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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 22:49, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

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Leroy Chollet

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  • ... that mixed-race basketball player Leroy Chollet led then-segregated Loyola College to its first National Championship? Source: Leroy Chollet [...] helped lead Loyola to the 1945 National Championship, which was the first in school history [...] it was revealed shortly after that Chollet was mixed race, and in the 1940s, Louisiana was still segregated.

https://ssacsports.com/news/2023/2/27/ssac-black-history-month-profile-leroy-chollet-loyola.aspx

    • ALT1: ... that former NBA athlete Leroy Chollet benched his own coach?Source: [...]Leroy Chollet, in from Buffalo like Cervi, joined the team. Cervi did not use Chollet much, and Chollet did not agree with this appraisal of his talents [...] Leroy told Al he would make a better coach. "All right," Cervi said. "Tonight's game, you're the coach." [...] as a final insult Chollet did not send Cervi in until the last 30 seconds or so—about the usual time Cervi sent in Leroy.

https://vault.si.com/vault/1968/11/25/old-days-and-changed-ways

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    • Comment: This is my first DYK nomination. Feel free to let me know if there is something that I should have done differently or need to do.

5x expanded by Rjjiii (talk). Self-nominated at 04:56, 1 April 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Leroy Chollet; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

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QPQ: None required.

Overall: Should the main hook say "Loyola University", not "Loyola College"? Also, the source says "helped lead", not plain "led". Per MOS:LEADREL: Significant information should not appear in the lead if it is not covered in the remainder of the article I don't see it explicitly stated in the body that Loyola was segregated. For ALT1, is there a particular reason to say "NBA athlete" as opposed to "NBA basketball player"? —Bagumba (talk) 16:08, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for the input. For the alternate hook, "basketball player" is fine. For the first hook is this better:
"[...] in the 1940s Louisiana was still officially segregated. [...] More to the point, that meant the Chollets, whose parents moved from New Roads to New Orleans early in the 20th century, and apparently “passed” for white, would not have been admitted to Holy Cross, much less Loyola or LSU or Tulane, which did not admit black undergraduates until the 1960s." https://www.nola.com/sports/black-history-month-chollet-brothers-overcame-louisianas-history-of-segregation-to-become-great-new-orleans/article_7fb014c0-5686-11ea-bf97-ff36e33f56bc.html
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ALT3: ... that former NBA basketball player Leroy Chollet benched his own coach? Source: [...]Leroy Chollet, in from Buffalo like Cervi, joined the team. Cervi did not use Chollet much, and Chollet did not agree with this appraisal of his talents [...] Leroy told Al he would make a better coach. "All right," Cervi said. "Tonight's game, you're the coach." [...] as a final insult Chollet did not send Cervi in until the last 30 seconds or so—about the usual time Cervi sent in Leroy.
Rjjiii (talk) 16:38, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
@Rjjiii: Approved after article text updates. I went and marked your modified blurbs as ALT2 and ALT3, to avoid confusion. I also made "national championship" lowercase, as it's not a proper noun. Either blurb is fine. ALT2 seems more educational, while ALT3 is more quirky. If you have a preference, you can strike one of them. Otherwise, the poster can decide.—Bagumba (talk) 05:16, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
I appreciate the edits, the explanation, and the feedback. I would prefer to leave both and let an editor with more experience pick. Thanks again, Rjjiii (talk) 05:40, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
@Rjjiii: High Earwig score, but it is the block quotes. Just a note about writing style. MOS:LEAD - you should summarize the article with the lead, and not have citations there. Additionally the bit about the benching of the coach should be in the body. These are not DYK disqualifiers but they are something to consider when writing articles. Bruxton (talk) 22:48, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
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