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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.

The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 12:39, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

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New England Revolution in international competition

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  • ... that the New England Revolution are 0-2-0 (W-L-D) against Trinidadian clubs in international competition? Source:
    Gives an overview of the only two matches against Trinidadian opposition: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-public-gives-a-school/143859085/
    All-time results can be found here, which proves this is the only matchup against Trinidadian clubs (pages 505-528 are non-MLS clubs): 2024 Media Guide. New England Revolution. Archived from the original on 22 March 2024. Retrieved 22 March 2024.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
Created by Brindille1 (talk).

Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.

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Brindille1 (talk) 04:12, 26 March 2024 (UTC).

  • The hook at present does not appear to meet WP:DYKINT as it is not a hooky hook or one that is likely to attract a broad audience. Pinging SounderBruce to help suggest possible alternative hooks. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:43, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
    • I think the only decent hook that can come from the article is that New England has played Alajuelense three times in their five CCC/CCL seasons, which is a bit unusual. Of course, this needs to be added to the article first with a good source. SounderBruce 04:42, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
      • Thanks Narutolovehinata5 and SounderBruce, I've added the suggested hook (ALT2), as well as three other alternates. One of the challenges in this article is finding hooks that I could reasonably bold-link the article in. I haven't seen any examples of DYK's in the other "international competition" articles I've looked at either. Brindille1 (talk) 03:18, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
I think ALT4 has promise and in fact I think it's the only proposal that isn't too reliant on specialist knowledge to be interesting. I'd suggest striking out the others and just focusing on ALT4. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 13:17, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
Sounds good, I've crossed out each of the other hooks.Brindille1 (talk) 02:30, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: None required.

Overall: The article looks good. As for the hook, I'm not sure I see it being called a "home" game – the article itself only notes They faced Liga Deportiva Alajuelense of Costa Rica. Due to logistical issues, both matches were hosted in Costa Rica. The source itself says that "The Revolution surrendered their home game opportunity" unless I'm missing something. @Brindille1: Thoughts? BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:03, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

  • @BeanieFan11: I see your point, and I've added a second source to ALT4 which clearly refers to this match as a home game. Brindille1 (talk) 17:09, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
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