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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 Cwmhiraeth (talk06:31, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Created by HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk). Self-nominated at 19:49, 22 May 2020 (UTC).[reply]

  • New (created on May 22), long enough (the page is 6000+ characters without infoboxes, etc), neutral, cites sources. The list of magazines and sporting events he covered is nearly verbatim from the sources, but it's basic info that's hard to write another way. SO I don't think it counts as a problematic paraphrase. That list is repeated twice in the article (header and in the body), which is odd for such a small article, but it's fine, too. Overall, looks good. I would urge you to change "1976" to the number of years that passed, though. "1976" doesn't make sense without the context. I alike all the hooks except the second one, because it's not clear why hiding an injury matters. Prad Nelluru (talk) 03:34, 23 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Hi, I came by to promote this, but there is no indication in the source that he refused to talk to him for 22 years. He refused to talk to him for 2 years, and then they met again 20 years later. Yoninah (talk) 21:26, 3 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yoninah, I'm not sure how to interpret "cut him dead" but I assumed it's the same as "pretend he was dead/didn't exist." I am sure if he wished to contact him, he could've. Would a reword to something similar in the article be more suitable?
  • ALT0a:... that after Andy O'Brien revealed the news of John Landy's injury during the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, the runner refused to communicate with him for 22 years? John Landy