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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 SL93 (talk18:57, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • ... that six-time American national archery champion Russ Hoogerhyde performed trick shots including shooting a cigarette from the lips of a spectator? Source: here: "He'll shoot a cigaret from your lips if you just stand out there without fidgeting too much..."
  • alt 1 ... that six-time American national archery champion Russ Hoogerhyde performed trick shots including shooting a cigarette from the lips of a spectator – and did so without five cents of insurance? Source: same as above plus this regarding the 5 cent of insurance

Created by Cbl62 (talk). Self-nominated at 21:52, 26 May 2022 (UTC).[reply]

  • Meets newness and length requirements, neutral and free of close paraphrasing. Both hooks are interesting and have citations directly after the corresponding sentences in the body of the article. I prefer ALT0 as less wordy.
I managed to nail down a public domain image of Hoogerhyde's likeness using Internet Archive's "search text contents" function, leading me to dig up a copyright-noticeless 1942 yearbook. I also found a video of him performing some of his neat tricks in a 1937 educational film scanned by British Pathé, which I have added as a sidebar link in the body. Very interesting article about a once famous and neglected figure in archery. DigitalIceAge (talk) 07:30, 6 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]