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The following discussion 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 Allen3 talk 08:50, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Carlos Jenkins

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Created/expanded by Guoguo12 (talk). Self nom at 04:13, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

  • Comment: Admittedly, there is almost certainly a better way to phrase the hook. Any help would be appreciated. Guoguo12 (Talk)  04:25, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

People outside U.S. may understand what MPH means; I wonder if speed is needed. --George Ho (talk) 14:01, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

  • It might be more interesting with the speed included, though. Guoguo12 (Talk)  20:46, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
  • The speed is essential. Folk might think he fell off it while it was stationary! Fiddle Faddle (talk) 21:08, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
  Hook checks out. Expanded 5x times from stub to start (approx 225 to 1780) Would suuggest 70 miles per hour Djflem (talk) 21:07, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
  • That would make the hook one of the following (can't tell whether "despite not" or "without" was preferred):
Note: have struck the earlier hooks for clarity. —BlueMoonset (talk) 00:37, 12 October 2012 (UTC)