Template:Did you know nominations/Frank Soo
- 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 Yoninah (talk) 01:32, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
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Frank Soo
[[File:|133x150px|Soo circa.1950 ]]
Soo circa.1950
- ... that Frank Soo was the first non-white person ever to play for the England national football team? "He also guested for Newcastle United, Blackburn Rovers, Everton, Chelsea, Reading, Brentford, Port Vale, Crewe Alexandra, Millwall, and Burnley, and played nine times for the England national football team between 1942 and 1945 (in Wartime and Victory Internationals),[23][24][25] the first non-white person ever to play for the national team (albeit in semi-official matches only) and the only person of East Asian descent to date. White, Jonathan (13 December 2018). "Frank Soo Street hopes to put England's pioneering Asian footballer on the map". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 23 December 2019."
- ALT1:... that Frank Soo was the only person of East Asian descent to play for the England national football team?
Improved to Good Article status by EchetusXe (talk). Self-nominated at 16:54, 30 December 2019 (UTC).
- @EchetusXe: Here's my review. epicgenius (talk) 22:26, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
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Policy compliance:
- Adequate sourcing:
- Neutral:
- Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
- Other problems:
- In the references section, you should change |ref={{harvnb|Gardiner|2016}} to |ref={{harvid|Gardiner|2016}}. The template is harvid.
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Image eligibility:
- Freely licensed: - no (and it has already been removed from this nomination)
- Used in article:
- Clear at 100px: - no
QPQ: 
- no; you need a QPQ as you have 22 DYK credits.
Overall: 
epicgenius (talk) 22:26, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Rockville Centre train crash for QPQ. EchetusXe 02:05, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for reviewing a nomination (mine, to be precise).
Good to go now. epicgenius (talk) 02:19, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for reviewing a nomination (mine, to be precise).
