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... that Arndt Jorgens (pictured) won five World Series despite not playing in a game?
The article specifies those were World Series games, but this can easily be misconstrued as him not having played in any baseball games whatsoever (which sounds ridiculous, but it is the Did You Know? section after all). 2603:8001:4542:28FB:4851:9881:74A1:FAC2 (talk) 01:58, 27 June 2024 (UTC) (Talk is here)
- I have absolutely no idea how someone would come to such a conclusion. SL93 (talk) 02:08, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- Thinking over it again, I do get your point. What would you suggest? SL93 (talk) 02:14, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- Perhaps
despite not playing in any of the Series' games?
ordespite not playing in any of the tournaments' games?
. 2603:8001:4542:28FB:ACE7:7B03:1A98:98AB (talk) 04:15, 27 June 2024 (UTC) (Talk is here)- Any thoughts, Muboshgu? Schwede66 06:40, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- It's fine the way it is. RoySmith-Mobile (talk) 09:41, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- I understand the point, but don't think a change is necessary. It's more hook-y this way. – Muboshgu (talk) 14:45, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Schwede66: I just came here to say the same thing. The article qualifies it as World Series games, and the hook should do likewise. Cheers — Amakuru (talk) 14:25, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- No, he was on his team's roster for five World Series. His team won all, but he never played in any of the games (a total of 23 games, btw). I would suggest "... that Arndt Jorgens (pictured) was a five-time World Series champion though he never played in a game?Wehwalt (talk) 14:34, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- Indeed, I understand the scenario, I just think the wording is ambiguous at best - the World Series is, after all, the culmination of not just itself, but the whole regular season as well. And as such, the "never played in a game" could easily be construed as his never having played any MLB game... something which clearly isn't true. — Amakuru (talk) 14:54, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- No, he was on his team's roster for five World Series. His team won all, but he never played in any of the games (a total of 23 games, btw). I would suggest "... that Arndt Jorgens (pictured) was a five-time World Series champion though he never played in a game?Wehwalt (talk) 14:34, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- Any thoughts, Muboshgu? Schwede66 06:40, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- Perhaps
- "Did You Know: There’s a little Canada . . " little should be Little, with capital L, Little Canada is the name of the town! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wis2fan (talk • contribs)
- Don't think the sentence works if Little is part of the noun. CMD (talk) 04:51, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- Then pull it. Fram (talk) 08:14, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- Prohibiting wordplay is an idea that has come up here and there, but I'm not sure whether there has been a dedicated discussion on it. CMD (talk) 09:47, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- That's not wordplay, that's posting wrong information to get a hook to work. Clickbait instead of being representative of an encyclopedia. DYK getting its priorities wrong again. Fram (talk) 10:02, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- WP:DYKAPRIL says "Proper capitalization, title formatting, and linking standards may be disregarded only if adhering to them will tend to give away the joke. This should be done as little as possible." I thought that the exception from normal formatting for the sake of a joke only applied on 1st April. TSventon (talk) 10:47, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- Amended to "Little Canada". There is nothing in the guidelines to say that MOS:CAPS regarding proper names doesn't apply to DYK in the name of "wordplay". Even DYKAPRIL doesn't have any sort of guideline status and would ideally need community buy-in if the MOS was to discarded in that fashion. The community tends to turn a blind-eye for that one day only, but it certainly doesn't apply to a hook on any other day of the year. If the hook doesn't work with proper capitalisation then it can always be pulled, as Fram suggests. — Amakuru (talk) 14:30, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- WP:DYKAPRIL says "Proper capitalization, title formatting, and linking standards may be disregarded only if adhering to them will tend to give away the joke. This should be done as little as possible." I thought that the exception from normal formatting for the sake of a joke only applied on 1st April. TSventon (talk) 10:47, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- That's not wordplay, that's posting wrong information to get a hook to work. Clickbait instead of being representative of an encyclopedia. DYK getting its priorities wrong again. Fram (talk) 10:02, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- Prohibiting wordplay is an idea that has come up here and there, but I'm not sure whether there has been a dedicated discussion on it. CMD (talk) 09:47, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- Then pull it. Fram (talk) 08:14, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- Don't think the sentence works if Little is part of the noun. CMD (talk) 04:51, 27 June 2024 (UTC)