Template:Did you know nominations/List of Seattle Sounders FC draft picks
- 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: rejected by reviewer, closed by SL93 talk 03:08, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
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List of Seattle Sounders FC draft picks
- ... that Seattle Sounders FC have traded away all their first-round picks in several drafts? Source: SoundersFC.com
- Reviewed: Sony PVM-4300
Created by SounderBruce (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 249 past nominations.
SounderBruce 21:59, 6 February 2025 (UTC).
New enough. Long enough. Article sourcing is fine. Article is presentable. Only one image in the article, which has an appropriate license. QPQ is done. However the hook's source is a primary source. Additionally, as it was published eight years ago, it only supports two first-round draft picks as having been traded away, not covering the current hook wording of 'several'. Otherwise the hook is short enough and interesting. Could we get a secondary, and ideally more recent source to cover the hook? C679 08:44, 11 February 2025 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, I could not find a more recent source beyond what the database covers. SounderBruce 06:21, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
- @SounderBruce: in that case please propose a different hook. C679 07:30, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
- I don't think the source's age or status as a primary source (though in this case, it's more of a "news" piece that is hosted by the team website) disqualifies it from use at DYK. It certainly does not disqualify it from use at FLC, among other content review processes. SounderBruce 07:43, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
- @SounderBruce: in that case please propose a different hook. C679 07:30, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, I could not find a more recent source beyond what the database covers. SounderBruce 06:21, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
@SounderBruce, Cloudz679, SL93, AirshipJungleman, and Fram: I've removed this from queue 5 and reopening the nom per issue raised at WP:ERRRORS (here). It seems the hook may not be correct, and also it doesn't meet the interesting to a broad audience criterion, many teams trade away some of their picks I believe, that's fairly standard. Cheers — Amakuru (talk) 09:20, 13 March 2025 (UTC)
To be honest, after looking at the article, there doesn't seem to be anything usable that would be interesting to non-specialist audiences, or arguably even to soccer fans. It's either that, or information mentioned would largely apply to all MLS clubs and not just the Sounders (in fact, at least 1/3rd of the prose section, if not more, actually have to do more with MLS itself than the Sounders specifically!) As such, unfortunately I am marking the nomination for closure due to the lack of a possible hook. Pinging SounderBruce to inform them of the bad news. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 03:22, 20 March 2025 (UTC)
