Template:Did you know nominations/East York Lyndhursts
- 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 The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 07:24, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
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East York Lyndhursts
Canada versus the Soviet Union in 1954
- ... that in 1954, the East York Lyndhursts were the first Canadians to play against the Soviet Union national ice hockey team? (game pictured) [1]
- ALT1:... that the East York Lyndhursts loss to the Russians in ice hockey (game pictured) was "perhaps the best thing that could have happened"? Source: McKinley, Michael (2014). It's Our Game: Celebrating 100 Years Of Hockey Canada. Toronto, Ontario: Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-06817-3. page 102.
- ALT2:... that the East York Lyndhursts loss to the Russians in ice hockey (game pictured) was "a national calamity, a national humiliation, and a mortifying experience"? Source: McKinley, Michael (2006). Hockey: A People's History. Toronto, Ontario: McClelland & Stewart. ISBN 978-0-7710-5769-4. pages 151–152.
- ALT3:... that the East York Lyndhursts loss to the Russians (game pictured) was compared to "losing World War Three"? [2]
- ALT4:... that the East York Lyndhursts might not have been the best Team Canada, but were thought to be the slipperiest? (game pictured) Source: Young, Scott (1989). 100 Years of Dropping the Puck. Toronto, Ontario: McClelland & Stewart Inc. ISBN 0-7710-9093-5. page 220.
- Reviewed: Erik Werba
5x expanded by Flibirigit (talk). Self-nominated at 06:02, 10 May 2020 (UTC).
- Comment it's misleading to describe the Soviet Union team as "Russians". Also, some of the hooks read as POV, eg "the best thing that could have happened". buidhe 21:58, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
- I thought extensively about the wording Russian vs Soviet. I am well aware of the nuances. I chose to use the same wording the sources since they are derived from direct quotes. I feel that changing the word in a direct quote is worse than wikilinking to the Soviet team. The hooks are based on direct quotes. I have added quotation marks to make this more clear. Quotations can have inherent POV. Altering a quotation to remove POV would itself be bias. Flibirigit (talk) 04:11, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
nomination has not received a full review yet. Flibirigit (talk) 08:08, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
This article is new enough and long enough. The facts from the various hooks are cited inline, any of them could be used but I favour ALT2. The image is in the public domain, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. A QPQ has been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:22, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
