Talk:Rat Watson

Did you know nomination

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. You can locate your hook here. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 16:00, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

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Rat Watson in 1926

• ... that Rat Watson (pictured), a 141-pound quarterback, led "the greatest football team ever assembled in Texas", outscoring opponents 432 to 6?

• Source: this ("He only weighed 141 pounds at that time."); here ("the greatest football team ever assembled in Texas"); and here ("With Watson riding herd, the Second Texas rolled over eight service teams, scored 432 points and surrendered six.")

• • Reviewed: National bank veto

5x expanded by Cbl62 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 386 past nominations.

Cbl62 (talk) 21:43, 12 February 2026 (UTC).

• I'll review this. JTtheOG (talk) 08:02, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
• The article was new enough (via expansion) and long enough at the time of the nomination. Both the article and the sourcing look great (spot checks performed), there are no identifiable copyvio issues, and QPQ is nearly done, pending a correction to the article by the nom. The hook fact checks out and is in the article, as well as being sufficiently interesting. Lastly, the image appears to be in the public domain. Nice work. My question, however, is: Do I have to wait for the QPQ to be finished to officially pass? @Cbl62: @Launchballer: JTtheOG (talk) 00:24, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

No.--Launchballer 00:26, 15 February 2026 (UTC)