Talk:William Scattergood

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. Track your hook after promotion. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: rejected, closed by Launchballer (talk) 01:06, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

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• William Scattergood
• George Matthews (footballer)

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• ... that the club rules required Aston Villa players to wear royal blue caps in their early matches?

• Source: Aston Villa's first milestone, John Hughes, Sunday Mercury & Sunday News 30 March 1924

• • ALT1: ... that Aston Villa's founding fathers attended Bible class together and were cricket teammates? Source: A Football Jubilee, John Hughes, Sunday Mercury & Sunday News 9 March 1924
  • Reviewed:

Created by Tiny Particle (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Tiny Particle (talk) 15:21, 2 June 2026 (UTC).

• @Tiny Particle: You need to provide boldlinks to both articles you are nominating within your hook. Right now neither of your hooks mention either of the two articles. Lynch44 15:32, 2 June 2026 (UTC)
  • @Lynch44: Oops...is that something I can remedy or do I need to start again? Tiny Particle (talk) 15:38, 2 June 2026 (UTC)
    • I'm afraid you'll need to start again. Neither article is eligible for DYK per WP:DYKLEN. The requirement is that a new article must have at least 1500 characters of original prose, and according to Copyvio Detector, William Scattergood and George Matthews each have only about 200 characters of original prose each, considering virtually all the text was copied (with attribution) from Jack Hughes (umpire). Please review WP:DYKG to ensure future contributions are eligible, and feel free to ask questions about eligibility at the WP:TEAHOUSE or WT:DYK. Once you've added sufficient original prose, the articles can be renominated with a new hook that includes the appropriate links. Dclemens1971 (talk) 15:41, 2 June 2026 (UTC)