Template:Did you know nominations/Lauren Jackson

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The result was: promoted by BlueMoonset (talk) 05:08, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Lauren Jackson

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• ... that Australia's best female basketballer Lauren Jackson pulled Lisa Leslie's hair extensions at the 2000 Summer Olympics?
• ALT1: ... that Australia's best female basketballer Lauren Jackson was a bit drunk at the 2008 Summer Olympics close ceremonies?
• ALT2: ... that Australia's best female basketballer Lauren Jackson knows when you Google her, you find nude pictures before information on her basketball skills?
• ALT3: ... that 7 time WNBA All-Star Lauren Jackson has posed nude for Black+White and appeared in Sports Illustrated's swimsuit edition?
• ALT4: ... that 7 time WNBA All-Star Lauren Jackson has been described as Australia's Michael Jordan or Shaquille O'Neal?

• Reviewed: 1880 Michigan Wolverines football team

Created/expanded by LauraHale (talk), Hawkeye7 (talk). Nominated by LauraHale (talk) at 05:16, 6 May 2012 (UTC) NB: History merge from user space.

• Everything checks out and this is good to go.. I strongly prefer ALT4: the first and third are a bit trivial and the second isn't correct anymore based on my Googling. The fourth gives an indication of what an excellent basketballer she is. I've tweaked its wording though (replaced the 'and' with 'or') so it's in line with the article. Nick-D (talk) 08:19, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

• I noticed this nomination when looking down the current list of nominations for BLP nominations, and in my view the original hook ('pulling hair extensions'), ALT1 ('a bit drunk'), and ALT2 ('nude pictures on Google') all fall foul of the following provision in WP:BLP: "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a tabloid: it is not Wikipedia's job to be sensationalist, or to be the primary vehicle for the spread of titillating claims about people's lives". Arguably, those hooks trivialise the subject of the article. ALT3 is OK. However, the subject of the article is notable for being a basketball player, so the hook should try and include that somehow (just as a hook on famous scientist should focus on what that scientist is famous for, rather than trivia, and a hook on a politician should focus on what the politician has achieved in their career, rather than quirky facts). So I agree with Nick that ALT4 is best here. Carcharoth (talk) 16:50, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

• I'm completely fine with Alt4. The hairpulling incident helped set off one of the major rivarlies in WNBA and between the USA & Australia. That was the major reason for it. In that context, it didn't feel like trivial for me. The magazine she posed in is well known here for sports people posing nude in it. (Hence that.) The Google one was because it highlighted the weirdness with the "she's a great sporting competitor" but at the same time "We've sexualised our athletes." Not the best hooks but there was some thought behind them. --LauraHale (talk) 21:08, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
  • I am also happy tpo go with ALT4. Hawkeye7 (talk) 01:50, 14 May 2012 (UTC)