Talk:Russ Hoogerhyde

A fact from Russ Hoogerhyde appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 June 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that six-time American national archery champion Russ Hoogerhyde performed trick shots including shooting a cigarette from the lips of a spectator?

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 18:57, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that six-time American national archery champion Russ Hoogerhyde performed trick shots including shooting a cigarette from the lips of a spectator? Source: here: "He'll shoot a cigaret from your lips if you just stand out there without fidgeting too much..."
alt 1 ... that six-time American national archery champion Russ Hoogerhyde performed trick shots including shooting a cigarette from the lips of a spectator – and did so without five cents of insurance? Source: same as above plus this regarding the 5 cent of insurance
- Reviewed: George Henry Daniels

Created by Cbl62 (talk). Self-nominated at 21:52, 26 May 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Meets newness and length requirements, neutral and free of close paraphrasing. Both hooks are interesting and have citations directly after the corresponding sentences in the body of the article. I prefer ALT0 as less wordy.

I managed to nail down a public domain image of Hoogerhyde's likeness using Internet Archive's "search text contents" function, leading me to dig up a copyright-noticeless 1942 yearbook. I also found a video of him performing some of his neat tricks in a 1937 educational film scanned by British Pathé, which I have added as a sidebar link in the body. Very interesting article about a once famous and neglected figure in archery. DigitalIceAge (talk) 07:30, 6 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]