Talk:Rochdale A.F.C. 1–1 York City F.C. (2026)

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: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 22:27, 28 June 2026 (UTC)

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• ... that Rochdale v York City in April 2026 was the first time since 1989 that a football league title in England was decided by a single match on the final matchday?

• Source: Yorkshire Post - IT’S up for grabs now, remarked the late, great Brian Moore on the last final-day title shoot-out in English football’s top-five tiers back in 1989. For Liverpool and Arsenal read Rochdale and York City, but with drama to even surpass Michael Thomas’ mad moment at Anfield.

• • ALT1: ... that prior to the 1–1 draw between York City and Rochdale in April 2026, York City's manager called it "one of the biggest games in the English football pyramid"? Source: BBC - York City boss Stuart Maynard has called his side's final-day National League title decider at Rochdale "one of the biggest games in the English football pyramid".
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sirex obesus

Moved to mainspace by ShadowBallX (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

ShadowBallX (talk) 23:12, 2 May 2026 (UTC).

• Only thought of this after the nomination, if it's possible once this gets approved for it to run on May 24th, as that would be the final matchday of the 2025–26 Premier League season (the top division of association football in England)? ShadowBallX (talk) 23:26, 2 May 2026 (UTC) You can ignore this since the date has long passed. ShadowBallX (talk) 01:28, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - no
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting:
• Other problems: - original hook is phrased differently from what is stated in the article

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @ShadowBallX: Article was nominated for DYK on May 2, so just one day after being moved to mainspace. It is long enough with 5458 characters (939 words) of readable prose size. It is neutral in tone and no cases of copyright violation or close pharaphrasis have been found. Hooks themselves are interesting and properly sourced. The QPQ has been fullfilled as well. Below I note the issues with the nomination.

First, and most importantly, there are too many failed verifications after I checked every source in the article. There are many statements that aren't properly supported by the references plus one case of citation needed. These should be fixed as soon as posible. Second, the original hook should be rephrased to be identical to what is stated in the source. Something like the following. If the editor approves this one then I shall struck the first version.

ALT0b: ... that Rochdale v York City in April 2026 was the first time a single league match was a title-decider in England since Liverpool faced Arsenal in May 1989? NeoGaze (talk) 17:09, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

• Pinging @Kieran McConnell: since they were the one who added the part that needs a citation. As for the failed verifications you added, I've gone through all of them, and most of them were indeed supported by the sources (and I fixed the ones that weren't were fixed). ShadowBallX (talk) 21:40, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

@ShadowBallX: Thanks for your quick fix, if Kieran doesn't reply in a timely manner I suggest removing that part. Now about the hook, are you okay with my proposed alternative version of the original hook? You can also rewrite the part of the article so that it mirrors the phrasing of the hook. I leave it up to you. NeoGaze (talk) 07:58, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

@NeoGaze: I'm just realizing now I never actually published my response... whoops. I removed the unsourced bit a few days ago (I was hoping Kieran would add a source, but they've edited the article since and never did). As for the alt hook you suggested, yeah that's fine. Honestly, I'm not too fussy about hook wordings on my nominations, as long as the original idea I had in mind gets across. ShadowBallX (talk) 06:07, 27 June 2026 (UTC)

@ShadowBallX: Great, now every concern has been adressed, so I can approve both ALT1 and ALT0B. NeoGaze (talk) 12:42, 27 June 2026 (UTC)