Talk:Yepi Pauu

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Dclemens1971 (talk) 21:50, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

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• ... that Yepi Pauu was "the greatest Tongan ever to play arena football"?

• Source: [1]

• ALT1: ... that the Los Angeles Times jokingly stated that Yepi Pauu was the "the greatest Tongan ever to play arena football"? Source: [2]
• ALT2: ... that Gene Wojciechowski of the Los Angeles Times jokingly stated that Yepi Pauu was "the greatest Tongan ever to play arena football"? Source: [3]
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Kaleena Smith & Template:Did you know nominations/Night ride to Kaifeng

Created by WikiOriginal-9 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 34 past nominations.

~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 15:47, 21 November 2025 (UTC).

• Doing... ミラP@Miraclepine 21:11, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

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

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Created today; prose 5151 B. The TCDB ref is technically WP:USERG but still cites the card; no idea how to cite that though. Ref 12 was the most difficult: while it says he "plays running back on offense", it seems unclear what he does for defense, but then again it says he "can still knock the bejabbers out of a runner" and ref 14 says he did both offense and defense. I prefer ALT1 over ALT0/2 since it's a superlative comment that needs attribution and the journalist doesn't appear widely familiar compared to the newspaper (let alone to me; I hadn't even heard of him till I saw this nom). No other issues worth noting. ミラP@Miraclepine 22:19, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

• Randomly came across this and thought of a potential ALT (which, to me, sounds more interesting that ALT1): ... that the Tongan Hitman could "knock the bejabbers out of a runner"? It'd require adding the bejabbers quote to the article, but it struck me as a possible good hook. BeanieFan11 (talk) 01:48, 28 December 2025 (UTC)

GA review

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Yepi Pauu/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: WikiOriginal-9 (talk · contribs) 15:19, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Reviewer: BeanieFan11 (talk · contribs) 21:58, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

• Will review the Tongan Hitman. BeanieFan11 (talk) 21:58, 20 February 2026 (UTC)
• Oops! Sorry I forgot to review this! Will do tomorrow. BeanieFan11 (talk) 03:42, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable, as shown by a source spot-check.

   a (reference section): b (inline citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free content have non-free use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

• He played college football at Saddleback and San Jose State as – could you mention the team names.
• Could link tackle in lead.
• Could link junior/senior in early life, freshman/sophomore in college, scholarship, tackles/sacks, academic major.
• Change All-America link to All-America college football team.
• After going undrafted – could say unselected to avoid double "draft" mention.
• Perhaps you could add that he did not play pro football in 1989 in the pro career section, maybe right before the Drive are mentioned.
• but they did not make the playoffs as they only finished third in the European Division – I'm not sure "only" is necessary.
• Spot check pending. Nice work. BeanieFan11 (talk) 01:33, 17 March 2026 (UTC)
  • I think I addressed everything. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 20:29, 17 March 2026 (UTC)
    • Refs 2, 7 and 11 look good. According to ref 4, it looks like he was inducted in 2019? I think 'class of 1984' refers to when he graduated. Could you check that and then I'll promote. BeanieFan11 (talk) 21:48, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

      Nice catch! Not sure how I did that... lol ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 22:24, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

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