Talk:San Jose State Spartans women's volleyball
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Approving Alt2 hook only. This hook is ready for promotion.4meter4 (talk) 03:14, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
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Additional sources on the 2024 season, plus removed sources
Those followed by an asterisk are less reliable due to known source bias.
- McFarland, Clair (September 24, 2024). "UW Volleyball Team Will Play San Jose State Despite Transgender Controversy". Cowboy State Daily. Wyoming.
- Ingemi, Marisa (October 4, 2024). "Amid forfeits and anti-trans furor, San Jose State women's volleyball plays and loses". San Francisco Chronicle.
- Prodis Sulek, Julia (October 7, 2024) . "How San Jose State volleyball players and parents are grappling with transgender player controversy". The Mercury News. San Jose.
- Dycus, Joseph (October 9, 2024). "San Jose State volleyball team returns home amid questions about postseason eligibility, security". The Mercury News. San Jose.
- Ingemi, Marisa (October 10, 2024). "San Jose State volleyball comes home, plays after week between matches amid torrent of anti-trans hate". San Francisco Chronicle.
- Fin, Callie (October 11, 2024). "UNLV volleyball team travels to San Jose State amid transgender issue". Las Vegas Review-Journal.
- Dedaj, Paulina (October 11, 2024). "San Jose State volleyball player at the center of women's sports controversy spikes ball in opponent's face". Fox News. *
- Fin, Callie (October 14, 2024). "UNR officials, volleyball players spar over transgender issue". Las Vegas Review-Journal.
- Smith, Benedict (October 15, 2024). "Female volleyball team forfeits game against trans player". Daily Telegraph. London. *
- Miedema, Laurence (October 16, 2024) . "Will they play or not? Another twist in San Jose State transgender women's volleyball player controversy". The Mercury News. San Jose.
- Miedema, Laurence (October 17, 2024). "Trump weighs in on transgender players in college sports and singles out Bay Area athlete". The Mercury News. San Jose.
- Babcock, Christian (October 25, 2024) . "Nevada volleyball forfeits match with San Jose State, fourth Mountain West team to forfeit amid transgender player controversy". The Mercury News. San Jose.
- Delos Santos, Justice (November 11, 2024) . "Wyoming forfeits second volleyball match against San Jose State this season". The Mercury News. San Jose.
- Egelko, Bob (November 14, 2024). "New lawsuit seeks to block SJSU volleyball from Mountain West tournament over trans player". San Francisco Chronicle.
- "Treasure Valley volleyball players join lawsuit against the Mountain West Conference and San Jose State University" (video, 3 mins 24 secs). Boise: KTVB. November 14, 2024.
- Barnes, Katie (November 14, 2024). "Volleyball players sue Mountain West over San Jose State player". ESPN.
- McFarland, Clair (November 15, 2024). "Mountain West Denies It Snuck In New Rule To Punish Boycott Of Trans Player". Cowboy State Daily. Wyoming.
- Ingemi, Marisa (November 20, 2024). "Inside the effort to ban trans women from sports: Who's involved and what they're doing at SJSU and beyond". San Francisco Chronicle.
- Ingemi, Marisa (November 23, 2024). "SJSU volleyball, awaiting court ruling, clinches No. 2 seed in Mountain West tournament". San Francisco Chronicle.
- Egelko, Bob; Ingemi, Marisa (November 25, 2024). "Judge rejects attempt to block San Jose State from conference volleyball tournament over trans player". San Francisco Chronicle.
- Buncombe, Andrew (November 25, 2024). "Trans volleyball player can compete in women's tournament, judge rules". Daily Telegraph. London. *
- Zaksheske, Dan (November 28, 2024). "Boise State Forfeits Against SJSU, Transgender Blaire Fleming In Stunning Show Of Protest". OutKick.
- Henderson, Cameron (November 29, 2024). "Trans athlete's volleyball team reaches final after opponents refuse to play them". Daily Telegraph. London. *
- Vertuno, Jim (December 23, 2024). "Texas sues NCAA in latest push to block transgender athletes in women's sports". Associated Press. (mere mention)
Adding to the above list (which I posted) the following that were used in the article but have been removed:
- Henderson, Cameron (November 29, 2024). "Navratilova condemns New York Times for calling female athletes 'non-transgender women'". The Daily Telegraph. London. *
- Thompson, Jackson (December 20, 2024). "SJSU responds to volleyball player mass exodus after trans athlete scandal rocked program". Fox News. *
Yngvadottir (talk) 18:02, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
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. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 14:28, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
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... that several teams forfeited matches against the San Jose State Spartans women's volleyball team in 2024?ALT1: ... that although San Jose State University has San Jose State Spartans women's volleyball team, men's volleyball is a non-varsity sport at the university?- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Tel al-Sultan attack
- Comment: Driveby nom. There have got to be more hooks than this (and indeed there was a claim that would have made a good hook that I removed as it failed WP:RSP), but I'm glazing over.
Created by Yngvadottir (talk) and BeanieFan11 (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 263 past nominations.
Launchballer 17:03, 1 January 2025 (UTC).
- Comment: ALT1 reads a bit clunkily, I suggest revising to something along the lines of:
ALT1a: ... that while San Jose State University has a varsity women's volleyball team, men's volleyball is a non-varsity sport at the university?- SammySpartan (talk) 20:05, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- We could go even tighter than that.
ALT1b: ... that San Jose State University has a varsity women's volleyball team but not a men's?--Launchballer 20:10, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- We could go even tighter than that.
Article is new enough, long enough, and within policy. No copyright violations detected. The original hook doesn't stike me as interesting but I think Alt1B is interesting. My only issue is I am having a hard time verifying the hook. The cited reference is a main page for the team but without any text/prose. What am I looking for here? Maybe this is something obvious to someone who understands sports teams but I'm not seeing the term non-varsity used anywhere. Do we have a source that verifies this using that language? If so where?4meter4 (talk) 01:18, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- I'll leave the varsity part to others (since I didn't add that part), but I think if we were to clarify in the article, we could make ALT0 more interesting. The team won 14 games and per ESPN, 6 were by forfeit. We could then do a hook of ALT2 ... that nearly half of the wins of the San Jose State Spartans women's volleyball team in 2024 were by forfeit?, which I think is interesting. BeanieFan11 (talk) 01:31, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- @BeanieFan11 I think that Alt2 would work. The entire hook fact is better supported in this source: https://apnews.com/article/san-jose-state-volleyball-d00b36355c69f48de712339821682b52 I think we would need the hook fact stated more explicitly with an inline citation in the 2024 season section. Once that is done ping me.4meter4 (talk) 02:28, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- @4meter4: Added. BeanieFan11 (talk) 03:06, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
- @BeanieFan11 I think that Alt2 would work. The entire hook fact is better supported in this source: https://apnews.com/article/san-jose-state-volleyball-d00b36355c69f48de712339821682b52 I think we would need the hook fact stated more explicitly with an inline citation in the 2024 season section. Once that is done ping me.4meter4 (talk) 02:28, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- Comment: Understanding the varsity/non-varsity distinction would need local knowledge. It's unlikley to make sense to large numbers of readers. --Northernhenge (talk) 16:52, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- That's a good point. I'm striking it as rejected per this assessment. Alt2 is the better choice. @BeanieFan11 Please let me know when the Alt2 hook fact has been added to the article with an inline citation.4meter4 (talk) 17:28, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
Approving Alt2 hook only. This hook is ready for promotion.4meter4 (talk) 03:14, 18 January 2025 (UTC)