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Did you know... that Heba Saadia, the first Palestinian referee at a World Cup, only took up the profession when she noticed there were no women among a group of referees she saw training?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Heba Saadia.

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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) 17:10, 24 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that, born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria and having to flee war in this country, Heba Saadia attained her FIFA referee license in Sweden to become the first Palestinian of any gender to officiate at a World Cup?
- ALT1: ... that Heba Saadia, the first Palestinian referee at a World Cup, only took up the profession when she noticed there were no women among a group of referees she saw training?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Violet Crowther
- Comment: I know they both say "first", but both present separate facts and the "first" part is lumped in as part of the profession/context.

Created by Kingsif (talk). Self-nominated at 05:15, 22 July 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Heba Saadia; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

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

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QPQ: Done.

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@Kingsif: Can you tune up that hook or reword it for the promoter? --evrik ^(talk) 16:02, 24 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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