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Abishe (talk) 13:57, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Harvard team picture source

Hi! I am working on 1921 Centre vs. Harvard football game and have a goal of getting it to GA and eventually FA. Looking ahead to the latter, I am trying to get some good public domain pictures for the article, and found File:1919 Harvard football team.jpg, which you uploaded a couple of years ago. In anticipation of the image review process, which will likely need a definitive publication date, would you happen to recall where you found this? It looks a lot to me like part of a yearbook page - if that's the case and you have a link to that yearbook that would be awesome as well. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 03:04, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • @PCN02WPS: My bad. I added the details at Wikimedia Commons. The image was published in The Boston Globe, November 22, 1919, page 8 here. Good luck with the GA/FA. Cbl62 (talk) 09:42, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you so much! That is extraordinarily helpful, much appreciated. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 14:03, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Earl Putnam

Could you move this to Earl Putman please? Per this and his Topps card says Putman if you search Google images. Asking you since you're the creator, thanks. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 13:23, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Press reports refer to him as Putnam. I will check ancestry.com to see if i can confirm which is correct from official records. Cbl62 (talk) 13:50, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Multiple primary sources on Ancestry.com confirm the last name was "putman". Accordingly, I did make the move. Thanks for calling it to my attention! Cbl62 (talk) 21:33, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

finding sources

Hi - In this AfD, you provided some citations. I had already searched fairly hard and failed to turn up those, so I'm trying to learn how you did it. First of all, do we have a free way to use Newspapers.com or do you have a personal subscription? Second, do you remember how you found the Press & Guide article? Thank you for any hints. Ike9898 (talk) 16:49, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • btw, I used the sources you provided in the subject article. Ike9898 (talk) 16:51, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested clippings

Sorry to bug you, but Newspapers.com is down for Wikipedia Library users, so would you be willing to clip a few articles for me? I would like clipped [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] and [11] (as well as any other parts to any of them). I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks. BeanieFan11 (talk) 20:45, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • Note that I sent this message to another user - trying to expand the stub I started - James Colzie III - as quickly as possible - which is why. If another user does this first, feel free to ignore this message. BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:35, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'll do what I can do. Been tied up with watching NFL. Go Lions! Cbl62 (talk) 00:04, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Another user got to them for me - thanks. I've been watching, too - though my Eagles are out and I like both SF and the Lions - not sure who to root for :D BeanieFan11 (talk) 00:46, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Max Stephan

On 21 February 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Max Stephan, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Max Stephan was sentenced to death for aiding a Nazi pilot who had escaped from a prisoner of war camp? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Max Stephan. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Max Stephan), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Early NFL

I know we've conflicted on how important the early NFL was before. I guess, my view is not exactly that the players always received sigcov for playing in the NFL (although many did), but that the NFL usually just signed the players who were notable, if you know what I mean. I.e., even if not all the early players had much coverage for playing in the NFL, they usually were already notable players by the time they entered the NFL, and that is oftentimes why / how they entered the NFL (for being star football players). Just my thoughts. BeanieFan11 (talk) 19:32, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@BeanieFan11: We agree on more than we disagree. I don't question the importance of the early NFL as an important phase in the history of America's most popular sport. For this reason, every early NFL team and season is notable and warrants a stand-alone article (including its roster of players). What I do question is the presumption that every player during the early years warrants his own stand-alone article. This presumptios is especially unwarranted for players who had only a cup of coffee in the league and those who played with the league's many small-city clubs (populations as of 1920) such as Tonawanda (pop. 10,000), Pottsville (pop. 21,000), Portsmouth (pop. 33,000), Rock Island (pop. 35,000), Hammond (pop. 36,000), Muncie (pop. 36,000), Kenosha (pop. 40,000), East Orange (pop 50,000), Racine (58,000), Evansville (pop. 85,000), Canton (pop. 87,000), and Duluth (98,000). While many early NFL players were previously notable as college stars, many others were not. Indeed, many were simply local residents or factory workers who played for love of the game, pride in their community, and a little extra money on autumn weekends. In the end, each case has to be assessed, honestly and fairly, on its merits. Cbl62 (talk) 22:06, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Bill Baumgartner.jpg

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You'd be advised to go back and tear out the non-free file rationale and redeclare this as {{PD-US-not renewed}}
— all these old newspapers copyrighted their stuff for 25 years and then never renewed it because why would they???

Check stuff with the Stanford Copyright Renewal database < https://exhibits.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals?forward=home > and include a link for the null result of your search in the upload link. No problems that way, plus you won't have to gut out the resolution to meet WP's weak fair use file policy. Hope this helps. —tim /// Carrite (talk) 00:44, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]


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Nice work

The Original Barnstar
I'm not sure if I've barnstarred you before for your excellent work on Early NFL biographies, but I'll do it again even if I have because excellent work is excellent. Keep it up! Carrite (talk) 00:40, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Paul Crowe.jpg

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