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I saw your post about the problems with newspapers.com. I have a newspapers.com account through my Ancestry membership, and am willing to do searches and create clippings for you to use, one subject per day until the difficulties with the WP Library subscription are resolved. Just leave a list on my talk page. — Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 03:20, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
Please be sure not to relist discussions too early. Just relist, at most, a few hours before their "deadline" expires, not a full day or days early. Editors can show up unepectedly to comment in AFDs and it could be unnecessary to relist a discussion that might otherwise be closed. Thank you. LizRead!Talk!06:09, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
@Liz: Thanks, I didn't realize that it had to be a full seven days, rather than just seven days past the starting point (e.g. a Sep. 23 nom being relisted on Sep. 30). BeanieFan11 (talk) 13:07, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
@MarqueesCalaway: The Big 12 page has a maintenance tag as doing it that way is discouraged. As you've already done a significant portion of the draft by re-using them and citing them inline, I would just continue doing it that way as that's what's preferred. BeanieFan11 (talk) 00:27, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
Hope you're well. Quick question: Is Newspapers.com down for you? It hasn't been working for me the past couple of days. Everything is saying I need a special subscription. JTtheOG (talk) 04:20, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
@JTtheOG: It seems to be down for everyone who has access to it through the Wikipedia Library - it does still work for users who actually pay for access (not me) - see here. BeanieFan11 (talk) 14:34, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
Oh man..... I understand your frustrations. I've been itching to get back to it ever since the site went down, and I had already started a bunch of pages which I now cannot cite... JTtheOG (talk) 18:08, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
Indeed. In my settings, under the Subscription & Payment tab, it says my subscription plan is "Registered Guest". Is this the case for you as well? JTtheOG (talk) 18:02, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
@Gonzo fan2007: BTW, by the end of this month do you think you'll have any time to review any non-Packers football GA noms? (with Newspapers.com down for me its probably my only hope of winning the WikiCup... ) BeanieFan11 (talk) 17:37, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
@Gonzo fan2007: Thanks - but be prepared for a bunch more Packers noms; I plan on doing as many as possible by the end of the month in a last effort to take the WikiCup crown! :) BeanieFan11 (talk) 16:02, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
@Gonzo fan2007: For some of them, I haven't thought of good hooks (Spears; Konopasek; Weigel; Wellman; and Tullis - can you think of any good ones for these?), but for others I probably will (Hobbins: ... that Jim Hobbins played two years of professional football, spaced apart by eleven years?; maybe Thomas: ... that Lavale Thomas was injured for each of his first three college football seasons, and when finally healthy for his fourth, had to be a backup?; Hartnett, a quirky one that might work: ... that a [[Perry Hartnett|replacement player]] was injured replacing and injured replacement player?; Mataele: ... that football player Stan Mataele lied about his experience so he could play for his college's team, and when found out, made the squad anyway and was all-state?; Monaco: ... that Ron Monaco, the "longest of long shots," made an NFL roster and became a starter after having been only a backup in college?; McGeary nominated; and Provo: ... that Fred Provo was told he would have to have his arm removed due to a wound sustained in World War II, but refused, recovered, and went on to play in the National Football League?). BeanieFan11 (talk) 15:33, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
Yeah, some of those are tough. I was going to recommend combining some of them related to replacement players like I did, but that seemed to cause some controversy. Maybe just propose something straightforward at DYK and see if some of the regulars can help come up with some ALTs. « Gonzo fan2007(talk) @ 15:53, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
Whether its NPP or AFC would depend on whether you submit it as a draft or move it to mainspace yourself; but in any case, I would be willing to approve it when you're done, just let me know. BeanieFan11 (talk) 21:18, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
On 4 October 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Daniel Whelan, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 2023, Daniel Whelan became the first Irish-born NFL player since 1985? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Daniel Whelan. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Daniel Whelan), 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.
On 5 October 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kent Gaydos, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Kent Gaydos played quarterback in high school, then wide receiver in college, and in the NFL changed to tight end before going back to receiver, then tight end again, and then receiver once more? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kent Gaydos. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Kent Gaydos), 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.
Hey BeanieFan11, We coincided once on Anthony Vaz and I saw how you improved it in a really short time. That's really great work. As you have been here for a while, I wanted to ask your advice on how to find reliable sources for an Indian history event that took place on 1659, Battle of Kolhapur. Whatever sources I have cited initially has been removed citing WP:HISTRS / WP:RAJ as a reason. Also, an editor is threatening deletion in the article talk page. Per the ongoing AfD, there was a WP:citogenesis issue as well. I just wanted to know what types of sources can be added to these history related articles. It would be great, if you shed some light on this. Thanks <3 Jeraxmoira (talk) 13:53, 7 October 2023 (UTC)
@Jeraxmoira: Sorry, I'm not familiar with the area of Indian history (Vaz is probably the only article I've done falling under that) - if scholarly sources are needed, there appear to be some at Google Scholar here - I can't guarantee the usefulness of them, but if any look promising you can discuss them with the user nominating the article for deletion. BeanieFan11 (talk) 15:08, 7 October 2023 (UTC)
On 8 October 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Paul Roach, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Paul Roach became so popular for coaching the Wyoming Cowboys football team that people voted for him to be the state's governor even though he was not a candidate? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Paul Roach. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Paul Roach), 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.
@Hatman31: Wow! I wasn't aware of this! Its nice to see when others notice my work, especially when its a media organization noting that I "did a great job" – thanks for the message! BeanieFan11 (talk) 00:20, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
On 12 October 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Fred Vehmeier, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that of newly hired coach Fred Vehmeier, one newspaper said: "Any candidate for the university football team who gets a bit sassy can count on a beating, if this new coach is the man he looks to be"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Fred Vehmeier. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Fred Vehmeier), 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.
As a WikiCup judge, I am curious about your submission of Brevin Allen for a DYK in the WikiCup. Although it would have qualified, I can't see that it has ever been a DYK. Have I missed something? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:56, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
On 14 October 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Anthony Vaz, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Anthony Vaz was the first flag bearer and team captain for Kenya at the Olympics? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Anthony Vaz. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Anthony Vaz), 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.
I'm not the type of person to make this request, but I need help with newspaper.com and to clip a page. I'd be very grateful if you could clip "Dennis Law makes All-Ohio Valley" from the Johnson City Press of November 25, 1977, on page 12. I need it for the Dennis Law article. Thank you very much in advance. Kline • talk to me! • contribs23:09, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
If I remember right, you have to register like normal (but not subscribe or do the seven-day trial), and then if you qualify for the wikipedia library you should be able to find newspapers.com here which should say "access collection" - it will send you to this url, you might have to login, and then it should work for you. BeanieFan11 (talk) 18:49, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
Ah alright, I see now. I have access to the TWL version of it but wasn't sure if I needed to sign up or do something else to clip. Thanks a lot for the help! Kline • talk to me! • contribs19:00, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
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On 16 October 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Michael Vinson, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Michael Vinson wasn't yet cheese, so he became milk instead? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Michael Vinson. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Michael Vinson), 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.
It's either you or TonyTheTiger. He mostly does basketball but has some Michigan football GAs. I didn't see any other football editor ahead of you on the list. I didn't click on all 300+ of Tony's to see which ones are football though. WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 22:58, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
@WikiOriginal-9: Thanks! Thinking about it, you may be right! I had no idea I had that many football GAs (I know I had a lot, but wasn't expecting No 1/2!) – Tony might have me beat, but I don't feel like going through his 300 GAs either haha... And I plan on getting a lot more soon; for the WikiCup (an annual competition for most productive users), I'm currently fifth place with the competition ending at the end of this month, and so I've worked up a deal with Gonzo fan2007 where I write lots of Packers articles and he reviews them to get me the needed points! BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:06, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
On 17 October 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Louise Fulton, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Louise Fulton was the first African-American to win a professional bowling tournament? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Louise Fulton. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Louise Fulton), 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.
The article Ron Spears you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Ron Spears for comments about the article, and Talk:Ron Spears/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has never appeared on the Main Page as a "Did you know" item, and has not appeared within the last year either as "Today's featured article", or as a bold link under "In the news" or in the "On this day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear at DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On this day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Gonzo fan2007 -- Gonzo fan2007 (talk) 17:41, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
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The article Ed Konopasek you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Ed Konopasek for comments about the article, and Talk:Ed Konopasek/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has never appeared on the Main Page as a "Did you know" item, and has not appeared within the last year either as "Today's featured article", or as a bold link under "In the news" or in the "On this day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear at DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On this day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Gonzo fan2007 -- Gonzo fan2007 (talk) 15:02, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
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The article Perry Hartnett you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Perry Hartnett for comments about the article, and Talk:Perry Hartnett/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has never appeared on the Main Page as a "Did you know" item, and has not appeared within the last year either as "Today's featured article", or as a bold link under "In the news" or in the "On this day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear at DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On this day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Gonzo fan2007 -- Gonzo fan2007 (talk) 21:42, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
The article Dave Viti you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Dave Viti for comments about the article, and Talk:Dave Viti/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has never appeared on the Main Page as a "Did you know" item, and has not appeared within the last year either as "Today's featured article", or as a bold link under "In the news" or in the "On this day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear at DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On this day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of WikiOriginal-9 -- WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 22:01, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
On 19 October 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Keith Hartwig, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Keith Hartwig overcame an injury that he was told would end his career in high school, and went on to play in the National Football League? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Keith Hartwig. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Keith Hartwig), 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.
No, I didn't :) – in fact, until now I had completely forgotten that the NFL once played against the CFL - that's interesting - thanks for letting me know BeanieFan11 (talk) 01:32, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
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The article Mike Wellman you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Mike Wellman for comments about the article, and Talk:Mike Wellman/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has never appeared on the Main Page as a "Did you know" item, and has not appeared within the last year either as "Today's featured article", or as a bold link under "In the news" or in the "On this day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear at DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On this day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Gonzo fan2007 -- Gonzo fan2007 (talk) 15:22, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
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The article Fred Provo you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Fred Provo for comments about the article, and Talk:Fred Provo/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has never appeared on the Main Page as a "Did you know" item, and has not appeared within the last year either as "Today's featured article", or as a bold link under "In the news" or in the "On this day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear at DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On this day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Gonzo fan2007 -- Gonzo fan2007 (talk) 15:40, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
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Newspapers.com citations
I was just doing an AWB run and saw that you'd added a bunch of Newspapers.com citations to articles, with fully filled out citation templates. Good stuff. Anyway, I don't know if you heard of it or not, but I wrote a software ( https://github.com/jp-x-g/PressPass ) that you can run as a userscript in Firefox or Chrome to automatically generate fully-formatted cite templates (with date, newspaper, location, URL, etc) from newspapers.com clipping and search pages. Today, I even fixed it so it works properly with the new format of the clipping pages and fixes the weird proxy URLs! Anyway, check it out if you want. jp×g02:26, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
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DYK for Chet Winters
On 22 October 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Chet Winters, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that for all of his years in college, future NFL running backChet Winters had little chance to rush the ball due to a different player taking priority every year? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Chet Winters. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Chet Winters), 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.
Sorry Beanie, I'll leave them alone. As God as my witness, I'm in the middle of a sentence with @Bagumba about this very thing and I saw your revert. You'll have many more reverts that I did out there. All I was doing was keeping the pages the way I saw hundreds of others. No date listed twice. I stopped just now, because I thought someone might take offense. And I was right. I did not know that every person who creates an article and has a specific way of doing it was the way here. I was wrong, just trying to uniform things. I apologize and it won't ever happen again. You have my word on it. All the edits you see that I did, have not happened since this message. Honestly, I'm glad you stopped me when you did, lol. Regards, Bringingthewood (talk) 02:24, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
@Bringingthewood: Its not that big a deal - I mean, if you can find some policy saying that's how its done or can get consensus for a change I'd be fine with it (just like for the "U.S." in infoboxes) - I just was a little surprised at the undiscussed changes since I had always written articles that way. BeanieFan11 (talk) 02:35, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
I agree with you, no big deal. No change needed. Once they opened the door on U.S. I've edited over a thousand players and the overwhelming majority had no date listed there. Like the way we don't put the place of birth in the lead. So I'm figuring that was the way. I was like, date of birth in the lead, early life .. infobox? We're really trying to get it across to people, lol. My fault, you create pages and I don't. No need for consensus with this. You won't believe it, but I was actually removing U.S. last year ... now I see it in my sleep! Also, I'm reverting what I did. Removing caps and a players first name in the article I believe I was told before that I got that right at least. If you check what I just sent to Bagumba, you'll see that I meant no animosity, that's why I stopped and asked him about it. Hope we're still good. Bringingthewood (talk) 02:49, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
@Bringingthewood: That's alright - you thought the edits were the right action and I wasn't really offended by it - you can bring up a discussion on it somewhere if you like, I'm completely fine if I'm wrong here. BeanieFan11 (talk) 02:52, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
Nope. If this is ever brought up or a date is deleted, it won't be from me. You did and still do a great job with something that I could never do. I think that's why I stopped ... out of guilt. Btw, like I've mentioned to others here, if you see something that I did to a page that rubs you the wrong way, please send me a message. Not a problem. I'll let you go now. Maybe I can find someone to add U.S. to. @@ Thanks for responding and stay well. Bringingthewood (talk) 03:03, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
The article Oliver C. Dawson you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Oliver C. Dawson for comments about the article, and Talk:Oliver C. Dawson/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has never appeared on the Main Page as a "Did you know" item, and has not appeared within the last year either as "Today's featured article", or as a bold link under "In the news" or in the "On this day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear at DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On this day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of WikiOriginal-9 -- WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 07:40, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
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thanks a lot for your contribution to the discussion in Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Landed_families_blogspot. This really helped me. I had some sincere doubts about the subject, as you understood. Now I think I can leave the ref to the blog in John Rocke. It's not the only, or the most important source. But, as I said, it looks rather serious to me, and it contains a lot of information.
One of the important functions of Wikipedia is - to my opinion - to provide links to sources that delve deeper into a subject. And this blog surely contains a lot of background. The ref to "thepeerage.com" has been removed already. But as I mentioned in the footnote, this contained (probably) false information, so that's no problem at all.
I still have some other sources on my list, that I want to check. But on this person, apparently little research is done, although he was an important ornithologist, in certain respects, and in the bigger context of the development of ornithology in England in the 19th century.
Perhaps I may ask you to take a short look at the article, and see if you can correct some of the stylistic errors I certainly made. My English language skills are rather poor.
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That's a nice find - I did a search a while back and don't remember finding anything that good - I might take another look soon. BeanieFan11 (talk) 00:29, 23 October 2023 (UTC)
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On 24 October 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Earl Witte, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in one of NFL player Earl Witte's only games, he hit a player so hard that the player "stopped, curled up and dropped to the ground as if he had hit a stone wall"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Earl Witte. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Earl Witte), 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.
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Congratulations, BeanieFan11! The article you nominated, C. O. Brocato, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, FrB.TG (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:05, 27 October 2023 (UTC)
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Welcome to the club
The Featured Article Medal
By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this special, very exclusive award created just for we few, we happy few, this band of brothers, who have shed sweat, tears and probably blood, in order to be able to proudly claim "I too have taken an article to Featured status". Gog the Mild (talk) 19:32, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
On 29 October 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Tristin McCollum, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 2023, NFL player Tristin McCollum's team played against a team featuring his twin brother? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tristin McCollum. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Tristin McCollum), 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.
On 29 October 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Fancies Versus Fads, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in Fancies Versus Fads, G. K. Chesterton "knocks all our preconceived notions in the scrap heap, and then tells us that there is no scrap heap"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Fancies Versus Fads. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Fancies Versus Fads), 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.
This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 19 December 2023. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 2023, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/December 2023. Please keep an eye on that page, as comments regarding the draft blurb may be left there by user:dying, who assists the coordinators by making suggestions on the blurbs, or by others. I also suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before the article appears on the Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work!—Wehwalt (talk) 16:07, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
Thank you today for the article, introduced: "From Louisiana, Brocato attended St. John's High School and was the football team captain while playing fullback and placekicker. After graduating from St. John's, he attended Baylor University and became known as one of the best placekickers under pressure in the U.S. ... Brocato was a scout from 1974 until his death at 85 in 2015 – all but four of those years with the Houston Oilers / Tennessee Oilers / Titans. He became regarded as one of the greatest scouts in football history for his extensive research on every player and for his mentoring of many others in the field. He drove across the country and added around 20,000 miles (32,000 km) per year to his car to do his research on NFL prospects – even going into his 70s. ..." - the most eloborate introduction I_ve seen ;) - Enjoy your first TFA day! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 04:57, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
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November Articles for creation backlog drive
Hello BeanieFan11:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.
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