Talk:Ernie Curtis

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March 6, 2021	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on March 27, 2021.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that, during his time in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, footballer Ernie Curtis would obtain extra food by teaching his captors how to play with a ball made of paper?

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Orphaned references in Ernie Curtis

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Ernie Curtis's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Hayes":

From Harry Wake: Hayes, Dean (2006). The Who's Who of Cardiff City. Derby: Breedon Books. p. 193. ISBN 1-85983-462-0.
From Billy Thirlaway: Hayes, Dean (2006). The Who's Who of Cardiff City. Derby: Breedon Books. p. 183. ISBN 1-85983-462-0.
From Jack McJennett: Hayes, Dean (2006). The Who's Who of Cardiff City. Derby: Breedon Books. p. 125. ISBN 1-85983-462-0.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 14:54, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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

Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 20:06, 5 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Any chance of a fair use image of Ernie here?
I'm not really aware of any. Kosack (talk) 15:23, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Professionalism in association football has a natty article for these kind of "turn of the time" amateur/pro bios.
"In the club'..." become/became and Final/final in one sentence...
'he 2nd Welsh Brigade, Royal Field Artillery but' probably a comma after Artillery here.
I would link "publican" for those many millions of readers who don't have "pubs".
Poor souls. Kosack (talk) 15:23, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
" On his signing, he ... signing..." repetitive.
"injury sustained in March 1927. The injury" quick repeat and do we know what kind of injury?
"absence in the league, was also absent " similar repetitive comment.
"become the only team" is this "first (and as of 2021, only) team.."?
"final.[5][2]" order.
"over amateur side Corinthians" just curious how these opponents were selected for the Charity Shield, traditionally the winners of the league, right?
There's a link for "transfer" somewhere in Wikipedia.
"They lost, and Curtis twisted his knee during the match and missed" one too many "and"s in this sentence, merge one...
link inside-forward.
And outside-left if possible.
Apparently "brace" is not well known outside the UK, so that either needs re-phrasing or linking.
Link pub in the body too.
Shouldn't it be 1927–28 British Home Championship? It took place in both years.
Penalty area and penalty should be linked first time.
Curtis would teach -> taught
Link Home Championships every time and again, shouldn't it be the two-year range?
Racecourse Ground should also be linked each time (sortable table).

That's all I have, a nice article, so it's on hold for the moment. Cheers. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 20:25, 5 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@The Rambling Man: Thanks for taking a look. Everything addressed apart from the image, I'm not really too sure of any fair use ones. Let me know what you think. Kosack (talk) 15:23, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Happy with that so promoting to GA. Cheers. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 15:38, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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 SL93 (talk) 04:35, 23 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that, during his time in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, footballer Ernie Curtis would obtain extra food by teaching his captors how to play with a ball made of paper? Source: BBC

Reviewed: 1990 Football League Fourth Division play-off Final

Improved to Good Article status by Kosack (talk). Self-nominated at 15:51, 6 March 2021 (UTC).[reply]

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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:

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Wonderfully concise article of a dedicated sporting life. Recently promoted to GA. Great hook! No Swan So Fine (talk) 10:25, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]