Talk:Pinto Bean (squirrel)

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A fact from Pinto Bean (squirrel) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 March 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the jumbotron at a 2022 Illinois football game displayed a tribute to the piebald squirrel Pinto Bean?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/March. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Pinto Bean (squirrel).

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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 Bruxton (talk) 22:37, 3 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the jumbotron at a 2022 Illinois football game displayed a tribute to the piebald squirrel Pinto Bean? Source: https://www.sbnation.com/2022/10/15/23406077/illinois-football-pinto-bean-minnesota-big-ten-west
- Reviewed: (this is my third DYK submission)

Created by BanjoZebra (talk). Self-nominated at 21:31, 19 February 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Pinto Bean (squirrel); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

WP:RSN is lukewarm on SBNation as a reliable source.
I'll review this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 22:54, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

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: None required.

Overall: New enough, appears long enough (although it is rather short), neutral and is sourced. Hook is cited and is interesting. I've seen SBNation used hundreds if not thousands of times (and have used it a number of times myself) so I believe it is a good enough source to count as "reliable." No QPQ needed, as this would be the nominator's third credit. Appears good to go! BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:08, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I hesitated on this nomination because it seems like a borderline case of notability. But onward we go! Bruxton (talk) 22:36, 3 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Refer to Pinto Bean with he/him pronouns

Pinto Bean is certainly male, as seen in this video by a UIUC student. Since he's a charismatic individual animal, and an unofficial UIUC mascot, I think we should refer to him with anthropomorphic he/him pronouns. Wikipedia already does this for other animals, like Alex (parrot) or Lassie. Anecdotally, most of the UIUC students I know use he/him pronouns when referring to Pinto Bean. Pintopintobean -- playing a CTF? check out my profile page! (talk) 05:25, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately I don't think that video qualifies as a reliable source for Pinto Bean's gender. Unless we have an actual reliable source indicating Pinto Bean's gender, I think we should keep it as it is. BanjoZebra (talk) 18:34, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This University of Illinois blog article should qualify, no? The university possesses his remains. Mooonswimmer 22:26, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good call! Hadn't seen this source before, we can go ahead and add the gender confirmation BanjoZebra (talk) 22:28, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]