Talk:Doc Blanchard

Mil hist tag
This article has been tagged for the military history project, however, I do not believe that this is correct. The article is focused almost entirely on this subject's football career. The subject may have been in the military, but the article mentions very little about his service career and it seems that his notability comes from being a football player, not his military service. As such I believe that the mil history tag should be removed. Does anyone else agree or disagree? If it is to stay linked to the military history project the article should be greatly expanded to discuss his military career in much more detail. AustralianRupert (talk) 05:15, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Considering he is one of the most famous players in U.S. college football history, and did so while playing for the Army Black Knights at the United States Military Academy West Point leading Army to 3 national football championships in a row - all in conjunction with serving in the military as a fighter pilot and retired a Colonel - I certainly believe he's within the project's scope. Perhaps you should raise this on the project's talk page and get feed back there. - ℅ &#10032; ALLST☆R &#10032; echo 05:54, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I'll post a notice at the project regarding this issue so that the project members can join in this discussion and give guidance. - ℅ &#10032; ALLST☆R &#10032; echo 05:58, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Seems reasonable to have him within Milhist scope to me. His involvement with the military was more than incidental.  Roger Davies  talk 06:28, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Agreed, clearly the subject had a long military career but my point is that the focus of the article is not military at all. There is one sentence devoted to his military service and nothing to suggest that he performed anything of note. If it weren't for his football career, would he not qualify as a non-notable person and therefore not qualify for a biography on wikipedia at all? If I clicked on the article expecting an outline of the subject's military career I would be sorely disappointed. Are we supposed to include the biography of every person who achieves notability for non military aspects of their life just because they previously served? Thus, should we include Don Bradman in the military history project because he served during World War II? If we were to do that a lot of people with thoroughly non-notable military careers would then qualify for a military history tag. AustralianRupert (talk) 06:55, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Did Don Bradman graduate from a military educational institution and become a legend there? No, but Doc Blanchard did. Anyway, apparently we crossed paths (you posting here while I was still editing the article). Check out the article now. I have expanded on his military service. - ℅ &#10032; ALLST☆R &#10032; echo 08:46, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Be Bold this is a start class article - By having the Military service section it will encourage editors to contribute to it. If the section was not there would anyone bother ? I also believe its in scope for WP;MILHIST --Jim Sweeney (talk) 10:52, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, his number has been retired at West Point... so it seems reasonable for MILHIST... 76.66.196.218 (talk) 11:26, 21 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Well, concensus seems to be against me on this, so it is probably time for me to retire gracefully. The expanded military career additions are a good start, and as Jim said above, leaving the Mil Hist tag on probably encourages work on the article. Good luck with the GA review, by the way. AustralianRupert (talk) 01:25, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

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"Little Doc"
Though his father was not a physician, it seems Doc Kuhn too was first called "Little Doc." It is not often one sees a "Felix Anthony." Do we know whence came Blanchard's ancestors? Cake (talk) 18:13, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Assessment comment
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