Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Ben Crosby/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was archived by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 14:18, 11 March 2016.

Ben Crosby

 * Nominator(s): A Texas Historian (Impromptu collaboration?) 05:48, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

My second FAC for a late nineteenth-century American football coach, Ben Crosby is a man who died before he could really become notable. He is pretty much only remembered for being the first real coach of the Navy Midshipmen, although a few things from his time in college came up. He died just a few weeks after completing his big event, falling to typhoid fever at just 24. Up until recently, I did not expect to bring this article to FAC. Crosby is the second-least known of the Navy coaches (aside from Mr. "disappeared from the historical record") and for the longest time, his article was barely 11,000 bytes. A recent expansion effort from me, my first real Wikipedia editing in months (stupid IB) has doubled the size of the article, and it now rests at a comfortable eight paragraphs. As usual for me, there are probably dozens of little mistakes littered throughout the brief article. I'm looking forward to it. Also, this is a WikiCup nomination. Thanks, - A Texas Historian (Impromptu collaboration?) 05:48, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Image review
 * File:Ben_Crosby_1891.png: suggest using the non-free biog-pic tag instead, but what steps have you taken to try to determine the copyright status of this image? Nikkimaria (talk) 18:10, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Researching the image, just like researching Crosby himself, has been a difficult process. No image of Crosby was in any of the books I have. This image did not turn up in Yale records; the only picture with Crosby in it from Yale is this one, where he is barely visible and which is also of unknown copyright status. The only place I have found the image is from the blog, and it implies that it is an unpublished image from a personal collection. The one place where there is a possibility of a free image of Crosby is in the 1891 edition of The Yale Banner, which I do not have access to. Unless/until that proves successful, this current image is the best version we have. Thanks, - A Texas Historian (Impromptu collaboration?) 19:23, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

Closing comment -- Sorry but with only the image review after a month this nom is a bit of a non-starter; given the lack of commentary you can renominate without waiting the usual two weeks if you choose. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 14:18, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

Ian Rose (talk) 14:18, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
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