Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Hobey Baker

Hobey Baker
This nomination predates the introduction in April 2014 of article-specific subpages for nominations and has been created from the edit history of Today's featured article/requests.

Hobey Baker was nominated for 15th January 2013, and ran on 15th January 2014 without a further nomination.


 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the TFAR nomination of the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page unless you are renominating the article at TFAR. For renominations, please add   to the top of the discussion and   at the bottom, then complete a new TFAR nom underneath.

The result was: not scheduled by BencherliteTalk 23:17, 8 January 2013 (UTC)



Hobey Baker (1892–1918) was an American amateur athlete of the early twentieth century. Considered the first American star in ice hockey by the Hockey Hall of Fame, he was also an accomplished football player. Born into a prominent family from Philadelphia, he enrolled at Princeton University in 1910. Baker excelled on the university's hockey and football teams, and became a noted amateur hockey player for the St. Nicholas Club in New York City. He was a member of three national championship teams, for football in 1911 and hockey in 1912 and 1914, and helped the St. Nicholas Club win a national amateur championship in 1915. Baker graduated from Princeton in 1914 and worked for J.P. Morgan Bank until he enlisted in the United States Army Air Service. During World War I he served with the 103rd and the 13th Aero Squadrons before being promoted to captain and named commander of the 141st Aero Squadron. Baker died in December 1918 after a plane he was test-piloting crashed, hours before he was due to leave France and return to America. In 1921, Princeton named its new hockey arena the Hobey Baker Memorial Rink. The Hobey Baker Award is presented annually to the best collegiate hockey player in the United States.

Date relevant to article topic = 1 point. Similar article not showed in over 6 months. (The similar article is the Hockey Hall of Fame) = 2 points.--Lucky102 (talk) 21:18, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Support, I don't recall seeing something too similar in a while, good relevant date, high quality article, recently promoted in 2012. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 16:15, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
 * There was another American sports biography article on 13 December. Hawkeye7 (talk) 14:30, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, but that was of a sport more unique to USA, American football, and this is of a sport more known in other countries, ice hockey. Good choice to show that variety and diversity on the main page. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 20:04, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Please add to the summary chart at the top of the page; this doesn't show in TOC. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 20:14, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Support Nice to see a hockey article Canuck 89 (talk to me) 05:29, December 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * 1 point at most as sports biographies are sports biographies, and TFAR does not sub-divide similarity by sport (and certainly not by whether or not sportsmen are in a hall of fame). I note also that a sports article is nominated for 14th January and that, if Kenneth Walker runs on 5th January, Baker would be the third US airman killed in battle to appear within 6 weeks. Blurb expanded to proper length, years of birth and death added, full names cut. BencherliteTalk 11:02, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose: Article seems suitable for TFA, but we seem to be pretty sports-heavy, particularly if Adelaide Leak runs the previous day. Maybe next month?  Montanabw (talk) 22:46, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
 * It would be sub-optimal to run two sports articles back-to-back, and one is proposed for the 14th; why is this article not proposed in one of the non-date-specific slots, to give the delegates some leeway on choice of date? Those slots are empty. Also, point tally would be negative when we substract for similar articles (14th, and airmen).  Also, there are four biographies on the page now, back-to-back sports, and three airmen killed in battle in a little over a month; delegates will have to overlook something that has community support to maintain mainpage diversity. Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 14:22, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Support I think it is ok to put the article on the main page in that day. We are not talking about two sports biography articles back to back, but a cricket article about a huge controversy, which other than being grouped as sports, they have nothing in common. Secret account 18:45, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Support, not as similar as they first appear. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 23:21, 5 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Closing comment from Bencherlite "remove, something else scheduled instead - I decided it was a bit too similar both sport- and aviation-wise to recent articles, but it will appear in due course no doubt"