Talk:Alf Jacques

A fact from Alf Jacques appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 February 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Alf Jacques crafted more than 80,000 wooden lacrosse sticks in his lifetime?

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The result was: promoted by Hilst talk 20:50, 14 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

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Wooden lacrosse sticks

... that Alf Jacques crafted over 80,000 wooden lacrosse sticks in his lifetime?

Source: https://www.naiahf.org/team-2/alfred-jacques/onondaga

- ALT1: ... that Alf Jacques handmade the lacrosse sticks used by the Iroquois National Lacrosse team at the 2002 World Lacrosse Championship?
- Source: https://redhawkslax.com/history/the-stick-maker/
- Reviewed:

Created by SammySpartan (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

SammySpartan (talk) 19:20, 23 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

Great article, SammySpartan. ALT0 is particularly interesting, and I believe the NAIAHF counts as a reliable source. I don't think that the source for ALT1 can be considered independant, though, so for that hook to run you'd need another source. Per WP:DYKIMG, any image to be included has to be in the article, so this image is ineligible. There are currently some copyvio issues - for example, the part about the GoFundMe seems to be directly directly out of the source without paraphrasing. Also, source [4] doesn't seem to be formatted correctly (sometimes the autofill doesn't get it right and needs correction). Overall, good and promising, but needs a little work before it can be approved.

Thank you for reviewing, Darth Stabro. I've changed the line mentioning the GoFundMe page and fixed source [4]. I've additionally added the photo to the article, though I did want to make clear that the sticks in the image weren't made by Jacques. If we end up needing to run the hook without the image, that's fine with me. -SammySpartan (talk) 17:16, 24 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Hi SammySpartan, the phrase "the art of making black ash wooden splint baskets" is also probably too close of a copy of the sentence, but beyond that I think things should be good. ~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 18:38, 24 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Darth Stabro -- I've gone and reworded that sentence. SammySpartan (talk) 21:20, 24 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Ok, I think we are good to go here then.

~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 01:20, 28 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

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