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Please do not remove this invisible timestamp. See WT:ERRORS and WP:SUBSCRIBE. - Dank (push to talk) 01:24, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

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• When I hover my pointer over eye, the text shown in the page preview popup is bootywhooeBold text. Purging the main page didn't fix this. —71.105.243.101 (talk) 02:50, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

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Should "American football Hall of Fame" include "American" in the link? As written, it's more likely to be parsed that he is an American and is in the football HoF, but ambiguous about what meaning of "football". "American football Hall of Fame" joins American as a modifier of the game-HoF, so we know that the key part of his identity is "American football". The article's lead sentence has American football as a link. DMacks (talk) 05:58, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

Except blurbs generally identify people with their nationality, and it's inaccurate that players of American football are all Americans. Once American is established in the blurb, MOS:TIES implies that "football" is referring to American football, not association football. Another option is to display the proper name Pro Football Hall of Fame instead of piping it.—Bagumba (talk) 06:15, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

That's a rather subtle point that is unlikely to be picked up by readers. Indeed, when I read this blurb I definitely thought the "American" referred to the football rather than the player, despite the way it's linked. It kind of works either way though, so perhaps not worth changing per WP:AINTBROKE.  — Amakuru (talk) 06:45, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

• The current Brown blurb has several issues:

1. It's difficult to parse, as discussed above
2. It focusses exclusively on one sport when Brown had several other claims to fame including activism, lacrosse, movies and other media.
3. Excessive detail – we don't need to be told what position he played and doing so gives the impression that the topic is by and for football fans only

A more rounded blurb might be:

Jim Brown (pictured) – American activist, athlete and movie star – dies at the age of 87.

Andrew🐉(talk) 07:46, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

In the spirit of MOS:ROLEBIO, he's most commonly noted for football, not his general athleticism or lacrosse. It'd be undue to list activist before it, if its to be mentioned in the blurb.—Bagumba (talk) 08:23, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

I could probably support something like "American football player, activist and actor..."; I was against this blurb in the first place, but it was fairly clear in the discussion that his activism played a role in his being chosen for a blurb... We're not going to be blurbing every hall-of-fame NFL player going forward I take it!  — Amakuru (talk) 09:25, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

As a big football fan, I can't imagine anyone I'd argue should be blurbed other than :shudder: Tom Brady. Jerry Rice is unquestionably one of the top five players in NFL history, and I wouldn't blurb him. Kicking222 (talk) 12:07, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

The "Pro Football Hall of Fame" article says "there are a total of 371 members of the Hall of Fame". That is not enough to suggest he is a GOAT of his sport. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.192.123.58 (talk) 04:44, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

That's unlikely to be explainable in a one-sentence blurb for almost anyone. —Bagumba (talk) 06:22, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

I would leave it. He's best known as a football player. I doubt if he would have appeared in The Dirty Dozen had he never stepped on the gridiron, nor been as prominent as an activist. Wehwalt (talk) 13:41, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

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