A fact from Ted Coy appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 June 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Yale All-American Ted Coy(pictured), who played football with "his long blonde hair held back by a white sweatband," was the basis for a character in a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald?
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Coy's first wife, Sophie Meldrim, divorced him in 1925. <-->In August 1924, Coy was secretly married to the noted movie actress Jeanne Eagels.--ANRH (talk) 09:38, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
As a direct quotation where the original has a misspelling (i.e., "blonde" instead of "blond", for a male), the {{sic}} template is called for, according to MOS:QUOTE, to preserve the original quotation exactly while letting the reader know the error is in the original, not Wikipedia. JGHowes talk13:34, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
