Template:Did you know nominations/Line marker (sports)
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:00, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
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Line marker (sports)
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Line marker in use
- ... that sports field lines were once marked by nine-year-olds and are now marked by robots? Source: Winter Games Pitches p 40 here "Some of these early line markers were built on a small scale for use by children – the gardener’s boy [marking the tennis court lines on a large country estate] might be as young as 9 or 10” and “Robots on the gridiron: Bots are painting lines on sports fields” here
- ALT1:... that using chalk to make baseball foul lines more visible to umpires was developed by the groundskeeper of the Cincinnati Red Stockings? Source: Cincinnati Man, Who Invented Foul Strike Line, Is Dead "William B. Wing, who devised the scheme of whitewashing the foul lines on the baseball diamond which took the place of the old custom of plowing up the field…”) I have a pdf of the clipping but could not find this online, happy to provide!
Created by Valereee (talk). Self-nominated at 17:56, 23 May 2019 (UTC).
The article is new enough and over the required prose size. There are no copyvio concerns and both hooks are cited and interesting enough for a broad audience. Valereee has already provided a QPQ review so this is good to go. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 06:56, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
- HickoryOughtShirt?4, thanks for the review! --valereee (talk) 12:07, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
