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A fact from Alejandro Finisterre appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 April 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Alejandro Finisterre (pictured), the inventor of table football, threatened to blow up a plane with a bar of soap?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2025/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Alejandro Finisterre.

Outdated Biography

2019 marked the centenary of his birth and more information about his work and life was published.

A well-documented biography was published in Adiante Diario: "foosball-in-the-ano-del-centenario-de-su-natalicio.html Alejandro Finisterre: the untold story of the genius of foosball, in the year of the centenary of his birth".

It would be interesting to incorporate his data into this article.

Greetings, 88.3.75.155 (talk) 22:15, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by LunaEclipse talk 09:05, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Portrait of Finisterre by Eulogia Merle

... that Alejandro Finisterre (pictured), the inventor of table football, threatened to blow up a plane with a bar of soap?

Source: Eaude, Michael (2007-02-25). "Alejandro Finisterre". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-04-09.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Abanti Sithi

Created by Grnrchst (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 54 past nominations.

Grnrchst (talk) 12:55, 10 April 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Will review this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 17:16, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: That's...interesting. Article looks good and the image appears to be usable. Looks good to go. BeanieFan11 (talk) 17:24, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Image

Seeing as the subject is dead, would it be apt to use a fair use photograph of him? The current illustration is obviously a more artistic interpretation rather than a lifelike portrait. ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk) 01:44, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It would fail WP:NFCC. (CC) Tbhotch^™ 06:50, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure about that. The illustration doesn't really provide an accurate depiction of the subject IMO. ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk) 12:32, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]