Talk:Vernon Louis Parrington

message: Paper encyclopedias with real editors tell the readers how important a person is by how much space they are allocated.  In the Columbia Encyclopedia for example Parrington is allocated only 80 words for his entry.  The other Pulitzer Prize winners in history for the 1920s:  5 are ignored entirely the rest get get more space.  That is the Encyclopedia ranks him toward the bottom of Pulitzer Prize winners in terms of importance.  Viriditas cites that encyclopedia without realizing his low stature in it.  Rjensen (talk) 05:54, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
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message: These scores are not significant for an encyclopedia, since they are very marginal information and they don't communicate much about Parrington's life. I propose deleting them. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 18:46, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Oppose They are on just about every head coaches page. To not have it would not be standard. Furthermore, the table does not list scores, that would be overkill on a bio, it is win-loss record. It isn't a list of the close to thirty games that he coached, it is a season breakdown of how the team did under his guidance. If you look on the thousands of articles of head coaches, many of them have them. It isn't that much different than Dr. Tom Osborne. See WP:WHENTABLE. -UCO2009bluejay (talk) 00:55, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Oppose deletion. Head coaching record tables are a standard feature of bio articles for those who have been head coaches in college football and in many other sports. Furthermore, Melchior2006, your erroneous characterization of yearly won–loss record as "scores" does not lend credence to your proposal. Jweiss11 (talk) 00:42, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Oppose deletion. Because Parrington was a literary historian, this article is of interest to literary types, and they often don't take the intellectual accomplishments of college football players seriously. So now that you guys have explained the matter, I agree with you. Parrington is a rare example of a man who flourished in several areas. He is proof of an unusual combination of bookworm and football coach! --Melchior2006 (talk) 06:17, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: This sort of thing was not usual at all in the early days of college football, the late 1800s and early 1900s. Many college football coaches were also professors, or men who coached briefly while in graduate school and went on to notable careers in other fields, like medicine, law, finance, politics, or the clergy, e.g. Henry Luke Bolley, Fred W. Green, Bruce Griffith, William Mann Irvine, Matthew W. Bullock, Harry Arista Mackey, Evans Woollen, Madison G. Gonterman, Robert Walter Johnson, Clinton L. Hare, etc. Jweiss11 (talk) 21:09, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Live and learn! --Melchior2006 (talk) 06:43, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Head coaching record 

message: The correct title for Parrington's famous book is: Main Currents in American Thought: an interpretation of American literature from the beginnings to 1920.
https://search.worldcat.org/title/492172
https://www.abebooks.com/Main-Currents-American-Thought-Beginnings-Critical/31202258924/bd 36hourblock (talk) 18:42, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  ERROR in title: Main Currents "IN" American Thought