Talk:William A. Spinks

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[edit] Needs better sourcing

The Tobey, Russell and Loy sources do not cite their sources, and are not primary, so they eventually need to be replaced with something more reliable. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 06:39, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Spinkses

A contemporary article from the NYT also mentions (in a billiards context) a "W.M. Spinks of Los Angeles", which could be a typo for "W.A." or "Wm.", esp. given William A. Spinks's origin. Another mentions a "Prof. Spinks" as a player, in (but not necessarily of) New York City. This may be someone else, or Spinks may have actually been an academic and we just haven't found the sources to demonstrate that, or it could have been a nickname for him. Unknown at this time. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 07:40, 2 March 2007 (UTC)