File talk:Child miner from Utah with pipe, c. 1910.jpg

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This kid is maximum 4-years old. I suggest that the smoking pipe is just for fun. — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 46.135.98.189 (talk) 10:34, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

Debunked?

I found this picture included on the English Wikipedia article for "Castle Mine Gate disaster". Following is something I wrote on the talk page for that article.

"The description for the picture of the alleged child coal miner on wiki commons cites Utah Public Radio claiming it's a 9 year old coal miner. The wiki commons picture also points to source of the picture being a Reddit post which claims it's a 6 year old boy, contradicting the original source UPR. Subjectively, I think the boy looks much closer to 6 than 9 years. So is UPR wrong about the age? In addition Snopes claims this is a commonly miscaptioned image altogether, that it does not actually picture a child coal miner. In fact the snope article seem to debunk the whole thing pretty thorougly. See https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/child-coal-miner. So what is actually the true story about this picture?"

So it seems to be debunked? — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 92.220.103.201 (talk) 05:47, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

Nice find! —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:11, 8 March 2021 (UTC)