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I've compromised with what I think is the logical thing to do. I've omitted the "Jr." in the lede, since most sources just call him "George Herman Ruth" and left it in the first paragraph of the body of the article and left "Sr." when referring to the father. Wehwalt ( talk) 11:53, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
I don't believe the Jr. should be in the name in the lead sentence of the article per MOS:JR. It does not seem that the Babe ever used it, at least as an adult. The earliest reference to it I see on newspapers.com is 1933. Wehwalt ( talk) 19:52, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
You appear to be conflating most common usage with full/legal name; they're not always the same thing. Numerical quantity would be more relevant for deciding on page title (which is why "Babe" gets used instead of "George"). That's not an excuse to ignore how someone's formal identity can (and often does) differ from what others tend to call them. Furthermore, "a few hundred" is in itself quite a lot, regardless of whether that gets outnumbered. It isn't fair how you dismissively shrugged that off or tried to minimize its worth. SNUGGUMS ( talk / edits) 02:43, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
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Please replace "==Professional baseball==" with "==Professional career==". 2603:8000:8500:38F2:9595:AF8F:E8F7:76A3 ( talk) 05:51, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
Babe Ruth’s birthplace, now a museum, is located in the Ridgely’s Delight neighborhood. While this used to be part of Pigtown, it became Ridgely’s Delight when Martin Luther King Blvd. was built and separated it from the rest of Pigtown. If tourists read the article and start looking for Pigtown, they will get lost and might end up in an area where it’s unsafe to be. Baltojo ( talk) 02:00, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
There is no mention of Ruth's use of tobacco, which he used in various forms for more than 40 years, and which is thought to have possibly contributed to his cancer diagnosis later in life, although there are competing interpretations. Viriditas ( talk) 23:20, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
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I've compromised with what I think is the logical thing to do. I've omitted the "Jr." in the lede, since most sources just call him "George Herman Ruth" and left it in the first paragraph of the body of the article and left "Sr." when referring to the father. Wehwalt ( talk) 11:53, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
I don't believe the Jr. should be in the name in the lead sentence of the article per MOS:JR. It does not seem that the Babe ever used it, at least as an adult. The earliest reference to it I see on newspapers.com is 1933. Wehwalt ( talk) 19:52, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
You appear to be conflating most common usage with full/legal name; they're not always the same thing. Numerical quantity would be more relevant for deciding on page title (which is why "Babe" gets used instead of "George"). That's not an excuse to ignore how someone's formal identity can (and often does) differ from what others tend to call them. Furthermore, "a few hundred" is in itself quite a lot, regardless of whether that gets outnumbered. It isn't fair how you dismissively shrugged that off or tried to minimize its worth. SNUGGUMS ( talk / edits) 02:43, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
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Please replace "==Professional baseball==" with "==Professional career==". 2603:8000:8500:38F2:9595:AF8F:E8F7:76A3 ( talk) 05:51, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
Babe Ruth’s birthplace, now a museum, is located in the Ridgely’s Delight neighborhood. While this used to be part of Pigtown, it became Ridgely’s Delight when Martin Luther King Blvd. was built and separated it from the rest of Pigtown. If tourists read the article and start looking for Pigtown, they will get lost and might end up in an area where it’s unsafe to be. Baltojo ( talk) 02:00, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
There is no mention of Ruth's use of tobacco, which he used in various forms for more than 40 years, and which is thought to have possibly contributed to his cancer diagnosis later in life, although there are competing interpretations. Viriditas ( talk) 23:20, 31 March 2024 (UTC)