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Cal Ripken Jr. only had 431 homers, he didn't surpass Ernie Banks at 512. User: 64.131.184.221 05:25, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
I fixed some of the NPOV issues that were in the article. Here is a summary of what I changed or noticed:
In the next couple of weeks (depending on my schedule) I would like to improve and expand this article. As a Cub fan, I would love to see his page reach featured article status.-- Cyrus Andiron t/ c 14:00, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
The article could use some improvement and expansion, for sure. You were right to remove the hype, as it's redundant, at the very least. Ernie's stats speak for themselves. I found the Albuquerque quote. I had forgotten who said it. Dykes is the one attributed, which stands to reason, as he was a player and manager on the rival Sox for many years, and was often good for a quip. To say Ernie "is the most popular player" is a stretch at this point, since a generation or two never saw him play. A lot of them never saw Sandberg play, and I think he was being called "The New Mr. Cub" at one point. Sandberg wasn't outgoing like Ernie, though. "Among the most popular" is certainly fair. I had to relocate the Crain's article which I think was my original source for the comment about Banks looking into acquisition of the Cubs. That article is 8 months old, but as far as I know the Trib company is still looking at divestiture possibilities... of the Cubs, of WGN, of anything that they think will somehow make them wealthier in the short run. Wahkeenah 14:36, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Was it Banks who said, "Let's play two!"? And, if so, is it a phrase notable enough for mention? 199.8.26.10 ( talk) 19:20, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
The article links to the city, which is unhelpful to me. It is obvious to me where they're talking about; the question is why? What connection to baseball does Albuquerque have?-- Prosfilaes ( talk) 22:05, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
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Reflinks gives me a thumbs up. I am a little concerned about Checklinks, especially the Baseball-Reference citation. While not a requirement, do you think you could search Baseball-Reference for his new Home Run log, or see if it was archived? Everything else labeled look like redirects and are OK. Sportsguy17 ( T • C) 20:15, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
When you do, also add what age that happened at.
I have to go eat dinner, so lets start with these two sections. I'm mostly looking at references as well as sentencing structure. The article overall looks good so far. Sportsguy17 ( T • C) 23:11, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
Lets put it here for now @
EricEnfermero: and you can make changes as suggested. I need to offline soon and may not hope back on again tonight. Once again, it's been a pleasure to work with you [again] so far
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Here is the continuation
This concludes the section-by-section. Let me know when you're done. Then, we can give it a final scrubdown review, @ EricEnfermero:. Sportsguy17 ( T • C) 16:40, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria
Pass! Excellent work. It was a pleasure to work with you once more. Sportsguy17 ( T • C) 17:41, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
Who was the first Afro-American to play for the Cubs? Both Baker and Banks started in 1953. Our text and NPR say it was Ernie Banks, but their team-mate Ralph Kiner said Baker: http://www.baseballlibrary.com/excerpts/excerpt.php?book=banks_sandberg_grace&page=3. Kdammers ( talk) 09:03, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
He died eight days before his 84th birthday. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.237.34.211 ( talk) 04:53, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
There is a quotation in our article that is separated from statements attributed to the mayor. Apparently, the quotation, which is currently the last one in the article, is also from the mayor. How=ever, there is a grammatical error in it. Either we have made a mistake, or a sic should be added: " The Chicago Cubs have announced they will pay for Ernie Banks’ $35,000 funeral. Donnellan Funeral Home filed a court claim Wednesday, asking for the money. Expenses for the funeral that was held last month included an $11,000 casket and nearly $7,000 dollars in flowers. Friday night, the Cubs confirm the tab will be covered by team management and the Ricketts family." CONFIRM-ED. Also, this quotation refers to the Ricketts family, with no other mention of them in the article. Kdammers ( talk) 13:27, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
I'm just leaving this section here in case User:YahwehSaves would like to discuss the placement of the 1967 season within the article rather than running up another WP:3RR issue. I think it's fine where it is; from his edits, it looks like he wants it under the final seasons section.
I suspect that this is just gratuitous tinkering with the entry. Sometimes you will observe this pattern of editing with YS, where you fix an actual mistake or, more commonly, a series of actual mistakes, and he feels the need to move content around or perform odd rewording on the same entry. I think that keeping the 1967 season and 1967 image in the middle section creates a more symmetric distribution of images, and I don't know what his reasoning is for moving those. EricEnfermero ( Talk) 07:11, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
In my opinion, the wording on the lede photo should be changed:
Banks receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2013 to
Banks at his Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony, 2013
The photo does not actually show Banks receiving the award. I'm not allowed to change it (gets reverted by one editor). Let see some good faith for a change.
YahwehSaves (
talk)
08:09, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
Intentionally off subject and not in good faith (lede photo caption wording-requested good faith response) as if EE contacted him to support his off subject personal attacks (EE got nasty at my talk page, as if he wants me to be nasty to him here so I get blocked). Bad conduct by him here not me, as anyone can see and judge "for themselves" (not EE doing your thinking and judging for you which he is doing and is bad conduct to say the least, causing discord); he does not want anyone to be in good faith towards me. I've done hundreds if not thousands of article improvements, corrections (including EE editing), and good faith edits. Of course EE wants others not to be in good faith towards me, that's how, he is. Bank's ("Mr Sunshine") photo, and wording (not a receiving medal photo) could and should be better. Banks went to town to get an award, Banks at his Presidential Medal of Honor ceremony in 1967. The 1967 Pizza ad photo at the top of "Moved to first base" section" is consistent with the 1955 tv set card (not a regular MLB baseball player card) at the top of the Early Career/Early career section), but got quickly reverted as if no one should see the improvement (by me); I tried to change to Early Career/Early years but was reverted. There's also is no actual Cubs photo of Banks in uniform (Mr Cub) in the article for some reason. This is all familiar to me, one is met by a watch dog reverter/deleter like at Bank's and others infoboxes, he's a 11x All-star not a "14x All-Star" (1959-62 MLB Rules, 1 "All-Star" credit per All-Star per season, 2 not 4 All-Star teams per season). Try correcting that and see what happens. "All Star" 1945 is in some MLB player info boxes when there was no official 1945 All-Star selection or game played (both officially cancelled, you can't or not allowed to change or correct that either. Certain reverting is happening here too it seems. I must be getting in the way of something, and its not good. YahwehSaves ( talk) 01:03, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
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Given the recent move towards adding in negro league records to the MLB stats. Should we add his two seasons with the KC Monarchs to his list of teams played for. 192.190.140.40 ( talk) 02:36, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
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Cal Ripken Jr. only had 431 homers, he didn't surpass Ernie Banks at 512. User: 64.131.184.221 05:25, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
I fixed some of the NPOV issues that were in the article. Here is a summary of what I changed or noticed:
In the next couple of weeks (depending on my schedule) I would like to improve and expand this article. As a Cub fan, I would love to see his page reach featured article status.-- Cyrus Andiron t/ c 14:00, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
The article could use some improvement and expansion, for sure. You were right to remove the hype, as it's redundant, at the very least. Ernie's stats speak for themselves. I found the Albuquerque quote. I had forgotten who said it. Dykes is the one attributed, which stands to reason, as he was a player and manager on the rival Sox for many years, and was often good for a quip. To say Ernie "is the most popular player" is a stretch at this point, since a generation or two never saw him play. A lot of them never saw Sandberg play, and I think he was being called "The New Mr. Cub" at one point. Sandberg wasn't outgoing like Ernie, though. "Among the most popular" is certainly fair. I had to relocate the Crain's article which I think was my original source for the comment about Banks looking into acquisition of the Cubs. That article is 8 months old, but as far as I know the Trib company is still looking at divestiture possibilities... of the Cubs, of WGN, of anything that they think will somehow make them wealthier in the short run. Wahkeenah 14:36, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Was it Banks who said, "Let's play two!"? And, if so, is it a phrase notable enough for mention? 199.8.26.10 ( talk) 19:20, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
The article links to the city, which is unhelpful to me. It is obvious to me where they're talking about; the question is why? What connection to baseball does Albuquerque have?-- Prosfilaes ( talk) 22:05, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
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So we meet again
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Sportsguy17 (
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20:07, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
Reflinks gives me a thumbs up. I am a little concerned about Checklinks, especially the Baseball-Reference citation. While not a requirement, do you think you could search Baseball-Reference for his new Home Run log, or see if it was archived? Everything else labeled look like redirects and are OK. Sportsguy17 ( T • C) 20:15, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
When you do, also add what age that happened at.
I have to go eat dinner, so lets start with these two sections. I'm mostly looking at references as well as sentencing structure. The article overall looks good so far. Sportsguy17 ( T • C) 23:11, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
Lets put it here for now @
EricEnfermero: and you can make changes as suggested. I need to offline soon and may not hope back on again tonight. Once again, it's been a pleasure to work with you [again] so far
. The article is looking good and best.
Sportsguy17 (
T •
C)
00:15, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
Here is the continuation
This concludes the section-by-section. Let me know when you're done. Then, we can give it a final scrubdown review, @ EricEnfermero:. Sportsguy17 ( T • C) 16:40, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria
Pass! Excellent work. It was a pleasure to work with you once more. Sportsguy17 ( T • C) 17:41, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
Who was the first Afro-American to play for the Cubs? Both Baker and Banks started in 1953. Our text and NPR say it was Ernie Banks, but their team-mate Ralph Kiner said Baker: http://www.baseballlibrary.com/excerpts/excerpt.php?book=banks_sandberg_grace&page=3. Kdammers ( talk) 09:03, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
He died eight days before his 84th birthday. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.237.34.211 ( talk) 04:53, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
There is a quotation in our article that is separated from statements attributed to the mayor. Apparently, the quotation, which is currently the last one in the article, is also from the mayor. How=ever, there is a grammatical error in it. Either we have made a mistake, or a sic should be added: " The Chicago Cubs have announced they will pay for Ernie Banks’ $35,000 funeral. Donnellan Funeral Home filed a court claim Wednesday, asking for the money. Expenses for the funeral that was held last month included an $11,000 casket and nearly $7,000 dollars in flowers. Friday night, the Cubs confirm the tab will be covered by team management and the Ricketts family." CONFIRM-ED. Also, this quotation refers to the Ricketts family, with no other mention of them in the article. Kdammers ( talk) 13:27, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
I'm just leaving this section here in case User:YahwehSaves would like to discuss the placement of the 1967 season within the article rather than running up another WP:3RR issue. I think it's fine where it is; from his edits, it looks like he wants it under the final seasons section.
I suspect that this is just gratuitous tinkering with the entry. Sometimes you will observe this pattern of editing with YS, where you fix an actual mistake or, more commonly, a series of actual mistakes, and he feels the need to move content around or perform odd rewording on the same entry. I think that keeping the 1967 season and 1967 image in the middle section creates a more symmetric distribution of images, and I don't know what his reasoning is for moving those. EricEnfermero ( Talk) 07:11, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
In my opinion, the wording on the lede photo should be changed:
Banks receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2013 to
Banks at his Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony, 2013
The photo does not actually show Banks receiving the award. I'm not allowed to change it (gets reverted by one editor). Let see some good faith for a change.
YahwehSaves (
talk)
08:09, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
Intentionally off subject and not in good faith (lede photo caption wording-requested good faith response) as if EE contacted him to support his off subject personal attacks (EE got nasty at my talk page, as if he wants me to be nasty to him here so I get blocked). Bad conduct by him here not me, as anyone can see and judge "for themselves" (not EE doing your thinking and judging for you which he is doing and is bad conduct to say the least, causing discord); he does not want anyone to be in good faith towards me. I've done hundreds if not thousands of article improvements, corrections (including EE editing), and good faith edits. Of course EE wants others not to be in good faith towards me, that's how, he is. Bank's ("Mr Sunshine") photo, and wording (not a receiving medal photo) could and should be better. Banks went to town to get an award, Banks at his Presidential Medal of Honor ceremony in 1967. The 1967 Pizza ad photo at the top of "Moved to first base" section" is consistent with the 1955 tv set card (not a regular MLB baseball player card) at the top of the Early Career/Early career section), but got quickly reverted as if no one should see the improvement (by me); I tried to change to Early Career/Early years but was reverted. There's also is no actual Cubs photo of Banks in uniform (Mr Cub) in the article for some reason. This is all familiar to me, one is met by a watch dog reverter/deleter like at Bank's and others infoboxes, he's a 11x All-star not a "14x All-Star" (1959-62 MLB Rules, 1 "All-Star" credit per All-Star per season, 2 not 4 All-Star teams per season). Try correcting that and see what happens. "All Star" 1945 is in some MLB player info boxes when there was no official 1945 All-Star selection or game played (both officially cancelled, you can't or not allowed to change or correct that either. Certain reverting is happening here too it seems. I must be getting in the way of something, and its not good. YahwehSaves ( talk) 01:03, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
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Given the recent move towards adding in negro league records to the MLB stats. Should we add his two seasons with the KC Monarchs to his list of teams played for. 192.190.140.40 ( talk) 02:36, 5 June 2024 (UTC)