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I did a little following up on the July 2009 discussion over the name of this 1880s NL franchise. If you're inclined to do so, let me know what you think at Talk:Worcester Worcesters ``` W i k i W i s t a h ``` 23:09, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
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Yngvadottir ( talk) 16:03, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
Just a quick question. I was wondering if you remember if, when you updated Bill Herring (minor league pitcher) if you got that DOB from Baseball Reference or not. I know that the site sometimes updates based on Wikipedia and I'm trying to track down where that date of birth comes from, so that I can in turn track done Herring's date of death. Thanks. Canadian Paul 15:20, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
Greetings, Dewelar. Just wanted to let you know that I think it's safe to proceed with a merge of "Infobox collegiate baseball team" into "Infobox college baseball team" per DJSasso's comment on the November 4th TfD discussion. I've reviewed the content of both templates and see no problem with this. It will really be a manual migration of the 53 instances of "collegiate" to "college," followed by the deletion of "collegiate." This is a weird one, and I can't really even explain why the "collegiate" infobox was created. It may be that "college" was the newer replacement template, and the college baseball teams below NCAA Division I never got the new version. In any event, thank you for participating in the TfD discussion. Regards, Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 23:36, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
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Simple: it can refer to either one of them, so better to make a disambiguation page than to assume that one is the primary topic. Nyttend ( talk) 14:43, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
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I have happened across the listing for baseball player "Dan Sheehan" and noted that the listing claims he is the same person as John M. Ryan. I believe that is not true, but did not want to edit it without being certain. Baseball-Reference lists Dan Sheehan as "Dan Sheahan" and that player is an outfielder and third baseman with 36 career PA playing for two teams in the 1884 season, the Nationals and Quicksteps. John Ryan is a pitcher with the 1884 Monumentals and has 27 career PA. I am unable to find any evidence that this player was playing for a third team that season and using a different name. Further, it appears that "Sheahan" is the correct spelling of his name. Also note that RetroSheet believes these players to be separate people as well. Hopefully this helps! Otrex ( talk) 20:32, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
Okay, as per your note, I have updated the Dan Sheehan listing. Perhaps it is worth a new page for the now separate John Ryan? I'm relatively new to Wikipedia though so I'll have to leave that to someone with a bit more technical skill. Also, I am not clear on how to change the name of the article to adjust the spelling to "Sheahan". Are you able to help with that? Otrex ( talk) 21:55, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
It seems my account is too new to make the change from "Sheehan" to "Sheahan" in the article title. If you wouldn't mind, please move it on my behalf. Also, found that there is a John Ryan article already, but it is just a redirect. For the moment, I have broken that redirect since they're different people - probably ruining about 500 active Dan Sheahan-related research papers in the process! Otrex ( talk) 22:44, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for the warm welcome! I did some more follow-up research today on the Dan Sheahan/John Ryan issue, not being entirely satisfied with my earlier results. It seems that Dan Sheahan did indeed play at least one game under the name "John M. Ryan", and a 2016 book confirms that this record belongs to Dan Sheahan. However, the article for "John Ryan" talks about "John A. Ryan" who was a real person and not the same person as Dan Sheahan. I believe that was the source of the confusion. In any case, I feel it may be prudent to move that developed "John Ryan" article to "John A. Ryan", though as before, Wikipedia won't let me because of my new account. As for the original redirect "John Ryan" well to be honest I don't know what to say about that, but perhaps it should be adjusted to "John M. Ryan" and pointed back at Sheahan since he did indeed play under that name at least once? In any case, I find this very interesting, and at the same time, I'd like to know more about where this confusion comes from, and how the researcher came to his conclusions (author David Nemec "The Rank and File of 19th Century Baseball") Otrex ( talk) 23:52, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for your help. I'll follow-up on this situation as time permits and let you know if I find any new information. Glad to see we got the basic "two John Ryans" issue figured out. Now at least John A Ryan gets to be his own person again. Otrex ( talk) 00:59, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
I was able to track down a write up on Dan Sheahan just this evening, and wow, is he ever an interesting character. Looks like he played as John Ryan because of trouble with the law, but he himself becomes a police officer and shoots some people before being shot himself and going insane. I have updated the article but check out the referenced write-up on this person. It's very interesting. Otrex ( talk) 05:06, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I am curious to know why you renamed the Deborah Harry discography page as Debbie Harry discography. While she was known as Debbie on her solo album and single releases between 1981 and 1988 inclusive, since 1989, all of her releases have credited her name as Deborah Harry. Was there any consensus established before initiating the page move? There does not appear to be any discussion about a proposed move on the article's talk page. Nqr9 ( talk) 04:43, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
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Hi John! I'm conflicted. I "fixed" the book title to the logical style (with "i" capitalized) but only after checking various editions and finding their covers and in-book titles consistently set in ALLCAPS. Regrettably, the DVD series and presumably the soundtrack album (is it one of your >5,818 ?) are styled Come in Spinner. Doug butler ( talk) 20:21, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
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I did a little following up on the July 2009 discussion over the name of this 1880s NL franchise. If you're inclined to do so, let me know what you think at Talk:Worcester Worcesters ``` W i k i W i s t a h ``` 23:09, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
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Just a quick question. I was wondering if you remember if, when you updated Bill Herring (minor league pitcher) if you got that DOB from Baseball Reference or not. I know that the site sometimes updates based on Wikipedia and I'm trying to track down where that date of birth comes from, so that I can in turn track done Herring's date of death. Thanks. Canadian Paul 15:20, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
Greetings, Dewelar. Just wanted to let you know that I think it's safe to proceed with a merge of "Infobox collegiate baseball team" into "Infobox college baseball team" per DJSasso's comment on the November 4th TfD discussion. I've reviewed the content of both templates and see no problem with this. It will really be a manual migration of the 53 instances of "collegiate" to "college," followed by the deletion of "collegiate." This is a weird one, and I can't really even explain why the "collegiate" infobox was created. It may be that "college" was the newer replacement template, and the college baseball teams below NCAA Division I never got the new version. In any event, thank you for participating in the TfD discussion. Regards, Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 23:36, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
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Simple: it can refer to either one of them, so better to make a disambiguation page than to assume that one is the primary topic. Nyttend ( talk) 14:43, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
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I have happened across the listing for baseball player "Dan Sheehan" and noted that the listing claims he is the same person as John M. Ryan. I believe that is not true, but did not want to edit it without being certain. Baseball-Reference lists Dan Sheehan as "Dan Sheahan" and that player is an outfielder and third baseman with 36 career PA playing for two teams in the 1884 season, the Nationals and Quicksteps. John Ryan is a pitcher with the 1884 Monumentals and has 27 career PA. I am unable to find any evidence that this player was playing for a third team that season and using a different name. Further, it appears that "Sheahan" is the correct spelling of his name. Also note that RetroSheet believes these players to be separate people as well. Hopefully this helps! Otrex ( talk) 20:32, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
Okay, as per your note, I have updated the Dan Sheehan listing. Perhaps it is worth a new page for the now separate John Ryan? I'm relatively new to Wikipedia though so I'll have to leave that to someone with a bit more technical skill. Also, I am not clear on how to change the name of the article to adjust the spelling to "Sheahan". Are you able to help with that? Otrex ( talk) 21:55, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
It seems my account is too new to make the change from "Sheehan" to "Sheahan" in the article title. If you wouldn't mind, please move it on my behalf. Also, found that there is a John Ryan article already, but it is just a redirect. For the moment, I have broken that redirect since they're different people - probably ruining about 500 active Dan Sheahan-related research papers in the process! Otrex ( talk) 22:44, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for the warm welcome! I did some more follow-up research today on the Dan Sheahan/John Ryan issue, not being entirely satisfied with my earlier results. It seems that Dan Sheahan did indeed play at least one game under the name "John M. Ryan", and a 2016 book confirms that this record belongs to Dan Sheahan. However, the article for "John Ryan" talks about "John A. Ryan" who was a real person and not the same person as Dan Sheahan. I believe that was the source of the confusion. In any case, I feel it may be prudent to move that developed "John Ryan" article to "John A. Ryan", though as before, Wikipedia won't let me because of my new account. As for the original redirect "John Ryan" well to be honest I don't know what to say about that, but perhaps it should be adjusted to "John M. Ryan" and pointed back at Sheahan since he did indeed play under that name at least once? In any case, I find this very interesting, and at the same time, I'd like to know more about where this confusion comes from, and how the researcher came to his conclusions (author David Nemec "The Rank and File of 19th Century Baseball") Otrex ( talk) 23:52, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for your help. I'll follow-up on this situation as time permits and let you know if I find any new information. Glad to see we got the basic "two John Ryans" issue figured out. Now at least John A Ryan gets to be his own person again. Otrex ( talk) 00:59, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
I was able to track down a write up on Dan Sheahan just this evening, and wow, is he ever an interesting character. Looks like he played as John Ryan because of trouble with the law, but he himself becomes a police officer and shoots some people before being shot himself and going insane. I have updated the article but check out the referenced write-up on this person. It's very interesting. Otrex ( talk) 05:06, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I am curious to know why you renamed the Deborah Harry discography page as Debbie Harry discography. While she was known as Debbie on her solo album and single releases between 1981 and 1988 inclusive, since 1989, all of her releases have credited her name as Deborah Harry. Was there any consensus established before initiating the page move? There does not appear to be any discussion about a proposed move on the article's talk page. Nqr9 ( talk) 04:43, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
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Hi John! I'm conflicted. I "fixed" the book title to the logical style (with "i" capitalized) but only after checking various editions and finding their covers and in-book titles consistently set in ALLCAPS. Regrettably, the DVD series and presumably the soundtrack album (is it one of your >5,818 ?) are styled Come in Spinner. Doug butler ( talk) 20:21, 29 January 2024 (UTC)