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Archive 30 | ← | Archive 35 | Archive 36 | Archive 37 | Archive 38 | Archive 39 | Archive 40 |
Perhaps a subpage is appropriate for transfer of sections 10-12. Perhaps export all but a copy of their current Contents:
10 WikiProject organization 11 IRC 12 Moving forward 12.1 Observations of this WikiProject 12.2 Observations of other WikiProjects 12.3 Recommendations for this project 12.4 Conclusion 12.5 Pinged users 12.6 Users endorsing the summary posted above 12.7 IRC discussion 12.8 A-Class discussion 12.9 Baseball Manual of Style discussion 12.10 Collaborative opportunities discussion 12.10.1 Centralizing team interest info 12.11 Project leadership discussion 12.12 New editor welcome and support discussion 12.13 General discussion 12.14 Project cleanup
I suppose that much, with some link to the new location, should remain here until it is retired to the archive normally. -- P64 ( talk) 21:39, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
In this edit, Expo 67 was identified as being within the scope of this WikiProject. Other than being the inspiration of the name for the Montreal baseball team, I don't think this article has any specific relationship to baseball. I suggest removing the WikiProject Baseball banner from the Expo 67 talk page. What does everyone think? isaacl ( talk) 21:07, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
Just days ago, we lost a valuable project member/leader, former arbitrator, administrator, bureaucrat, article writer, and friend in Wizardman due to retirement. With the loss of Wizardman, many of us feel it is time to review, analyze, and plan to improve the internal structure and processes of our WikiProject. Sunday evening, an impromptu chat on IRC (and I should note that for years, I have resisted utilizing IRC because of its bad reputation on Wikipedia, and was ambivalent when Secret invited me to conduct a GA review there to discuss minor concerns, when used properly, is a valuable tool for article collaboration, improvement, and discussion - Go Phightins !) was convened, involving several project members. Today, we come to you with some of what we discussed, as well as to provide a forum to discuss what we can do to mitigate the negative impact of Wizardman's retirement, and how we can support one another in an endeavor to achieve the overarching goal of helping our readers. Below is a summary of what we discussed on IRC:
Wizardman's departure hurts, however it provides a unique opportunity to discuss a plan of action for future improvement. All of the participants in this project have predominantly the same goal at heart – providing comprehensive and quality baseball coverage as part of the best encyclopedia in the world. At this stage, our project has the chance to become one of the best on Wikipedia; we just need to discuss how we get there. Thus, I hereby call this informal request for comment among baseball contributors, project members, and friends of the project. Thank you all for your invaluable contributions thus far, and the invaluable contributions undoubtedly yet to come. Sincerely, Go Phightins ! 20:54, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
Wehwalt Northern Antarctica MusiCitizen Oriolesfan8 Orsoni PM800 Killervogel5 Jprg1966 Canuckian89 Resolute Delaywaves X96lee15 Y2kcrazyjoker4 Isaacl Cbl62 Djsasso Dewelar Brambleberry of RiverClan Neonblak Spanneraol Bagumba Astros4477 EricEnfermero Bloom6132 Sanfranciscogiants17 Muboshgu Go Phightins! Secret Wizardman Newyorkadam Trut-h-urts man Fredddie EaglesFanInTampa Jonathansuh Huskie444 Peetlesnumber1 JesseRafe Baseball Bugs WilliamJE Yankees10 Sportsguy17 TCN7JM RefereeOrganist GlassCobra Jorgath. Go Phightins ! 21:01, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Style advice has existed since March 2011, initiated by me as a result of discussions that suggested its creation. I wrote Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Player style advice based on my survey of player articles that were at featured article status, and some feedback was received on this talk page. Guidelines on what to place within the infobox were discussed at length in 2012 and added to the player style advice page. (Note the pages are not labeled "style guides" to avoid the implication that they have gone through the Wikipedia proposal process to become a Wikipedia community guideline.) There's still lots of consensus to be gleaned from the various discussion threads that can be included, and more unsettled items that can be discussed. isaacl ( talk) 23:18, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
AMERICAN LEAGUE | NATIONAL LEAGUE | ||
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American League East | National League East | ||
Baltimore Orioles | Atlanta Braves | BravesInsider13 | |
Boston Red Sox | Secret | Miami Marlins | Secret |
New York Yankees | Bloom6132, Muboshgu, Yankees10, Secret (historical only), Y2Kcrazyjoker4, | New York Mets | |
Tampa Bay Rays | CRRaysHead90 | Philadelphia Phillies | Go Phightins!, Newyorkadam |
Toronto Blue Jays | Trut-h-urts man | Washington Nationals | Jorgath |
American League Central | National League Central | ||
Chicago White Sox | Chicago Cubs | ||
Cleveland Indians | Wizardman | Cincinnati Reds | |
Detroit Tigers | Northern Antarctica TomCat4680 | Milwaukee Brewers | |
Kansas City Royals | Pittsburgh Pirates | ||
Minnesota Twins | TCN7JM | St. Louis Cardinals | Elcid.ruderico, Katydidit |
American League West | National League West | ||
Houston Astros | EricEnfermero | Arizona Diamondbacks | |
Los Angeles Angels | Colorado Rockies | ||
Oakland Athletics | Los Angeles Dodgers | Spanneraol | |
Seattle Mariners | San Diego Padres | ||
Texas Rangers | San Francisco Giants | Sanfranciscogiants17 |
Are we just adding anybody thats a fan of the team to the table above? Because I know User:Trut-h-urts man is a Blue Jays fan and I didn't want to take it upon myself to add his name.-- Yankees10 19:31, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
For what it's worth, I also follow two National League teams – the Rockies and the Reds – but not to the extent I do the Twins. T C N7JM 21:26, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Why don't we go through this list and see what people wrote down as their specialities, and contact them about joining this project? - Newyorkadam ( talk) 14:13, 6 March 2014 (UTC)Newyorkadam
There was a table being formed above, there is already Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Participant list, and there are existing team subprojects at Category:WikiProject_Baseball_subprojects_and_task_forces with their own member list. Let's decide what can be reused, what needs to be recreated, and what should be eliminated going forward.— Bagumba ( talk) 19:55, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
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Not having seen this part of the discussion, I decided to attempt a little cleanup of the participant list. I was pretty conservative and moved users to inactive only if I could easily determine that they had no baseball-related edits for a year. That moved a number of users off the active list. I didn't take anyone out completely unless they were indefinitely blocked or retired. I'm not sure how much more useful the list is now, but there were a number of users who would have been removed/inactive if we used criteria similar to the hockey list above. EricEnfermero HOWDY! 08:23, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
@ Bagumba: I basically do it the hard way and scroll through edits looking for hockey articles. I know the topic well enough that I can spot articles that are hockey articles so I am fairly accurate. Is it possible that I miss an edit in editors with very large amounts of edits? It probably is. But if its that hard to spot someones edits then its probably not a big deal if they are marked as inactive. You could probably also do it with AWB by pulling in their edits and comparing them to a list of edits that fall under the hockey article tree but its faster for me to just scroll in most cases. We don't have many editors who edit a lot that don't mainly focus on hockey so its not been a huge deal. Probably only 3 or 4 editors at most where I have a bit of a lengthy search through their edits. - DJSasso ( talk) 13:27, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
In regards to Spanneraol's comment, I agree that we should cleanup all of the pages we have that might not be used. I'll start going through and making a list of pages that are abandoned/need cleanup. Newyorkadam ( talk) 22:00, 4 March 2014 (UTC)Newyorkadam
Wikipedia:Naming conventions (baseball players) has been discussed quite a bit over the years on this talk page, so in terms of cost/benefit ratio, I'm not sure how much more it ought to be expanded. Is there a specific area that you think should be clarified? isaacl ( talk) 23:59, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
So I was looking over the Baseball Mountain and I came across one article that I thought didn't need much to make GA status: Alex Rodriguez. That said, I've never actually brought an article to GA before. So I'd like a) other opinions on the feasibility of bringing it to GA and b) help doing so if it's possible. - Jorgath ( talk) ( contribs) 03:38, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
This hour I added 11 pages to Category:Manager of the Year Award winners including eight biographies that sort alphabetically. Eric Wedge (AL 2007) had been put in this category --21 January 2008, under its previous name "Manager of the Year Award", two months after its general update for that award-- but Bob Melvin (NL 2007) had not. No biography had been added during the six cycles then, 2008 to 2013, while there were seven more first-time MOY winners.
My three other adds were the one main article and two navigation boxes that sort to the top of the category. It occurs to me that a WP:COMMENT such as this
<!-- add each linked biography to [[Category:Manager of the Year Award winners]] -->
might be inserted at the bottom of each list --at the ends of wikitables 2.1 and 2.2 in the main article and at the end of |list1 =
in each navbox template.
Annual updates during the "awards season" may benefit from such comments in all annual awards Tables & Lists and Navboxes.
-- P64 ( talk) 03:07, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
<!-- Add these two lines at appropriate locations in the linked biography: {{AL Managers of the Year}} [[Category:Manager of the Year Award winners]] -->
<!-- At annual update, please add these two lines at two appropriate locations in the linked biography: {{AL Managers of the Year}} [[Category:Manager of the Year Award winners]] -->
I created an initial mockup of a newsletter at Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Outreach/Newsletter template. (Note from the name, the page is intended to hold a skeleton newsletter that can be copied to start each new issue. For simplicity I just created the mockup on the same page.) It's a simple two column (main column, sidebar) format. I suggest that any interested editors sign up on the Outreach page and we can start co-ordinating work. isaacl ( talk) 00:51, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
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(comments copied from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Baseball/Outreach/Newsletter template)
OK, absent any major objection, The Inside Corner it is! I urge anyone with some good ideas for contributions to sign up at the newsletter desk and start filling in draft material. isaacl ( talk) 05:44, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
Regarding this update, and specifically the note on a manual of style: the project does have one, so it seems a bit redundant to ask if one is needed... As discussed, it can use more fleshing out. isaacl ( talk) 02:15, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
You may recall Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Baseball/Archive_36#Orel_Hershiser.27s_scoreless_inning_streak_is_a_new_type_of_article_at_WP:FAC when I first alerted you to this topic. Please revisit Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Orel Hershiser's scoreless innings streak/archive1. I again note that Orel Hershiser's scoreless innings streak is a new type of article at WP:FAC so I hope a lot of sports fans will take the time to shape it correctly as a model for future articles on records.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 14:58, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
As I recall, our standard operating procedure is to wait for a player to have appeared in a regular season game with a team before we list the team in the infobox of that player's article. Has that changed or are we still doing it that way? I ask because of this edit by TomCat4680. Northern Antarctica ( ₵) 21:10, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
I know people are busy with updates as we approach Opening Day, but I'm thinking about trying to get Singh's entry to GA soon. The movie ( Million Dollar Arm) comes out in less than two months, which might bring a little traffic to the entry. I just think it's an interesting story. There is a good bit of coverage for a non-MLB player. EricEnfermero HOWDY! 08:39, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
Would you be interested in participating in a user study of a new tool to support editor involvement in WikiProjects? We are a team at the University of Washington studying methods for finding collaborators within WikiProjects, and we are looking for volunteers to evaluate a new visual exploration tool for Wikipedia. Given your interest in this Wikiproject, we would welcome your participation in our study. To participate, you will be given access to our new visualization tool and will interact with us via Google Hangout so that we can solicit your thoughts about the tool. To use Google Hangout, you will need a laptop/desktop, a web camera, and a speaker for video communication during the study. We will provide you with an Amazon gift card in appreciation of your time and participation. For more information about this study, please visit our wiki page ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Finding_a_Collaborator). If you would like to participate in our user study, please send me a message at Wkmaster ( talk) 14:13, 24 March 2014 (UTC).
Hi fellow project members, Jim Thome is presently at WP:FAC, and I would appreciate any reviews anyone can offer. See Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Jim Thome/archive2. Thanks. Go Phightins ! 02:18, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
To any admin or other member of the mass message senders group: Can you test delivering {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Outreach/Newsletter/User notification}} to Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Outreach/Newsletter/Subscriber list? I'm not familiar with how the contents to be included are specified: are the contents of a specified page automatically substituted on the designated delivery page, or do you have to specify the literal wiki markup (and so do any necessary substitution yourself)? isaacl ( talk) 15:54, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
To everyone: if you'd like to participate in the test, please feel free to sign up at Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Outreach/Newsletter/Subscribe. There are also instructions for other ways to keep up with the newsletter. isaacl ( talk) 16:02, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
The linked article previously claimed that Mahoney had pinch-ran for a player named Jake McLean. The problem is that Mahoney played for the 1911 Reds, who did not have a player named Jake McLean, but did have one named Larry McLean. Despite the similarity in names, I'm not sure if it's wise to assume that Mahoney did indeed pinch-run for Larry McLean. Given that record-keeping from 1911 was not quite on today's level, it might be hard to confirm exactly what did happen or if Mahoney pinch-ran for anyone. I realize that this specific case is not an extremely big deal, but it could make an interesting case study for what to do with discrepancies that are hard to clear up due to a time gap. Northern Antarctica ( ₵) 18:46, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
The trial delivery let me figure out some kinks in generating the user notification message; I've updated the procedure for publishing a new issue accordingly. Thanks very much to Resolute for helping!
Can any potential contributions be submitted to the draft newsletter page or to the newsletter desk by the end of this Friday?
Everyone is welcome to signup for the newsletter to keep abreast of the latest news for WikiProject Baseball! isaacl ( talk) 01:03, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
Woo hoo. Amtrak has WiFi. I can write something up en route. Go Phightins ! 17:52, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
Sure, once there are enough contributions ready to go, the next issue can be released. May everyone's creativity be set loose! isaacl ( talk) 18:01, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
I'm up way too early to watch opening day from Australia. Spanneraol ( talk) 09:30, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
The coding of Template:Infobox MLB yearly should be modified so that not only the MLB season year is wikilinked, but also the name of the team itself. This would be at the top heading of the info box. For example, rather than the heading of an info box reading 2014 Philadelphia Phillies, it would read 2014 Philadelphia Phillies. That way if a reader wants to go to the name page of a club, such as Philadelphia Phillies, or Tampa Bay Rays, they can easily do so from the top of the page rather than having to go throughout the article searching for a wikilink or type it into the search bar. A very minor change to the coding of the template. Thoughts?? Ben Yes? 20:55, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:An Ji-man which affects this project. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. Sawol ( talk) 04:44, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello,
Can you help me sort something out? I'm not familiar with minor leagues but am hoping to clarify information about Toronto Blue Jays affiliated minor league teams. This question started out with sources that stated that Chris Stynes was an amateur draft for the GCL Blue Jays, but the WP article said that the GCL Blue Jays began in 2007. (See Talk:Chris Stynes#GCL Blue Jays)
From the List of Toronto Blue Jays minor league affiliates, it appears, the Rookie category shows transitions in the following years:
which is supported by a few queries of the Baseball reference page
The GCL Blue Jays appears to need to be updated, but there are 2 challenges:
Sorry this got a bit long, but any help would be much appreciated.-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 21:11, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Many of them are, anyway. With MiLB Opening Day tomorrow, I could use some help in updating them. – Muboshgu ( talk) 15:46, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
This is minor in the grand scheme of things, but I figure we'd get a consensus as I've seen subtle edit wars on this before with a sock. Some (not sure how widespread) stats lists maintain a commented out list of players that have not reached a stats threshold. For example, List of Major League Baseball players with 300 career stolen bases currently maintains a commented out list of "active players within 100 stolen bases of 300". These have been attempted to be removed in the past e.g. [1], but were eventually re-added. Here's a similar attempted removal from List of top 300 Major League Baseball home run hitters.— Bagumba ( talk) 19:37, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
Please note this talk page discussion [2] between me and another editor.
There's a couple of myths going around that is causing problems for good faith editors. Legend says that Sukeforth lost his job to his part in the decision to bring Ralph Branca into the game. The shot article used to read-
An editor cited sources here [3] and here [4]. I'll take Sabr on first it reads-
Here is not one [5] but two [6] newspaper articles dated in January 1952 saying that first Sukeforth resigned and that he was then hired by the Pirates. All taking place before the 1952 season was played.
Now for that old baseball card [7] supporting Sukeforth being fired-
The problem with this source is it blows another fact badly. Namely 'The Giants is dead' quote comes not from 1951 but 1953 per this newspaper article [8] from 1953.
What I'm trying to say is that through time the facts have gotten skewered about this player and event. I don't think Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball) should say Sukeforth lost his job because of it because articles written at the time he left Brooklyn don't support it and the only sources that do are written much more recently and either proven wrong above or stand a strong a likelihood of being wrong because this story has been distorted over time. I brought it here for opinions. ...William 18:53, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Since there has been no further discussion, I propose the following: I will restore the fact (which is not in dispute) that Sukeforth left the Dodgers at the end of the '51 season, and add something to the effect that Sukeforth denied that his departure was related to the Branca incident, although others have concluded/speculated that it was -- with sources reflecting both sides. Is that acceptable to everyone? DoctorJoeE review transgressions/ talk to me! 14:20, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
Currently I have protected the article due to an edit war between User:DoctorJoeE and User:WilliamJE, is it possible for project members to give an opinion on the related talk page, thanks. MilborneOne ( talk) 17:15, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
As some of you may (but probably don't, it was about five years ago) remember, I was maintaining a list of minor league players that were mass created. It was originally by a single user, but ended up expanding to about 200 articles total. There were a whole mess of AfD, PRODs, and CSDs generated, it ended up with about a 2:1 delete to keep ratio in the end. I kept the list to keep record so I could check back in the future, well I have finally done what I think will be my last review and sort of it, and there were about a dozen AfDs generated. The list of AfDs is at User:Kelapstick/Sandbox#AfD should anyone care to participate. -- kelapstick( bainuu) 03:11, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi there, I would like to invite all members of this WikiProject to head over and help build and improve the baseball related articles on the Simple English Wikipedia. Many articles do not exist, and those that do are either in extreme disarray or extremely outdated (the Boston Red Sox article is a good example.) Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. CRRays Head90 | #RaysUp 22:08, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
Like to share an update of your latest task with the community? Need some help with a project? Have an opinion on something going on in the newly-begun MLB season? Sign up at the newsletter desk with your plans to contribute! Your assistance is needed in order to get the next issue ready, tentatively scheduled for April 27—please help make it a success!
If you want to receive new releases of the newsletter, follow the instructions on subscribing. isaacl ( talk) 02:50, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
For anyone looking for work, Rolaids Relief Man Award and Major League Baseball Delivery Man Award have been discontinued, and new AL/NL awards named after Mariano Rivera and Trevor Hoffman, respectively, will be created by MLB. [9] This is the first time I've seen anything reliable and explicit about 1) MLB phasing out Rolaids in favor of Delivery Man and 2) that Rolaids award was being publicized less until its apparent demise. The only problem is the source says Rolaids stopped being tracked in 2012, but this archive or rolaidsreliefman.com shows the website still being updated in 2012. Perhaps it was an error, and Rob Neyer meant 2013? I assume that all these updates with creation of the new award articles will need to be done to maintain feature topic status of List of Major League Baseball awards. Maybe someone wants to followup with Neyer also.— Bagumba ( talk) 21:43, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
Babe Ruth has been nominated for peer review here in advance of a run at FAC. Comments welcome, in fact appreciated.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 22:54, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
I would like to submit a idea for or WikiProject. My idea is to have certain teams/divisions devoted to one particular subject. I am aware that most people stick with certain subjects when they are editing, for example I focus on the Boston Red Sox. With my "teams" idea we could, subject by subject, make baseball Wikipedia a much better place. Some team ideas could be: Boston Red Sox, 1960s baseball, [baseball cards]] and maybe subjects like "Cactus and Grapefruit leagues". Please let me know what you think! AtomicXYC ( talk) 17:18, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
For some reason, these seem to be showing up more frequently these days.. I just don't see the point of them. For one thing, minor league rosters (especially the AAA ones) tend to change almost daily, requiring constant maintenance with updates and adding and removing these from pages. Unlike the MLB rosters, where the 40 man roster doesnt really change that often, the AAA rosters are always in flux. But even more of an issue, is being on a minor league team with a group of players really a notable thing worthy of adding to the clutter of navboxes on pages? I don't think so and these really should go away. Spanneraol ( talk) 21:35, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
Thinking about taking Ernie Banks to FA if anyone is interested in taking a look or pitching in. I have a non-baseball peer review open already, but that would probably be my next step. Another editor and I are currently driving each other crazy on the article (just different editing styles), but that will work itself out. I really want to make sure that the article is comprehensive without including irrelevant material. I am trying to build up the portion about his back-to-back MVP seasons and trying to better detail and source the part about his marriages and kids. I'd welcome any feedback. EricEnfermero HOWDY! 03:15, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
As a new editor to the baseball newsletter, I would like to ask my fellow members for any comment/suggestions of the first issue since 2008. I would like to bear some of these comments in mind when we work on the upcoming newsletter for April 27. Please leave new article suggestions, topic suggestions and more below:
Thank you for your suggestions! Also please leave comments below and your favorite article coverage! AtomicXYC ( talk) 17:35, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
Several ip accounts and some "new accounts", most likely the same person, have been vandalizing the "ownership of the team articles. Cubs, Cubs again, Braves, Braves again, Braves a third time. Thats just two articles, but the problem may be bigger. If you all could keep an eye on some of the team articles when they show up in your watch list, that would be great.-- JOJ Hutton 16:04, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place at the discussion page for Infobox MLB player, regarding having fields for the college and high school attended by an MLB player. Any feedback is welcome. isaacl ( talk) 21:41, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
I attempted to put in Eli Whiteside's infobox that he was a 2012 World Series champion, along with a note explaining that he was not on the playoff roster in 2012, similar to what was done on Barry Zito in 2010. User:TL565 keeps reverting my edit, informing me that Zito was a "special case" and that the consensus is to not include the World Series in the infobox for a player as minor as Whiteside was in 2012. However, I have seen many articles ( Randy Knorr, Tony Cruz, and Mike Dunn are a few examples) of players whose contributions were about the same or less than Whiteside's who still have World Series champion listed in the infobox (without even including the explanatory note, for that matter). Should it be included or not? Sanfranciscogiants17 ( talk) 10:16, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
As a Red Sox Fan I have the Red Sox roster on my user page. All of the MLB rosters include the coaches. I spotted that Brian Abraham (catching coach) didn't have a Wiki page. I know that many coaches previously have been MLB players, so they have fairly large Wiki pages. I also have found out that Brian Abrahams does have a variety of good-sized sources. I was wandering if someone (or some people), would like to help me find present coaches and create Wiki pages for them. If this is not a good idea please let me know. Targets:
Atomic XYC 19:17, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello fellow baseball editors! Today, I had the pleasure of awarding the editor of the week award to one of our own, Bloom6132. If you would like to thank Bloom for his fine efforts, please head over to his talk page. Remember, you can nominate anyone you feel is deserving of a little extra recognition at the editor of the week page. Happy Easter everyone! Go Phightins ! 15:48, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
Damon, as most of us know, has not appeared in MLB since 2012. He expressed a desire to go to spring training with a team this year, and as far as I know, he's still working towards playing in the majors and getting to 3,000 hits. This is not likely to happen, but we don't know that it's not going to happen. I believe he should be listed as a free agent on his article. Yankees10, Spanneraol, and Wizardman disagree with me. See my talk page for the discussion. Just want to see what the rest of the community thinks. – Muboshgu ( talk) 19:35, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 30 | ← | Archive 35 | Archive 36 | Archive 37 | Archive 38 | Archive 39 | Archive 40 |
Perhaps a subpage is appropriate for transfer of sections 10-12. Perhaps export all but a copy of their current Contents:
10 WikiProject organization 11 IRC 12 Moving forward 12.1 Observations of this WikiProject 12.2 Observations of other WikiProjects 12.3 Recommendations for this project 12.4 Conclusion 12.5 Pinged users 12.6 Users endorsing the summary posted above 12.7 IRC discussion 12.8 A-Class discussion 12.9 Baseball Manual of Style discussion 12.10 Collaborative opportunities discussion 12.10.1 Centralizing team interest info 12.11 Project leadership discussion 12.12 New editor welcome and support discussion 12.13 General discussion 12.14 Project cleanup
I suppose that much, with some link to the new location, should remain here until it is retired to the archive normally. -- P64 ( talk) 21:39, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
In this edit, Expo 67 was identified as being within the scope of this WikiProject. Other than being the inspiration of the name for the Montreal baseball team, I don't think this article has any specific relationship to baseball. I suggest removing the WikiProject Baseball banner from the Expo 67 talk page. What does everyone think? isaacl ( talk) 21:07, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
Just days ago, we lost a valuable project member/leader, former arbitrator, administrator, bureaucrat, article writer, and friend in Wizardman due to retirement. With the loss of Wizardman, many of us feel it is time to review, analyze, and plan to improve the internal structure and processes of our WikiProject. Sunday evening, an impromptu chat on IRC (and I should note that for years, I have resisted utilizing IRC because of its bad reputation on Wikipedia, and was ambivalent when Secret invited me to conduct a GA review there to discuss minor concerns, when used properly, is a valuable tool for article collaboration, improvement, and discussion - Go Phightins !) was convened, involving several project members. Today, we come to you with some of what we discussed, as well as to provide a forum to discuss what we can do to mitigate the negative impact of Wizardman's retirement, and how we can support one another in an endeavor to achieve the overarching goal of helping our readers. Below is a summary of what we discussed on IRC:
Wizardman's departure hurts, however it provides a unique opportunity to discuss a plan of action for future improvement. All of the participants in this project have predominantly the same goal at heart – providing comprehensive and quality baseball coverage as part of the best encyclopedia in the world. At this stage, our project has the chance to become one of the best on Wikipedia; we just need to discuss how we get there. Thus, I hereby call this informal request for comment among baseball contributors, project members, and friends of the project. Thank you all for your invaluable contributions thus far, and the invaluable contributions undoubtedly yet to come. Sincerely, Go Phightins ! 20:54, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
Wehwalt Northern Antarctica MusiCitizen Oriolesfan8 Orsoni PM800 Killervogel5 Jprg1966 Canuckian89 Resolute Delaywaves X96lee15 Y2kcrazyjoker4 Isaacl Cbl62 Djsasso Dewelar Brambleberry of RiverClan Neonblak Spanneraol Bagumba Astros4477 EricEnfermero Bloom6132 Sanfranciscogiants17 Muboshgu Go Phightins! Secret Wizardman Newyorkadam Trut-h-urts man Fredddie EaglesFanInTampa Jonathansuh Huskie444 Peetlesnumber1 JesseRafe Baseball Bugs WilliamJE Yankees10 Sportsguy17 TCN7JM RefereeOrganist GlassCobra Jorgath. Go Phightins ! 21:01, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Style advice has existed since March 2011, initiated by me as a result of discussions that suggested its creation. I wrote Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Player style advice based on my survey of player articles that were at featured article status, and some feedback was received on this talk page. Guidelines on what to place within the infobox were discussed at length in 2012 and added to the player style advice page. (Note the pages are not labeled "style guides" to avoid the implication that they have gone through the Wikipedia proposal process to become a Wikipedia community guideline.) There's still lots of consensus to be gleaned from the various discussion threads that can be included, and more unsettled items that can be discussed. isaacl ( talk) 23:18, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
AMERICAN LEAGUE | NATIONAL LEAGUE | ||
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American League East | National League East | ||
Baltimore Orioles | Atlanta Braves | BravesInsider13 | |
Boston Red Sox | Secret | Miami Marlins | Secret |
New York Yankees | Bloom6132, Muboshgu, Yankees10, Secret (historical only), Y2Kcrazyjoker4, | New York Mets | |
Tampa Bay Rays | CRRaysHead90 | Philadelphia Phillies | Go Phightins!, Newyorkadam |
Toronto Blue Jays | Trut-h-urts man | Washington Nationals | Jorgath |
American League Central | National League Central | ||
Chicago White Sox | Chicago Cubs | ||
Cleveland Indians | Wizardman | Cincinnati Reds | |
Detroit Tigers | Northern Antarctica TomCat4680 | Milwaukee Brewers | |
Kansas City Royals | Pittsburgh Pirates | ||
Minnesota Twins | TCN7JM | St. Louis Cardinals | Elcid.ruderico, Katydidit |
American League West | National League West | ||
Houston Astros | EricEnfermero | Arizona Diamondbacks | |
Los Angeles Angels | Colorado Rockies | ||
Oakland Athletics | Los Angeles Dodgers | Spanneraol | |
Seattle Mariners | San Diego Padres | ||
Texas Rangers | San Francisco Giants | Sanfranciscogiants17 |
Are we just adding anybody thats a fan of the team to the table above? Because I know User:Trut-h-urts man is a Blue Jays fan and I didn't want to take it upon myself to add his name.-- Yankees10 19:31, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
For what it's worth, I also follow two National League teams – the Rockies and the Reds – but not to the extent I do the Twins. T C N7JM 21:26, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Why don't we go through this list and see what people wrote down as their specialities, and contact them about joining this project? - Newyorkadam ( talk) 14:13, 6 March 2014 (UTC)Newyorkadam
There was a table being formed above, there is already Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Participant list, and there are existing team subprojects at Category:WikiProject_Baseball_subprojects_and_task_forces with their own member list. Let's decide what can be reused, what needs to be recreated, and what should be eliminated going forward.— Bagumba ( talk) 19:55, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
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Not having seen this part of the discussion, I decided to attempt a little cleanup of the participant list. I was pretty conservative and moved users to inactive only if I could easily determine that they had no baseball-related edits for a year. That moved a number of users off the active list. I didn't take anyone out completely unless they were indefinitely blocked or retired. I'm not sure how much more useful the list is now, but there were a number of users who would have been removed/inactive if we used criteria similar to the hockey list above. EricEnfermero HOWDY! 08:23, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
@ Bagumba: I basically do it the hard way and scroll through edits looking for hockey articles. I know the topic well enough that I can spot articles that are hockey articles so I am fairly accurate. Is it possible that I miss an edit in editors with very large amounts of edits? It probably is. But if its that hard to spot someones edits then its probably not a big deal if they are marked as inactive. You could probably also do it with AWB by pulling in their edits and comparing them to a list of edits that fall under the hockey article tree but its faster for me to just scroll in most cases. We don't have many editors who edit a lot that don't mainly focus on hockey so its not been a huge deal. Probably only 3 or 4 editors at most where I have a bit of a lengthy search through their edits. - DJSasso ( talk) 13:27, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
In regards to Spanneraol's comment, I agree that we should cleanup all of the pages we have that might not be used. I'll start going through and making a list of pages that are abandoned/need cleanup. Newyorkadam ( talk) 22:00, 4 March 2014 (UTC)Newyorkadam
Wikipedia:Naming conventions (baseball players) has been discussed quite a bit over the years on this talk page, so in terms of cost/benefit ratio, I'm not sure how much more it ought to be expanded. Is there a specific area that you think should be clarified? isaacl ( talk) 23:59, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
So I was looking over the Baseball Mountain and I came across one article that I thought didn't need much to make GA status: Alex Rodriguez. That said, I've never actually brought an article to GA before. So I'd like a) other opinions on the feasibility of bringing it to GA and b) help doing so if it's possible. - Jorgath ( talk) ( contribs) 03:38, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
This hour I added 11 pages to Category:Manager of the Year Award winners including eight biographies that sort alphabetically. Eric Wedge (AL 2007) had been put in this category --21 January 2008, under its previous name "Manager of the Year Award", two months after its general update for that award-- but Bob Melvin (NL 2007) had not. No biography had been added during the six cycles then, 2008 to 2013, while there were seven more first-time MOY winners.
My three other adds were the one main article and two navigation boxes that sort to the top of the category. It occurs to me that a WP:COMMENT such as this
<!-- add each linked biography to [[Category:Manager of the Year Award winners]] -->
might be inserted at the bottom of each list --at the ends of wikitables 2.1 and 2.2 in the main article and at the end of |list1 =
in each navbox template.
Annual updates during the "awards season" may benefit from such comments in all annual awards Tables & Lists and Navboxes.
-- P64 ( talk) 03:07, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
<!-- Add these two lines at appropriate locations in the linked biography: {{AL Managers of the Year}} [[Category:Manager of the Year Award winners]] -->
<!-- At annual update, please add these two lines at two appropriate locations in the linked biography: {{AL Managers of the Year}} [[Category:Manager of the Year Award winners]] -->
I created an initial mockup of a newsletter at Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Outreach/Newsletter template. (Note from the name, the page is intended to hold a skeleton newsletter that can be copied to start each new issue. For simplicity I just created the mockup on the same page.) It's a simple two column (main column, sidebar) format. I suggest that any interested editors sign up on the Outreach page and we can start co-ordinating work. isaacl ( talk) 00:51, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
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OK, absent any major objection, The Inside Corner it is! I urge anyone with some good ideas for contributions to sign up at the newsletter desk and start filling in draft material. isaacl ( talk) 05:44, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
Regarding this update, and specifically the note on a manual of style: the project does have one, so it seems a bit redundant to ask if one is needed... As discussed, it can use more fleshing out. isaacl ( talk) 02:15, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
You may recall Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Baseball/Archive_36#Orel_Hershiser.27s_scoreless_inning_streak_is_a_new_type_of_article_at_WP:FAC when I first alerted you to this topic. Please revisit Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Orel Hershiser's scoreless innings streak/archive1. I again note that Orel Hershiser's scoreless innings streak is a new type of article at WP:FAC so I hope a lot of sports fans will take the time to shape it correctly as a model for future articles on records.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 14:58, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
As I recall, our standard operating procedure is to wait for a player to have appeared in a regular season game with a team before we list the team in the infobox of that player's article. Has that changed or are we still doing it that way? I ask because of this edit by TomCat4680. Northern Antarctica ( ₵) 21:10, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
I know people are busy with updates as we approach Opening Day, but I'm thinking about trying to get Singh's entry to GA soon. The movie ( Million Dollar Arm) comes out in less than two months, which might bring a little traffic to the entry. I just think it's an interesting story. There is a good bit of coverage for a non-MLB player. EricEnfermero HOWDY! 08:39, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
Would you be interested in participating in a user study of a new tool to support editor involvement in WikiProjects? We are a team at the University of Washington studying methods for finding collaborators within WikiProjects, and we are looking for volunteers to evaluate a new visual exploration tool for Wikipedia. Given your interest in this Wikiproject, we would welcome your participation in our study. To participate, you will be given access to our new visualization tool and will interact with us via Google Hangout so that we can solicit your thoughts about the tool. To use Google Hangout, you will need a laptop/desktop, a web camera, and a speaker for video communication during the study. We will provide you with an Amazon gift card in appreciation of your time and participation. For more information about this study, please visit our wiki page ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Finding_a_Collaborator). If you would like to participate in our user study, please send me a message at Wkmaster ( talk) 14:13, 24 March 2014 (UTC).
Hi fellow project members, Jim Thome is presently at WP:FAC, and I would appreciate any reviews anyone can offer. See Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Jim Thome/archive2. Thanks. Go Phightins ! 02:18, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
To any admin or other member of the mass message senders group: Can you test delivering {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Outreach/Newsletter/User notification}} to Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Outreach/Newsletter/Subscriber list? I'm not familiar with how the contents to be included are specified: are the contents of a specified page automatically substituted on the designated delivery page, or do you have to specify the literal wiki markup (and so do any necessary substitution yourself)? isaacl ( talk) 15:54, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
To everyone: if you'd like to participate in the test, please feel free to sign up at Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Outreach/Newsletter/Subscribe. There are also instructions for other ways to keep up with the newsletter. isaacl ( talk) 16:02, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
The linked article previously claimed that Mahoney had pinch-ran for a player named Jake McLean. The problem is that Mahoney played for the 1911 Reds, who did not have a player named Jake McLean, but did have one named Larry McLean. Despite the similarity in names, I'm not sure if it's wise to assume that Mahoney did indeed pinch-run for Larry McLean. Given that record-keeping from 1911 was not quite on today's level, it might be hard to confirm exactly what did happen or if Mahoney pinch-ran for anyone. I realize that this specific case is not an extremely big deal, but it could make an interesting case study for what to do with discrepancies that are hard to clear up due to a time gap. Northern Antarctica ( ₵) 18:46, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
The trial delivery let me figure out some kinks in generating the user notification message; I've updated the procedure for publishing a new issue accordingly. Thanks very much to Resolute for helping!
Can any potential contributions be submitted to the draft newsletter page or to the newsletter desk by the end of this Friday?
Everyone is welcome to signup for the newsletter to keep abreast of the latest news for WikiProject Baseball! isaacl ( talk) 01:03, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
Woo hoo. Amtrak has WiFi. I can write something up en route. Go Phightins ! 17:52, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
Sure, once there are enough contributions ready to go, the next issue can be released. May everyone's creativity be set loose! isaacl ( talk) 18:01, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
I'm up way too early to watch opening day from Australia. Spanneraol ( talk) 09:30, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
The coding of Template:Infobox MLB yearly should be modified so that not only the MLB season year is wikilinked, but also the name of the team itself. This would be at the top heading of the info box. For example, rather than the heading of an info box reading 2014 Philadelphia Phillies, it would read 2014 Philadelphia Phillies. That way if a reader wants to go to the name page of a club, such as Philadelphia Phillies, or Tampa Bay Rays, they can easily do so from the top of the page rather than having to go throughout the article searching for a wikilink or type it into the search bar. A very minor change to the coding of the template. Thoughts?? Ben Yes? 20:55, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:An Ji-man which affects this project. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. Sawol ( talk) 04:44, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello,
Can you help me sort something out? I'm not familiar with minor leagues but am hoping to clarify information about Toronto Blue Jays affiliated minor league teams. This question started out with sources that stated that Chris Stynes was an amateur draft for the GCL Blue Jays, but the WP article said that the GCL Blue Jays began in 2007. (See Talk:Chris Stynes#GCL Blue Jays)
From the List of Toronto Blue Jays minor league affiliates, it appears, the Rookie category shows transitions in the following years:
which is supported by a few queries of the Baseball reference page
The GCL Blue Jays appears to need to be updated, but there are 2 challenges:
Sorry this got a bit long, but any help would be much appreciated.-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 21:11, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Many of them are, anyway. With MiLB Opening Day tomorrow, I could use some help in updating them. – Muboshgu ( talk) 15:46, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
This is minor in the grand scheme of things, but I figure we'd get a consensus as I've seen subtle edit wars on this before with a sock. Some (not sure how widespread) stats lists maintain a commented out list of players that have not reached a stats threshold. For example, List of Major League Baseball players with 300 career stolen bases currently maintains a commented out list of "active players within 100 stolen bases of 300". These have been attempted to be removed in the past e.g. [1], but were eventually re-added. Here's a similar attempted removal from List of top 300 Major League Baseball home run hitters.— Bagumba ( talk) 19:37, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
Please note this talk page discussion [2] between me and another editor.
There's a couple of myths going around that is causing problems for good faith editors. Legend says that Sukeforth lost his job to his part in the decision to bring Ralph Branca into the game. The shot article used to read-
An editor cited sources here [3] and here [4]. I'll take Sabr on first it reads-
Here is not one [5] but two [6] newspaper articles dated in January 1952 saying that first Sukeforth resigned and that he was then hired by the Pirates. All taking place before the 1952 season was played.
Now for that old baseball card [7] supporting Sukeforth being fired-
The problem with this source is it blows another fact badly. Namely 'The Giants is dead' quote comes not from 1951 but 1953 per this newspaper article [8] from 1953.
What I'm trying to say is that through time the facts have gotten skewered about this player and event. I don't think Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball) should say Sukeforth lost his job because of it because articles written at the time he left Brooklyn don't support it and the only sources that do are written much more recently and either proven wrong above or stand a strong a likelihood of being wrong because this story has been distorted over time. I brought it here for opinions. ...William 18:53, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Since there has been no further discussion, I propose the following: I will restore the fact (which is not in dispute) that Sukeforth left the Dodgers at the end of the '51 season, and add something to the effect that Sukeforth denied that his departure was related to the Branca incident, although others have concluded/speculated that it was -- with sources reflecting both sides. Is that acceptable to everyone? DoctorJoeE review transgressions/ talk to me! 14:20, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
Currently I have protected the article due to an edit war between User:DoctorJoeE and User:WilliamJE, is it possible for project members to give an opinion on the related talk page, thanks. MilborneOne ( talk) 17:15, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
As some of you may (but probably don't, it was about five years ago) remember, I was maintaining a list of minor league players that were mass created. It was originally by a single user, but ended up expanding to about 200 articles total. There were a whole mess of AfD, PRODs, and CSDs generated, it ended up with about a 2:1 delete to keep ratio in the end. I kept the list to keep record so I could check back in the future, well I have finally done what I think will be my last review and sort of it, and there were about a dozen AfDs generated. The list of AfDs is at User:Kelapstick/Sandbox#AfD should anyone care to participate. -- kelapstick( bainuu) 03:11, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi there, I would like to invite all members of this WikiProject to head over and help build and improve the baseball related articles on the Simple English Wikipedia. Many articles do not exist, and those that do are either in extreme disarray or extremely outdated (the Boston Red Sox article is a good example.) Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. CRRays Head90 | #RaysUp 22:08, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
Like to share an update of your latest task with the community? Need some help with a project? Have an opinion on something going on in the newly-begun MLB season? Sign up at the newsletter desk with your plans to contribute! Your assistance is needed in order to get the next issue ready, tentatively scheduled for April 27—please help make it a success!
If you want to receive new releases of the newsletter, follow the instructions on subscribing. isaacl ( talk) 02:50, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
For anyone looking for work, Rolaids Relief Man Award and Major League Baseball Delivery Man Award have been discontinued, and new AL/NL awards named after Mariano Rivera and Trevor Hoffman, respectively, will be created by MLB. [9] This is the first time I've seen anything reliable and explicit about 1) MLB phasing out Rolaids in favor of Delivery Man and 2) that Rolaids award was being publicized less until its apparent demise. The only problem is the source says Rolaids stopped being tracked in 2012, but this archive or rolaidsreliefman.com shows the website still being updated in 2012. Perhaps it was an error, and Rob Neyer meant 2013? I assume that all these updates with creation of the new award articles will need to be done to maintain feature topic status of List of Major League Baseball awards. Maybe someone wants to followup with Neyer also.— Bagumba ( talk) 21:43, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
Babe Ruth has been nominated for peer review here in advance of a run at FAC. Comments welcome, in fact appreciated.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 22:54, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
I would like to submit a idea for or WikiProject. My idea is to have certain teams/divisions devoted to one particular subject. I am aware that most people stick with certain subjects when they are editing, for example I focus on the Boston Red Sox. With my "teams" idea we could, subject by subject, make baseball Wikipedia a much better place. Some team ideas could be: Boston Red Sox, 1960s baseball, [baseball cards]] and maybe subjects like "Cactus and Grapefruit leagues". Please let me know what you think! AtomicXYC ( talk) 17:18, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
For some reason, these seem to be showing up more frequently these days.. I just don't see the point of them. For one thing, minor league rosters (especially the AAA ones) tend to change almost daily, requiring constant maintenance with updates and adding and removing these from pages. Unlike the MLB rosters, where the 40 man roster doesnt really change that often, the AAA rosters are always in flux. But even more of an issue, is being on a minor league team with a group of players really a notable thing worthy of adding to the clutter of navboxes on pages? I don't think so and these really should go away. Spanneraol ( talk) 21:35, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
Thinking about taking Ernie Banks to FA if anyone is interested in taking a look or pitching in. I have a non-baseball peer review open already, but that would probably be my next step. Another editor and I are currently driving each other crazy on the article (just different editing styles), but that will work itself out. I really want to make sure that the article is comprehensive without including irrelevant material. I am trying to build up the portion about his back-to-back MVP seasons and trying to better detail and source the part about his marriages and kids. I'd welcome any feedback. EricEnfermero HOWDY! 03:15, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
As a new editor to the baseball newsletter, I would like to ask my fellow members for any comment/suggestions of the first issue since 2008. I would like to bear some of these comments in mind when we work on the upcoming newsletter for April 27. Please leave new article suggestions, topic suggestions and more below:
Thank you for your suggestions! Also please leave comments below and your favorite article coverage! AtomicXYC ( talk) 17:35, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
Several ip accounts and some "new accounts", most likely the same person, have been vandalizing the "ownership of the team articles. Cubs, Cubs again, Braves, Braves again, Braves a third time. Thats just two articles, but the problem may be bigger. If you all could keep an eye on some of the team articles when they show up in your watch list, that would be great.-- JOJ Hutton 16:04, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place at the discussion page for Infobox MLB player, regarding having fields for the college and high school attended by an MLB player. Any feedback is welcome. isaacl ( talk) 21:41, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
I attempted to put in Eli Whiteside's infobox that he was a 2012 World Series champion, along with a note explaining that he was not on the playoff roster in 2012, similar to what was done on Barry Zito in 2010. User:TL565 keeps reverting my edit, informing me that Zito was a "special case" and that the consensus is to not include the World Series in the infobox for a player as minor as Whiteside was in 2012. However, I have seen many articles ( Randy Knorr, Tony Cruz, and Mike Dunn are a few examples) of players whose contributions were about the same or less than Whiteside's who still have World Series champion listed in the infobox (without even including the explanatory note, for that matter). Should it be included or not? Sanfranciscogiants17 ( talk) 10:16, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
As a Red Sox Fan I have the Red Sox roster on my user page. All of the MLB rosters include the coaches. I spotted that Brian Abraham (catching coach) didn't have a Wiki page. I know that many coaches previously have been MLB players, so they have fairly large Wiki pages. I also have found out that Brian Abrahams does have a variety of good-sized sources. I was wandering if someone (or some people), would like to help me find present coaches and create Wiki pages for them. If this is not a good idea please let me know. Targets:
Atomic XYC 19:17, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello fellow baseball editors! Today, I had the pleasure of awarding the editor of the week award to one of our own, Bloom6132. If you would like to thank Bloom for his fine efforts, please head over to his talk page. Remember, you can nominate anyone you feel is deserving of a little extra recognition at the editor of the week page. Happy Easter everyone! Go Phightins ! 15:48, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
Damon, as most of us know, has not appeared in MLB since 2012. He expressed a desire to go to spring training with a team this year, and as far as I know, he's still working towards playing in the majors and getting to 3,000 hits. This is not likely to happen, but we don't know that it's not going to happen. I believe he should be listed as a free agent on his article. Yankees10, Spanneraol, and Wizardman disagree with me. See my talk page for the discussion. Just want to see what the rest of the community thinks. – Muboshgu ( talk) 19:35, 20 April 2014 (UTC)