Talk:Josh Gibson

message: Due to the unreliability of Negro League stats, I think it would be best to hide that section, but I don't know how. Otherwise, we need better stats in there, but I don't know which to use. I think they should at least be all from one source. Guanxi 04:26, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Career Stats in Infobox need help 

message: there were numerous other black leagues outside of the negro leagues  
 West Coast Negro League (West Coast Baseball Association) that played in 1946 
 64.131.205.111 01:41, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barn Storming 

message: Trying to create an info box some help would be appreciated
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Satchel_Paige&diff=156400538&oldid=156367484
64.131.205.111 02:05, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  infobox 

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http://www.blackbaseball.com/players/joshgibson.htm
he also compiled a .391 lifetime batting average in the Negro Leagues.
.373 lifetime average 
http://library.thinkquest.org/3427/data/gibson.htm
http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016050.html
His lifetime batting average was higher than .350, with one book putting it at .384, best in Negro League history
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/05/SPGQNIL8UR1.DTL
64.131.205.111 06:02, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Josh Gibson homers RFC 

message: Upon the invitation of YoSoyGuapo, I did try to fix and update the new infobox.  It needs some reformatting, has entries that probably aren't needed ("Residence", as he lived in more than one city during his playing career, and "Principal Sponsor", which makes no obvious sense), inaccurate information (Gibson started his career with Homestead, not Pittsburgh), and an apparent violation of the consensus we came to awhile back (go with the official numbers, but mention the anecdotal ones within context), and YoSoyGuapo reverted all the edits without comment.
The infobox needs work, if only for reformatting and which data to include or exclude.  I did some of that, and YoSoyGuapo has reverted it without explanation.
The Pittsburgh Crawfords went pro in 1932 and signed Gibson away that same year from the Homestead Grays (with whom he had started in 1930), which I changed the infobox to reflect the correct information (which is already listed correctly further down in the article), and YoSoyGuapo reverted it without explanation.
I tried to make the box more readable and more accurate with verifiable data, and YoSoyGuapo reverted it without explanation.
After a long argument in which YSG kept shifting his reasoning for insisting that "about 800 homeruns" was the best number for Gibson, we came to a consensus that we would report the numbers currently recognized as official by the Hall of Fame while noting the anecdotal information separately.  YSG apparently agreed to that, but has now apparently decided that the consensus is to do the opposite.
Is there a reasonable explanation for these reversions?  --Couillaud 05:37, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: New template and old consensus

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message: I have semi-protected this page for a week due to a sharp uptick in vandalism since the recent MLB decision to integrate Negro League records into MLB records. This article will likely have a lot of edits over the next few days but there were too many instances of violations to allow the page to go unprotected. Valley2city (talk) 20:13, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi Protection