Talk:World Baseball Classic

message: I suppose it's more of a personal stylistic preference, but overuse of parentheses really grate on me, especially in the lead.  The lead is supposed to be the most essential information about the topic; sentences on digressions not directly related to the subject of the article aren't really the best use of precious lead space.  But I do think footnotes are a good way to deal with digressions.   So I made this edit about the Olympic baseball tournament now being defunct: .  Note that I removed a source for clarity, but the natural place to cite that source is at the article about the Olympic baseball tournament.  Here it's just a tangent.  - Regards, PhilipR (talk) 22:34, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Then I planned to move the link to Baseball at the Summer Olympics, but apparently the link has since changed. - Regards, PhilipR (talk) 22:38, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parens versus footnote in the lead 

message: On the world map indicating past and future WBC participants, Cuba is colored blue indicating that it is a 2013 qualifier, but should be colored red because Cuba reached the finals against Japan in 2006.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.124.87.213 (talk) 02:42, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mistake in world map 

message: I've seen comparable tables in other competition-related articles that accurately sort non-numeric fields (i.e. best finish), so Champion, Runner-Up, Semi-Finalist, etc etc. I think there are some examples when you look at comparable soccer tournaments. I'd love to fix the formatting here, but I must admit, I'm not very comfortable with wikipedia's markup for tables, so I'd rather not ruin them by trying to improve them. Thanks!
Rustyspatula (talk) 19:16, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sorting past appearance / past finish tables 

message: Bracket tournaments do not alone determine anything other than 1st place. You cannot infer second, third, fourth, etc place from bracket tournament results. 
Consider:
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 |--- Winner: 1
 2            |
              |--- Winner: 1
 3            |
 |--- Winner: 3
 4
While the first place was 1, the team they played in the finals was not the second best, but the third best. It just so happens that the second best team was eliminated in the semifinals. 
This is why FIFA championships (iirc) have an extra matchup between the loser of the final and the loser of the winner's semifinal in order to determine second place.
- Keith D. Tyler ¶ 22:58, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: This is what is known as an "opinion." LordAtlas (talk) 04:56, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: And the loser of the final is obviously the 2nd place, but without a game for 3rd place, there is no 3rd or 4th place, just semifinal-losers.--Anaxagoras13 (talk) 09:17, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "3rd/4th place" 

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