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Talk:Red Bittmann

message: It's my understanding of WP:BIO that professional athletes are generally notable, regardless of how long ago the player lived. The American Association was one of the two major pro baseball leagues at the time. Thus, I've deprodded this article; if you disagree take it to WP:AfD. BryanG(talk) 07:04, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deprod
Talk:Harvey Blauvelt

message: It's my understanding of WP:BIO that professional athletes are generally notable, regardless of how long ago the player lived. The American Association was one of the two major pro baseball leagues at the time. Thus, I've deprodded this article; if you disagree take it to WP:AfD. BryanG(talk) 07:05, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deprod
Talk:Steve Bloomer

message: The result was merge into Steve Bloomer. -- Jameboy (talk) 20:12, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Normally I'd leave the discussion open longer, but this is pretty uncontroversial, so having gained the approval of the only contributor to the '...Statistics' article, I'm going to go ahead and complete the merge. --Jameboy (talk) 20:12, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed incorporation of Steve Bloomer Statistics

message: The infobox total for his first spell with Derby doesn't match the total in the season-by-season table...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 15:39, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stats discrepancy
Talk:Greigsville and Pearl Creek Railroad

message: According to the discussion on [Railroad.net http://railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=29309&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=], this railroad was a paper railroad.  Since they're a dime a dozen and of little historical interest, I see no reason to keep this article.
I'll leave this note here for a bit and then delete the page.
:hmmmm.... not so fast with that delete key!  Basil Watkins has this to report:
:The ICC stats have it listed as a common carrier from 1898 to  1909, when it was "practically abandoned". It opened 3m of line in April 1898  with one loco, and "ceased operations" in June 1899. I did find a map somewhere  that showed it running from a junction with the DLW north of Greigsville, west  to a dead -end spot called "North Greigsville". —The preceding unsigned comment was added by RussNelson (talk • contribs) 04:26, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Mindat only has to the nearest minute, which is pretty bad precision at this scale. How do you even know that the mine shown on the topos (which I believe does match Mindat to the nearest minute) was the mine that existed in the 1890s? --NE2 21:29, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point.  I've done some more searching and can find nothing online to suggest there has only ever been one mine in Greigsville / North Greigsville.  But let's leave it there for a while and see if anybody can step up to fix it. RussNelson (talk) 04:14, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

text: Yeah, I've stared at that line also.  Also at this one:ACME Mapper  But the railroad as drawn on those maps, and on the New York State Railroad Network map, is not likely.  There are easier ways to go up that hill than a 2.5% grade straight up the side of it. RussNelson (talk) 03:16, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Jim Brown (pitcher)

message: It's my understanding of WP:BIO that professional athletes are generally notable, regardless of how long ago the player lived. This player played in several pro baseball leagues at the time. Thus, I've deprodded this article; if you disagree take it to WP:AfD. BryanG(talk) 06:26, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deprod
Talk:Synagogue of Miskolc

message: The sephardic community was Jewish Hasidic Jews that prayed with the aspheric version that's why they are called like that/
The last grand rabbi was the holy rabbi Mencaehm Heimlich zt"l that died in the holocaust and is buried in Munich Germany, he was known in all of Hungary with the name rabbi Mendel'e Korader he was big in all three beams of religiousness in torah and praying and charity and Cabala.
(unsourced, moved here from article / couldn't find anything on Menachem Heimlich. – Alensha  talk 21:36, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:John Clarkson

message: Based on the amount of information present, I'd say this is B-class. Still a good amount of work to be done for it to be a GA, but it's good so far. Wizardman 16:52, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment
Talk:Larry Corcoran

message: This note relies entirely on one foreign newspaper 3-4 days later, New Orleans Picayune, 1887 May 3 and 4 (next Tue and Wed).
Friday night 1887 April 29/30, before he was scheduled to pitch for Nashville against Memphis, gamblers and/or Memphis team personnel victimized Nashville pitcher Larry Corcoran. After a larger group at a bar broke up, including at least some players of both teams, Memphis Manager Jack Sneed and player Black remained with Nashville player Corcoran. I infer that they continued drinking at the bar or at another location. 
Nashville learned some of the story and banned Corcoran before the game (not for long, I presume, or this would be famous). Investigation showed or Memphis claimed that Manager Sneed's skirts were clean but they read the riot act to player Black. --P64 (talk) 19:16, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  get him drunk the night before 
Talk:Bill Dahlen

message: I removed the following, except the location of the house.
 ... the house in which he was born and lived has been owned by the Nichols family since 1950. There is a board in which he carved his inititals as follows: "Will Dahlen Aug. 8, 88". The house is located at the corner of Berthoud and Dahlen and East Main in Nelliston and is owned by Joseph W. Nichols and brothers. Louis Berthoud was the builder in 1850; Berthoud pass in Colorado was named after him.
It doesn't tell us much about Dahlen, and it is original research (or at least, there is no citation).
66.92.53.49 18:25, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Description of house removed 
Talk:Ed Delahanty

message: According to the cited newspaper article, Delahanty's minor league contract was purchased for $1,900 in 1877. According to this article, he was born in 1867, meaning he was 10 years old at the time. Can anyone make sense of this?
70.174.128.14 (talk) 13:49, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Nah it was a typo his contract was purchased by philly in 1887 so he was 20 not 1 Cyanxbl (talk) 00:26, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor League Contract Purchased at Age 10?
Talk:Bill Donovan

message: This page needs to be moved to William Edward Donovan, as "Wild Bill Donovan" is also the name of the head of the American Office of Strategic Services during World War II, an important historical figure.  
At the very least, Wild Bill Donovan should be a disambig page.  Jkp1187 (talk) 14:37, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, this page needs to be moved to Wild Bill Donovan (baseball), which is the player's commonly used name per naming conventions, but I can't do it because that redirect has been edited. Request discussion below -Dewelar (talk) 02:59, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Wild Bill Donovan

message: Certainly the more common name for this player, per WP:NC-BASE. -Dewelar (talk) 03:10, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Kingturtle (talk) 12:43, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move

message: I got to this page by searching for Bill Donovan of the OSS. I think that name should at least lead to a disambiguation page. --Tcgriffin (talk) 14:39, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambiguation
Talk:Fred Dunlap

message: The last sentence of first paragraph quotes and sites as source for that quote Bill James, baseball writer, historian, statistican from his "New Historical Baseball Abstract,"though he was never a star player in a full major league, Dunlap was still considered a good second baseman." The 2001 edition of James' book states, "Never a ligitimate star in a legitimate major league, but a good second baseman and a .275 hitter."  I don't question Mr. James' opinion, he is certainly entitled to it more than most, but this quote, even if it is an accurate quote from another edition of the "Historical Abstract," is misleading.  The reader would understandably think that the author of the article, as well as Mr. James, is describing the leagues for whom Dunlap played as being less than legitimate major leagues.  Dunlap played one year for a league not considered "major" league level in 1884, the Union Association and he had his "best" season statistically that year , at least in terms of hitting.  This is what James was trying to convey, that Dunlap's career best season was with a substandard, less than "major" league.  But for the remaining 11 seasons of his  career, he played in the National League, without serious question a major league in the 1880's and 90's.   Also, James' opinion that Dunlap was a "good second baseman" is based upon his proprietary (or at least he invented it) system of statistical analysis of baseball players designed to enable ranking of player's abilities across all eras of baseball regardless of various changes in rules and styles of play. In his system, Mr. James ranked Dunlap as 89th out of the top 100 who have played the position at the major league level, not high on Mr. James' list, but still 89th out of thousands who played the position over 130 years. It should be understood that, while Mr. James is correct within the self-created parameters of his own system of statiscal analysis of baseball, it is not universally accepted (although I do accept it myself), and that there are opinions, for which sources can be cited, that differ wildly from those of Mr. James.  Cap Anson in a series of interviews given to newspaper reporters after his retirement in 1897, referred to Dunlap as being nearly equal to Fred Pfeffer, another second baseman who was a teammate and a player under his management at Chicago in the 1880's who Anson felt was one of the two or three best at that position he had ever seen, the other two being Ross Barnes with Boston and Chicago, NL, in the 1870s and early 1880s, and Fred Dunlap, also in the NL of the 1880s. I will make both of the necessary edits when I have completed source verification, and I will follow up with another post on this talk page to summarize the edits.
GIMBELZ (talk) 21:04, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Bill James' statement

message: It seems notable that this is the case. Should be noted somewhere in the article. 50.221.227.89 (talk) 01:26, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Only player to hit .400 in a season with a career batting average below .300
Talk:Dave Fultz

message: This article and David Fultz are about the same person. See here and here for example. Strikehold (talk) 00:23, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 
Talk:Pud Galvin

message: Major-league career:
* Played 1 season in the National Association (not recognized by MLB)
** NA stats are included in player records at B-R and Retrosheet; excluded at MLB.com and Baseball Almanac
* Played 12 seasons in the National League
* Played 2 seasons in the American Association
* Played 1 season in the Players' League
See also Talk:Roy Campanella#Test infoboxes and Talk:Ben Taylor (Negro leagues)#Test infoboxes
This section added as part of a discussion at WT:Baseball. Dmoore5556 (talk) 04:18, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Test infoboxes
Talk:Billy Hamilton (baseball, born 1866)

message: It seems like there is a controversy over Hamilton's correct death date.  Here are web sites that support December 16:
* Baseball Hall of Fame
* Baseball Reference
* Baseball Almanac
* The Baseball Page
If there are any sources that support a Dec. 15 death date, then add a citation in an article and we can add a note that there are discrepancies between sources.  As of right now, no one has produced a complete citation to support this date of death.  Simply saying your claim is supported by "Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Facts on File" is not enough. - Mattingly23 17:01, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death date 

message: Might it be worth putting in a request for page protection? It might at least help reduce the unsourced and specious changes being made. Just a thought... --Ebyabe 16:07, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protect 

message: Quote from article: "he is one of only three players to average more than one run per game played"
It seems to me it might be desirable to have who the other two were? As a Scandinavian reading up on baseball, it makes me curious to know who they might be, and while I'm sure it's not too hard to google, it would be neat to have it close.
OMHalck (talk) 22:32, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Teaser" fact 

message: How many career steals? The baseball hall of fame says 937, but most sites say 912. Timneu22 (talk) 18:18, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  912 or 937? 

message: Why is this dubious? It lists them on this page. I suppose you could specify that most are just Phillies records, but the runs scored record in 1894 is an MLB record. Check baseball-reference.com; it's all there.
Richjenkins (talk) 01:47, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Records still held today 

message: Lou Brock was described in 1977 as having broken Ty Cobb's stolen base record. Cobb was recognized as the leader at that time with 892 steals. (Baseball Reference says 897 now.) Was there some reason Hamilton was not recognized as the stolen base leader in 1977? Interestingly, Brock retired with 938, one higher than the highest estimate of Hamilton's total. Did anyone even know about Hamilton? Nowadays, Cobb is in 4th place and not 3rd place, with no explanation that I know of. Tidewater 2014 (talk) 16:38, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I would think likely not recognized in the media at the time since statistics weren't as well kept or published as today. Flibirigit (talk) 18:21, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was Hamilton ever recognized as All-Time SB leader?
Talk:Johnson State College

message: The Johnson article needs more pictures, and descriptions of areas not as yet covered. CApitol3 21:50, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Please help

message: Tom Cruise is listed in this article's notable alumni section.  There's no reference, so I searched for one.  I've been unsuccessful - every online source that comes up tracks back to the JSC Wikipedia article.  Does anyone out there know for sure if this claim is true?  If so, can you provide a reference?  Otherwise, I'm going to delete Cruise's name from the article as unsourced.
Billmckern (talk) 06:15, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Is Tom Cruise really a notable alumni?
Talk:Hughie Jennings

message: How could Jennings' last appearance be in 1918 for the Philadelphia Athletics, when he isn't listed as having played for the Athletics in that year in the "Teams" section? 76.76.220.34 (talk) 15:23, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mismatch of teams 
Talk:Bobby Lowe

message: The opening of the article seems to suggest his common name was Link Lowe. This would seem to suggest that would be the best name of the article.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:08, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see that. I see it says that his nickname was "Link", but that may be a MOS:BADNICK. I see him sourced as "Bobby". – Muboshgu (talk) 14:54, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  What was his common name?
Talk:Bobby Mathews

message: How was he a "Major League Baseball pitcher for twenty years beginning in the late 1860s" when Major League baseball didn't exist in the 1860's? Kinston eagle (talk) 11:56, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Bobby Mathews is one of the winningest pitchers in professional baseball history, but NOT MLB history. Mathews was apart of the NABP and the AA for most of his career. His NL totals are nowhere near the top. I am removing that statement. Arnabdas (talk) 20:10, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  NOT one of the most winningest pitchers in MLB History
Talk:Cedille Records

message: This has every form and appearance of being an official press release, either courtesy of Cedille or copied from them without consent.  Could someone please write a page about Cedille that is not a near-paraphrase of one of their releases?... Schissel | Sound the Note! 21:55, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Tim Murnane

message: DonnaHalper (talk) 07:04, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: According to Baseball-Reference.com, he attended "College of The Holy Cross". This site is considered a reliable resource for baseball purposes anyway. Much of the information obtained by this site is from SABR, who conduct in-depth research on all baseball players, especially 19th century players. Baseball-Almanac.com list him among ballplayers who played at "College of The Holy Cross", the "Crusaders", and the years in which he played for them (1868-1870). List of College of the Holy Cross alumni have listed under the writer section, with a graduation year of 1872. No reference is listed however. This fits somewhat with the timeline of his professional baseball career, beginning in 1872 in Mansfield, Ct. Hope this helps.Neonblak talk -  14:19, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did Tim Murnane Attend Holy Cross?
Talk:Bid McPhee

message: The statement, "To date, McPhee remains the only member of the American Association (major league, 1882–1891, and the first competitor of the National League) to be elected to Cooperstown", is untrue. For example, John McGraw and Wilbert Robinson also played for both the AA and the NL. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:58, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  AA - NL
Talk:Lip Pike

message: "He was the first player to be revealed as a professional (meaning he was paid money to play), as well as the first Jewish"
I assume some noun should follow, but I don't know what it would be. Certainly not just "player", since I'm sure some Jew played ball before him, if only on a sandlot. If he was the first professional, it would be redundant to say he was the first Jewish professional. - Jmabel | Talk 04:35, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second sentence trails off 

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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed
Talk:Al Pratt (baseball)

message: Supergeo 03:09, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: User

message: The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Jreferee 17:46, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment
Talk:Charles Radbourn

message: How did this version of the article get listed as a GA? It's not even close, in my opinion. - PM800 (talk) 07:34, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question 

message: Radbourn was 42 years and 56 days old when he dies, but the cited article in the "later life and legacy" section incorrectly lists his age of death as 43 and is used to edit any attempts to correct his age of death to 42. He is correctly listed as having died at 42 in the introductory table. 130.44.52.133 (talk) 14:57, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old Hoss' Age of Death
Talk:Al Reach

message: The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Jreferee 17:48, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 
Talk:Mark 2

message: I really don't see what the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Builders  has to specifically do with the Parable of the New Wineskins?  Couldn't it apply to all of Jesus' teachings? Roy Brumback 22:06, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's towards the end of the Sermon on the Mount, Matt 5-7. Persumably it applies to the Sermon on the Mount, which was referenced previously by Matt 6:16-18. Seems to me the train of thought is as follows: Mark brings up fasting, the Sermon on the Mount talks about fasting, but there is a dispute about the Sermon on the Mount, does it apply during Jesus' mission or after? ... This topic is discussed in Sermon_on_the_Mount#Interpretation and directly addressed by the Great Commission and Matt 7:24-27. 75.15.201.189 23:15, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: Mark says many people are now following Jesus, more than the four disciples he has already listed.
My objection is that it is a little vague. From Mark's account, it appears that many people are following Jesus to be cured of their ills, rather than to be disciples or students. This point was made earlier, Mark_6#Healing_of_the_sick_of_Gennesaret. But, I don't really have any ideas on how to improve it currently, maybe it's fine as it is. For now I'll just add a "see also". 75.0.11.98 23:13, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: this sentence

message: I see nothing in the article that tells us who wrote the book, when it was written, what language it was written in, or any other historical aspects of the origins of this Gospel. | Loadmaster (talk) 15:42, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origins and history 

message: I hadn't even realized "Mark 2" could be a reference to a specific part of the Bible. I was looking for something completely different and ended up with a Bible section. I think the title should be something more descriptive and the very generic (and ambiguous) "Mark 2" should redirect to a disambiguation page, not a niche interest page. — 84.250.167.86 (talk) 08:46, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Generic Article Title
Talk:Pro Wrestling Guerrilla

message: I noticed that List of Pro Wrestling Guerrilla personnel was recently  expanded from a redirect, not the first time that's happened. I tend to agree with 's comment that the table as an article itself falls into Wikipedia:Fancruft. I also think "Wikipedia is not a directory" applies.
I see no reason why the Roster section of this article can't contain the small table, especially since the roster changes frequently (current; earlier versions via The Wayback Machine).
Courtesy pinging , who created the latest version of the table. And , who was involved earlier with this article (since it was created by an anonymous editor). = paul2520 (talk) 14:21, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Having been one week since this was proposed, with no opposition, I made the "bold" move to perform the merge. Please start a discussion on this page before splitting the table into a separate article. = paul2520 (talk) 14:07, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  One note: since it looks like the roster changes every time this event occurs, we might want to add a line like "The current roster..." or "The roster for the Month Day, Year event..." = paul2520 (talk) 14:09, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal