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Talk:Utility infielder

message: Should this be merged with utility player? 58.8.20.177 08:51, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger

message: I propose that this page should be merged with fourth outfielder under the name Utility player (baseball). The two pages are both stub articles with little likelihood of expansion. A merger was proposed in 2007 for the Utility player page which does indeed have a good deal of information that is akin to the information on these two separate pages. As an intermediate step, perhaps if the pages were merged, additional content could be added to justify having a separate page for baseball utility players. I do feel a separate page for baseball is warranted. Right now, having two stub articles that largely replicate information on another page is untenable. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Moreover, there are utility players who function as both utility infielders and fourth outfielders, like Brock Holt and Ben Zobrist, that should be discussed on one such page. Of course, the present page titles would redirect to the new page. Mdewman6 (talk) 02:56, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger proposal
Talk:Protocol (diplomacy)

message: This page should include the ritual text recited by foreign ministers when ambassadors are presented to the chief of state. I have been trying to find this text for quite a while.
It should also include the standard text of diplomatic credentials.Scott Adler 06:39, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

message: They mention in the 'San Jose Mine Rescue' Wikipedia article-
    "protocolary salute"
Maybe that's worth putting in as an example, because it was a significant event involving
a number of nations?
Signed
220.101.66.30 (talk) 01:46, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  San Jose Mine Rescue 

message: I just moved this section and its references to a newly created Environmental protocol article; it was grossly misplaced here, being a wholly different use of the word "protocol."  Textorus (talk) 09:53, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Environmental protocol 

message: Should this be at protocol (diplomacy), rather than diplomatic protocol?  We're supposed to use natural disambiguation when possible, and this seems like such a case.  Does anyone have thoughts? Neutralitytalk 18:25, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article name
Talk:Baseball (ball)

message: Basketball (ball) and Football (ball) use (ball) as their identifier.  Should this not be in the same boat?  JoshieTV 17:34, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. The way, the truth, and the light 04:30, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naming convention 

message: The Daisuke Matsuzaka article makes reference to some differences between the standard baseballs used in the American and Japanese leagues.  Some detail on this would be interesting. Pimlottc 03:47, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Different standards in American and Japanese baseball 

message: What is the price of a baseball?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.233.33.254 (talk) 14:49, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Price

message: I was surprised to see the diameter of a baseball listed as "has a diameter of 2 3/8" to 3" ".
The major league rules, as referenced, do not mention the diameter. They mention a minimum and maximum circumference or 9 to 9.25 inches. There is no way that a ball with a diameter of 2 3/8 inches would be legal. Such a ball would have a circumference of under 7.5 inches.
If you I edited the lead to include the range of the circumference to match the rules. I included the corrected approximate range in parentheses.
In the main text, I rewrite slightly. The original text implied that the diameter is specified in the rules. It is not, and the values were wrong, so I've rewritten to use the correct rules, and added the implied diameter.--SPhilbrickT 19:55, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Baseball Diameter 

message: OK, we have serious problems with this article.  Virtually nothing is cited, and a lot of the sentences just flat out don't agree with one another.  Many of them don't make sense.
Help!!
RJSampson (talk) 07:06, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article is in serious need of rehabilitation 

message: Surely there's a more recent, in color picture of the inside of a baseball that's free use, right? CRRaysHead90 | We Believe! 06:35, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The cut away picture 

message: What is the mass of a baseball?
Asgrrr (talk) 22:42, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mass? 

message: — Assignment last updated by Fedfed2 (talk) 00:54, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Linguistics in the Digital Age
Talk:Baseball stirrups

message: Sultans of Sock: Stirrups Hang On in Minor Leagues
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124027245795936975.html#mod=todays_us_page_one  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.125.49.252 (talk) 23:16, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sauce 

message: Great post about the Astros and their star-spangled socks, however the color was blue not, black as evidenced by Dressed to the Nines [].--Factchk (talk) 17:16, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Houston Stirrup color 
Talk:Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia

message: Did sjafrudin go to bukittinggi purposedly for this plan? If so, why sukarno had to choose a prosperity minister. I thought sjafrudin was chosen because he was outside of java at the time. Peace. --Nielswik(talk) 15:39, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And why did he establish the emergency gov't when the telegraph was not received? did he instinctively do it because jogjakarta was occupied? Peace. --Nielswik(talk) 10:44, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]
Talk:List of major commands of the United States Air Force

message: Is this a list or an article? It seems to have elements of both, and can go either way.  Maybe with a little editing, it can me more of an article and thus be able to move to "Major Commands of the Unit Air Force" and lose the list nomenclature....  Just a suggestion  - NDCompuGeek 14:15, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  List or Article? 

message: Looking at the Manual of Style this page should be considered a Set index articles and I propose that the page be moved as per the MoS to Major Commands of the United States Air Force.  A redirect would be left in place.  This would allow disambiguation of the term Major Command whereas to a List named page seems unusual. -- billinghurst (talk) 15:10, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Propose move to [[Major Commands of the United States Air Force]]
Talk:Alliance for Retired Americans

message: Alliance for Retired Americans is quite partisan for a group insisting on calling itself non-partisan. The section at "Legislative Agenda" is POV.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.58.83.44 (talk) 04:40, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: *The group meets the definition of nonpartisan under federal law (or their tax status would be revoke). So it doesn't matter what you or I think; what matters is whether they meet that definition. (Nonpartisan does not mean that they cannot support issues strongly liberal or strongly conservative; it means they cannot support parties or candidates.  They can, however, educate the public about what candidates think. The distinction is a fine one, but it exists.) As for the Legislative Agenda section, I agree.  You and anyone can remove that under WP:CITE and WP:NPOV, and I've done so. - Tim1965 (talk) 15:05, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV
Talk:2007 Caribbean Series

message: Since the parent article has now been renamed as Caribbean Series, would anyone object if I renamed the children, 1949 Caribbean Series, 1950 Caribbean Series, etc? BRMo 00:17, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Move/rename article?

message: Wouldn't this series have been the 49th such CWS, not the 48th as listed in the first sentence?  I'm just counting the years in the category box and the parent article. (and not counting 1981 when one wasn't held).  Plus, MLB has several articles (here's one ) that say the one about to be held in 2008 will be the 50th.   -- dakern74 (talk) 21:37, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: P.S.  Aren't the finishes for the D.R. and Puerto Rico reversed?  D.R. won, they didn't "clinch 2nd".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dakern74 (talk • contribs) 21:39, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Count 
Talk:Patrick J. Hurley

message: Patrick Jay Hurley may not have been born in 1883 or in the Choctaw Nation, Oklahoma or even the USA.
In 1969, his oldest sister, known as "Nan" in the family, wrote to his youngest surviving sister, Alice.  In her letter she states that "Paddy" was 2 years old when the family came - crammed 4 to a room - on a ship from Waterford, Ireland to Galveston, TX.  The year was 1883.  If Pat's birth day was in January, it must have been January 1881.  (The original of Nan's letter went from Alice Hurley Mackey to her daughter Mary Sainsbury to Mary's daughter Mary Mahala Sainsbury who planned to pass it on the the University of Oklahoma historical collection for its Hurley papers archive.)
An 1881 baptismal record exists in County Waterford, Ireland for Patrick born to Pierce and Mary Hurley.  There are also records in the same church for Pat Hurley's older siblings born to the same couple, though the spelling of Pierce's name varies.  Pat had a younger brother born in 1884 in Luling, TX, with other, even younger, siblings born in the Choctaw Nation.  This conforms to an 1883 arrival and the family's migration across Texas via Luling to the Choctaw Nation.  
If 1881 is, in fact, correct, how an 1883 birthdate and Choctaw birthplace came to pass is pure speculation.  But, in a fine American tradition, Patrick Jay Hurley may have created his own Log Cabin myth and at the same time opened the possibility of growing up to be President.
Don Lohbeck's biography, from which the 1883 birth data originates, was (1) quite openly sycophantic and (2) written without benefit of any written records of Hurley's early life.  It's a fine book, but mainly reliable for Hurley's later public life.
Regardless of all this trivia, Pat Hurley and the extended Hurley family with all their descendants owe a huge debt of gratitude to the Choctaw Nation and its people, and to the people of Oklahoma.  
MacSpider 06:57, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I was aware of the nature of the Lohbeck book, but left it alone when it was cited for lack of a better alternative.  The question then what does the Russel Buhite biography say about the circumstances of his birth?  I was at OU last year going through some of the Hurley Papers there, and it was fun to see evidence of Buhite's research among the documents.~ (The Rebel At) ~ 15:18, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Major League Baseball All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award

message: What should I list as Cal Ripken's position for his 2001 award? He was elected as a 3B but played SS when ARod swapped with him and he's listed for a previous award at SS. Doing 3B for now as he was elected there, but I could see the argument going the other way. Staxringold talkcontribs 01:57, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Question about position listing
Talk:2005 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:2005AllStarGame.JPG
Wikipedia talk:Bots/Requests for approval/ProtectionBot

message: It's clear that this could be quite a sticky situation and something does need to be done to sort out the danger of vandalism appearing on the main page. I would suggest, in the interim however, that User:ProtectionBot is give a temporary sysop flag whilst it's decided what to do next, be it an RfA or propose a new policy on granting bots sysop functionality. I don't see a great number of concerns over the bot malfunctioning and destroying Wikipedia, rather, it seems to be concern at what passing RfA means and it's effect on policy, i.e does it say
# The user has been trusted sufficently by the community to be granted sysop status and consiquently any and all additional accounts that sysop may wish to operate (provided they are solely for the use of the sysop) can be conferred with sysop status too 
or
# The user has been trusted sufficently by the community to be granted sysop status for the one and only account presented at the RfA, and that any and all additional accounts for which the sysop requests sysop functionality need to go through the RfA process.
Until some sort of consensus is decided on what exactly passing an RfA means, then there's little point in discussing policy on bots with sysop functionality, however it's a debate that probably needs to happen sooner than later, and if the former statement is the consensus of the community, some sort of policy will likely need to be drafted on if and when it is appropriate to grant bots sysop functionality and of course, whether or not the RfA process can be ignored for all developers needing sysop access in order to design bots and other applications. Quoting IAR is fine to start with but after a while, there starts becoming a need to create a rule to be followed, not ignored, which provides the same basic freedom but with the necessary limitations to protect the community. If we, as a community decide we want bots with sysop functionality, we will need to look at the testing arrangements for sysop bots, who ultimately makes the change on the account permissions and the various safety measures in place to ensue the bot doesn't, once operating with sysop functionality, start to be given additional functions by it's developer(s) or if malfunctioning, doesn't do damage that cannot easily and quickly be stopped and reverted. --Kind Regards - Heligoland  |  Talk |  Contribs 01:18, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposal

message: (cross-posted to the RfA page) With the RfA now pending, is ProtectionBot currently operating during the RfA period? I hope that it is, at least on an ongoing trial basis. Newyorkbrad 20:20, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think conversation about this is at the RfA talk Cheers! —— Eagle 101 (Need help?) 23:32, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current status question 

message: Just wanted to note that the bot doesn't need to protect template doc pages per the Wikipedia:Template doc page pattern (example: template:cite web/doc). Just a minor point. Good luck for the RfA! --Ligulem 10:42, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template doc pages
Talk:ColoringBook

message: This article, like Clayton Counts' has been under attack by a troll named Kurt Benbenek, who has made a habit of terrorizing people within the outsider music community.  Mr. Counts has been featured in many mainstream newspapers and magazines for the past four months, and his articles are pertinent and well within the guidelines for Wikipedia standards of notability.  I will assess the stylistic problems with these articles and expand them as necessary. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.218.96.193 (talk • contribs) 07:06, 7 January 2007
This link:
*ColoringBook, ColoringBook's MySpace page
was broken on this date. If it goes back up, perhaps someone could return the link.  Accounting4Taste 21:46, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Base on balls

message: There is a separate article for the intentional walk; it would probably be more user-friendly if that article were merged here as a section. Chubbles 19:18, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree. The IBB, while a specialized case of the BB, is the subject of a good sized, nicely written article that covers that specifiic subject well. There is room enough for a more general article, like this one, and one on a more specific topic, like intentional base on balls. However, I have added the merge tag to this article so everyone knows about it. Gentgeen 23:36, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: IBB

message: Article merged with intentional base on balls: See old talk-page here  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kuyabribri (talk • contribs) 05:00, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That merge was reverted 2009 January. --P64 (talk) 16:05, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Merged 

message: I have been trying to find out the logical reason a pitch outside the strike zone not swung at is called a "ball" and when the term was first used.67.119.13.107 (talk) 21:39, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of term "ball"
Talk:Outline of environmental studies

message: Would be useful, I think, to briefly elaborate the lead of this article, explaining its purpose/ focus/ scope. Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 02:56, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article lead 
Talk:Woolgoolga, New South Wales

message: This should be just as "Woolgoolga", not "Woolgoolga, New South Wales". It's the only Woolgoolga there is.
:It is a convention on Wikipedia Australia that all place names include state names (except most state capitals), so that names don't have to be constantly changed as other towns overseas come to light, even though it is no doubt true there is no other Woolgoolga.--Grahamec 00:14, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

message: The tone of the 'Accomodation' section is thinly disguised advertising; this needs to be reviewed. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Timmystyle (talk • contribs) 08:20, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advertising
Talk:Sex and Breakfast

message: Looks like it was written by someone connected with the production. "Meet..."--Timtak (talk) 08:41, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep, the plot summary was a copyvio, taken from promotional materials. I removed it. --Dreaded Walrus  t c 05:59, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I just want to say that this movie was awful.  Okay, I'm done here.  Zweifel (talk) 23:02, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
Talk:Open Graves

message: It looks like the article was originally written in Spanish, and then translated. I've tweaked it some; once the movie comes out, could someone please tailor the line, "Those participate in the game and lose will die; those who are able to win will be able to request a wish" to reflect what is said? 68.63.137.117 (talk) 20:08, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Translation

message: The section on the game itself is entirely unnecessary. One or two sentences describing it in the plot summary should more than suffice. I'd remove it right now, but I figured it would be better to let somebody argue the merits of keeping it first. Host Dunkelheit (talk) 10:18, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Mamba board game" section
Talk:The Alphabet Killer

message: Not sure where to put this but, removed "DI work was done at Company 3 in New York.". It was obvious that the company or someone promoting the company edited that for personal gain. Where the "DI" work was done is unnecessary. Most people do not even know what DI means.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.180.54.30 (talk) 10:40, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It is, in the The Alphabet Killer#Production section.  Powers T 19:31, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

message: Just would like answers. 98.3.103.96 (talk) 04:52, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The findings of Michelle Mienza was not found in Macedon ny. The location was Eddy road Walworth NY. I'm curious if the killer was ever found. I was 11 at that time too. Mad Michelle's body was found on my homestead road. Us girls were very afraid.
Talk:Cynosure (comics)

message: Is this a novel is about mrs hilburn and her english class? It sounds like a cool story, and I would definitely give it a read, however I recommend the portion that refers to the fictional world of Cynosure to the be deleted for lack of significance, or rather it should be included in the page for the particular novel (or comic book, or movie) the  comes from. Unfortunately, the whole page is nothing but the fictional Cynosure, so I would suggest the whole thing be deleted.  If anyone has a good reason to not delete I would be interested in hearing why. Noahsachs (talk) 14:53, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You don't understand what it is, but the very first sentence states that the Cynosure is the core of the First Comics shared universe. That tells you exactly what the Cynosure is and since First was one of the more popular independent comics publishers of the 80s, that makes it relevant. Rather than moving for deletion, please give articles a closer read. 64.222.94.132 (talk) 15:26, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-notable? 

message: Hate to seem "anti-fancruft" or the like, but I believe it is worth mentioning on the plain "Cynosure" page that the word "cynosure" has a non-fictional definition. ( - cynosure(n): "An object that serves as a focal point of attention and admiration.") I don't mind if the main cynosure page is about a fictional location, it's just the original meaning should be mentioned. -- 19:59, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Dictionary definitions belong on Wiktionary. Otto4711 23:03, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh crap. The article makes it sound as if it were a made-up word. Is there a rule against mentioning the etymology?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.162.16.231 (talk) 14:07, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Certainly not.  Otto4711 is misapplying WP:DICDEF, which is about writing articles as if they were dictionary definitions. — SMcCandlish    Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ   Contrib.  15:46, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Real/original meaning 

message: This has been tagged since Oct. 2009 with , but has not been improved.  The most obvious and most necessary fix is publication history, which is far more important/appropriate from an encyclopedic standpoint than fictional detailia about what character did what when and why.  We can't even tell from this article what comics this ever appeared even, even which series, whether it has made the transition to another publisher, etc.  See Grimjack for some detail on this (IDW and an website have taken up that character and kept the setting, after a long-running legal question was finally settled). PS: Doing this first will also making sourcing (this has been flagged as  even longer!) much easier, since virtually all of the sources will be these exact comics. — SMcCandlish    Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ   Contrib.  15:46, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: In-universe problem
Talk:Burple

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thread_title:  Fair use candidate from Commons: [[:File:Soft Drink.svg]] 

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