Talk:Lists of Major League Baseball players

message: If anyone reads this, I've been meaning to add a list of all baseball players, but I would need to make a new page for each letter, and would make things rather nebulous.  Maybe there could be another page for notable players.NOT A LIST.س
Au rang 02:37, 19 Oct 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: List of all baseball players

message: At one time, this page listed only players who had wikipedia pages. That kept the list small. I don't know why that format was changed. Kingturtle 08:30, 19 Oct 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Only wikipedia pages

message: Considering there have been 10,000s of major league baseball players, this article could get considerably huge. To prevent that, I propose only listing Hall of Famers and players that have wikipedia articles. What do you think? Kingturtle 19:29, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: No, I propose this list to should include all players and statistics to make it more of a reliable source when new articles are created. - Presidentman 12:33, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  potential size for this article 

message: could someone please create Albert Belle? thanks Kingturtle 02:39, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  albert belle 

message: I changed the name of this article for List of major league baseball players to List of Major League Baseball players because Major League Baseball is an official entity, and should be capitalized. Kingturtle 20:03, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  article name 

message: As mentioned, this article could easily include tens of thousands of names. I don't have a problem with that. It would be divided by letter and would provide a free (GFDL) list of every player who donned a major league uniform. I think such a list is a valuable reference. As I understand it, a List article is the place to create a comprehensive, ideally annotated, list of every item/individual in a category where the list has a value in and of itself. A Category article is a place to gather links to all of the individual WP articles that pertain to that category. A list, if it is assumed that all the items will eventually merit individual pages, will have a lot of red on it. If not, it will have a lot of black with some blue here and there. The category page will be all blue. A List that limits itself to blue links is just a poor relation to a category page. (Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and series boxes) Dystopos 03:24, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, what does this page do that the Category article dosen't (other than serve as a waste of time)? Cacophony 17:14, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

text: It provides an alphabetical list of all Major League Baseball players. If we relied solely on the category system in this instance, the players would be filtered down into sub-categories, and a person requiring an alphabetical list would be forced to integrate by hand all players from the team or position sub-categories. There is certainly interest in an alphabetical list of players; such lists have been published commercially and sold for years. -Hit bull, win steak(Moo!) 04:49, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  big picture 

message: I can't say I like the new style for this page, having it broken up into a bunch of pages. I think this will make it harder to navigate. Alex 20:14, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: *I'm actually pleasantly surprised by the change. It doesn't take as long to load, and the alpabetical header seems relatively intuitive for the purpose of navigation. -Hit bull, win steak(Moo!) 01:18, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can't say I like it  

message: Why does this list only contain players with a biographical article? This is created a lot of 'extra' 'unneeded' work by adding players as the articles are created. I propose that the list contain every player, and not simply the players that have an article. —Borgardetalk 12:51, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: For example here I picked a random last name, and every player who has player with "Abbott" as their last name had an article, but they were not all on the list. I think this is created unneeded work. Even if we do have some red links for a while. —Borgardetalk 13:02, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why only players with a biographical article?