Talk:Los Angeles Dodgers minor league players

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Thoughts[edit]

Might it make sense for the lede to reflect that other notable Dodger minor leaguers have their own wp pages?

So, for example, it could say:

"Below are brief bios of some of the Los Angeles Dodgers more notable prospects; Player X and Player Y have their own articles."

What I'm thinking is that a person coming to this page might naturally -- by the title and the lede -- expect to see some of the LAD top minor leaguers, who are not listed on this page because they have their own pages. Such an addition would be a helpful aid for such readers.

I'm not partial to how it is done. But think a change in the lede with click-throughs to those articles may well prove helpful.--Epeefleche (talk) 06:53, 10 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think if someone is looking for a particular player they would search by that name and find them.. Also the names are linked in the roster templates below the name list. None of the other pages list players like that. Spanneraol (talk) 12:33, 10 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If one is searching for Player X, of course you are correct. If one is searching for the subject of this article -- Los Angeles Dodgers minor league players -- that's not the case. If I were looking for a list of the Dodgers minor league players, and landed here, it would not be intuitive to me that the listed players in the body of the article omit the most highly rated Dodgers players. Even a reference in the lede that flags that to me, without listing their names, would be helpful.Epeefleche (talk) 20:14, 10 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Heights and weights[edit]

Just a question. Some of the bios list heights and weights. Others do not. I'm not against them -- in fact I think it would make sense to follow MLB.com and other sports by reflecting them in our templates. But it struck me as odd that we are not consistent, even within this article, in whether we reflect them. Thoughts? --Epeefleche (talk) 06:56, 25 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

They tend not to be as important in baseball as they are in some other sports. I think it depends on who wrote the bio... I tend to not include them. Spanneraol (talk) 13:22, 25 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

They tend to be as important as they are in ... say ... hockey and soccer (where wp reflects them in infoboxes). And they tend to be reflected in mlb.com, baseballreference.com, and other similar baseball urls. --Epeefleche (talk) 13:29, 25 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Height and weight are more important in hockey and soccer.. where the sport often involves person to person confrontation. Spanneraol (talk) 14:10, 25 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]