Talk:List of members of the Baseball Hall of Fame (alphabetical)

Suggestion
Perhaps this would be better as a chart like the chronological list. say1988

Members
They are not "members" until they are inducted in the summer. Gwynn and Ripken should be removed until that time.Kinston eagle 01:53, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure how strict I'd be on that interpretation; it could be argued that they're members as soon as their election is announced, but that formal induction follows a couple of months later. I know the College Football Hall of Fame has a particularly drawn-out process, in which there's an induction banquet in NYC a few months after election (I believe in December) and then another enshrinement at the Hall in Indiana the following summer, nearly a year and a half after the election is announced. I realize the Baseball HoF process is a bit simpler, but I'm not sure I want to split that hair. MisfitToys 02:13, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Improvement
Can this list mirror the List of members of the Baseball Hall of Fame (chronologial) category? That category provides more information in a form that is easy to follow. Bbagot 19:32, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Merger proposal
This seems like a relatively minor piece of cleanup to me. List of members of the Baseball Hall of Fame by date of induction and this list are content forks created before the advent of sortable tables. Given the ability to sort now, there is currently no need for two different lists that offer the same information. Especially when the date of induction list is in far better shape than this one.

I will also throw this here, as presuming they do get merged, I also believe that List of members of the Baseball Hall of Fame by date of induction no longer meets the featured list criteria as it is completely lacking in citations and sources. That, however, should be a very easy thing for someone with a couple decent baseball histories to fix up. Resolute 00:20, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Support this merge, especially because List of members of the Baseball Hall of Fame by date of induction now fails Featured List Criteria 3b. NuclearWarfare  ( Talk ) 18:06, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose For reference purposes, both artivcles are needed.  &#0149;Jim 62 sch&#0149; dissera! 19:28, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * umm, what reference purposes? Resolute 20:08, 11 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Support, List of members of the Hockey Hall of Fame and List of inductees of Canada's Walk of Fame also used to have such branch lists, but have been merged (for the better, I think). -- Scorpion 0422  19:43, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Support No need for two lists now that sortability is available. Dabomb87 (talk) 21:37, 11 May 2009 (UTC)