Talk:Richmond Flying Squirrels

This is one of the most poorly written articles on all of Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hsox05 (talk • contribs) 20:34, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Affiliation timeline
So here's the thing. If you look at the West Haven Yankees page, it says that that team moved to Lynn to become the Sailors, whose lineage leads to the Akron Aeros. It also says the Waterbury A's moved to West Haven to replace the Yankees. So shouldn't the lineage be from the Waterbury A's, wherever they came from? For now I'm changing it to say they came from the Waterbury team and not the West Haven Yankees. ToddC4176 (talk) 15:24, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Merging Connecticut Defenders and Binghamton Triplets into article
The info on the Defenders and Flying Squirrels pages are exactly the same and qualifies the Defenders page eligible to be merged into the Flying Squirrels page. I don't know if it's a good idea as the Connecticut Tigers which is the team that replaced the Defenders right when they relocated to Richmond, still sell the Defenders merchandise along with the merchandise when the team was known as the Navigators. Silvercoindinerman (talk) 02:54, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

I also think the Binghamton Triplets page should be merged into the Flying Squirrels page since both teams are the same franchise. The info from the Triplets page was already transfered to the Flying Squirrels page. Silvercoindinerman (talk) 14:08, 24 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Can't merge Triplets article. It's an historic team. The Defenders I'm ok with. Ghostbuster55656 (talk) 22:09, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Why all the reverts?
I removed lots of extraneous material not relevant to the article, made reference more consistent with MLA formats, and tried to rework awkward language and it was reverted to the original format. Any particular reason for the reverts?Wkharrisjr (talk) 12:19, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Too many citation needs. There were two franchises called Manchester Yankees. There are currently only two sentences about the original Manchester Yankees as compared to the one I edit last time. The ownership structure did change during the relocation. For the ownership I changed the wording so that it was edited the same way I did with the ownership of the Trenton Thunder and the Lakewood BlueClaws. There are corrections that you did that I just added back a minute ago. Silvercoindinerman (talk) 15:00, 25 July 2012 (UTC)


 * What about the grammar and extraneous information not relevent to the article? For instance, I removed a stray reference about a suspended game which was not relevant to the section cited. Why restore it? Why revert formatting to non-MLA format. With regard to excess "citation needed", they are place makers for future referencing. Removing them with actual citations will make the article better. Wkharrisjr (talk) 15:45, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I removed the references that don't work which are from the United States Patent and Trademark Office website. It worked the last time I edited them into the article. I don't see the suspended game reference. Silvercoindinerman (talk) 16:42, 25 July 2012 (UTC)


 * I had originally removed those same trade mark references but that was among the many things that were reverted. The reference to the suspended game is #7.
 * I removed the reference. Silvercoindinerman (talk) 19:20, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Founding date
There is now a possibility that the Flying Squirrels true founding date was 1980 and not 1923 based on these pages:
 * West Haven Yankees at FunWhileItLasted.net
 * West Haven Whitcaps/A's at FunWhileItLasted.net
 * Lynn Sailors at FunWhileItLasted.net
 * Interview with the former owner of the West Haven Yankees/Lynn Sailors


 * Silvercoindinerman (talk) 15:02, 6 August 2012 (UTC)