Talk:Veterans Committee

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This is pretty dreadful - when was it established? Which members of the Hall of Fame were chosen by it? john k (talk) 22:39, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Veterans Committee
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Reference named "Nonplayer ballots": From Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 2008:  From Marvin Miller:  

Reference named "vetvote": From Bill Dahlen:  From Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 2013:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 03:41, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Enos Slaughter, not Hoyt Wilhelm was voted into the Hall of Fame by the Veteran's Commission in 1985, Please make a note of it. The Name of Enos Slaughter has to be hyperlinked. Hoyt Wilhelm was voted into the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writer's Association. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.183.48.206 (talk) 18:15, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

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Section 2 proposal
The main article page has carried a "very long" warning as a hatnote since September 2016. Most of that length comes from Section 2 of the main page, "Hall of Fame election timeline", which is actually a cut-and-paste of content that appears in individual pages about each year's Hall of Fame election. For example, "First Election (1936)" content also appears in 1936 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting. This pattern continues through the "2012 election", which appears in 2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting (as the vote was taken in late 2012, for induction during 2013). I propose deleting the current Section 2 content from the Veterans Committee main page, as that content already exists, and will be retained, on individual pages about each year's elections. Placed in Section 2 would then be a single table that chronologically lists inductees selected by the Veterans Committee, with a link to each year's main article. I believe this will make the Veterans Committee page significantly more readable and useful to readers. Comments welcome. Dmoore5556 (talk) 02:28, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Dmoore5556 (talk) 01:07, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Starting to remove duplicated content from this article; checking to confirm year-by-year content is present on applicable pages. Dmoore5556 (talk) 23:14, 20 October 2019 (UTC)