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Your edits to Stephen Strasburg
Your edits to Stephen Strasburg have been removed because they violated WP:CRYSTAL. There is no confirmation from anyone that he is going to retire, and he certainly has not retired yet in any case. All the media reports refer to anonymous sources saying he will announce his retirement in a few weeks. That’s not acceptable source material, and it’s a policy violation to make the sort of edit you did because, conceivably, something could yet change. We all know the odds are he won’t pitch again, but until he actually retires, we can’t know. (Put differently, suppose in October 2016 people had listed Hillary Clinton as the 45th president because the media were adamant she was going to win the election.) I know a lot of people like to race to edit Wikipedia based on media rumors and the like, but the correct thing to do is to wait for the real event. The Strasburg article already says the media have reported his retirement plans. That’s sufficient. 1995hoo (talk) 11:57, 25 August 2023 (UTC)