User talk:Neonblak/Archive 2

Eppa Rixey
I think I took care of all your concerns. Thanks Secret account 22:54, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Joe Borden
Hi, I've passed the article now, well done. --Sarastro1 (talk) 19:55, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Infobox height/weight
Be bold and just add it as an optional parameter. It won't affect the articles that don't use it, but gives you the option. Plus that information has long been tracked, may as well present it. Staxringold talkcontribs 07:34, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

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Height and Weight
Hi ... I seem to have re-started a discussion that you took part in, on a different noticeboard, six months back on the possibility of adding height and weight to the baseball infobox. Another editor helpfully pointed me to the old discussion. FYI, the current discussion is here. Best.--Epeefleche (talk) 06:35, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Billy Sullivan
Hi-I found an article in the Milwaukee Journal of January 29, 1965 about the death of Billy Sullivan. This confirms he was born in the town of Oakland in Jefferson County. Thank you-RFD (talk) 17:49, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you for research, hopefully there isn't too many more players with the same issue. Neonblak talk  -  20:52, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
 * This also happen with the Addie Joss article. There is the town of Woodland and the unincorporated community of Woodland in Dodge County, Wisconsin. Addie Joss was born in the unincorporated community of Woodland in Dodge County. Thank you again-RFD (talk) 22:26, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

request for a quick interview
I'm a researcher at MIT studying the impact of Google Books digitization of the Baseball Digest on Wikipedia baseball editing. I would like to briefly interview you on the phone to ask you a few questions about how baseball editing is organized on Wikipedia, about prominent bots and your personal experiences with the digital copies of the Baseball Digest.

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Did Tim Murnane Attend Holy Cross?
DonnaHalper (talk) 18:22, 24 December 2011 (UTC) This is a copy of what I also left on the Murnane talk page, in case others want to contribute as well. First, thanks for the reply. Baseball-reference.com may indeed be reliable (as we all try to be),and I have queried them too. (I am also a SABR member, although a newer member than some.) But with no offense intended to others who know the topic better than I, it seems likely that somebody way back when made an error and then others just repeated it, since the claim is unsourced and the Archivist for Holy Cross (whom I called) does not find any record of a Timothy Murnane from Connecticut-- he finds one from Fitchburg (who seems to be a different Timothy Murnane, with a different middle name) who attended Holy Cross's prep school during those years, not Holy Cross college. Newspaper articles, and our Tim Murnane's own recollections, place him in Connecticut playing for Stratford, Norwalk and several other local teams in 1869-70, and all he ever mentions is going to school in Naugatuck in a one-room country school. I find no evidence he was in Massachusetts at that time, and he only mentions Massachusetts as a place he visited later, when he was playing baseball. THAT is why I am puzzled. So how do we address this? I certainly do not want to question anyone's research, and as much as I am known for being accurate, I know I too make mistakes sometimes. Suggested actions for clearing this up? Or do we just leave it alone for now?
 * The best thing that I can suggest, since you are a SABR member is to effect an update in the research. Seems reasonable to me that the original researcher may have confused the two Tim Murnanes. It is difficult to remove the information from the article, since the information does have at least one "reliable" resource. However, if you want to remove it, I have no issue with that, and others will hopefully see the talk page raising this issue. Accurate information is the community's ultimate goal. Neonblak talk  -  08:13, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

DonnaHalper (talk) 19:29, 25 December 2011 (UTC)I am finding all sorts of interesting research about him, including that the newspapers of the 1870s and early 1880s spelled his name Murnan. (So did the 1860 census.) I am hopeful I can provide some useful new additions to the research on him, as he was considered the dean of Boston's baseball writers for nearly thirty years. Oh, one thing you could do for me that I would really appreciate. I will absolutely be able to source my Murnane additions very soon, but the one thing I have never done right is how you good folks do the footnotes. I am a professor and a media historian, so I am accustomed to doing them with an internal citation, but I know you do it differently. I have been referred to some pages that show what looks like code of some kind, but I really would appreciate somebody explaining it me. Any ideas as to whom I might ask for a quick lesson? I learn much better when somebody shows me-- visual learner, and all that!!! Holiday good wishes to you and yours.

Worcester Worcesters
I did a little following up on the July 2009 discussion over the name of this 1880s NL franchise. If you're inclined to do so, let me know what you think at Talk:Worcester Worcesters ``` W i k i W i s t a h ``` 23:09, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

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The all-time roster of the Major League Baseball franchise's Boston Reds spans one season in the Players' League (PL) in 1890 (team pictured), and one season in the American Association (AA) in 1891. In each season, the Reds were their league's champion. The Reds were an instant success on the field and with the public. The team signed several top-level players, and they played in a larger, more modern ballpark than the Boston Beaneaters, the popular and well established cross-town rival. After the dissolution of the PL, the AA voted to allow the Reds into the new combined league. The Reds stayed intact by keeping several of their top players, and signed several other top-level players to fill the void of the departing players. When the 1891 season ended, the AA also folded, and the Reds were bought out by the surviving NL clubs.

Jim Creighton at cricket
There's not a lot on him as a cricketer in what I would consider the "usual" places. This would be the major starting point for anyone as a cricketer, with this a list of his matches (all of which are below what may be considered "top class") recorded by the CricketArchive people. But it is missing several of the matches which are mentioned in the article, and the archive is by no means comprehensive. This may be the team he played against, but I'm not sure how reliable that tour article is, as this is not really my speciality. The matches given on the site are interesting, and according to this scorecard, the American Cricket Club was formed after this match. Finally, it doesn't tell us much about what he did as a cricketer such as his bowling style. I'm not too sure how much you know about cricket, so let me know if I can help further. Not sure if any of this helps! Sarastro1 (talk) 22:34, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
 * It helps explain just how much he was actually involved in the Cricket world during that time. I wasn't anticipating much more than what is recorded anyway, with his baseball taking up much of the summer, and his short lifespan. I don't know much of anything about Cricket, but I was looking to see if anyone could write a better narative than I could about his involvement with the sport. Thanks for the help, looks like I could add another line or two in that section to give it a little more comprhensiveness. Neonblak talk  -  08:10, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

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DYK for List of Major League Baseball all-time leaders in home runs by pitchers
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Umpires Task Force
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 * If you want to change the page format, feel free but I would first discuss it on the project talk page. I will be unavailable to edit for about four days, so I'll leave the decisions up to the other members. AutomaticStrikeout (talk) 23:33, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I have the page most of the way set, however I don't know how to removed the words "Good articles" from the top of this page. Can you help? AutomaticStrikeout (talk) 22:46, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Never mind, problem solved. I hope you like the improvements. AutomaticStrikeout (talk) 00:00, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'm glad you liked it. As for the infobox, I think the umpire infobox should be tweaked to add a years active section, as well as room for place and date of birth/death. For a retired umpire, we could just leave the crew members section blank. AutomaticStrikeout (talk) 14:53, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Ok, sounds good. Let me know when it is finished, so I can start adding it to the articles. AutomaticStrikeout (talk) 16:34, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Request for review
Hi there Neonblak! I was just wondering whether you could help review the 20–20–20 club list I nominated for FL. I understand that you're probably busy, so there's no need to commit to anything and take as long as you need (as I nominated the list less than a week ago). A quick scan through would be great. Cheers! —Bloom6132 (talk) 11:38, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Sure :) It will be at least Monday before I could devote some time. Neonblak talk  -  14:25, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks a million :) —Bloom6132 (talk) 17:03, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
 * As an update, I've just nominated the 50 home run club list for FLC, so feel free to comment on that as well when you have the time. Cheers! —Bloom6132 (talk) 05:31, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Hand-coding
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DYK for Jack Stivetts
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Jim Creighton
Ahh...the Edit (Beta) is the culprit!

You can imagine my confusion...I'm making a correct grammatical change, and this Neonblak editor insists on reverting back to the incorrect grammar. But it was tunnel vision on my part. I didn't notice my apparent deletion of Jim's entire player stats box.

Here's what happened. All I did was give the Edit (Beta) a try, and apparently by changing three words, I inadvertently deleted a large stat-box of the article...somehow. Super confusing. I suppose I'll just stick with Edit Source from here on out, as that Beta characterization is dead on.

As you can see from the new official edit, I was simply making a grammatical change. Sorry for the trouble, and thanks for your diligence, and more importantly, thank you for serving our country. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elgreggo11 (talk • contribs) 03:49, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

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Recreational Roads
Hello. I have addressed your concerns at your reviews for Recreational Road 2 and RE 8. Thanks for the reviews, they really helped me in my work on getting the Recreational Road System up to a Good Topic. Thanks, - Awardgive. Help out with Project Fillmore County 19:24, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. It surprises me that these short articles stay unreviewed for so long. Good luck with you Good Topic ! Neonblak talk  -  23:15, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Jimmy Lavender
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 * Wow, can't believe this was your first barnstar... with the amount of reviewed content you've contributed, you were long overdue! Enjoy the week, and may your favorite World Series team not obstruct any runners. -- Khazar2 (talk) 17:35, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

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