Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Philadelphia Athletics (1890–1891) all-time roster/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was promoted by The Rambling Man 16:45, 5 March 2010.

Philadelphia Athletics (1890–1891) all-time roster

 * Nominator(s):  Neonblak talk  -  15:28, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because I feel it merits promotion, however, if reviewers notice issues I missed, I will quickly fix 'em. Neonblak talk  -  15:28, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 23:47, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Support. WFCforLife (talk) 17:30, 26 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Comments from
 * General
 * Everything in the toolbox checks out fine with the checker tools.
 * Lead
 * Instead of 'switched' why not 'joined the'? (After the demise of the PL following the 1890 season, the team switched to the American Association (AA) for the 1891 season, and were managed by Bill Sharsig and George Wood) seems smoother IMO.
 * This is a bit confusing, so the Quakers and Athletics mentioned in this sentence are different or the same? It makes it sound different with the wording especially with no dates mentioned (Despite the existence of established major league representation in Philadelphia, the Phillies of the National League (NL) and the Athletics of the AA, the Quakers were able to sign veteran players, including Buffinton, Billy Shindle, George Wood, and Ben Sanders)
 * Semicolon before however instead of a comma (Following the 1890 season, many players returned to their previous teams, however, the Athletics were able to sign quality veteran players, including Gus Weyhing, Elton Chamberlain, and Pop Corkhill.)
 * List
 * I would make Ref -> Ref.
 * References
 * There's a heavy reliance on 'retrosheet', is there no other source that can verify the list? T ru  c o   503 02:37, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Baseball-Reference, another common source for baseball lists, has the same info here. Just click on either year to get the rosters of people who played for them. Staxringold talkcontribs 23:13, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * ^Agreed.-- T ru  c o   503 02:00, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Made the changes you suggested, the sentence wording may or may not clear things up. I use prefer to use Retrosheet for statistics, correct names, birth/death dates and places, and cemetery info.  The website is information gathered by SABR, the foremost leader in historical baseball data.  I do use baseball-reference for information not found on Retrosheet. Neonblak  talk  -  12:09, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll let that go since you do have a different general reference.-- T ru  c o   503 00:00, 5 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Support --- T ru  c o   503 00:00, 5 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Support; I read through the article, and did not see any further issues outside of what Truco noted. Wizardman  Operation Big Bear 16:10, 3 March 2010 (UTC)


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