Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/List of members of the Baseball Hall of Fame/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured list removal 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 kept by Dabomb87 16:26, 31 October 2009 [1].

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List of members of the Baseball Hall of Fame

Featured list removal candidates/List of members of the Baseball Hall of Fame/archive1

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I am nominating this for featured list removal because it fails the criteria. It should have been nominated when the merger occurred, but still better late than never.

• Lead
  • Mostly unreferenced
  • The first sentence is now obsolete.

Done. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 18:33, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

• Members of the Baseball Hall of Fame
  • The section title should be shortened and not to echo the title of the page

Done. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 18:28, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

• • The sentence explaining the "year" column should be a footnote

Actually, in keeping with the majority of recent baseball lists, it's been moved into the key. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 18:28, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

• • A "key" should be before the abbreviations, not as a footnote

done --Muboshgu (talk) 16:23, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

• • The † and ‡ symbols should be clickable

These were moved into the key. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 18:28, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Don't you think the explanations are too long for the "key"?--Cheetah (talk) 01:59, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Personally? Yes, I do. I didn't put them there. But I think it's pointless to make all of the daggers clickable. It would make more sense to remove the daggers, replace them with em-dashes, representing blanks, since that's truly what they are, and add a footnote. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 03:16, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

I agree that it's too long and that the daggers should be replaced and given a footnote. --Muboshgu (talk) 11:42, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

• • The "year" column should be centered

done --Muboshgu (talk) 18:41, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

• • The "Name" and "Percent of vote" should be sorted properly. The names are sorted by first name; should be by last name

done --Muboshgu (talk) 17:41, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

The "percent of vote" is not sorting properly still.--Cheetah (talk) 01:59, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Taking out those symbols as discussed above would take care of that problem. --Muboshgu (talk) 11:42, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

• • The images need proper captions and alt texts
    • Alt text has been added since the FLRC began, and the captions now in place seem reasonable. Giants2008 (17–14) 20:59, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
• Notes
  • The meaning of the word "pioneer" should be sourced
  • The † and ‡ notes should be sourced
• The list itself is hardly sourced. Is it sourced by an "external link"? It should be shown clearer

--Cheetah (talk) 05:36, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

• Conditional Keep – it's not ready to stay in its current form, but all it needs are references and a lead image, both of which I can easily provide within the two-week removal period. Compared to some older lists, this one isn't nearly that bad. I'll get to work on it forthwith. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 11:54, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

• Keep – This article is now fully within the current FL standards. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 17:14, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

• Conditional Keep Agree w/ KV5. If these issues are still pending in two weeks, it should be delisted, but I imagine we can fix these easily. --Muboshgu (talk) 15:39, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
• Conditional Keep Staxringold _talk^contribs 18:10, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

• Comment The images need alt text per WP:ALT. Dabomb87 (talk) 23:57, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

• I was getting there :-D! Hope I've learned a little something since my first attempt. Done. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 00:29, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

• Comment I think we should make a separate column in the table that indicates whether they were elected by the BBWAA, Veterans Committee or committee on the Negro Leagues. This info is readily available.[2] Thoughts? --Muboshgu (talk) 01:03, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
  • Very valuable, would heartily support this addition. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 01:07, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
    • Nice find.--Cheetah (talk) 01:59, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
• Comment Just saw that some member are tabbed as "Executive" yet there is no "Executive" field listed in the key. Not sure if this is intentional or not, since I think the Hall groups Execs and Pioneers as kind of the same category. Just wanted to bring this up. - Masonpatriot (talk) 23:13, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
• Comment as I just said on the talk page, I think it'd be great if we added what team each player was inducted from. This information already exists at each team's page but it'd be nice to have it all centered; for example someone may want to compare how many players each team had inducted. Redwolf24 (talk) 00:03, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

• The reason that this is not included is due to the sometime arbitrary nature for which teams are selected. As the Hall, not the player, has the say over with which team a player had the most impact, and because their decisions are sometimes contentious for the players, the info isn't included. It's arguable, for some players, which team he should have been inducted with; he may have pitched 7 seasons for one team and won a lot of games and then won a World Series in two seasons with another, and thus was chosen to be inducted with the second team. Because of the possibly contentious nature of the information, I don't think it's necessary, and could cause stability issues. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 01:16, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Heh, I wish I had seen that reply earlier, because I added teams. You can roll it back if you think it should be pulled, but I do think it's worthy of inclusion as it is the Hall's standards. --Muboshgu (talk) 02:26, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

I believe that since most of the players are inducted as wearing a specific team on their cap, it's information that should be available in a list detailing inductees to the hall. While you can argue that Reggie Jackson should be wearing an A's cap, in the end he's in the hall with a Yankees cap, and this is indisputable. Redwolf24 (talk) 11:22, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Maybe it would be preferable to change it to inducted as, or something along those lines? Redwolf24 (talk) 11:24, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

That would definitely be preferred. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 11:32, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Update: I've made the change. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 13:57, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

• Does anyone else feel that the positions column is too wide? This could be solved by abbreviating executive "EXEC" and pioneer "PIO" or "PNR", as is done at the Philadelphia Baseball Wall of Fame, and also by placing those with multiple positions on multiple lines so it's not so wide (also with the "career" column). Also, I believe that the abbreviations should follow a common format, so they should all be all caps, like "1B" and "2B", resulting in "MGR" as well. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 13:57, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
  • Agree. Redwolf24 (talk) 09:28, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
  • Sure. But we still need to source the term "Pioneer". I did a quick search and came up with nothing. We've got another week, right? --Muboshgu (talk) 11:55, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
    • A week at minimum. If we are still actively working, the delegates likely won't close this until we start ignoring it, finish it, or quit. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 12:04, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

• Dabs; please check the disambiguation links identified in the toolbox. Dabomb87 (talk) 23:32, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

• Done the dabbies. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 11:35, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, that was my bad. Next I'm going to add {{sort}} to the percentages to make them sort correctly, just as soon as I can. --Muboshgu (talk) 16:26, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Comment – I added a couple inlines and another general reference, and plan on adding a few more cites when I get time. Giants2008 (17–14) 20:59, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Comment – Does anyone object to the multi-lining of dates to reduce the width of this table? I want to get specific line-by-line references in the table for each inductee. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 12:54, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

• Comment I have removed all positions which are linked in the table (all the field positions plus Ump and Manager) because the link provides as much information as the key (per another FLC comment). Left Pioneer and Executive, as they are unlinked. Staxringold _talk^contribs 21:51, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
  • I don't agree with this edit. It necessitates readers having to drag back up to the key to find out what a position is if they do not know. With a link, they can simply click. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 15:01, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Comment So how do we fix the percentages? We need to take those symbols out, but then a footnote goes in? Does that mess with the sorting? --Muboshgu (talk) 22:27, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Shouldn't hurt the sort because all em-dashes will sort the same way. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 15:01, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

But do we insert a link for the footnotes? Would that interfere with the sort? --Muboshgu (talk) 15:03, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

If you are using the {{ref label}} and {{note label}} templates, it shouldn't. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 15:46, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Great, thanks for pointing that out. I'll read up on the use in a bit then put it to use. --Muboshgu (talk) 00:08, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Done. --Muboshgu (talk) 02:55, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

• Comment - There are 2 citation need tags in the key.—Chris!_c/t 01:50, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

• Yeah, we know. We're still working on it. --Muboshgu (talk) 02:55, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

• Delist. I think this has got really close to keep, but basically there are still outstanding issues that have not been addressed and this page hasn't been edited in almost a week. Hopefully this !vote will be a motivating factor rather than discouragement, because lots of good work has been done previously. Rambo's Revenge (talk) 10:35, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

• Yes, motiviating factor... this fell off my radar for a little bit but we can still finish off the fixes. --Muboshgu (talk) 13:57, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

• It's still been on my list of things to do but I've been very busy. I'll try to push it back to the top of the heap. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 16:56, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Update on sourcing issue for footnotes

OK, so I've considered the sourcing options. If we are indeed sourcing all of the individual rows to their HoF page (as we should), then the notes for percentage of voting do not need to be sourced. The rows source themselves. Thus, we can just put in the em-dashes in the blank cells with their footnotes and be done with that part. The second half of note 1 ("In some years, voting was done by order of preference, with one or more candidates receiving greater weight than others with the same number of votes; also, the committee would sometimes move to make a selection unanimous once the necessary number of votes was attained for a particular candidate.") is at this point unverifiable and unimportant. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 00:03, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Sure Obviously sourcing everybody like that is the way to go, but it's tedious and will take some time on our part to finish them all. As far as the unanimous selection thing, we'll have to do something as in the case of Lou Gehrig, and anyone else who might've been allowed in by unanimous consent, as the page doesn't specify it clearly. --Muboshgu (talk) 01:03, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Those inducted by special election likely will not have released percentages either; that seems to be a pattern with the HoF. If it's out of the ordinary, they don't release voting details. A pattern, unfortunately, isn't a source, because I've found one and not the other. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 01:08, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

The Negro League Committee vote totals for 1972 were apparently released publicly, at least if you believe the Spokane Daily Chronicle. Not sure about the other years yet. Giants2008 (17–14) 16:41, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

While I'm here, please let me know if you need help sourcing the individual players. This is the kind of work I enjoy doing. Giants2008 (17–14) 16:42, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Please do; we'd love all the help we can get. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 16:45, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Your sourcing the individuals is much appreciated. I don't have the time or patience for that job right now, so thank you. --Muboshgu (talk) 11:49, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

About half the players are now individually cited. Also, I found a book on Google News that uses the term "pioneer contributer". Would this be acceptable as a source if the key entry was shortened slightly? Giants2008 (17–14) 17:49, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

I think that's a fine source. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 13:19, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Comment According to the link checker, there is one dead link. Dabomb87 (talk) 03:35, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Actually two and all fixed.—Chris!_c/t 04:05, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Quick note: the cite tag is gone because I removed the part of the note that was uncited as false. Several of the vote totals were released, as a look at the newspaper refs I added confirms. I'm on Internet Explorer and the sorting works for me, so I won't be of much help with sorting on Safari. Giants2008 (17–14) 21:33, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

I use IE8 and the sorting is all messed up in the % col. The "100%" and "-" cells don't sort properly. The only solution is to use the sorting templates. Giants2008, try sorting 4 times, and you'll see that it sorts differently every time.--Cheetah (talk) 19:42, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Serves you right for using IE8!  :-p The Rambling Man (talk) 17:33, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

But seriously, I have problems with that col in Safari. So per Cheetah, it needs fixing... The Rambling Man (talk) 17:34, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Done. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 17:44, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

• Keep - a lot of really good work done. The Rambling Man (talk) 17:11, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
• Keep —Chris!_c/t 02:36, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
• Contributor keep – Did a lot of work to help this one along, and believe that it once again meets FL criteria, though I have a natural inclination to feel that way. Giants2008 (17–14) 20:07, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

• Conditional keep When the key for the positions is added, I'll be satisfied. --Cheetah (talk) 07:00, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

• You got it. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 11:59, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

• Keep We did a good job here. --Muboshgu (talk) 14:42, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

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