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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Skipple (talk | contribs) at 14:54, 15 April 2024 (→Requested move 14 April 2024: my comment got indented for some reason). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Former good articleMajor League Baseball was one of the Sports and recreation good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
October 4, 2008Good article nomineeListed
October 6, 2008Peer reviewReviewed
August 15, 2010Good article reassessmentDelisted
December 10, 2013Good article nomineeListed
April 23, 2022Good article reassessmentDelisted
Current status: Delisted good article

Incorrect footnote

Although The Football Association was founded in England in 1863, it was a strictly amateur league until 1885. - the Football Association is not a league, it is the governing committee of all football in England. There were no football leagues in existence until 1888 when The Football League was formed, so this note is essentially redundant -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 11:00, 14 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

COVID-19 season in History

I think there should be a section under history that outlines details of the MLB season during the covid pandemic, considering it was a dramatic change in the history of how MLB games were played out. AstralNomad (talk) 18:47, 27 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: German History, 1900-1945

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 10 January 2024 and 22 March 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Egrant111 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Eklies (talk) 05:38, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 14 April 2024

– Following consensus at Talk:National Football League#Requested move 3 March 2024 and Talk:National Basketball Association#Requested move 28 February 2024. DS537(WIR) 19:43, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

To better support an international audience, my preference is to keep the full name of Major League Baseball in article titles, and not to use an abbreviation. In particular, this article should remain with its complete title. isaacl (talk) 19:49, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose all. What's the point of doing these moves? Seems to be more clear with the full title rather than the abbreviations. Also, if we are comparing to those other leagues.. NFL and NBA are more common in abreviation useage than MLB is. Spanneraol (talk) 20:29, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment, I haven't looked deep enough to see if MLB is the common name over Major League Baseball, but why request a move to the main MLB article when in both the cases you linked the main league pages were not moved to abbreviations? Esolo5002 (talk) 21:13, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose all - I fail to see any valid rationale for the move and no evidence that MLB is common name. - Skipple ☎ 03:30, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose main article, weak support on others Originally I was going to state people don't call it MLB like they do NFL/NHL/NBA; they cal it "the Majors" or the full name. But then WP:CONCISE states The goal of concision is to balance brevity with sufficient information to identify the topic to a person familiar with the general subject area. So as an article title, people familiar with baseball would know what it is about. Note: If "MLB on CBS" is the common name, then it might be appropriate to move it independent of this RM. Rgrds. --BX (talk) 04:23, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose on the main article; as Isaacl says, this better serves an international audience. The others are less important (except, perhaps, for the television programme, as BX states); though i think it would be an error to move them (as i feel it was for the other sports), CONCISE maybe does support the moves ~ it depends how we define a person familiar with the general subject area ~ though i don't live in the US i did and thus recognise "MLB", many of my colleagues IRL would not have a clue even though they may have interest in sports, because baseball is a regional game, so this would make these articles less accessible. Happy days, ~ LindsayHello 06:25, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose main article with certainty. As Esolo5002 says above, based on the precedent set with the other non-moves, even nominating the main article is a total waste of time. Ambivalent on the others. As others have noted, unlike the NFL/NBA/NHL, the MLB abbreviation isn't as universally used, with "the Majors" or even just "baseball" used commonly as well. Heck, the MLB abbreviation was practically totally unused for decades.
oknazevad (talk) 12:17, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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