Talk:War of the Roses (Pennsylvania)
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Inception[edit]
The two corresponding sections, Lancaster Barnstormers#War of the Roses and York Revolution#War of the Roses, on the respective pages are essentially identical in information content, in describing the rivalry and the records of the two teams' games against each other. They require repeated updating, apparently annually or more often. That information is currently also the only content suitable for target of the disambiguation page "War of the Roses" for the contexts of Pennsylvania and/or baseball. (That sense led someone to create the illegitimate entry in War of the Roses (disambiguation) where two blue links appear, linking to both of the PA farm teams. Admitted, it's a cool idea to feed the egos of both York and Lancaster fans by mentioning each one first in their team's respective article, and in fact i'd endorse the concept of creating a single-arg conditional template:York/Lancaster Roses description that would mention York first (throughout) with argument "York", Lancaster first with arg "Lanc", and the team with the better w/l record (or more recently ahead) first, as default, providing a no-playing-favorites version for the Dab page to point to.
I'm gonna leave the conditional-template writing to the template-writing experts, and for now just write one no-parameters template optimized for the Dab page, and suitable (even if ego bruising for --- whaddyacallum? ah! --- fanatics) for replacing the existing two sections, in case someone thinks replacing those sections with an ordinary link to this talk page's article isn't good enuf.
--Jerzy•t 07:19, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
I suggest two small changes, both in the last sentence of the first paragraph (beginning, "With the addition of York to the Atlantic League..."): First, I'd include a link to the Atlantic League article. Second, I'd change "Barnstormers" to "Lancaster Barnstormers" and include a link to that team's article. 23.28.89.18 (talk) 12:37, 19 June 2020 (UTC)