The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that while Stan Benjamin was a scout, the Houston Astros used his evaluation of Jeff Bagwell as the basis to make a trade for him on August 30, 1990?
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I noticed some major problems with this article, first tbe sourcing all depends on his orbit, and baseball-reference. More sourcing should be involved. Try google news for information about how good of a player he was, why did the Phillies wanted him, etc. See Bob Meusel and Ben Paschal for articles that doesn't rely simply on stats.
He played in a era of World War II, why wasn't he drafted, or played in the Majors during that timeframe.
What other players he scouted other than Bagwell, why did the Astros trust Benjamin evaluation of Bagwell?
Recognitions seems unneeded with the Bagwell statement be moved.
There's also minor concerns thoughout, but the major ones need to be fixed. Thanks
Thank you for the review, I would have replied sooner, but I expected my watchlist to catch this. As far as answers to your questions, the article includes any and all information that I was able to find is as comprehensive as it can be using available references. See recent GA promotions, Ed Blake, Dick Padden, using essentially the same limited sources. I will restructure the recognitions section, I agree that it is a very small section that can be incorporated into another section.Neonblaktalk - 00:30, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
At this moment, the Boston Globe link is dead, and I can not find any mirrors (Google did not cache it), so I can not check it. For the rest, the article is mostly statistics. A quick search on google news archive gave these newspaper sources from his playing days:
And google books gave some results, and especially the first one gives a fact about his scouting years. I have no idea if this is important enough to be in the article because I don't know anything about baseball.
I found these sources in a few minutes, so it could be possible that there are more sources to be found about Benjamin. However, I do not know enough about baseball to know if these extra sources are needed in this article, so I'll let the original reviewer decide on that. --EdgeNavidad (talk) 16:48, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Secret seems to have disappeared, so I'll finish the GA review. Here's what I found:
"He joined the Chattanooga Lookouts of the Class A1 Southern Association as an outfielder" when?
In most cases, numbers under 10 should be spelled out. However, after a recent FAC there are exceptions to this, and I'm not positive which sentences do and don't apply. Keep this in mind though; if you want to change some (i.e. 7 home runs, 2 doubles, etc.) then I'd prefer it personally.
I find it ironic that 1941 seems to be the year least covered when that was his most productive year. There's some stuff here that I'm sure could help expand a bit there.
Thank you for taking over, I made the suggested changes and added a couple of highlights from the 1941 season from the news search you gave. I only used the ones that appeared notable, like game-winning hits. Let me know if these were enough.Neonblaktalk - 13:27, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
