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What happened to all of the colored rows?[edit]

Everything is just white now, which doesn't distinguish headings at all from the other content. It looks like the edits on October 23 eliminated this - what was the reason? Y2Kcrazyjoker4 (talk • contributions) 13:44, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes we need to fix this. Spanneraol (talk) 14:08, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I just noticed this and was coming here to ask as well. – Muboshgu (talk) 14:11, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am thinking it was an oversight based on the edit summary. I have reverted it for now. Perhaps @Frietjes: can come take a look and see what might have happened. -DJSasso (talk) 15:52, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Y2Kcrazyjoker4, Spanneraol, Muboshgu, and Djsasso:, thanks it was this change that broke it. Frietjes (talk) 15:59, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Template-protected edit request on 20 March 2015[edit]

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Add colors from Module:College color Joeykai (talk) 18:22, 20 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit template-protected}} template. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(e • t • c)} 21:04, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Template-protected edit request on 21 September 2015[edit]

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Please redirect to {{Infobox baseball biography}} as per this TfD. My bot has changed templates on all pages that needed additional parameters before the redirect, so nothing will be lost by the redirect. ~ Rob^Talk 01:48, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@BU Rob13:

Done. Please purge and check transcluding pages to make sure that your bot updates were successful. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 02:51, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In the event of an update not taking hold, the stakes were very low; the only error would be a few links not being present where they formerly were and a few labels being different. All content would remain the same, as the templates were nearly identical anyway. I did do spot-checking to ensure that mistakes were not made and found no errors. ~ Rob^Talk 03:06, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

FinalDate[edit]

In the David Ortiz page, there is a back-and-forth about what FinalDate means. Some think it means date of last regular season game. Others think it means date of last regular or post season game.

Here's a scenario to think about. Let's assume that a player does something memorable in the post season that deserves to be mentioned in his entry. (EG PlayerABC hit four home runs in a postseason game on October 9, 2016.) But, if the FinalDate entry is the last regular season game (eg October 2, 2016), it looks like he did something memorable a week after his last game. IMO, that is wrong.

I think FinalDate should be the date of the last game played (regular or post season). Cpfan776 (talk) 02:40, 18 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I just actually looked at the Wiki page. It says "Last MLB appearance". It doesn't say regular season. Cpfan776 (talk) 14:33, 18 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

People keep saying on the Ortiz page that last regular season appearance is the standard. Most players who retire will not have played their last game in the postseason; thus, the last appearance was in the regular season. Can somebody give me examples of a player who retired after a season in which he played in the postseason. Thank you. Cpfan776 (talk) 16:49, 23 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Mark Kiger has debutdate & finaldate in post-season. Also Raúl A. Mondesí has debutdate in postseason. If the debutdate can be in the postseason, then I think that the finaldate can be in the postseason as well. Cpfan776 (talk) 03:01, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]