Talk:Walter McCredie
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A fact from Walter McCredie appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 October 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Not to be confused with Judge McCredie
[edit]There is a SABR project that confuses Walt(er) McCredie with his uncle Judge William Wallace McCredie. Judge McCredie bought the Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast League. Walt was already playing for the team and was announced as the team's player-manager. EdJF (talk) 18:57, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
Did you know nomination
[edit]- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 23:07, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
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- ... that in 1915, Walter McCredie (pictured) tried and failed to challenge the baseball color line that prohibited non-White players? Source: https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/Judge-McCredie/
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Vikki Blanche
- Comment: The largest pre-expansion version I see was 1316 bytes so this needs to be 6580 to be 5x and I got it to 6585.
5x expanded by Muboshgu (talk). Self-nominated at 18:25, 22 September 2022 (UTC).
- ... 5 x expanded, reads well, no copyvio issue (one quote), hook interesting and in article and is followed by a reference containing hook fact. QPQ provided. Image clear and in public domain. Query- is white suppose to begin with capital W? Whispyhistory (talk) 05:24, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
- Actually I'm not too sure, but I trust the promoters to copyedit as needed. – Muboshgu (talk) 23:02, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
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