Category talk:American League All-Stars

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Cat box on Frank White

Hmm. The cat box on Frank White (baseball) reads

It could read

increasing readability and reducing articles' cat-box bloat. The costs involved are

additional cats for each run of 2 or more consecutive seasons that actually occurs in the corresponding league, and
the player bio not appearing direction in 1978 and in 1979, but only indirectly (Category:1978-thru-1979 American League All-Stars would be a sub-cat of both Category:1978 American League All-Stars & Category:1979 American League All-Stars, permitting easy access "down" to the multi-year players.

If nobody explains here what a lousy idea this is, i may remember to come back and implement those two ranges & re-cat White accordingly as a pilot case.
--Jerzy•t 07:09, 19 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

See 21-time All Star player Hank Aaron for an even more bloated case. Since many All Star players appear more than one year, would it not make more sense to have just one category for each league, or perhaps at the most one category per league per decade (e.g. Category:National League All-Stars in the 1960s). The breakdown can them be moved to a list of players for each game (possibly there already is such an article, I'm not sure). — sjorford (talk) 12:07, 6 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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I concede that subcategorizing by individual game is excessive...might we consider categorizing by decade? Purpleback pack 89≈≈≈≈ 01:39, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]