Talk:Oregon State Beavers baseball

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External Link?

Just to extinguish any conflict of interest complaints, I work for the Oregon State University Archives. That said, I have a great link to some historic images of OSU baseball on our Flickr site. Do you guys think this should be added? Neverware (talk) 19:56, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Founding of Team

There is no mention in the article about the start of the team, only the date that its field opened for use (1907). The OSU Athletic Department holds that the team was founded in 1907, although numerous articles in the local paper and student paper, as well as early yearbooks, confirm at least five seasons between 1892 and 1904-- but I'm not adding this into the article because it is my own original research. I would suggest that we add a line mentioning that the OSU AD maintains 1907 as the start date-- it would indicate the official founding of the team, but avoid being factually inaccurate. ibleedorange14 (talk) 03:04, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Go for it. It would be nice to find a source to cite to add that info though. VegaDark (talk) 06:10, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Go ahead and add the other info you found as well... just cite your sources.--ben_b (talk) 08:08, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

I want to make sure I avoid violating wiki terms of use, regarding original research banned as a source. In my own original research I read every issue of the Corvallis Gazette 1893-1906, the Barometer from start to 1906, and cross-referenced with the yearbook published before 1907, in order to determine the actual start-date. (I only noticed inconsistency with the official start date during research for track and field when I saw that the baseball team disbanded when track won the fight for the only usable facility in 1905, so even this inconsistency is my own original research). Would it be valid to include some of this information with citations, if the citations are to actual articles? I have no digital resources to provide links to, but I kept careful record of the specific articles and dates.ibleedorange14 (talk) 08:16, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Also, just to clarify, there are no sources agreeing with me because, as far as the OSU Archive and Athletic Dept know , I am the first person to actually do this research and physically go through each issue of the papers to determine the extent of pre-1907 baseball. The downside, then, is that there are no secondary sources related to this topic, and all primary sources are either in paper or microfilm form.ibleedorange14 (talk) 08:20, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

While it was your research is there anyway we could get some of these sources digitized and posted online. Have you been in contact with OSU Archive and Athletic Dept. Ultimately it would be great to have them correct their information as well. I would however argue that we could start with some details with footnotes, etc. and expend it as we can prove it more. Thanks for all the research. Hope you can help build out the track and field areas as well. --ben_b (talk) 08:12, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

I think I do actually have most of the articles digitized. Since I am the only secondary source that analyzes and compiles the data, I suppose I could make a claim and then cite 7 or 8 sources in a row, even if that might look funny. I did this while working at the OSU Archives, so they already know about my work. The Athletic Dept. is aware too... we just have differing opinions! The official stance is that since 1907 was the first year in a string of consecutive seasons, it is the start, but I contend that the start was 1892, and outside forces (acts of God, sudden loss of facilities, war, etc) caused several missing seasons.ibleedorange14 (talk) 09:54, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia is all for accuracy even when OSU Athletics is not... so start adding! :) --ben_b (talk) 05:57, 7 October 2012 (UTC)