Talk:Robert Stock (baseball)

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Birthplace

Sources disagree as to Stock's place of birth:

Bellevue, Washington^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]
Westlake Village, California^[6]
Westlake, California^[7]

– Archer1234 (talk) 06:56, 1 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "Robert Stock Stats, Fantasy & News". MLB.com.
^ "Robert Stock Stats". Baseball-Reference.com.
^ "Robert Stock Stats & Scouting Report". Baseball America.
^ "Robert Stock Stats, Highlights, Bio". MiLB.com.
^ "MLB Player Stats - Robert Stock - San Diego". St. Louis Dispatch.
^ "Robert Stock Stats - San Diego Padres". ESPN.
^ "Robert Stock". The Baseball Cube.

MLB is the official site of major league baseball, so we adhere to that. Raise on the baseball page if you want further input. --184.153.21.19 (talk) 07:15, 1 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Stats sites often mix up birthplace with the more ambiguous hometown, which could be where you grew up or went to high school. This Pac-12 article says he was born in Bellevue, which is also consistent with most of the stats sites.—Bagumba (talk) 17:40, 1 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I think we go with Bellevue because the preponderance of reliable sources tell us that it's his birthplace. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 20:18, 1 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I concur with Barkeep....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 22:43, 1 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Article updated to add the mlb ref for place of birth. Thanks to all for the input. Cheers. – Archer1234 (talk) 23:26, 1 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Robert Stock (baseball)

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Robert Stock (baseball)'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "auto5":

From List of Jews in sports: Shel Wallman (June 18, 1986). "Nancy Lieberman back in limelight". Jewish Post.
From Bubby Rossman: "Register Players Encyclopedia". Baseball-Reference.com.
From Zack Gelof: Lockard, Melissa. "Zack Gelof, Luis Matos highlight A's and Giants AFL contingents". The Athletic.
From Matt Mervis: Joshua Halickman (July 17, 2022). "Blue-and-white manager Kinsler talks Israeli baseball, Judaism". The Jerusalem Post.
From Richard Bleier: Noah Wright (October 23, 2022). "Pittsburgh Pirates Free Agent Target: Left-Handed Reliever Richard Bleier".
From Jacob Steinmetz: Jeff Dahn. "Florida stay elevates NY's Steinmetz". Perfect Game.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 04:14, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "Robert Stock Stats, Fantasy & News". MLB.com.

[2] "Robert Stock Stats". Baseball-Reference.com.

[3] "Robert Stock Stats & Scouting Report". Baseball America.

[4] "Robert Stock Stats, Highlights, Bio". MiLB.com.

[5] "MLB Player Stats - Robert Stock - San Diego". St. Louis Dispatch.

[6] "Robert Stock Stats - San Diego Padres". ESPN.

[7] "Robert Stock". The Baseball Cube.

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