Talk:Stan Benjamin/GA1

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I noticed some major problems with this article, first tbe sourcing all depends on his orbit, and baseball-reference. More sourcing should be involved. Try google news for information about how good of a player he was, why did the Phillies wanted him, etc. See Bob Meusel and Ben Paschal for articles that doesn't rely simply on stats.
He played in a era of World War II, why wasn't he drafted, or played in the Majors during that timeframe.
What other players he scouted other than Bagwell, why did the Astros trust Benjamin evaluation of Bagwell?
Recognitions seems unneeded with the Bagwell statement be moved.
There's also minor concerns thoughout, but the major ones need to be fixed. Thanks

Reviewer: Secret ^account 13:38, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the review, I would have replied sooner, but I expected my watchlist to catch this. As far as answers to your questions, the article includes any and all information that I was able to find is as comprehensive as it can be using available references. See recent GA promotions, Ed Blake, Dick Padden, using essentially the same limited sources. I will restructure the recognitions section, I agree that it is a very small section that can be incorporated into another section.Neonblak ^talk - 00:30, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Any other concerns Secret? Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 16:55, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Additional comments: At this moment, the Boston Globe link is dead, and I can not find any mirrors (Google did not cache it), so I can not check it. For the rest, the article is mostly statistics. A quick search on google news archive gave these newspaper sources from his playing days:

And an extra newsitem about his death, telling about his past (I don't know how much this is the same as the Boston article:

Remembering Greenfield coach and Major League Baseball scout Stan Benjamin

And google books gave some results, and especially the first one gives a fact about his scouting years. I have no idea if this is important enough to be in the article because I don't know anything about baseball.

4 books in Google Books

I found these sources in a few minutes, so it could be possible that there are more sources to be found about Benjamin. However, I do not know enough about baseball to know if these extra sources are needed in this article, so I'll let the original reviewer decide on that. --EdgeNavidad (talk) 16:48, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the links, I will incorporate any new information that can be gained from them.Neonblak ^talk - 00:32, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I went through the links you gave, and was able to pull additional content.Neonblak ^talk - 01:42, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Secret seems to have disappeared, so I'll finish the GA review. Here's what I found:

"He joined the Chattanooga Lookouts of the Class A1 Southern Association as an outfielder" when?
In most cases, numbers under 10 should be spelled out. However, after a recent FAC there are exceptions to this, and I'm not positive which sentences do and don't apply. Keep this in mind though; if you want to change some (i.e. 7 home runs, 2 doubles, etc.) then I'd prefer it personally.
I find it ironic that 1941 seems to be the year least covered when that was his most productive year. There's some stuff here that I'm sure could help expand a bit there.

I'll put the article on hold, and after these changes the article should be worthy of GA status. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 02:01, 28 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for taking over, I made the suggested changes and added a couple of highlights from the 1941 season from the news search you gave. I only used the ones that appeared notable, like game-winning hits. Let me know if these were enough.Neonblak ^talk - 13:27, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good, so the article passes. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 15:05, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]