Talk:Tom Gamboa

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The reference hyperlink is slightly incorrect. It should be http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/1010/player-fan.altercations/content.9.html 98.217.5.255 (talk) 19:43, 20 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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I believe he was first base coach in 2002 and bullpen coach in 2001 and 2003. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.143.53.80 (talk) 20:38, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Galatz - why would u edit war over this. Leave it the way it was originally. This is not the best use of time and iq. It starts to be strange - even in these parts. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_Gamboa&diff=869843025&oldid=869842248 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.153.21.19 (talk) 07:09, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It should be the preferred way, you are changing it to the non-preferred way. - Galatz גאליץ ^{שיחה Talk} 14:37, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You are making that up. That is false - our policy does not call the "Galatz Way" the "preferred way." You are simply concocting that.

Our policy says "Two-digit ending years (1881–82...) may be used in any of the following cases: (1) two consecutive years..." It does not say that way is not preferred.

That was the first way used here. Go with it. Abandon yourself. Let down your hair.

And please, please, stop saying untruths, to try to impose your personal preference on others. It is not good for wikipedia when editors do that - wikipedia should come first, not imposing any one editor's will.

If you want to make it a rule, do it the proper way. Got to the policy and ask for the change you want. You know how it would change the rule to read - it would say (as it does not) "The preferred way is ..." Otherwise, stick with the first way used, as we do with other date formats, like numerical vs non-numerical.--184.153.21.19 (talk) 05:50, 25 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It says it right in what you quoted. It says it may be, it doesn't say it must be. Everything is about the full YYYY-YYYY and then it says there is an optional other way. You want the other way, not the way its done for everything else. Consistency is always preferred on wikipedia. - Galatz גאליץ ^{שיחה Talk} 15:01, 27 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Galatz, I recognize that it is possible that this is not your native language. But when a rule says "it may be x, it may be y," that does not mean (in English, or in math in logic) that "the preferred way is x, and Galatz should take prior-existing text that says y, and change it, because .. Galatz."

You are obviously reading it as though it says your way is preferable. It does not say that. That is an untruth. Surely - you must see this. If you can't, let's bring it to admins to decide if you are improperly going around (as you are doing this across the project) changing appropriate existing formats that our rules say may be the way they are -- to your personally preferred format. That is a waste of time, but more than that it is harmful to the project, because you improperly reduce the joy of others in editing by exercising improperly ownership tendencies that wipe out their good work. And then editors leave the project. That's not good. 184.153.21.19 (talk) 05:49, 25 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

MOS:DATERET. For adjacent years, two- vs. four-digit are alternative styles with neither preferred, and whichever is the established style must be retained barring consensus to change. E Eng 16:31, 25 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]