Talk:Wars of the Roses (disambiguation)

(Avalon Hill)

Deleted a line saying: "*War of the Roses (game), war game created by Avalon Hill". The game's actual name is Kingmaker and has an entry in Wikipedia.

Doh. I stand corrected. PerlKnitter 15:01, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

("War" vs. "Wars" distinction)

The war of the roses should not come here. redirectedFOARP (talk) 10:26, 31 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That's too little info about what FOARP did. I'll try and come back to look into whether reversions is needed because of stubborn literalism in disregard of user's reasonable interests.
--Jerzy•t 17:37, 11 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This is the diff they effected 2 minutes later; it converted The war of the roses from a Rdr targeted at Wars of the Roses (disambiguation) into one targeted at Wars of the Roses. You could argue that The War of the Roses reflects either the real name of the film The War of the Roses, or a mangling of the dynastic struggle's name, and that the change slightly penalizes the well informed and meticulous to accommodate the ignorant and/or slovenly. The dog i have in that fight is yapping, a good sign that i should limit myself to the "You're a good boy, good boy, arnchoo?" role on this.
--Jerzy•t 03:30, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Messrs. de la Rosa and De la Rosa

This:

War of the Roses", a term used by sports writer Jim McLennan to describe the meeting between Major League Baseball pitchers Jorge de la Rosa (Colorado Rockies) and Rubby De La Rosa (Arizona Diamondbacks)

is an incredible longshot for ever being a Dab entry, and utterly unjustified at this time:

The only kind of legitimate dab entry with two links is one where the blue one sucks and the red one is begging to be written so the blue one can be thrown away.
The single blue link in a Dab entry has to point at an article where there is discussion of the relevant thing bearing as name the term being Dabbed.
There has to be reliable sourcing of the use of the term in the sense in question.

As to this specific case, our standards don't say everything that's obvious: If you're Mel Allen you're super-notable, and your private obsessive quirks have a decent chance of being notable. Let's find out first if this bush-league announcer Jim McLennan's himself (let alone his silly and quite possibly insulting distortion of their respective ancestors' names) even approaches worthiness of notice beyond his station's licensed coverage area.
Uh, did i mention i took the entry off the accompanying Dab page?
--Jerzy•t 17:37, 11 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]