Talk:Abner Doubleday

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Contents 1 Denika 2 Link suggestions 3 Page protection 4 reversion of February 10, 2007 5 Baseball assessment

[edit] Denika

My name is Denika Childs. Abner Doubleday is my great great uncle.everyone always goes on about how he wasnt really the one who created baseball.of,His cousin (my grandmother)Colleen Catherine Doubleday(now Rafuse)has pictures,war papers stating exactly where he died,ant other things of his. If you would like to have any contact with us, please email me at denika_butterfly@hotmail.com Thank You, Denika Childs

[edit] Link suggestions

So which side are you on? Is the Mills Commission wrong?

Made some changes, put in the Mills commission. Put up some suggestions on why or why not.

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[edit] Page protection

This article was only recently vandalized by one IP, 70.158.138.38 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log), who is now blocked. I don't see any need for it to be protected. — Quin 22:26, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] reversion of February 10, 2007

I have reverted the recent edits for the following three problems. Please keep these guidelines in mind for future edit attempts.

1. The lead paragraph is supposed to be a summary of the remaining article and you cannot introduce new material (such as Cartwright and Congress) there unless it appears and is cited in the main body of the article.
2. When an article is footnoted, you cannot break up footnoted paragraphs without adjusting the footnotes.
3. The statements "there is considerable evidence to dispute this claim" and "there is no other evidence to support this claim" are not equivalent. The remainder of that paragraph supports the former form, not the latter.

Hal Jespersen 17:48, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Baseball assessment

I just assessed this article for Wikiproject Baseball, and I wanted to add a couple notes explaining my evaluation. First, I mainly judged the sections relevant to this project, and my evaluation shouldn't be seen as a reflection on the military portions of the article. Also, the only thing keeping me from rating it a B is that, while the article details why Doubleday probably isn't the inventor of baseball, it never really gets into the Mills Comission's reasons for thinking he was. If they were basing their conclusions on myth rather than actual evidence, that should be included. Other than that, it's well-written and well-sourced. --Djrobgordon 07:58, 19 February 2007 (UTC)