User talk:Negro League Committee
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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia!
I hope not to seem unfriendly or make you feel unwelcome, but I noticed your username, and I am concerned that it might not meet Wikipedia's username policy. After you look over that policy, could we discuss that concern here?
I'd appreciate learning your own views, for instance your reasons for wanting this particular name, and what alternative username you might accept that avoids raising this concern.
You have several options freely available to you:
- If you can relieve my concern through discussing it here, I can stop worrying about it.
- If the two of us can't agree here, we can ask for help through Wikipedia's dispute resolution process, such as requesting comments from other Wikipedians. Wikipedia administrators usually abide by agreements reached through this process.
- You can keep your contributions history under a new username. Visit Wikipedia:Changing username and follow the guidelines there.--Negro League Committee 16:00, 27 October 2007 (UTC)--Negro League Committee 16:31, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
Thank you. --Tckma 15:16, 12 October 2007 (UTC) I am a member of the SABR Negro League Committee, which studies and writes about the Negro Leagues, which preceded the integration of major league baseball. I am proud to be part of this research effort, and more than 30 Negro Leaguers are in the Baseball Hall of Fame. I don't see how any one can object to this username - unless they are prejudiced. Many great ball players from the Negro Leagues went on to have great major league career, beginning with Jackie Robinson. If there is any further objection, let me know.--Negro League Committee 18:14, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
- Okay, no worries. I was concerned that some might interpret it as a racial slur. --Tckma 17:39, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
Unblock/Mistaken identity, used valid edits/caughat in the ridiculous anti-Ron Liebman paranoia I am SABR member and I made several valid edits (mostly team and league ID's and formatting) to the 3000-hit club and the 500-home run club. I believe the only significant statistical change I made was to Anson's hit total. SABR, after exhaustive research (Ron was only one of many) set the bar at 3012, following the lead of the Official ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia's research effort headed by Pete Palmer. Some stubborn mules, like the Hall of Fame and Elias (86-year old Seymour Siwoff), will never change their stats, but, as of now, 3012 is the most "correct" figure. "User: Baseball Bugs" seems to be taking statistical stands simply to get on the opposite side as Ron Liebman - and he reluctantly changed a couple of birthyears and stats only because administrators bore down on him. Ron raised the Wikipedia issue itself at the annual SABR Convention, and their administrators know that Ron is not to blame for what happened. I am not Ron, but I have found him to be levelheaded. He has obviously been victimized by copy-cat edits and the false perception that other legitimate editors were Ron. Please unblock me, or I will have to re-emerge under another user name. Jimbo Wales should be informed about what's going on - just like John Zacj (SABR Exec-Director). Time for common sense and an end to the anti-Ron Lbman paranoia. I know several editors who have been falsely thought of as being Ron. Let's go. Also, the checkuser is obviously an unreliable tool. Unblock immediately.--Negro League Committee 17:35, 27 October 2007 (UTC)-
