BR Bullpen:Featured Article Candidates/Smoky Joe Wood

Smoky Joe Wood

He is my suggestion for the next featured article so vote on this I guess. Cody n Nelli (talk) 03:43, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Oppose (for now): the article is short by our standards. SadGoth: if you're interested, why don't you take on fleshing it out as a project. You could start by mining the SABR Bio Project article for info, but there's a lot more available in other sources (for example, his performance in World Series play). See the work Mischa did recently bringing the Arky Vaughan article up to featured article standards. Philippe (talk) 15:14, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Neutral There were complaints that the Ayami Sato article was too short when I proposed that and this is shorter. OTOH, he is an interesting player. I'd support it if it was expanded more. We probably don't want to copy the SABR BioProject too much so that our articles are distinctive. Maybe there are some books he could use as reference? My other thought is that we tend to alternate featured articles of 1) Fairly notable MLB player-to-star (ex. Charlie Hough, Tommy Leach or Dock Ellis) 2) More obscure MLB player or non-MLB player (ex. Benny Distefano, Owen Ozanich or Koichi Tabuchi) 3) Event or team (ex. Chronicle-Telegraph Cup, 1983 Expos or 2007 Japan Series)

so it would probably go on the back burner (like the 2010 European Cup did for a while)

- Mischa (talk) 15:41, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Oppose We already had Arky Vaughan recently, I thought having another pre-1940 player was not proper. Also, this article itself didn't met our standards, and SadGoth should first improved the article then we can started to discuss whether it should be featured or not - Rugosa1134 (talk) 15:47, 23 January 2024 (UTC)