BR Bullpen talk:Verifiability

An exception to No Original Research should be added along the lines of:

First-hand accounts relating to a team or league may only be added if the person was an employee of the team or league as a player, manager, coach, umpire, executive, or front office personnel.

So Pitcher53's stuff is permissible. --MichaelEng 09:22, 24 August 2006 (EDT)

I like their standards. This prevents people from doing web searches and tossing in totally incorrect statements (ex. Sam Jethroe setting an IL SB record, incorrect minor league stats for Nick Etten, etc.) that we've had to correct. Let's stick to published material as much as possible, only using the most reliable of websites (ex. japanbaseballdaily.com, mlb.com, minorleaguebaseball.com, www.geocities.com/s_borisov/jb2006/, retrosheet), etc. - --Mischa 12:55, 24 August 2006 (EDT)

I would recommend that first hand accounts- even those from team employees- be put on the talk page and selectively quoted in the topic page. Those accounts are often interesting and valuable, but I don't see them as being more appropriately treated as source material than as something that belongs in the main flow of an article. --Roger 13:39, 24 August 2006 (EDT)