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Hello, attempting to cleanup article as I noticed there was page issue on it that needed to be addressed so it could be removed.
Wiscbadger (
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20:38, 21 May 2019 (UTC)reply
List of clients
Looking at other articles on sports agents, a lot of them seem like a mess... But of those which have solid sources, they generally don't list every notable client. In this case, clients of the C.L. Rocks Corporation do not necessarily belong in an article which is mainly about a sports writer. Looking at these sources, they appear to be routine passing mentions cited to special-interest sites or just plain ol' press releases. The use of baseball-reference.com seems like an example of routine information being included without any particular context of larger indication of encyclopedic significance. This seems like it might fall under
WP:VNOTSUFF.
Grayfell (
talk)
22:53, 21 May 2019 (UTC)reply
Ah. This is a recurring problem. Every time I mention something as an example of a more complex problem, someone fixes only that one issue and ignores the underlying point. If it were just that simple I would've done it myself.
So. Why are some athletes listed but not others? Isn't all of this fairly routine and
indiscriminate? Here is my question, and I'm being entirely sincere: It is encyclopedically significant to list all notable clients of a sports agent's company in the biography of that agent? I honestly don't know, but my inclination is that it is not, just as it is not appropriate to
list all products a company manufactures even when they are independently notable.
For the DeJong contract, there is context. It's still kind of
puffy writing, but it is context supported by reliable sources. Is there similar context for these other athletes, or should the list be removed? Should it instead be reformatted?
Grayfell (
talk)
00:02, 22 May 2019 (UTC)reply
The editor above raises a good point. After reviewing other articles on sports agents, the listing of clients in the agent section of this article does not conform to standard encyclopedic format per WP manual of style. A brief statement describing the relevance of a particularly important client(e.g., DeJong) to the agent in that section is better suited to this article section.
Wiscbadger (
talk)
15:19, 26 May 2019 (UTC)reply
What "reformatting" would someone suggest to fix the section? Might it be fixed simply by adding a qualification like "Some client include..." ? -
kosboot (
talk)
16:28, 28 May 2019 (UTC)reply
This is the section I removed based on comments above: