Talk:Batted ball

Batted ball has been listed as one of the Sports and recreation good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
March 11, 2020	Good article nominee	Listed
January 6, 2023	Good article reassessment	Kept

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on April 14, 2020.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that baseball coach Mike Coolbaugh was killed by a batted ball in 2007?

Current status: Good article

Can of corn probably belongs on the List of baseball jargon . I added a prominent link to that list though. In general I think that fly balls, pop-ups, and line drives are thought of distintly, which is why I put the reference to three types of balls hit in the air. I made this more explicit as well. —siro χ o 23:29, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)

Trapped Pop Fly?

What is a Trapped Pop Fly or Trapped Fly Ball? WilliamKF (talk) 19:34, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Two Japanese pages

This page links to two different Japanese pages for the interlanguage links. This does not make sense, because the articles are not distinguished. It basically shows up as saying "You can read this page in Japanese or in Japanese", which makes no sense. No indication that they're different articles, let alone what's different about them. You should pick one and stick to that, but since I don't know Japanese, I cannot choose. - furrykef (Talk at me) 08:04, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The two links are perfectly legitimate - ja: has two separate, full articles for fly balls and ground balls, both of which are dealt with here. —Korath (Talk) 19:45, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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Reviewer: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 15:53, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

There's little to mention on this simple and clear article, which is fully cited.

Maybe wikilink trajectory.
- Done

"an arcing trajectory": aren't all trajectories arcing parabolas? (It was a long time ago that I did school physics). Perhaps say "high-flying" or "that arc high in the sky" or something of that sort.
- Changed to "hit in an arcing manner"

Why is "foul tip" both linked and in boldface? I thought we did one or the other.
- Fixed

The bunt rule seems to be very old. I know there's another article on bunt, but perhaps a sentence based on Snyder would be useful here on why bunts are treated differently?
- Additional sentence added, does that help any?

Chiswick Chap I've responded to all of your points to date. Hog Farm (talk) 17:51, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Well, to be honest I think that's about it. It's properly structured and cited so I guess it's a GA. Good work! Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:48, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:42, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that a batted ball hit in an arcing manner is known as a fly ball? Ref 4 in the text
- ALT1:... that Mike Coolbaugh was killed by a batted ball in 2007? Ref 9 in the text

Comment: I'm going to be offline for most of the next week, so please hold off on a review for about a week, I won't be able to respond. This is also my first DYK, so please bear with me, I probably did something wrong.

Improved to Good Article status by Hog Farm (talk). Self-nominated at 03:24, 12 March 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Article new enough, improved to GA Hook short enough, interesting enough and also cited. The article appears to be free of copyright violations and plagiarism. QPQ not required. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 12:22, 12 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GA reassessment

Batted ball

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Result: Consensus appears to be for keep. Steelkamp (talk) 17:02, 6 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

My 2nd ever GA, I'm now taking it to GAR myself. When I wrote this at the beginning of my content-writing career, I was too naive/stupid to realize the source I used the most was user-generated. Those refs have since been removed and replaced with CN tags. As I don't have the time/energy to fix this myself, I think it needs delisted unless someone else is willing to pick it up. Hog Farm _Talk 00:16, 3 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with delisting and also note that there are references that point to MLB that might be better with additional support due to the role that MLB plays in the administration of Baseball. Gusfriend (talk) 00:17, 8 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be willing to invest some time to address CN tags in the article. How long would be allowed? Dmoore5556 (talk) 03:35, 9 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Dmoore5556: - I think pretty much as long as there's active work going on, it would be good to go. I could probably help to some extent, but I just don't have the time for a major overhaul. Hog Farm _Talk 03:53, 9 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Hog Farm: – that should be fine, I should be able to make progress in the coming week; looking at one section now. Thanks. Dmoore5556 (talk) 03:56, 9 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Dmoore5556, @Hog Farm, @Gusfriend: happy with the GA status now? —Femke 🐦 (talk) 07:31, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That is looking a lot better now. Gusfriend (talk) 07:47, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I was able to add quite a few citations; I'll defer to Hog Farm on overall status. Dmoore5556 (talk) 21:52, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It's a pretty busy time for me in RL, I'll try to look at this soon. Hog Farm _Talk 22:35, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Hog Farm? Just had a look myself, and I believe it can be kept if the lead is expanded to a full paragraph complying better with WP:EXPLAINLEAD. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 14:11, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Femke: - I've added a rudimentary lead in. I still plan on going back at some point in the future and sourcing a few things such as the definition of a comebacker, but it's in much better shape. Thanks, Dmoore5556. Hog Farm _Talk 16:03, 13 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Happy for it to be kept now. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 17:16, 13 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Gusfriend (talk) 00:13, 8 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]