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What happened to all of the colored rows?

Everything is just white now, which doesn't distinguish headings at all from the other content. It looks like the edits on October 23 eliminated this - what was the reason? Y2Kcrazyjoker4 (talk • contributions) 13:44, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes we need to fix this. Spanneraol (talk) 14:08, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I just noticed this and was coming here to ask as well. – Muboshgu (talk) 14:11, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am thinking it was an oversight based on the edit summary. I have reverted it for now. Perhaps @Frietjes: can come take a look and see what might have happened. -DJSasso (talk) 15:52, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Y2Kcrazyjoker4, Spanneraol, Muboshgu, and Djsasso:, thanks it was this change that broke it. Frietjes (talk) 15:59, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Add colors from Module:College color Joeykai (talk) 18:22, 20 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit template-protected}} template. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^(e • t • c) 21:04, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Please redirect to {{Infobox baseball biography}} as per this TfD. My bot has changed templates on all pages that needed additional parameters before the redirect, so nothing will be lost by the redirect. ~ Rob^Talk 01:48, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@BU Rob13: Done. Please purge and check transcluding pages to make sure that your bot updates were successful. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 02:51, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In the event of an update not taking hold, the stakes were very low; the only error would be a few links not being present where they formerly were and a few labels being different. All content would remain the same, as the templates were nearly identical anyway. I did do spot-checking to ensure that mistakes were not made and found no errors. ~ Rob^Talk 03:06, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

FinalDate

In the David Ortiz page, there is a back-and-forth about what FinalDate means. Some think it means date of last regular season game. Others think it means date of last regular or post season game.

Here's a scenario to think about. Let's assume that a player does something memorable in the post season that deserves to be mentioned in his entry. (EG PlayerABC hit four home runs in a postseason game on October 9, 2016.) But, if the FinalDate entry is the last regular season game (eg October 2, 2016), it looks like he did something memorable a week after his last game. IMO, that is wrong.

I think FinalDate should be the date of the last game played (regular or post season). Cpfan776 (talk) 02:40, 18 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I just actually looked at the Wiki page. It says "Last MLB appearance". It doesn't say regular season. Cpfan776 (talk) 14:33, 18 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

People keep saying on the Ortiz page that last regular season appearance is the standard. Most players who retire will not have played their last game in the postseason; thus, the last appearance was in the regular season. Can somebody give me examples of a player who retired after a season in which he played in the postseason. Thank you. Cpfan776 (talk) 16:49, 23 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Mark Kiger has debutdate & finaldate in post-season. Also Raúl A. Mondesí has debutdate in postseason. If the debutdate can be in the postseason, then I think that the finaldate can be in the postseason as well. Cpfan776 (talk) 03:01, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]