Talk:Robert Stock

Birthplace

Sources disagree as to Stock's place of birth:

• Bellevue, Washington
• Westlake Village, California
• Westlake, California

– Archer1234 (talk) 06:56, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

References

MLB is the official site of major league baseball, so we adhere to that. Raise on the baseball page if you want further input. --184.153.21.19 (talk) 07:15, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

Stats sites often mix up birthplace with the more ambiguous hometown, which could be where you grew up or went to high school. This Pac-12 article says he was born in Bellevue, which is also consistent with most of the stats sites.—Bagumba (talk) 17:40, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

I think we go with Bellevue because the preponderance of reliable sources tell us that it's his birthplace. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 20:18, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

I concur with Barkeep....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 22:43, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

Article updated to add the mlb ref for place of birth. Thanks to all for the input. Cheers. – Archer1234 (talk) 23:26, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Robert Stock (baseball)

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Robert Stock (baseball)'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "auto5":

• From List of Jews in sports: Shel Wallman (June 18, 1986). "Nancy Lieberman back in limelight". Jewish Post.
• From Bubby Rossman: "Register Players Encyclopedia". Baseball-Reference.com.
• From Zack Gelof: Lockard, Melissa. "Zack Gelof, Luis Matos highlight A's and Giants AFL contingents". The Athletic.
• From Matt Mervis: Joshua Halickman (July 17, 2022). "Blue-and-white manager Kinsler talks Israeli baseball, Judaism". The Jerusalem Post.
• From Richard Bleier: Noah Wright (October 23, 2022). "Pittsburgh Pirates Free Agent Target: Left-Handed Reliever Richard Bleier".
• From Jacob Steinmetz: Jeff Dahn. "Florida stay elevates NY's Steinmetz". Perfect Game.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 04:14, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 20 January 2025

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. Uncontested per [[[WP:NOMIN]], plus a search demonstrates clear support over the short and long term. Will also move the current base name to a DAB page. (non-admin closure) TiggerJay (talk) 04:27, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

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Robert Stock (baseball) → Robert Stock – – Primary topic. Per WP:PTOPIC. See, inter alia, pageviews. Pageviews show the baseball player, with over 97% of all pageviews, to have overwhelmingly been the primary topic (24,692 views, vs 348 for the businessman and 379 for the tennis player) over the past 3 years, which obviates any legitimate recency concerns. 2603:7000:2101:AA00:5557:3B75:44BB:2EBE (talk) 23:00, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

• Robert Stock (baseball) → Robert Stock
• Robert Stock → Deleted to make way for page move

2603:7000:2101:AA00:5557:3B75:44BB:2EBE (talk) 23:00, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

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.