Comments from Dabomb87 (talk · contribs)
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"all were won with the Texas Rangers or the Detroit Tigers, though Rodríguez has played in both leagues." You might make parenthetical notes of which leagues the teams played in.
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"Hall of Famers to win as"-->Hall of Famers to have won as or Hall of Famers who have won as
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"Gold Glove-winning" The dash issues get tricky here. When we have a compound adjective, of which one element ("Gold Glove") has multiple words, the hyphen should be an en dash. I know I haven't broached this topic before, but there it is.
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"a one error, .999 fielding percentage season"-->a one-error, .999 fielding percentage season Dabomb87 (talk) 02:03, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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All done except the dash. WP:DASH says that en-dashes are used "[to] convey the sense of toorthrough, particularly in ranges" and "[as] a substitute for some uses of and, to, or versus for marking a relationship involving independent elements in certain compound expressions". These examples are when the en-dash indicates disjunction. This is a different situation altogether; the hyphen indicates conjunction here. I realize that the article Dash says that "[the] en dash can be used instead of a hyphen in compound adjectives in which one part consists of two words"; however, the operative here is "can", not "must", "should", or "is", and WP:MOS doesn't subscribe to that particular usage. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 12:19, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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I tend to agree with you on this, but I was overruled in an FA discussion ("Academy Award–winning director" in the second para of lead); I was told that "WP:DASH does not coherently address the case of the compound adjective one element of which consists of two words; please see any standard manual of American English style". In any case, it's not a big issue for me. Dabomb87 (talk) 13:38, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Works for me. I love (sense the sarcasm) how we're just supposed to know things and do things the way "a manual of English style" tells us, even though all of the manuals disagree. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 14:18, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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