Talk:Anthony Rendon

Could this be a good "opportunity" to make use of "Wikidata" ... ?

After editing this article (see the edit to the article that goes with this "Talk:" page, done right before [chronologically "before"] this "new section" was added to the "Talk:" page)

... I clicked on "View History and checked the DIFF. (for my own edit). (It looked OK..)

However, it also caught my eye, that the previous edit, -- done by someone else! -- was of a kind (updating statistics) (see the DIFF for that edit!) that could become tedious if it had to be done often. That (becoming tedious) might even be true, or "applicable", in a certain sense, no matter whether the "updating" of "statistics" were being done "manually" by a person, OR "automatically" by some kind of a robot.

I do not know very much about Wikidata ... but iirc there are some articles, (or templates) within Wikipedia, where updated information is incorporated "automatically" by some kind of method, that involves getting the latest information from Wikidata.

(In the previous sentence, I was almost going to try to [figure out how to] use the verb "to transclude" ... instead of just saying "getting" [that is, using the verb "to get"]; but I had second thoughts, partly because I am not sure whether the verb "to transclude" applies; ...plus, I am not sure whether I know [well enough] what the verb "to transclude" means.)

The advantages (of having data "imported" [somehow] from Wikidata) include: ...

• not only
• less work for some human editor ... to do that editing ... and/or
• [maybe] less work for some human script author ... to maintain the robot, to do that editing ...
• but also
• less opportunity for "human error" ... such as, transposing some digits, or copying the wrong statistics, from some web page that might be external to this Wiki ... or otherwise making a mistake that would be less likely if everything were being done by some automated methods.
• and maybe even
• more up-to-date statistics, for the enjoyment of the readers of articles such as this one ... at any randomly selected point in time.

Just an idea.

Thanks for your patience if perhaps I "should have" posted this "idea" instead in some other place; such as some kind of "village pump" blog, or something ... where ideas for improvement can be discussed. (Maybe it is not too late, to copy this "idea", -- [or "to transclude" it!] -- or to add a LINK to it ... at^H^H to such a place; ... if/as appropriate.) --Mike Schwartz (talk) 09:59, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

Update -- "as of" 12 September 2017

Apparently, what I don't know about Wikidata could fill a book. However, some of the pages (near the beginning, perhaps!) of that book, might include some of the info that is already available now, on Wikipedia ... at places like

• the (relatively petite) "Infoboxes (Phase 2)" section, and
• the (much LONGer) "Inserting Wikidata values into Wikipedia articles" section

of the Wikipedia article about Wikidata.

[I have read most or all of the of petite section there; but I have NOT (yet) read most of the (much LONGer) section there].

PS: I might want to add a "LINK" (pointing to this section of this "Talk:" page) to the talk page there (that is, to the talk page of the Wikipedia article about Wikidata).

Would that be OK? Or ... should that wait until I have (at least) read more of the info [mentioned above] (see the two "bullet" points, above) that is already available now on Wikipedia -- ? --

--Mike Schwartz (talk) 22:41, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi Mike! I don't know much about wikidata. You might have better luck getting someone who knows something to respond at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Baseball, since I imagine this is applicable to all articles on active athletes, not just Rendon. Happy Editing! meamemg (talk) 14:19, 13 September 2017 (UTC)