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Proposal to reorganize article to cover ALL Washington professional baseball teams
There have been professional and semi-professional baseball teams in the District of Columbia named the Washington Nationals since the 19th century. I propose that this article be merged with the several separate articles that discuss other teams in the same city that had the same name to include articles on the various Senators incarnations. Mention can and should be made that there is not an unbroken pedigree from then until now but it makes more sense to discuss professional baseball in DC as a whole as opposed to several articles, the main one of which also discusses baseball in Montreal. The Expos, I further propose, should get their own article.
Is this the proper way to propse a major change? If not, can a wikiexpert please propose on my behalf? Thanks! --Preceding unsigned comment added by Dliodoir (talk o contribs) 15:47, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
Walgreens Life Alert Video
Nationality of Players
Given the fact that baseball is becoming an increasingly more international sport (i.e., more non-U.S. leagues in existence, more non-U.S. players in the MLB), the roster formatting on Wikipedia should probably be updated to reflect that. If you look at the formatting for other international sports (such as soccer), the player nationalities are indicated using flag icons. I think this would be a beneficial update to each of the major league rosters in the MLB, it would not be too difficult to implement and it would not clutter the information on the page. However, before such change a change is implemented, I thought it would be healthy to achieve at least some form of consensus on the talk page for each team. yuristache (talk) 01:10, July 24, 2010 (UTC)
Nationals New Uniforms
Whoever did this page, they need to redo the Nats uniforms. They unveiled new Ones
Merger Proposal
Pennants
I've attended numerous games at Nationals Park this summer, and here are some observations of mine that seem to contradict information in this article (and official baseball history). I'm not sure how any of this would fit into the article, but I thought I would point it out none the less: The Nationals fly the Washington Senators (Twins) pennants for the WS and the AL from the 1920's & 1930's here is a picture of the scoreboard with the 4 pennants for reference. The outfield wall only lists number 42 as retired as well. Skinfan13 (talk) 18:23, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
Retired numbers
I added the Expos' retired numbers to the infobox to agree with, and with a reference to, the Retired numbers section. --Thnidu (talk) 18:40, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
Current status of retired numbers?
In February 2011, the Washington Nationals website listed the numbers retired in Montreal, and the numbers were not assigned to anyone at that time. Thus the current assignment of these numbers is not a case of grandfathering existing players. I can only assume that the Nationals recognize this part of their franchise history, but the numbers remain free for assignment as they wish. isaacl (talk) 20:49, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Walgreens Logo
I think it's somewhat significant to mention that the Nationals stole Walgreens' logo and the controversy that goes along with that. Thoughts?169.234.21.242 (talk) 19:43, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
Well, that's not the case since the Senators' old logo bears absolutely no resemblance to the Walgreens/Nationals logo. However, just because Walgreens may or may not win in court doesn't necessary preclude a footnote on the page about the uncanny similarity between the two logos. Since Walgreens had their logo for decades and decades before the Nationals did, it's worthwhile to mention something about the theft. 169.234.53.131 (talk) 03:43, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
Ah, I see which logo you are talking about. The one that came out 67 years after Walgreens was founded. I suppose whether or not the logo looks similar enough to win a lawsuit is up for debate, however it should be noted that Walgreens sued the drug store "Wegman's" for using a logo that looks far less like the nearly identical Nationals' logo. This isn't a "curly script W" we're talking about. This is a logo that is virtually indistinguishable from Walgreens' logo, right down to the color pattern. I'm sorry that your obvious deep loyalty as a fan of the Washington Nationals' prevents you from acknowledging the theft, but sometimes it takes someone like myself without bias toward any particular baseball team to see these things. The quest for thoroughness is not synonymous with "childishness." Perhaps another neutral party besides myself can weigh in on this topic!169.234.54.226 (talk) 18:43, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
Thank you Spanneraol. I see your point as I have a hard time finding any credible source with a quote from Walgreens about the theft and it appears that they have not taken legal action. I speculate that because the two businesses are not selling the same product, Walgreens likely views the Nationals logo as free advertising. As for you, Oknazevad, I'm sorry but you appear to be confused and got the impression that I wished to enter a war of personal attacks as I apparently offended your quite delicate sensibilities. Again, I only seek completeness in the page. Good luck in the World Series, whatever team you decide to support!Hidden Tempo (talk) 23:10, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
The move into Washington
This sentence, "Coincidentally, the sitting President at the time of the move, George W. Bush, had at one time owned the Rangers," doesn't tie with anything in the article and isn't sourced to anything, let alone something related to the Nationals. I'll delete the sentence. That said, the whole section regarding the move to Washington, and the stadium and TV deals is woefully undersourced.Arnold Rothstein1921 (talk) 12:20, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
National-Orioles MASN dispute
Is it worth creating a section talking about the whole Nats-Orioles MASN dispute? If not, could it be put under "Nationals vs. Orioles"? Although keeping a neutral perspective would be tough, it has definitely been a big topic of discussion around this organization. Also, I noticed "TV ratings were among the worst in the league as of July 2008[56][57] but increased during the 2010 and 2011 seasons.[58][59]" in the Wiki page. I'm new to editing on Wiki, but should that be updated, or is it okay to leave (because it seems a little outdated to me). Thanks. AdamtheGOAT (talk) 19:46, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
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