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A fact from Congressional Baseball Game appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 April 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that in 1993 United States representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Maria Cantwell, and Blanche Lincoln became the first women to play in the starting lineup of the Congressional Baseball Game?

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I added the Outdated as of template[edit]

But I don't know how to correctly use it. Please advise. lol md4 U|T 13:26, 14 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Removed, since been updated. See my talk for more details. SkyWarrior 15:50, 14 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright Issues[edit]

Many of the sections are copy/past of this page and other pages listed on the site: http://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/Baseball-Game/Statistics/

While this is a government website not subject to copyright, it should probably be edited to be unique to Wikipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blazingliberty (talk • contribs) 19:05, 24 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Edit reversion[edit]

@Adavidb: You recently reverted my edit [1]. The text I copyedited was not a section hatnote, which in any case should be formatted correctly (e.g. with {{for}}). The purpose of a WP:HATNOTE is "to help readers locate a different article if the one they are at is not the one they're looking for". That text did not do that. Formatting it to appear like a section hatnote is further misleading the reader into thinking that the link is to an article. I have a long-term project to correct occurrences in Enwiki of inappropriate hatnote-like text, of which this is an example: in fact there are two instances in this article and I seem to have missed the other one. If you can find a better way of incorporating a call on these footnotes into the article then that would be a welcome improvement, but formatting something to look like a hatnote when it isn't is not acceptable. Regards, and thanks for your editing, 07:04, 4 October 2021 (UTC)Shhhnotsoloud (talk)

Thanks for the extra info. Based on your explanation, I've reworked the faux hatnotes into inline text. —ADavidB 16:36, 4 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Adavidb:. Perfect, thank you. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 07:28, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]