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Ken Hubbs was a good article nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions below for improving the article. Once these are addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake. Reviewed version: August 16, 2007

[edit] GA on hold

Hi Jaranda. I copyedited the article and put the refs immediately after the punctuation. I think the article is fine in terms of NPOV, style, NOR but the main issues is the lack of coverage of certain things in his career

• Do we know anything about his childhood?
• Do we have any info about what he did in his junior career at high school and youth teams? Do we have any info about how he did in the reserve Appalachian leagues?
• Do we have info on what happened in 1963? Becuase he played a full season and there is only a sentence there.
• I do wonder whether his playing style can be expanded some more - I guess baseball is not as liberal as cricket -> Batting (cricket) - whereas there is only really one way to hit the ball in baseball - a horizontal swing - and the bowling is restricted to bowling between shoulder and knees and over the plate - unlike cricket where you can aim the ball almost anywhere.
• Can you find access to pundit comments about his playing style - his coach - eulogies etc? It would make the prose more interesting than a set of prosified statistics and honors list?
• I suppose he was single and didn't have children or anything

Apart from that, it is well written and properly references and so forth.Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:40, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

I have failed this in agreement with the authro Jaranda as he is currently busy. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:37, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] List of stuff to add

I have information about the following events in Ken Hubbs life. I'm still figuring out how to do this correctly. So I will flesh out the article when I can do it right.

• KH father, Eulis Hubbs, was a real estate broker in Colton. The family was large, many siblings.
• KH played Little League in San Bernardino, CA his first year of organized ball. There was no LL in Colton.
• Father was instrumental in bringing LL to Colton.
• KH played in the Little League World Series. Colton represented California. Video exists of KH making a great defensive play at short stop in one of those LLWS games.
• KH was Student Body President at Colton High School. He is remembered for a fund raising effort for the family of a sick girl he heard about in the newspaper. They sold paper bricks for a dollar and plastered them on a wall at school.
• The KH foundation gives an annual award to a local prep athlete who exemplifies their ideals.
• One of the Little Leagues in Colton is the KH Leauge.
• The baseball field at Colton High School was named KH field in 2005. Local administrators and sports types were apologetic and embarrassed that it had not been done previously.

Any advise on how to proceed would be appreciated. Failing that, I will go it as best I can.--wwhitlock (talk) 01:15, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

The first piece of advice for you is to add comments to talk pages at the bottom of the appropriate section. Secondly, please add sources for your information. Doing so may increase this article's chanches of achieving "GA" (good article) status. Flibirigit (talk) 05:55, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. I'm glad my efforts will be under your watchful eye. I made the list from memory. I intend to provide citations as I add the info to the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wwhitlock (talk • contribs) 00:25, 9 February 2008 (UTC)