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This page was placed on Votes for Deletion in June 2004. Consensus was to keep; view discussion at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/more_911_victims_3. Johnleemk (talk) 07:33, July 4, 2004
As part of the WP:HOCKEY cleanup of the infobox the nickname mentioned in the infobox is being moved here. "| nickname = Ace" -Djsasso (talk) 21:35, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
At issue is the information in the Death and legacy section that follows mention of where Bailey's name is at the National 9/11 memorial:
After the Los Angeles Kings won the 2012 Stanley Cup, David Krasne, a Kings fan in New York City, placed a Stanley Cup champions hat on Mark Bavis and Bailey's names at the Memorial.[1] Krasne visited the National September 11 Memorial on the very same day as the Kings parade and placed his Stanley Cup Champions cap between their names and tweeted; "As a kings fan in NYC, I couldn't let Mark Bavis or Ace Bailey miss the festivities."[2][3]
User: 72.86.145.77 removed the material, saying in his/her edit summary, "Delete the unseemly self-promotion by a random fan (Krasne)".
The material in question is not "self-promotion", because it was reported by at least two secondary sources, CBS Los Angeles, which is a local affiliate of CBS, and the NESN, which is also a notable source. This is one of the fundamental bases upon which the inclusion of material on Wikipedia is validated. If the source in question was Krasne himself, or some outlet that published his writings--that would be self promotion. Since others reported on it, it is not. Since the section is about the subject's legacy, adding it appropriate, and thus I restored the material on that basis.
72.86.145.77 then again removed it, saying in his edit summary, "The info deleted has little to do with Bailey, excessive in length, out of proportion to this entry and to its minimal significance". Again, the section in question is about Bailey's legacy--that is, what influence or affect he and his life have had on others, which continues on after his death. The material in question is a direct example of that, and therefore, saying that it has "little to do with Bailey" is false, as it's entirely to do with him. As far as being "excessive in length, out of proportion to this entry and to its minimal significance", just look at it above. It takes up 81 words. That's a third of the section, and a tiny portion of the article. Calling it excessive or out of proportion is not supported by simply looking at it. I restored it on that basis.
72.86.145.77 then again removed it, saying in his edit summary, "Undone for previous reason. I suspect that Nightscreamtalk is another screen name for the banned editor who added this nonsense to begin with." According to the article's edit history, an editor named User:SNIyer12 was the one who first added the material, in a set of three edits on June 18 and July 8 of last year. I am not SNLyer12, never heard of him until today, and have never engaged in sockpuppetry. Anyone who looks through my edit history can see the extent of the work I've done on many different 9/11-related articles, which I began to take an interest in when I first starting taking photos of the names at the National 9/11 Memorial's North Pool and South Pool. I have no interest in hockey, or sports at all. 72.86.145.77, for his/her part, offers nothing in the way of evidence for this accusation, which is not only a blatant violation of WP:AGF, but irrelevant to the content issue in question. But if anyone wishes to open a CheckUser case and check my IPs, I welcome it.
72.86.145.77 also left this unsigned message on my talk page:
Hey fool, the NHL link does not mention either Krasne or Bailey. It's irrelevant. The fact that you're digging in to retain it, irrelevant as it is, suggests to me that you like to bicker just to bicker. The link you refer to as reporting by "CBS News" is just a local story by a CBS TV affiliate in LA. It's very unseemly to devote that large a proportion of a short article to nearly meaningless gesture by a self-aggrandizing fan 10 years after Bailey's death. I note that it took more than a year for anybody even to add this trivial info to Bailey's article. Bailey's career matters to hockey fans. Krasne doesn't.
Putting aside the fact that 72.86.145.77 is now violating WP:CIV and WP:NPA by addressing another editor as "fool", the NHL matter is a minor issue. The other source in question is NESN, not NHL, so that was a minor error on my part. I checked the sources, saw that two of them mentioned Krasne, and accidentally referred incorrectly to one of them.
That the CBS source is "just a local story by a CBS TV affiliate in LA" is completely irrelevant. CBS is still CBS, and thus, it's a reliable source by any interpretation of WP:IRS, and as aforementioned, that affiliate even has its own Wikipedia article.
As for 72.86.145.77's note that the event happened more than 10 years after Bailey's death, and that the material was added "more than a year" after the event in question, the second claim is false, and the first is irrelevant. The material, as mentioned above, was added in June and July of last year, in edits that were made one week and one month after the Finals, not "more than a year". But this is moot anyway. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and a constant work in progress. It is not a newspaper, so when a given event happened is completely irrelevant to whether mention of it merits inclusion. If it did, then you'd have to eliminate mention of any event that occurred earlier than the year 2000, from the creation of the universe to the election of Vladimir Putin, since Wikipedia didn't exist prior to 2001. To get an idea the implications of this, consider that the Memorial itself did not open until September 12, 2011, which is precisely 10 years after Bailey died. Should mention of it be removed?
As for 72.86.145.77's comment that "Bailey's career matters to hockey fans. Krasne doesn't", again, the effect that that career had on his fans is what the word "legacy" means. That two different reliable secondary sources thought it was significant enough to report on it, in relation to a significant series of SC Finals, means that it is not unreasonable for us to do so. Tell me, 72.86.145.77, what do you think goes in a legacy section?
I welcome input from 72.86.145.77 and others. If a consensus of editors thinks it should be left out, then I'll accept that. For now:
Keep Nightscream (talk) 17:58, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
That's a very long way of saying "I want to have my way." So very, very important to keep the nearly irrelevant information, because nobody else besides Krasne thought to honor Bailey after the SC win. Oh, they did?
"Eleven years after the Los Angeles Kings lost two of their own in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the team made sure the families of Garnet "Ace" Bailey and amateur scout Mark Bavis had their day with the Stanley Cup.
Bailey, the team's director of pro scouting, and Bavis had been heading from Boston to Los Angeles for the Kings' organizational meetings when their United 175 flight was hijacked and crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center.
On Sunday, the Cup was brought to the 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero in New York, where the families of Bailey and Bavis got a chance to take part in the first championship in franchise history. Kings general manager Dean Lombardi was also there.
The Kings arranged to bring the Cup to the memorial in New York and posed it there, next to the engraved names of Bailey and Bavis. Some fans had paid their own tributes to the two soon after L.A.'s triumph in June by putting Kings caps and other team memorabilia near their names at the memorial."
http://www.nhl.com/ice/blogpost.htm?id=11596#
Such officious, self-appointed guardians of the Wikipedia flame. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.86.138.10 (talk) 21:06, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
I also dispute that this bit of trivia has any bearing one way or another on Bailey's "legacy" ... and wouldn't have, any more than were I to put up a placard in his honor in the town common, just because Bailey was a friend of my grandfather's.
The anon IP's edit warring and incivilities are certainly objectionable, and I'd be quite content for him to get slapped down if he persists in them, but he's right in his objections to this material. Wikipedia is indeed not a newspaper, but it's also not wastepaper. Ravenswing 21:19, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
Shorter Nightscream: Respect my authoritah!
And as a busy bee in the Wikipedia hive, it's surprising that you've never noticed that a huge proportion of commonly accepted facts in the typical entry are unsourced. But, again, it was critical to delete the fact that Bailey had a SC GWG unless somebody pointed you to the right page in one of the hockey almanacs. Hoo boy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.86.138.10 (talk) 23:44, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
References
I am moving the following material here until it can be properly supported with reliable, secondary citations, per WP:V, WP:CS, WP:IRS, WP:PSTS, WP:BLP, WP:NOR, et al. This diff shows where it was in the article. Nightscream (talk) 13:57, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
Early life[edit]
Garnet Edward "Ace" Bailey was born June 13, 1948 in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan. He was not related to Irvine "Ace" Bailey, who played for the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1926 to 1933.[citation needed]
Career[edit]
Bailey played junior hockey with the Edmonton Oil Kings from 1964 to 1967, during which time the Oil Kings won the Memorial Cup in 1966. He joined the Boston Bruins in 1968 and was a member of their Stanley Cup championship teams in 1970 and 1972. He later played for the Detroit Red Wings, St. Louis Blues and the Washington Capitals. In 1978-79, Bailey returned to Edmonton to play with the Edmonton Oilers of the World Hockey Association, where he took rookie Wayne Gretzky under his wing. He was head coach of the Wichita Wind, the Oilers' Central Hockey League affiliate, in the 1980–81 season. Bailey then worked as a scout with the Oilers from 1981 to 1994, during which time the team won five Stanley Cups (1984, 1985, 1987, 1988 and 1990); his name was engraved on three of them (1985, 1987 and 1990).
In an NHL career spanning 10 seasons and 568 games, Bailey scored 107 goals and 171 assists with 633 penalty minutes. His most productive season offensively was 1974–75, when he scored 19 goals and 58 points for the Blues and the Capitals. In his sole WHA season, he scored 5 goals and 4 assists with 22 penalty minutes in 38 games.
Awards and achievements[edit]
- 1969-70 - National Hockey League - Stanley Cup (Boston)
- 1971-72 - National Hockey League - Stanley Cup (Boston)
- 1984-85 - National Hockey League - Stanley Cup (Edmonton)
- 1986–87 - National Hockey League - Stanley Cup (Edmonton)
- 1989–90 - National Hockey League - Stanley Cup (Edmonton)
Transactions[edit]
- Drafted by the Boston Bruins in the 3rd round, (13th overall) from the Edmonton Oil Kings in the 1966 NHL Amateur Draft, April 25, 1966.
- Traded by the Boston Bruins with future considerations (Murray Wing), to the Detroit Red Wings for Gary Doak, March 1, 1973.
- Traded by the Detroit Red Wings with Ted Harris and Bill Collins to the St. Louis Blues for Chris Evans, Bryan Watson and Jean Hamel, February 14, 1974.
- Traded by the St. Louis Blues with Stan Gilbertson to the Washington Capitals for Denis Dupere, February 10, 1975.