Talk:Mike Gonzalez

Ping-pong?

Whats him buying a ping-pong table for the clubhouse have to do with anything?

His name is Mike

No one calls him Michael, period. Chris Nelson and at least 3 other people agree. If Blahblahblbah continues to go by his own rule with total disregard to consensus and factual evidence that prove him wrong, he will be blocked. Go read any MLB related stories. His name is Mike. Get over it. It's like calling Wesley Matthews Wes Matthews Jr. It doesn't matter what their birth names are. Good luck changing Tony Parker's name to Anthony Parker.--NWA.Rep (talk) 22:59, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

The Orioles/MLB [1] call him Michael. The Baltimore Sun (one article example) calls him Michael. Yes, he had previously been listed as Mike with other team(s). What's the issue now? Blahblah32blahblah (talk) 23:08, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

I don't care what kind of sources you cite. You can dig up sources calling Tony Parker Anthony Parker or Vince Carter Vincent Carter. It's completely irrelevant. ESPN, SportsIllustrated, Fox Sports, and CBS all call him Mike. In fact, MLB calls him Mike as well [[2]] [[3]]. These articles are less than a week old. Please stop disrupting the project and wasting everybody's time with your obsession with the name "Michael". Thank you--NWA.Rep (talk) 23:14, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

You consider this nitpicking sources??? My point is that everyone that currently matters have changed from calling him Mike to Michael - just because ESPN, etc didn't get the memo that he wants to go by Michael now.... Just because 2 Florida Marlins fans know him as Mike and don't realize he goes by Michael now revert the change doesn't mean there's a consensus. And saying I have an obsession because I'm just going by what his current employer and their local media call him is absurd. Blahblah32blahblah (talk) 00:09, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

AP calls him Michael too - in articles on ESPN nonetheless [4]. It's pretty clear he's going by Michael now - and the mainstream sites haven't bothered to change his page. Blahblah32blahblah (talk) 00:18, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

There have plenty of people who change their name, Adam Jones was called Pacman and he changed it too Adam cuz off all of the negative name conatations, but people still call him Pacman nevertheless. DJ Ware was called Danny for his entire career, but changed it last year for a new image and the only website that calls him DJ is the Giants official roster. ESPN and the NFL rosters still list him as Danny. Plus their is a Tony Parker and a Anthony Parker, two different NBA players, it would make no sense for them to go by the same name when they play in the same league. Ositadinma 00:41, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Plus alot of no name players on MLB.com 40-man roster are or used to be listed by their birth names - Zachary Phillips, goes by Zach, but MLB.com will not change it to Zach until when or if he makes his debut. MLB.com listed Gonzalez as Mike for a couple of weeks until he changed it to Michael, then it started listing him as Michael Gonzalez cuz he is a well established player. Ositadinma 00:51, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

You're demonstrating a blatant lack of respect for the due process. I have heard people call him Michael when he was playing for the Pirates. It's nothing new. I fail to see why we should change his name when most sources still call him Mike and most fans still know him as Mike.--NWA.Rep (talk) 04:27, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Agree with Ositadinma.--NWA.Rep (talk) 04:27, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

You should stop edit warring before the blocking starts. The MOS is the best place to go to sort things like this out. WP:PRECISION states, "If there is a natural mode of disambiguation in standard English, as with Cato the Elder and Cato the Younger, use that instead [of parenthesis]". In this case, regardless of his common name, it is necessary to disambiguate properly. Using the person's full name, title, or initials takes precedence over using his common name when disambiguation comes into play, because his common name (if it be Mike Gonzalez) is already used as the title of another article. —Charles Edward ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 22:07, 7 May 2010 (UTC)