Talk:2017 Chicago Cubs season

Not the language of a collaborator

@Zacchaeusbarbour:, @Lincolning:. A recent edit summary chided, Don't touch, I'll change them back if you do it again. These types of idle threats are discourteous and lead to edit wars. It should be a natural awareness for any new editor that comes to an existing baseball article for the previous years championship team, that there will be existing veteran editors that have gleefully edited that teams articles for some time...perhaps years. To make broad stroke changes without even a hint of respect for preceding editors is inconsiderate at best. Buster Seven Talk 05:46, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Thank you @Buster7: I agree. To come in and make changes without ever contributing before or observing the use in prior seasons seems discourteous at best. Lincolning (talk) 14:29, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Game log

Whose bright idea was it to render the game log unreadable? I can't read the game log. It's all black. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:56, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

I fixed it. Background colors green for win, red for loss. Not solid black as someone had it. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 00:54, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

I don't see what you are talking about, the colors looked fine as they were. Here is what it looked like before your changes http://imgur.com/GscOlSl I have seen others make similar comments, perhaps it has something to do with how you are viewing the page? Lincolning (talk) 14:29, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

In my browser, IE 11, your change set the background color to black for April and May, rendering it unreadable. If it works for some browsers but not others, it shouldn't be used. So I put it back the way it was. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 14:34, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

The issue is that you're changing style="background:#fbb" to bgcolor=#fbb, for example. Don't do that. It sets the background color to black on my browser, and thus renders the numbers and letters (which are also black) invisible. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 14:39, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

As I suspected from the style of the picture you posted, you're using Firefox. I can confirm that your change works in Firefox. But it doesn't work in IE. Maybe that bgcolor parameter is incompatible with IE. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 14:45, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

I understand the issue completely, like I thought, it is your browser. You are incorrect, I am using Chrome. I didn't know anyone still used IE. Didn't know anyone used Firefox anymore either. Works fine on every other browser I have tried: Chrome, Edge, Firefox. Lincolning (talk) 14:47, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

IE is alive and well. I upgraded to version 11 just a few months ago. My wife doesn't like IE. She uses Firefox. But IE is what I'm familiar with. I must ask this: Since the style="background:# works, then why change it to something else? Or does Chrome have a problem with it? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 14:51, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

bgcolor is used on several other pages, 2017 New York Yankees season and 2017 Tampa Bay Rays season being examples. Didn't know it was a problem, seemed more concise and easier to use than style="background:#. And, as you can see from: http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-201101-201703, you are in the minority and have been for about five years. Lincolning (talk) 15:23, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

IE might be in the minority, but it's alive. Thank you for fixing. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 16:19, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

Corey Seager

The Dodgers All-Star shortstop Corey Seager was left off the NLCS roster as a result of a back injury suffered in game three of the division series against the Diamondbacks. ―Buster7 ☎ 22:18, 14 October 2017 (UTC)