Original Version
"On October 6, 2015, Ichiro and the Marlins agreed on a one-year, $2 million contract for the 2016 season. The deal also comes with a $2 million club option for 2017.[91] He stole his 500th career MLB base on April 29, 2016, against the Milwaukee Brewers, and led off the game with a single against Zach Davies to move ahead of Frank Robinson into 33rd place on the all-time hit list, also the 2,944th of his career. That milestone stolen base made him one of eight players in MLB history with at least 500 stolen bases and 2,950 hits.[92] On June 15, Ichiro recorded his 4,257 career hit, breaking Pete Rose's all-time record for hits in top tier professional baseball.[93]"Edited Version
"On October 6, 2015, Ichiro and the Marlins agreed on a one-year, $2 million contract for the 2016 season. The deal also comes with a $2 million club option for 2017.[91] He stole his 500th career MLB base on April 29, 2016, against the Milwaukee Brewers, and led off the game with a single against Zach Davies to move ahead of Frank Robinson into 33rd place on the all-time hit list, also the 2,944th of his career. That milestone stolen base made him one of eight players in MLB history with at least 500 stolen bases and 2,950 hits.[92] On June 15, Ichiro recorded his 4,257 career hit, breaking Pete Rose's all-time record for hits in top tier professional baseball.[93]. Ichiro's 4,257 hit caused a mini-controversy over whether or not his hits in Japan should count towards his career hit total. Pete Rose commented that "I’m not trying to take anything away from Ichiro, he’s had a Hall of Fame career, but the next thing you know you’ll be counting his high school hits". [94] This was in response to the Japanese media labeling Ichiro as the "Hit King", claiming that Ichiro should be considered to be the all-time hits leader when his hits in Japan are included. [95]"Ichiro is one of the most famous athletes on the 21st century, as he starred in Japan before becoming an even greater star in the United States. To this day, he is easily the most successful Japanese baseball player to make the transition to Major League Baseball. As a result of his fame, Ichiro has a very lengthy and detailed Wikipedia page. However, I was surprised to see how little space was dedicated to his 4,257th career hit, as this was arguably the most important achievement of his career.
For the record, I personally think that the comparison between Rose and Ichiro is ridiculous. Rose accumulated all of his hits in the MLB, while a significant portion of Ichiro's came in the Nippon Professional Baseball League. No disrespect to the NPB, but it does not offer the same level of competition as the MLB. Many Japanese superstars have come to the United States and struggled, such as Kaz Matsui and Kei Igawa. Nonetheless, the Rose-Ichiro debate captivated both the American and Japanese sports media last week, so I felt that the event deserved more space on Ichiro's Wikipedia page.
Wikipedia, famously, can be edited by anyone. This is both a blessing and a curse for readers. The problem, obviously, is that anyone can add false information to articles, which leads to users reading incorrect info. It is beneficial, however, when the person editing the article has the correct intentions and information, as I did. Another benefit is that it is up to the reader's discretion to decide what is relevant and what is not. For example, I thought my entry was relevant enough to add to Ichiro's page. However, someone else might disagree, and delete it (although I doubt that will happen. The information I added is important).
Another thing I noticed is that Wikipedia does have security measures to prevent major pages from being edited. Before editing Ichiro's article, I attempted to edit the "Baseball" article on Wikipedia, but was unsuccessful. Obviosuly, "Baseball" is a very large and popular Wikipedia page, so you have to have a Wikipedia account and have submitted 10 past Wikipedia entries in order to edit such an article. This makes sense, as such a popular article would probably be unnecessarily edited multiple times a day.
In any event, I was happy to make a contribution to Ichiro's Wikipedia article. I'm sure he's the subject of plenty of 3rd-graders' biography projects, so maybe the information I added will be of some use to them.
If you want to check out Ichiro's Wikipedia page you can find it here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichiro_Suzuki
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