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[edit] NBA Draft (s)

If you look at the NBA Drafts that have been worked on already, there are only two formats going. All of the drafts done are the same except 1989 NBA Draft. The 1970 NBA Draft and the 1998-to-2004 Drafts only do the first two rounds and have this format:

Pick Player Nationality NBA Team College/HS/Club Team
1 Bob Lanier USA Detroit Pistons St. Bonaventure University

Now, the table is "old" HTML, which should be converted to Wikistyle instead.

The 1989 draft only does round one and looks like this:

  1. Sacramento Kings - Pervis Ellison, F/C, Louisville

I would vote for doing the first two rounds in a formal table, and then just list the other rounds like I entered them last night. What do you think? I also propose listing the PERSON first, it is what is most important, not the NBA team, which changes with every trade, people before teams, response? This looks like some project, with all of those teams, schools, and players, we need some kind of "bot" to convert at least the teams and schools to Wikilinki's, that would help.

(After you have read this, feel free to cut & paste it to the 1986 NBA Draft talk page. We should probable move it to the Talk page of List of NBA Drafts...???) WikiDon 20:26, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sky Lopez VfD

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. I was poking thru VfD and I noticed that you nominated an article for deletion. I've got no opinion on the article or its deletion, but I noticed that you did not actually create the nomination and its vote page in the technically correct way, using templates. Please look at the bottom of Wikipedia:Votes for deletion for instructions on how to nominate a page using templates so that all the correct sub-pages and links are created. Happy editing. Soundguy99 16:04, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Al Bruno III

I have placed a tag on the article Al Bruno III, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. I did this because the article seems to be a biographical account about a person, group of people, or band, but it does not indicate how or why he/she/they is/are notable. If you can indicate why Al Bruno III is really notable, I advise you to edit the article promptly, and also put a note on Talk:Al Bruno III. Any admin should check for such edits before deleting the article. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. You might also want to read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 7 under Articles. Please do not just remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. - CHAIRBOY (☎) 04:05, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anakin Solo

Hey, you added this bit to the 'Dead or Alive?' section:

Lucasarts has confirmed that a version of Anakin—either Solo or Skywalker—will appear in the forthcoming Legacy of the Force series. It has not been confirmed if this will be as a Force ghost, clone, or some other iteration.

Not saying you're lying, but can I see the source for this? I must see this with my own eyes...Probably Skywalker though. If it turns out to be Solo, it'll too good to be true... —Mirlen 17:45, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

I went back and looked for it, and it turns out that "confirmed" actually means "probably" (Force ghost) and "possibly" (Anakin). Time does strange things, I suppose. Stilgar135 01:03, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Hey there

Hey, welcome to the Star Wars WikiProject. If you know any fellow editors who may want to join, feel free to let them know :) Deckiller 23:50, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. It looks like a great project. Stilgar135 23:52, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Star Wars newsletter

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Greetings, Star Wars editors! Deckiller here. It's the first edition of the WikiProject Star Wars newsletter, and yes, it's a semi-ripoff of the Esperenza newsletter. I think it's important to begin with some good news: Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, and Jabba the Hutt have reached featured article status! Kudos to the editors who helped obtain these achievements!

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For an example, let me point you to the Final Fantasy WikiProject. Some of us over at that WikiProject decided to turn various components of Final Fantasy X, such as Pyreflies, Yevon, and the backstory — into an article describing the world of Spira. Location descriptions were given a List of locations in Spira article, and the details themselves were placed on the Spira (Final Fantasy X) page. This is a decent template to follow — however, we will need to place priority on out-of-universe, "real life" topics and perspectives in realtion to the article.

Sounds confusing, eh? It won't, for examples will be popping up left and right in the near future!
Signed...
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[edit] WikiProject ASOIAF

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[edit] Lehigh FA

Now that I take a good look at the article keeping your suggestions in mind, I definately agree with you. I really appreciate the suggestions and feel free to jump in and help editing (if you have the time). If there's any other comments/suggestions to make, please go right ahead and let me know. Thanks! Plm209 16:48, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I think I edited an artilce at the same time as you by accident

you might want to go back and fix that incase I messed something up for you, sorry about that.

[edit] Swarthmore clubs

could you move the swarthmore club stuff back? i moved that to other page because it's fairly trivial invormation that most people don't care about when they want to read about swarthmore college. if they want to see it, they can look at the clubs page. maybe that page should be retitled to "swarthmore college clubs and organizations" instead of "list of...", though.

thanks. -Easytoremember 02:13, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

nevermind. just read the deletion thing.

If you want to start a comprehensive "Student life at Swarthmore College" page, I don't think you'd get too much grief from other Wikipedians. Anything starting with "list of", however, is immediately suspect, and when people feel that the essential information can be put somewhere else, there's not too amenable to keeping it around. Stilgar135 02:20, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] The Boys

Thanks for trying to clear up the sourcing of the Ennis quote but the link you added doesn't work. I tried a few variations and nosing through their site but I'm getting nothing. If you could double check it then that'd be great. Thanks (Emperor 14:18, 25 August 2006 (UTC))

That's rgeat - thanks for digging that out. It is the key quote and (as I suspected) it was probably dramed up as a promotional slogan (possibly for their pitch of the series) and so it was provngtricky to track down and that interview goes one better than just pinning down its first use - discusses their thinking behind it. It really helps. (Emperor 00:32, 4 September 2006 (UTC))

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[edit] User:Phaedriel/Soundtrack of Wikipedians

Yo, Stilgar135. I fixed you entry to Soundtrack of Wikipedians, so it aligns better. If you do not like this change however, feel free to contact me. Thanks, Dfrg.msc 1 . 2 . 3 00:44, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

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Fix Bayonets! 13:08, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Capitalization for Jessica Drake

As you can see at k.d. lang and bell hooks, Wikipedia uses lower-case capitalization for proper nouns in cases where the subject chooses to be known in that way. An editor received an e-mail from a woman claiming to be drake [1]; her official website [2] and her production company's website [3] both list her that way. Stilgar135 18:05, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia generally uses whatever name most people would expect to find an article at. Three of the four external links in the article spell her name with capitals (admittedly I have no idea how reliable IAFD or AFDB are, but IMDB is usually pretty good and they spell her with capitals and kd lang in lowercase, for example) and most of the first couple of pages on Google do the same. But frankly it's entirely unimportant and if you want to change it it doesn't bother me at all. --Cherry blossom tree 18:21, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Nishkid64's RfA thanks

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[edit] Sherman Alexie clean-up

As well as tagging the article, you should really add something on the talk page saying why it's been tagged and what you'd hope other editors would do... Vizjim 16:10, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] regarding Something Awful

As you might imagine, the paragraph in question has a kernel of truth -- SA members have a large Eve presence, and they're pretty unpopular in the game. But the deleted stuff was baseless garbage. Even if the bit about the alliance's collapse were true, can you imagine a citation that would allow the article to fairly claim "bad online attitude and unsportsmanlike game play"? That's pure opinion. In short, don't worry so much about how it looks to keep the article factual; avoid false balance. Twinxor t 18:34, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Lincoln article

  • on this of yours, "A strict application of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 could have required return of fugitive slaves to their masters. Initially this did not occur as the slaves were classified as contraband of war, though Lincoln was unhappy with this because it implied that the Confederacy was an enemy state and thus had legitimacy." what actually was Lincoln unhappy with? that the slaves were classified as contraband of war? if so, who classified them as such? further, what was it that implied that the Confederacy was an enemy state? if this whole thing is true, it needs a much better paraphrase or a direct quote from Guelzo. i dont know what you're trying to say, which is why i restored a previous version. Stevewk 21:57, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
  • check my rewrite. if wrong, feel free to correct. Stevewk 03:12, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
  • hold on. you wrote Guelzo as first major scholarly study, i know for a fact this is a major scholarly study, Franklin, John Hope, 1915- Title: The Emancipation proclamation / John Hope Franklin.

Published/Created: Wheeling, Ill. : Harlan Davidson, c1995. Description: xiv, 155 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. ISBN: 0882959077. check the LOC onlline catalog for others. Stevewk 03:26, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Walter Jones December 2006

I noticed you included some trivia for Walter Jones on December 1st. Apparently he has 2 kids named Walterius or something. Anyway, tell the Sports Gal I'll be over at 3, so you might wanna be out at the time, cause its gonna get loud in your bedroom.

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[edit] Areokinesis

It's not suspicious if 1. the article is spelled incorrectly, 2. the article contains almost no information, 3. the article doesn't follow the convention for other comic book-based kinetic abilities. --Htmlism 11:59, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Five a day Project

Hey, I'm glad you like the idea. Actually, I haven't been keeping up with it in recent months as well as I should be. I say go for it. --Danaman5 02:45, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Anthro Collaboration

Thanks, I'm actually nowadays just busy and not feeling too down. I could actually use some help on Talk:Plastic shaman since I'm getting tired of trying to debate with that person. I don't know much about Harris so I'm actually learning just by looking at the article. I also have finals starting next week, so not sure if I can do much with it right now. Maybe I'll try to do something though. Ungovernable ForceGot something to say? 02:39, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Glad to hear it. I had a look at the plastic shaman page, and even though I don't know much (ie, anything) about the topic, I see plenty of holes to poke in his argument. I'll have that up soon enough. Stilgar135 03:03, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. Ungovernable ForceGot something to say? 05:32, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
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