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Thanks for volunteering to help with the AFL scores, and thanks for all your hard work maintaing the scores website! How is it that you came across us? It seems very fortuitous! All the same, once you get the hang of Wiki-editing in general, just use the template I made and fill-in-the-blanks to add more season articles. Feel free to add more information than what we're adding now - the rough plan was to get the basics (ladder etc) in first.

– █ T █ P █ K █ 11:49, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Australian Football League season 1970

Looks good, the round-by-round stats are what we were aiming for. It just needs some formatting, like links for the various venues, dates; some 'wrapper' text to introduce it, and the things like overall attendance and medal winners that are in the other articles. The actual tables look great. Don't stress about the format too much though, just take your time to get used to Wikidom and everything will fall into place! Thanks. █ T █ P █ K █ 07:53, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] email to the FIT

Hello i'm a french player, in my country our sport is calling touch rugby. I work on wikipedia did you know that encyclopedia. We have a problem to name our sport and of course to name the article: Touch rugby, touch football (rugby league).

The principal argument of the touch football (rugby league) is the sport created in australia and in australia you call that sport touch football

You can see the discution on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Touch_rugby for touch rugby http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Touch_football_%28rugby_league%29 for touch football (rugby league)

Can you help us please(sorry for my english) Quentin Goldensun 18:28, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User Categorization

You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Australia page as living in or being associated with the Australian Capital Territories. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians in ACT for instructions. Rmky87 22:18, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] You

I wish to interview you, or atleast find out your life story, and some other things. I am trying to research all about humankind and all types of peoples. I have randomly chosen you, if you wish to comply to this, it can be done in secrecy through e-mail, or easily on the talk pages, which ever is easiest for you. But if you don't like this idea, then tell me on talk page. Private Butcher 01:15, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

I award you this cricket barnstar for working so hard to keep the List of Test cricket records, List of ODI records and now the players' lists up to date. Thank you! Stephen Turner (Talk)
I award you this cricket barnstar for working so hard to keep the List of Test cricket records, List of ODI records and now the players' lists up to date. Thank you! Stephen Turner (Talk)
Paul, I came here to say thanks also, but see that Stephen has beaten me to it by a few days. Your work in keeping these lists up to date is fantastic and really appreciated. All the best. -- Ian ≡ talk 08:32, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Nero's verify results

Hi, is it true that Nero's verify results are inaccurate? Shawnc 19:45, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Interesting results. Thanks for the info. Shawnc 18:58, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cricket win percentage

Hello Paul,

I hesitate to criticise anything you do with List of Test cricket records and List of One-day International records, but I'm just wondering why you changed the definition of win percentage. To me, counting a tie the same as a loss seems wrong. Was it just for convenience? It's surely easy to calculate it either way, isn't it?

Thanks,

Stephen Turner (Talk) 15:24, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProjects

Hi Paul! You have done some great work on cricket, Australian rules and rugby league. You are always welcome to join WikiProject AFL, WikiProject Cricket and WikiProject Rugby league. Help is always needed and appreciated! Thanks DaGizza Chat (c) 08:17, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cricket updates

Your update of the List of Australian Test cricketers has edited out a number of amendments we have to names to make sure the list is pointing in the right direction (see [1]). Could you amend your update program to take account of this? Many thanks, jguk 17:21, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. I should have noted that it's great to see you updating them. Is it your intention to regularly update all these lists, or just the Aussie ones? jguk 18:02, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cricket biographies

It's great to see more cricket biographies being created (even if they are of Australians! :) ). Could I ask that you add references for what you're adding (eg have a references section listing the Cricinfo or CricketArchive page, or whatever books you are using) and also to place the cricketers in their own categories. Cheers, jguk 15:04, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Apologies.

I've put this here, in case you don't notice it on Talk:The Goodies. I didn't mean to overwrite your edit. I started an edit session before you did, and didn't get around to writing and saving the comment until after you had. I didn't even know it'd happened until you made your second comment.--Drat (Talk) 11:57, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cricket biographies

Hello Paul! Nice to see you templating pages about Cricketers. Could you please add their birth and death categories? I have done this for some of your recent creations but I would rather that you get in to the habit. Regards, -- (aeropagitica) UK 14:31, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Hello again! Thanks for tweaking your program to include birth and death categories, the entries are more consistent with other biographical stubs now. Best wishes, -- (aeropagitica) UK 10:05, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

I see you're nearly at the end of the Aussies - I do hope you'll move onto the Lists of Test cricketers of other nations, jguk 18:29, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: More sub-stubs

Hi Paul, thanks for your message. I think all cricket biographies should have at a minimum: full name, including middle names; date and place of birth; date of death if applicable; the fact the person was a cricketer; some information about their career; a References section (all Wikipedia articles should have one of these), usually including a Cricinfo link generated by the {{cricinfo}} template; categories for all the teams they played for; and {{cricketbio-stub}} if it's a short article. The infobox is nice, but I don't always bother for very short articles. I hope that's helpful! Stephen Turner (Talk) 13:51, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Paul, When you get a chance, could you merge a couple of my biographies, AM Smith and Timothy Andrew Lloyd, into yours- they have quite alot of background info which might be useful. Thanks, rob77

[edit] WP:AFL

Hi Paul, was wondering if you are interested in joining WikiProject AFL. I noticed that you have a link to Rleague on your userpage, is that the site that you personally run? Rogerthat 03:17, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Let me just say that is a brilliant site. I use it extensively on this site when creating player profiles - if you look at many pages on here (i'll give you some examples - Rory Hilton, Nathan Buckley, Anthony Rocca)) they all have links to the player's stats page on Rleague AFL Tables.
Also, do you plan to add any statistics prior to the 1993 season on your site? Rogerthat 03:38, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
That's fair enough, the main reason I asked is to fill in details of players like James Hird and Peter Riccardi, who debuted in 1992 or prior. Perhaps if you could tell me the dates of their debut (date, ground, round, versus, etc) for certain articles you come across.

Also do you think it would be worthwhile to have pages such as List of AFL players to have played more than 300 games, considering your site already covers this? You can always convert your HTML tables easily by using this site. Cheers, Rogerthat 03:52, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Can I sign my name at the bottom of Roger's "Let me just say that is a brilliant site" too? It has been helping me in my tipping comps for years. Drew (Snottygobble | Talk) 04:00, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, Drew. This season it will be 8 years old. --Paul 04:21, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Yeah I don't see much point myself in totalling the results for every season of AFL when Rleague and allthestats have that covered. But I think we should at least include some of the key records, such as games record holders at each club perhaps? If we want to include stuff on here it should at the least combine two sources. I suggest we get all the AFL Draft details up as well, at the moment I've only got the 1998 AFL Draft (which, BTW, I found printed out a couple of weeks ago when I conducted a house cleanout). Rogerthat 04:34, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the stubs!

These will come in handy, as they are much better than the ones I was generating. On most of the bios I'm doing, I'm trying to add a bit more color for at least the better known cricketers and hopefully one day all... my theory being that there has to be something interesting in any man's life which merits inclusion in a bio. This, of course, is a lot of work and it's not possible to automate, and the stubs you sent me can be a good start in probably every case. Ok if I start uploading some of them to the undone Windies cricketers?

Also, might I ask how you've been generating these files? I have tried a couple of things, including Excel, but the results have been less than satisfatory. I guess in theory one could write a Perl script (or similar) off the raw data on the list of cricketers page, but I didn't want to get into all that right now... it's been a while since I've used that kind of language (I just write a bunch of C code these days) and I know I'd have to get back up to speed. --Deville 15:21, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Good enough, maybe one day I'll try and write some code for some of these other country's player pages, or maybe if people decide we need all the series pages. I did some VB back in the day, but it's been a while.  ;-) Anyway, I think I'll make some more bios later today, and I'll just add on to some of the stubs you sent me, if that's ok. --Deville 18:11, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vegan Vandal

The Vegan Vandal, for what it's worth. I was just saying that I think it's OK to throw the baby out with the bathwater in a case like this -- yes, s/he makes some legitimate (if usually pretty trivial) edits on cricket subjects, but the vast majority of his/her work is tedious, malicious vandalism and I revert on sight.

Best -- Ben-w 06:21, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] deletion?

Hey, should we then delete Winston White?

I put it up on AfD, I imagine it should disappear in the next few days. Thanks for fixing this! --Deville 16:42, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A random little thanks...

Hi *Paul*, I've been watching the New Pages for a while and have seen a lot of your contributions on it. Just want to extend a little thanks for your dedication to wikipedia at all hours (or so it seems). Anabanana459 07:10, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Infoboxes

Well done! Johnlp 17:00, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Non Test ODI template

Yeah tell me what you think? Is it necessary or should we just edit the existing ones. The problem it I found existing ones a bit unsuited and editing them cumbersome. I fixed the Test/First class mismatch on the template though. Lesliestng 02:23, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:2003CanberraBushfires.jpg

Hey, I was just browsing around and I noticed this picture. It's really amazing. Thanks for a great contribution. :) pfctdayelise (translate?) 11:39, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox Cricket

Thank you for your appericiation. -- Shyam (T/C) 18:52, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:MaryKostikidis.jpg

To get the filename fixed, you can simply re-upload it at the new name and then tag the file with the misspelling with {{db|duplicate of [[:Image:MaryKostikidis.jpg]]}}. enochlau (talk) 13:53, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] John Price

Hello, can you please WP:CITE your sources for the John Price article you created? Can't sleep, clown will eat me 12:25, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

My eyes just aren't what they used to be.  :-) Can't sleep, clown will eat me 20:05, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kenyan ODI Bios

Hi Paul! Seems like we both can share the stubmaster title!! Anyway while creating the Kenyan stubs I noticed that none of the players have infoboxes( except the stubs I have now created). Even players like Maurice Odumbe & Steve Tikolo dont have infoboxes. Can you do something about it?

Thanks

Srikeit(talk ¦ ✉) 06:59, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jason Taylor (Australian rules footballer)

Hi mate, I quickly categorised Jason Taylor, take a look to see how the categorising of players works as part of WP:AFL. Also include an Rleague link for players who made their debut after 1993. Cheers, Rogerthat Talk 11:12, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jebus Christ

Hi Paul,

I was wondering if you'd be interested in signing my petition to have my User:Jebus Christ username reinstated. You mentioned in Talk:Rugby league that you thought the user name blockage was petty. I'm currently campaigning to get it back. I'd be greatfull for your support. The petition is on my talk page: User talk:Jebus Christ

Thanks,

Jimididit 23:59, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your support. I just discovered that the user who complained about my username has been involved in protecting the mahamad cartoons article from vandalism. I find that somewhat hypocritical. Jimididit 10:39, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Touch

Sorry Paul but your recent edits at Football are incorrect. See the long and messy discussion at Talk:Touch football (rugby league). What people in Europe usually mean when they refer to "touch rugby" is the code that Australians call Touch or touch football. There are different versions of touch rugby and the Australian-invented Touch is the most popular form worldwide; unlike Australians, Europeans generally refer to both union and league as "rugby". Grant65 | Talk 13:05, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

I understand your frustration, but we need to use terms, and explain things in ways, that cause the least confusion for people in different countries. And the game that we call Touch is called "touch rugby" in Europe and the US. Hence the compromise title for the article: Touch football (rugby league). Grant65 | Talk 13:42, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ping

Where art thou ? Tintin (talk) 09:20, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion Proposal

I've added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Dulip Samaraweera, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree, discuss the issues raised at Talk:Dulip Samaraweera. If you remove the {{dated prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. LeyteWolfer 23:23, 14 September 2006 (UTC)


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[edit] Keep running

The Running Man Barnstar
For your amazing effort applied to Cricket in Bangladesh articles. Truly awesome. Aditya Kabir 20:28, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
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