User talk:Borgarde

Contents 1 Welcome 2 Ozzy Osborne songs 3 Song Guidelines 4 Australian Baseball 5 Australian-baseball-stub 6 WikiProject Aus Baseball article assessment 7 Approved for AWB! 8 User:WatchlistBot 9 Notability 10 User talk:Ted Woolsey... 11 MLB Team Season Articles 12 Nationalist (talk • contribs) 13 Baseball in Australia 14 Major League Baseball Draft 15 games below .500 16 ww2 17 Palm Island Collaboration 18 I am from the English speaking world for your information 19 Re: User talk:Nationalist 20 2007 Major League Baseball season 21 Re: Template:Baseball-WikiProject 22 Re: Baseball task forces 23 Vandalization of my userpage 24 Notice !!!

[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

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[edit] Ozzy Osborne songs

Hi, and glad to see that you wish to contribute!

I am a bit concerned that several of your recent song articles are very short, only a sentence long, and therefore not very useful to the reader (the same information can be had from reading the articles on the album). You might want to look at some of the common pitfalls at Wikipedia:Your first article. In many cases, you can place redirects at the songs so that they point back to the album where you can add a short description. If the song really deserves a seperate article on the other hand, it is perhaps best to write a paragraph about the song, and not just a sentence saying it is a song. Happy editing!Sjakkalle (Check!) 11:32, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

I concur with this. Wikipedia doesn't need an article about every song on every album. Song articles are usually created for charting songs or important songs on albums. --Walter Görlitz 14:52, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

I've listed the songs (non-noteworthy/single) for speedy delete after doing a test delete for the track "Thank God for the Bomb."—Wasabe3543 01:38, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Why are you deleting singles? Non-noteworthy I can see, but why singles? Singles have chart information that can be included, and I'm sure there is more information that can be added. The whole point of a stub is so people will expand it. Borgarde 06:28, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

I meant non-singles - I should've been clearer.—Wasabe3543 17:07, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Song Guidelines

Hi, generally individual songs only get their own individual pages if they've been released as singles in their own right, or are otherwise noteworthy. A standard album track doesn't warrant it's own article normally. 84.68.109.234 11:37, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Australian Baseball

hello, i noticed you recently created the Baseball SA article, would you be interested in contributing to other Australian Baseball articles? cheers --Dan027 10:46, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Cheers mate, good to have you on board. feel free to add any information big or small to the articles, we have alot of work ahead --Dan027 11:59, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

i was thinking about creating an info box for the inidivdual state baseball association articles, somthing similar to the infobox i have been using on the ABL team articles, any suggestions or ideas for wat to include in it? --Dan027 14:35, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure on all the defunct clubs though, I know there are some clubs going around right now that are mergers of 2 other clubs, if you add one with the current clubs maybe? and if information expands add defunct? I'm not sure if this is what you meant. --Borgarde 10:18, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

no quite what i ment. the state baseball association articles(Baseball SA) probly need an infobox, with things like year formed, general competiton information and claxton shield record, any suggestions of what you would put in it? --Dan027 13:05, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

I understand what you mean now, but I can't help you with what to put in it right now. I took a browse over some Minor League pages and none of them have info boxes, but I like the idea of it being there. Apart from the basics and what you've mentioned, there isn't really a great deal more to put in. --Borgarde 13:13, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Australian-baseball-stub

Hi - I see you have created a new stub type, Australian-baseball-stub. As it clearly explains at WP:STUB, and at the top of most stub categories, all new stub types should be proposed prior to creation at WP:WSS/P, so that they can be checked for viability, and to make sure they don't go against either the stub category hierarchy or stub naming conventions. In the case of your new stub type, it was not proposed, and currently it doesn't look likely it will reach the required 60 stubs to be regarded as viable. The stub type has been listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Discoveries - please make any comments as to the reasons for and possible population of this new stub type. Be warned that it may be nominated for deletion via WP:SFD. Please, in future, if you wish to create a new stub type, propose it first! Grutness...wha? 06:51, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

you will find it listed here. ive commented on it, so feel free to add anything i have missed. --Dan027 07:20, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I understand your concern. The stub was created as part of a wikiproject, it will meet the required 60 stubs easily. When I created the stub I read all the processes before doing it, but I also read an article that was an official policy that said ignore all rules if the edit you are doing is for the better. And this is helping to organise, it's clearly making it easier to edit articles related to Australian Baseball. Borgarde 08:44, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Aus Baseball article assessment

the assessment of articles should be preety straight forwed, however i believe it will be easier if just one person does the rating, iv gone through and rated all the articles that have the WikiProject template on them.

When the template is added to any new or existing articles ratings should not be added, this way they will appear in Category:Unassessed Australian Baseball articles and not skew the figures on the table {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian Baseball/Australian Baseball articles by quality statistics}}, then from time to time we can update the table fairly easily.(if this has made any sense ill be happy) cheers mate --Dan027 11:36, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Alright, sounds ok. I'll just add the basic template. Is there any way to auto-update the table? Or it has to be done manually? --Borgarde 02:22, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

I dont think there is any way to update it automaticly. im still looking at how other WikiProjects are using it so maybe ill find it somewhere. --Dan027 02:44, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Take a look at the Baseball WikiProject one, and it's actually automatically updated by Mathbot. There's is in a page called Version 1.0 Editorial Team, Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Baseball_articles_by_quality_statistics. And according to Mathbot's profile he automatically updates those lists. --Borgarde 04:03, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Looks good, should just be a matter of moving the table to Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Australian Baseball articles by quality statistics. --Dan027 11:34, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Cool, we'll know tomorrow whether it's worked or not, it updates it every day. --Borgarde 11:40, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

I added the categories of articles by importance and quality to the main category of assessments, so it should all be fine now. That's the category that the bot scans. --Borgarde 12:10, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Approved for AWB!

Thank you for your recent application to use AutoWikiBrowser. I have approved your request and you should now be able to use the AWB application. Be sure to check every edit before you save it, and don't forget to check out the AWB Guide. You can get any help you need over on the AWB talk page. Feel free to contact me with any questions, alphachimp 00:05, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:WatchlistBot

Hey, I've had a look at your WatchlistBot, and wondering if you'd be able to help with {{Baseball-WikiProject}} tagging? There is thousands of untagged articles under the parent category Category:Baseball. Please let me know whether you think this is alright, currently it's all being done manually.. --Borgarde 15:27, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

The bot can easily do what you need. I've started by creating a list for you at Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Articles. It lists all articles that are currently tagged. Please check the list of categories. If I run the bot, it will tag all articles in all of the tagged categories. Please check if there are any categories that might contain articles which don't relate to baseball. Also, if there are other categories, I can use the bot to tag them (by starting at Category:Baseball and traversing the hierarchy), but I might need your help to figure out which ones to tag (sometimes they're not obvious). So, let me know when/how you want me to proceed. Ingrid 02:53, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

It would be good if you could just get the bot to mark every page that is under the category tree starting from Category:Baseball. I'm sure if any are marked wrong they'll soon be picked up and changed. Thanks again --Borgarde 14:24, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

I've started tagging categories. There are a lot, and I have to do it interactively, so it's a little slow. After that, I'll tag the articles which is quicker. I'll let you know when it's all done. Ingrid 03:39, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

I've run into a bug that I'm not going to bother to fix because it should resolve itself soon. I know, that probably doesn't make any sense. What I'm trying to say is that I won't be tagging for a couple of days, but will resume then. I'm still working on categories, and have already tagged quite a few! Ingrid 01:39, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok, take your time. There's not really a hurry, I've been marking pages as I go, but there is just so many.. I've noticed you did categories as well, didn't realise there was that many until I saw the list. --Borgarde 13:52, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Notability

Please read WP:BIO

"Sportspeople/athletes/competitors who have played in a fully professional league..."

Major League Baseball is easily a fully professional league, please do not propose deletion on MLB Players, past or present.

This has already been discussed before.

--Borgarde 14:06, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, nothing is set in stone, and people that had 2 at bats in pre-1900s leagues should not have articles, I'm sure I'm far from the only one that feels this way. 69.208.78.151 14:48, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:Ted Woolsey...

...whom you had already warned today, also vandalized the Shea Stadium article. Wahkeenah 15:23, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MLB Team Season Articles

Hey. I tried moving the page, like you suggested, but I accidentally moved the talk page to the new address, and now I don't know how to move the article to the WikiProject page. Could you please help me out? Thanks. Ksy92003 01:39, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

The article has been moved at your request. Thanks for your support. You can view it here. --Borgarde 01:47, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I wasn't really thinking when I made that move. And I was afraid to try to move it again for fear that I would completely screw everything up. Thanks again for your help! Ksy92003 01:54, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Do you perhaps have like a basic template for those team articles? Something you could create as an example for people going to create a page? --Borgarde 01:54, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I don't. I haven't gotten that far yet, and I still don't know all of the information that I'm gonna include yet. If you have any input, feel free to give it. Ksy92003 01:57, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nationalist (talk • contribs)

I beleive it's time to involve an administrator for a temporary ban on this user regarding edit warring, and personal attacks. Yankees76 05:04, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Check here for a 3RR violation that I have reported. If anymore are needed, let me know. --Borgarde 05:08, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure if you're going to get an admin to temp block someone for reverting their own talk page though... Yankees76 05:10, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah I thought so, you can add the other article in as well, to show his persistance for ROC comment. --Borgarde 05:11, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

I reported him/her twice, because he/she kept reverting the pages of the townships in Taiwan. I'm sure he's going to get blocked for at least 24 hrs this second time for violating 3RR.--Jerrypp772000 01:36, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

He's back and he's brought a friend/meat puppet. Yankees76 05:01, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

I highly suspect that User:Taiwanlove is his/her sock puppet.--Jerrypp772000 01:08, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Baseball in Australia

As you are apparently a baseball fan, it must be frustrating that the league was so short-lived. I don't know much about Australian baseball beyond what's in your articles. I take it cricket is much more popular there? Wahkeenah 12:05, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes. Cricket is the dominant summer sport in Australia. Baseball still exists all around the country, but at it's current stage, only in amateur competitions (summer and winter), there are also yearly "semi-pro" competitions between all states called the Claxton Shield. There is news about a professional national league starting up for the summer of 07/08, so that'll be awesome if that happens. Right now the only TV coverage of baseball is on cable TV, under ESPN, Fox-sports for Major League Baseball, whereas Cricket is available on free-to-air TV with Australia being one of the strongest cricket playing countries in the world. Cricket also has a lot more publicity.

The state-based competitions in the division 1 level have some players from Canada and the US who are payed to play for clubs (as our summer is their winter, so it's their off-season), which has boosted up the standard of play within those competitions.

There are competitons all through the ages though, you can start playing in T-ball competitions around the same age as you start playing in Cricket, it's just more people choose Cricket. --Borgarde 12:39, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Major League Baseball Draft

I was considering moving Major League Baseball Draft, and I noticed you'd just moved it to its current place, so I thought I'd ask your opinion. My problem is that this isn't the title of the event, and never has been. I'd like to move the article to First-Year Player Draft, since that's the official title. I also think the current title is a problem because MLB has multiple drafts, and it could just as easily refer to the Rule 5 Draft. I'm posting this on the article talk page as well, but I thought you might have a specific interest. Thanks. --djrobgordon 05:44, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, no problem. I only moved it per naming. It was titled MLB Draft, and I simply renamed Major League Baseball draft. I'm not sure on all the drafts on MLB, so if you think it's fine, go ahead. --Borgarde 15:06, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] games below .500

That's what i thought about. but if a team is 13-17, don't you say they're 4 games below, not 2? and if a team is 13-18, you wouldn't say they are 2 1/2 games below .500. just clarify this for me, please. Ksy92003 05:58, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah I see what you mean. Put it back to the way you originally had it. If anyone has any objections then we'll have to try to clarify it. But your way does sound proper. --Borgarde 06:42, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ww2

hi borgarde I think in the ww2 section, they meant the unsc permanent five that was established in 1945, the big three were us uk ans ussr obviously, but later china and france were added. -- 58.168.126.130 07:47, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Palm Island Collaboration

Thank you for your great contributions to the Palm Island article over the past couple of weeks while it was the Collaboration, I think it’s amazing how much it has been improved to this point. It was probably at Stub level when we got into it, now I think it would be competitive for Good or A Class article and perhaps over the next few months it will get up to the standard of Feature.

There’s only one day left of it being the Collaboration so if we have any last ideas as to how it can be improved lets be bold and get into it now. But most of all I just wanted to thank you for all your work and help before it was finished. Thanks, Alec ^{-(answering machine)} 08:37, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I am from the English speaking world for your information

Yes, I am from the English speaking world. I speak perfect English and use perfect English. I am excellent at the English language. I clarify when necessary, such as adding on Taiwan. -Nationalist 02:20, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

It depends on which area of the English speaking world you live in. If you live in Iowa or Kansas, then I am sure no one would even know where Taiwan is. I add Republic of China on Taiwan for clarification purposes when necessary. I would suggest that you also do that because it provides a NPOV. Everyone in Taiwan can actually agree to that, even the DPP and KMT. Meanwhile, if you have Republic of China (Taiwan), some people dispute that because () is equating ROC to Taiwan and to people that is not true. No one disputes the fact that the ROC is now based on Taiwan. So I would suggest doing that if necessary for clarification. But in some official government/political contexts, Republic of China should be used. It really depends. And usually you would find Taiwan in front of the Republic of China, so obviously, everyone knows it is Taiwan and ROC and not Mainland China and the PRC. -Nationalist 02:28, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

No actually that confuses people that don't know Chinese history. They would simply think that Taiwan is part of China (which is the common name for the PRC).--Jerrypp772000 19:37, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: User talk:Nationalist

ArbCom has made it pretty clear that page blanking is OK [1]

He's read the messages, and if he's read them, doesn't matter if they stay or not; he's been warned. It isn't polite, but restoring blanked comments has been deemed harassment. By removing these comments, he isn't hampering/disrupting Wikipedia in any way. Anyways, the comments are in the history, and if there is anything vital, you can always move them to the RFC page, or add diffs there. Cheers! --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 05:11, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

I think I'm incapable of making reports effective in WP:ANI (probably because of my intermediate English and that ANI isn't designed for separating cases like RfC and CheckUser) after reading your report on him. Thank you very much for helping us out in this insane complexity. Vic₂₂₆ 03:34, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2007 Major League Baseball season

Hey. Can you leave a comment about this article here? The details and everything are there, on that article. The thing is that on the 2007 Major League Baseball season article, every single game is listed there, and I think it would be a waste of time, space, and it isn't that organized there. I feel that it would be best to just leave it at the individual team articles. If you would, please leave your opinion there. Thanks. Ksy92003 ^{User·talk·contribs} 05:30, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

That's alright. Don't worry about it.Ksy92003 ^{User·talk·contribs} 05:30, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Template:Baseball-WikiProject

The changes you made look like a big improvment! Thank you! — Steven Andrew Miller (talk) 04:23, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Baseball task forces

I just think it would do good to specialize them a bit more. "Players" is pretty broad. Break them up into time-periods, or levels of greatness or something. I mean, I know 80's and 90's players very well, as well as the era between the wars. Those are pretty distinct time frames to work from and would leave other people, say, to work on the first expansion era or stuff like that.

There should be more task forces. That's my input. If you want help in creating them I'd be more than happy.

Desjardfan 08:55, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalization of my userpage

Thanks for reverting the change to my userpage by user:Matthilling009. Ronbo76 14:00, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Notice !!!

Hello. This is just a notice that I have posted a comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Baseball#Deadline and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Baseball#Final Proposal regarding the formatting for the game logs for the 2007 Major League Baseball season pages. The deadline is two weeks from today, on March 28. Please voice your opinion over there. All the necessary information may be found on the Project's talk page. Any questions that you may have may be asked at my talk page. Ksy92003 ^{talk·contribs} 23:21, 14 March 2007 (UTC)