User talk:Excaliburhorn
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[edit] Featured article project
I would like to nominate Asian arowana for featured article status some time in the near future. I am writing to ask for your help in improving the article in any possible way in preparation for nomination. Thanks! --Ginkgo100 talk · contribs 16:59, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
- I would be more than glad to help you but I am not very familiar with the Asian arowana species. I am much more knowledgable about the South American genus Osteoglossum. I would probably not be much help as far as providing any information beyond the divergence or comparison of the two related genuses. --Excaliburhorn
[edit] Authorities
Your edit to Roeboides was incorrect. Parentheses around an authority indicate that the species is placed in a different genus to that which the namer assigned it; the lack of parentheses indicates that the genus is unchanged. For example, we write Roeboides microlepis (Reinhardt, 1851) because Reinhardt originally placed the species in the genus Epicyrtus; whereas there should be no parentheses in Roeboides dispar Lucena, 2001. Gdr 17:53, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
- My bad I was just throwing up the Characinae pages with too much haste and got a little carried away. Thanks for the correction. Excaliburhorn
[edit] Georgia Tech
I saw you created 2006 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team and thought you may be interested in creating either Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets or Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football. --MECU≈talk 17:05, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
- I love GT football and all but I think that a general GT Yellow Jackets article will suffice and I'll get to work on it sooner or later. ----Excaliburhorn 12:33, August 3, 2006
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[edit] Wikiproject Georgia Tech
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As a current or past contributor to a related article, I thought I'd let you know that I've started WikiProject Georgia Tech, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Georgia Tech. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks! —Disavian (talk/contribs) 23:43, 16 November 2006 (UTC) |
[edit] Thanks!
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| The Running Man Barnstar: given in appreciation for substantial contributions to existing articles about Georgia Tech and college football |
Great Job on the team page! CJC47 16:27, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Kudos and Something To Do
Those are some nice images you've uploaded :) also, your changes to Rambling Wreck are wonderful! :) The only problem with that article is that there aren't any references. What I really wanted to mention is that since you've got the most experience with the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets article, I'd like you to (eventually, no rush) (re)move most of the Athletics section in Georgia Institute of Technology as that section is just as long as the subpage. Examples of what I'm talking about can be found at Duke University#Athletics and Cornell University#Athletics (both are featured articles). Thanks! —Disavian (talk/contribs) 06:10, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
- After finals, I will knock out a bunch of that stuff. Right now projects/tests/papers/etc. are a pain in the butt. User:Excaliburhorn
The template on Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets is kind of odd. I've been trying to make a template with optional parameters in order to fix it, but when you omit a parameter, it inserts <p></p> into the html at that point, leaving a chunk of empty space. It's better than what we've got now, but I'd rather have something "perfect." See what I'm talking about in action at User:Disavian/Sandbox/Georgia Tech/Complex Transclusion Test2. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 17:28, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] First GT Football Coach?
Leonard Wood says:
| “ | Wood enrolled in classes at Georgia Tech, then known as the Georgia School of Technology, and became the school's first football coach and, as a player, its team captain. Wood lead the team to its first ever football victory, 28 to 6, over the University of Georgia. | ” |
The source that article cites says:
| “ | One hundred years ago, Tech's first football team took the field, but not much else--it lost all three of its games. The next year, 1893, a young Harvard-trained surgeon stationed at Fort McPherson, Ga., enrolled at Tech to, among other things, play football--and Tech's fortunes changed. Army Capt. Leonard Wood also captained and helped coach the team, and was a key player in Tech's first ever football victory--a 28-6 decision over Georgia at Athens. | ” |
Should he go on {{GTFootballCoach}} ? —Disavian (talk/contribs) 05:48, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Refs needed for I-AA records
This is good stuff. I assume you were reading some document when you put this in. Please provide a reference so we can be complete. Thanks a bunch! --Jayron32 19:14, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Future Projects
On the "future projects" section of your userpage, I saw that you (eventually) plan to write articles for a lot of on-campus dorms/apartments. I just wanted to point out the article Eighth Street Apartments :) —Disavian (talk/contribs) 04:49, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Copyright problems with Image:Hamiltonaction.jpg
Mosmof 08:11, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Budweiser Song
Nice addition to Georgia Tech traditions. Do you think you could work on Here Comes the King and integrate that information into it? Also, do you have one or more references for that section? While I'm thinking about it, I'd also like to point out the following recently created articles: Javaris Crittenton, Mouhammad Faye, Thaddeus Young. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 22:17, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] NCAATeamFootballSeason
I really love the template used on 2006 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, {{NCAATeamFootballSeason}}, so I requested a basketball equivalent. A user has started work on one and has asked about any changes that should be made. I feel like a basketball noob, so I'm directing his question your way. See User talk:Disavian#NCAATeamBasketball and Template talk:NCAATeamFootballSeason#Basketball. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 16:17, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] A.J. Suggs
Hi there,
I just listed A.J. Suggs for Speedy deletion. I did so because he does not pass Wikipedia's policy on notability. I suggest you read the policy before taking further action towards article creation of quarterback's that did not play at the "highest level" like Suggs. Feel free to leave me a message at my user page.--Thomas.macmillan 05:49, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
- It wasn't actually nominated for AfD, but it is now. Now you have your chance to defend a player that lacks notability.--Thomas.macmillan 18:58, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
- I think you forget that Jordan Palmer is extremely likely to be drafted and play in the highest professional league, while A.J. Suggs couldn't even earn a long term starting job in college. Palmer was a 4 year starter with UTEP and, not to mention, is the 2nd outstanding Palmer (aka Carson). Simply put on Suggs AfD, I do not believe that every college football player deserves an article on Wikipedia.--Thomas.macmillan 22:33, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
- It is not so much that I care more about the pro-game, I am just concerned that the way some people believe that any college starter on a major team deserves a wiki-bio. He played against those notable quarterbacks, but that in and of itself does not make him notable. He was an average player, I know (and I am sure you do as well), I watched him on TV. Do you really believe that playing against notable people gives you notability? BTW, I fought to include Greg Olsen from Miami, Jamaal Anderson from Arkansas and many other notable college players, so I hope you do not think I am against college football. Any player that has a chance or has reached the highest level of the sport should have an article, its just that being a back-up quarterback to another average quarterback (Reggie Ball) really should not pass notability rules.--Thomas.macmillan 23:03, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Relevant to your interests
See Wikipedia:Peer review/Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate. Someone came along and left some comments, let's see if we can work on some of that :) —Disavian (talk/contribs)
- Bah, why did there already have to be an article for Danny Hall? —Disavian (talk/contribs) 08:01, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Someone made Tashard Choice recently. It's not a very good article at the moment, but it's a start. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 01:36, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
- After all your work, it looks eligible for a DYK. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 04:37, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] martlets
In martlet, I changed the caption "The family crest of Bird" to "Coat of arms of a family named Bird"; though the image is not on a shield, the rectangle suggests a flag and these two forms are normally interchangeable. Is it in fact a crest, i.e. a symbol worn atop a helmet rather than on a shield? —Tamfang 19:29, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
