User talk:Fbdave

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Contents 1 ECC 2 Welcome! 3 Biography Newsletter September 2006 4 Bryce Drew 5 Valparaiso Coaches 6 Valparaiso Crusaders 7 Crusader linking 8 Josh Wilson (high jumper) 9 MAC Championships 10 Helping out with the Unassessed Wikipedia Biographies 11 Templates

[edit] ECC

Thanks for the heads up on the East Coast Conference. At the very least, I'll make sure to disambiguate it. Craig R. Nielsen 16:40, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome!

[edit] Biography Newsletter September 2006

The September 2006 issue of the Biography WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. plange 00:10, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bryce Drew

Reverted your edit. He's a Valparaiso men's basketball coach.

P.S. Don't write on my user page!--Downwards 22:39, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Valparaiso Coaches

Great work on finding the names and putting together the Template:ValparaisoBasketballCoach template. You are correct that you wouldn't normally link the same name twice in an article, much less a template. However, in the case of someone serving two non-consecutive terms, the name would be linked twice because it maintains the consistency of the look and also, when on the Homer Drew page, both instances will be bolded to stand out. The same thing comes up with United States presidents template (Template:USPresidents) with Glover Cleveland, and you'll notice he linked for each term. I've put the link back in, feel free to contact me on my talk page if you have any further concerns. Craig R. Nielsen 00:37, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Valparaiso Crusaders

As always, two steps ahead of me. Great work. Craig R. Nielsen 09:09, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

I agree, nice article so far. You go to Valparaiso? I plan on attending Valparaiso next year.--aviper2k7 17:50, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Crusader linking

Hey Fbdave, I wanted to let you know that I believe the current standard for linking on the athletic conference templates is to link to the school article and not the athletic one. Among other reasons, not every school has an athletic article, thus it retains a uniform style. I caught a debate on it months ago and it referenced Template_talk:Atlantic_Coast_Conference. Though it's only a short discussion there, it has become the standard, as even the BCS conferences (every member of which has an athletic article) keep their templates linked to the institutions. I'm not set on reverting it right now, but I just wanted to let you know the history. Craig R. Nielsen 04:38, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

I was using Template:Pioneer Football League as a basis. It links Drake to the athletic team, not the university. There are other templates that use the athletic teams — Template:Atlantic Coast Conference, Template:Big 12 Conference and Template:Mountain West Conference.Fbdave 19:22, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Ah, right you are. Personally, I like the Mountain West or Big 12 ways of doing it (maybe parentheses and italic just the team moniker). However, that does make the template noticeably larger. Any thoughts about what a good new standard would be? I'd be happy to let you choose and give it a run on the PFL and Mid-Con and to follow your lead on the Horizon, which I've been prepping for the Crusaders move. Craig R. Nielsen 23:25, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

I like the Mountain West way better than the Big 12 way. Fbdave 21:00, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Josh Wilson (high jumper)

I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Josh Wilson (high jumper), 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 "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at its talk page. Removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, but the article may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. Pascal.Tesson 23:26, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MAC Championships

Thanks for the work you did/are doing on the List of MAC championships, it's tough to track down some of that old information. I also see that you're a Valpo man. Sorry we (WMU) had to beat you guys on Sunday. But I'm also a Golden Grizzly, so I've seen enough of VU winning :) X96lee15 00:52, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Helping out with the Unassessed Wikipedia Biographies

Seeing that you are an active member of the WikiBiography Project, I was wondering if you would help lend a hand in helping us clear out the amount of unassessed articles tagged with {{WPBiography}}. Many of them are of stub and start class, but a few are of B or A caliber. Getting a simple assessment rating can help us start moving many of these biographies to a higher quality article. Thank you! --Ozgod 20:42, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Templates

I would think that tenure and capacity would be perfectly useful additions to the template. I think that the conference affiliation history would be better suited to the main text, since it's not really a "quick bit" of info, and could be really sloppy in the template if it's not formatted properly.

In fact, I like the first two ideas so much that I'm going to go add them now.....--fuzzy510 02:00, 25 February 2007 (UTC)