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[edit] Gregory Hill

Sorry for the overzealous revert earlier. Please take a look at Gregory Hill and Gregory Hill (BMX). I also discovered that there's a hill called Gregory Hill in Ireland that was being incorrectly pointed to, so it was a productive process in multiple ways.DenisMoskowitz 18:28, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Use of scanned photographs

I have to get back to the above issue at a later date. Meanwhile I would like to start adding images to my articles, specifically photographs to my articles on BMX athletes and personalities. I have tried to make heads or tails of the Wiki policies on the use of images but I do not claim to appreciate the nuances of copyright law, even when the descriptions are simplified by Wikipedia, so I will try to ask directly by giving the general descriptions and sources of the images I intend to use:

Scanned images from various BMX magazines, particularly those published in the 1970's, 1980's, and 1990's. Attributed to the photographer. I of course plan to follow the recommended template:

Description

BMX personality headshot/racing shot(s).
Source

BMX magazine like "BMX Action", "BMX Plus!", "Super BMX & Freestyle" (all three now defunct i.e. out of business)
Date

Generally the 1980's
Author

Staff photographers from the various magazines.
Permission

Unknown
Other versions

Unknown as far as I know.

I do not know what tag this would fall under.

If anyone here cannot help perhaps you can forward this to someone who can or tell me specifically where I can repost this letter. I will try to check in here as much as possible to see if I was answered. Hunter2005 19:36, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

You could probably get away with calling it "Fair Use" if there are no public-domain images of the riders available. DenisMoskowitz 18:24, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BMX

Thanks for all your work on BMX and related articles. Although I'm sure you've seen it mentioned, I have to plug Wikipedia:WikiProject Cycling as it could use some more contributions not related to road racing. --Christopherlin 22:09, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Greg A. Hill

Hi Hunter2005, I just noticed your last edit to the above article, the edit summary of which was "restored injuries section. I believe it is relevant to an athlete's career, like when Mickey Mantle wrenched his knee early in his career". I'm a bit confused about this because I didn't remove this section, and this isn't what you readded. I removed the "Peccadilloes" section, because I used the text within the main article - it looked a bit lonely down there, and I think it works quite well in the context of the rest of the article (2nd para). I commented out the other sections because they aren't in use yet. That doesn't stop anyone uncommenting them if they have anything to add to these sections. Would you mind having another look, and consider reverting that edit, because we now have that text ("very out spoken, [..] had a bit of a temper on the track") twice on the page. All the best, and thanks for all your contributions, you seem to have a lot of great info about the sport. Regards. - Nzd (talk) 22:23, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Additional UBR Info

Hi Hunter, I don't know if this is how this works or not but it's the only way I can figure out to communicate with you. You're pretty accurate on most of your facts, I'm the one who changed the pro number 1s a few months ago. Kevin McCarthy was the #1 pro in 1980(I'm 99% sure it was 80), Scott Fifield was the #1 pro for 1982, I'm 100% sure of that. Scott never got anything out of it because UBR went out of business the day after the 82 Grands. Jess Guymon was the #1 pro cruiser for 82. I wrote and did photos for UBR scene the last year, and I was the #5 pro #3 Pro Cruiser in 81 and would have been 5 or 6 in both for 82 had they lasted. I have most or the UBR Scenes and rule books. I'm stoked that someone is taking the time to record this stuff, anything I can do to contribute I'd be glad to. I can probably fill in all the nat #1s with a few min. of looking through the papers. I own ubrbmx.com and am going to do an info site at some point in the next couple of years. I don't want to leave my email addy on here but I'm "RandyS" on vintagebmx.com, os-bmx.com, and bmxmuseum.com. Let me know what I can do, if I can't remember I have half a dozen other UBR regulars that I talk to regularly. Thanks, Randy

  • Hi Randy! Any contributions that you can make please make them. The only sources I have are all my old BMX magazines ranging from the mid 1970's to about the early 1990's: BMX Action, BMX Plus!, SuperBMX, and a couple of Total BMXs I haven't found digging in my closet yet (I also have ABA Actions/American BMXer's from early 1982 to early 1992 and and incomplete collection of the ABA's Bicycles and Dirt but of course they didn't cover UBR.). They are by no means a complete collection, especially from the mid and late 1970's. I only have one Minicycle/BMX Action for example (June 1976). My earliest SuperBMX is from July 1981. My earliest BMX Plus! is from October of 1981. I have scans from the first 10 BMX Actions from 1976 to early 1978 (no hard copies) but missing many copies between 1978 to 1981. I have no issues of the mid 1970's BMX News, so I have large gaps in the early history of BMX during which time these smaller sanctioning bodies where covered almost as much as the NBA and ABA. The mags didn't cover (from what I have seen) "third and fourth party" sanctioning bodies like the UBR and the National Pedal Sport Association (NPSA) often after the ABA and NBL took off. BMX Plus! did a few articles in the early 80's, Super BMX did several NPSA articles during that same period, but they did not go into the background of those governing bodies in depth. However, as I indicated I don't have all the issues of the BMX publications that did have articles on them (and almost nothing of them are on the net since this was before the era of the World Wide Web), so anything you can provide in terms of operations of the UBR would be welcome like what where the history of the organization? Who where the vice presidents? Did the UBR disappear totally or was it brought by a larger sanctioning body (I *think* the NPSA was brought by the ABA for instance)? Who were the sidehack number ones? Scott Barrette & Craig "gOrk" Barrette supposed to have won the no.1 sidehack title in the UBR three times in a row, but Chuck & Kelly Croffoot supposed to have won in 1980 according to a BMX Action interview I have of them. If you have a color magazine scan of the UBR logo (in jpeg 600x700 dpi resolution would be nice) that would be appreciated so I can display it on the article page.
  • Just fill in as many notes in history of the UBR as you see fit. Just be prepared to attribute them with footnotes like I have with a few things about how the UBR delt with Cheri Elliott from BMX Plus! Of course fill in the class winners for the years they won. Did it have a dedicated pro class during the first few years Or was the no.1(s) tile overall and pro/am for the first couple of years like how the NBA did it? I am not sure. When was its first year? The same for sidehack and the other classes. Did the UBR have a 16" pit bike class or was that the NPSA?
  • One question: What was the day of its last Grand National? You said it closed up shop right away after it. The results are just as valid even if the racers never got to run their numbers. It would just like Scott Clark being the last pro no.1 for the NBA in 1981, so who were the last no.1s for 1982?
  • This listing is as much yours as it is mine. I only ask that you follow the layout of the article page since it matches the entries of the others: NBL, ABA, NBA, NPSA.
  • Incidentally I tried to go to www.ubrbmx.com but it seems to be a dead link.
  • Oh, if you have anything on the history of National Pedal Sport Association would be greatly appreciated, especially no.1 winners you can fill in. Hunter2005 18:08, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Hunter, I have the majority of the BMX News and BX BiWeekly/BMX Weekly newspapers. The same people you got the BMX Action scans from have all the BMX News scanned and will have the CD available soon. I'll look over the stuff and fill in or correct anything I can. Much of it may be from memory, but I won't do anything I'm not 100% sure of. ubrbmx.com and a couple of other urls I have registered are just sitting for now, I learned on my first website which was the one that spawned vitagebmx.com not to put anything up again until it's ready to go. You're doing a hell of a job on this stuff. Randy
    • Thanks for your compliments Randy! I am looking forward to the release of the BMX News scans. Any specific time of when it will go on sale? Any plans to scan in BMX Plus!?
    • What I am doing is going through my four sets of BMX Mags repeatedly. Let's say I want to find out info on say three racers at a time. I will go through all my BMXA copies, then my BMXP! copies and then all my SBMX copies and then my Bicycles and Dirt copies to mine info on them. Then I would Wikify the info. Then I would select another three racers and do it again, also watch for any info of the three previous racers I missed the first time around. Then I would do it for another three. I have been at this now since about late January or so. I have must have gone through those four sets of mags about 20 times each in the past five or so months! It is tedious but I am in no rush. I foresee myself doing this for several more years. I haven't even started on the freestylers! I am an old/mid school ABA racer (1982-1989) so I have that bias. :-) But I fully intend to give them equal time. That brings up another thing. I didn't by any BMX mags after I officially retired in early 1992 except for one every two years to get a glimpse of what was happening, so I am deficient in info about most Mid school and new school happenings, so I need back issues of Snap! and BMX Plus! of those eras. Oh! and European racers and organizations I need info on and I don't have one foreign BMX mag from any era! I have a lot of work to do! It is a labor of love! :-) Hunter2005 15:56, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sunriver y2k bug

I noticed you commented out my addition saying that they fixed it, but I still see the problem here. Assuming it was browser related, I looked again and see it ("February 9, 107") in SeaMonkey and Firefox 2.0 & 1.5, but it looks okay in IE 6. Interesting! —EncMstr 19:43, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

  • I guess it is because I use Internet Explorer ver. 6.2.80 that I see it as fixed with that browser. However, I also use Netscape Navigator Ver. 8.0.3.3 and it is NOT fixed. I will go back and undo my edit and add the explaination of the problem Hunter2005 19:58, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! I guess there's a good illustration of still-broken Y2K software methodologies. Regards, —EncMstr 20:55, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Warwick Stevenson

Just wanted to say you've done some nice work on the Warwick Stevenson article. It was on my watchlist as I made some edits to it a while back while going through the cycling bio stubs, but I can't really add to the topic due to my limited knowledge! Also, when I designed the Template:Cyclist infobox, I did so from the eyes of a road fan. From your angle, do you think the infobox could be altered for a wider usage, or could any fields be better named perhaps? I'd be really interested in your thoughts! Regards, Severo 00:10, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Hello Severo and thanks for the compliments. Warwick Stevenson is not the only BMX racer I am writing up as you can tell from the BMX racing page in the "Legendary BMX racers" section. I was a BMX racer from 1982 to 1989 (officially retired in 1992) and I have a great many of the BMX magazines of the 1980's, a lot of the 1970's (which explains some of the gaps in the data from that era) and a few of the 1990-2000's (like I said I retired in 1989 so I only have a few BMX mags post 1992 (which I have even larger gaps in the data), but I think ebay can rectify that. :-) As to the info boxes I find them quite adequate for BMX. Any other details I can provide in the body of the article. The Info box is only for basic knowledge anyway. No need for the racer's exact hometown to be listed in the box for instance, just the nationality. If I think of anything I will let you know, but so far it is okay as it is. Hunter2005 20:38, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding edits to Cheri Elliott

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