User talk:Badmintonhist

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1 Welcome
2 Hi!
3 Keith Olbermann
4 January 2008
5 Thank you
6 Thomas Cup
7 The Cancer Suffering Tony Snow
8 The first Pan-American Championships
9 Thomas Cup
10 Barnstar
11 WikiCookie

[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Badmintonhist, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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[edit] Hi!

Hi Badmintonhist, glad to meet more people interested in developing badminton players articles. I have added some wikilinks and infoboxes in the articles you created. If you have any question, you can ask it to me. I hope to see you creating and expanding more badminton related articles! Walint (talk) 16:33, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm just a badminton enthusiastic, who played played some years ago. In Wikipedia I focus on badminton players' articles, but there are more people developing badminton-related articles, in tournaments, players, and organizations articles. Congratulations for your work! Walint (talk) 13:07, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Keith Olbermann

Yes, you are correct. That is also unsourced POV.-Hal Raglan (talk) 03:56, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

As a followup to your above conversation, the fact you are adding is true. However, the ratings of his competition are not relevant to the Keith Olbermann article. If you're saying the ratings are a factor (no pun intended) in the enmity between the two broadcasters, that has to be reliably sourced. Otherwise, it's original research. Without explaining the significance of the fact, it doesn't belong on the Keith Olbermann page, as consensus has established. If you disagree, please take the matter up on the talk page. Thanks! Redrocket (talk) 07:02, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Badmintonhist, I appreciate your willingness to go to the mat with a horde of Olbermann supporters who are happy to put every little remark Olbermann has ever made about O'Reilly up, yet consider a mention of their status as competitors "original research." Whenever participating in a discussion over an article about a political figure, "original research" is the euphemism leftists employ to throw out any bit of information they don't like. If that doesn't work, they bring out more rules like claiming simple statements of relevant facts aren't neutral simply because they don't favor who they like.

Keep up the good work and I'll try to throw in my two cents whenever I can. Drstrangelove57 (talk) 19:03, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] January 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did to Margaret Boxall, is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. This is especially important when dealing with biographies of living people, but applies to all Wikipedia articles. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you are already familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources, please take this opportunity to add your original reference to the article. Thank you. Tanthalas39 (talk) 17:49, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

For citing your references. I hate to be the bad guy, but verifiability is one of the sacred pillars of Wikipedia. If you have any questions or need any help, let me know, but it looks like you're off and running. Happy editing! Tanthalas39 (talk) 18:30, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thomas Cup

Hi Badmintonhist, I've seen that you have a lot of information about former badminton players and their results in the Thomas Cup competition. I would like to create all the articles about the Thomas Cup contests, but the only information I have found is at the BWF Official Website [1]. Have you got any further information about the Thomas Cup? I would appreciate it.

I have created the article of the 1967 Thomas Cup. If you don't mind, could you read it and check that there isn't any grammar mistake, please? My english is not too good and I would like to use this article as template to create the next ones. Thank you very much! MontanNito (talk) 15:28, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your explanation. According to internationalbadminton.org the Inter-Zone Ties & Challenge Round were held in Sinagpore [2], but sometimes there are mistakes there. According to the Thomas Cup article in Wikipedia, the tournmanet was played in Jakarta, and that make sense, so I will change it in the 1967 Thomas Cup article. Have you got the results of the matches? At least the Challange Round ones? And where have you found so much information? It's great! :-) MontanNito (talk) 20:25, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

I have added to the article the information you have provided me. If you want to modify something or add more information, please do not hesitate to do it. MontanNito (talk) 20:45, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much (again). I have already added it, if you want you can have a look at it. Any other information you would like to share will be welcome. MontanNito (talk) 22:25, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Cancer Suffering Tony Snow

Unless Olbermann is making fun of Tony Snow's suffering, then this detail is indeed irrelevant, as another editor already noted. The fact that you are claiming that this description is important to show "the mentality of Olbermann" is simply another way of admitting that you want an anti-Olbermann POV sloppily inserted into the article.-Hal Raglan (talk) 04:02, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

If you really want to leave it to "the reader to decide", as you claim, the descriptor should be removed. The reader can simply click the provided wikilink to Snow's article and find out for themselves that he has cancer. Your edit has been repeatedly reverted by other editors. If you wish to discuss the issue, please take it to the article's talk page before making the same edit once again. -Hal Raglan (talk) 18:44, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The first Pan-American Championships

Hi Badmintonhist. I've seen that you have cited a book titled "The first Pan-American Championships" as a reference in the article about Roy Díaz González. In the Pan Am Badminton Championships article there isn't this information, could you provide me (or directly to the article) all the champions of the first edition? Thank you. Walint (talk) 16:25, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thomas Cup

Thank you for copyediting the Thomas Cup article, you do very well. I'm expand the details, but my English is so poor, so thank you once again. --Aleen f1 04:12, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes, they are four venues in 1984 and 3 in 1986, this page can help you. BUT the problem is the team, team like Japan and Chinese Taipei play in Toronto in 1984 with other Americas team, so you must be careful. Yes, the table should modified, i count on you. Thank you. --Aleen f1 05:37, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi, sorry, i just renew the list of team appearances until 2008, it should be renew while ago, but i fail to do it. I inform you in case anything you might want to to change. Thank you. --Aleen f1 07:15, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		Congratulations for the hard work and the improvements you have made with Thomas Cup articles! MontanNito (talk) 19:05, 3 May 2008 (UTC)