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bibliomaniac15 Review? 18:03, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder. I updated my 9-11 comment to include my signature. I am glad my first feedback was this constructive. Have a great day. CodeCarpenter 17:02, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] 9/11 timeline

Thank you for taking the initiative. I've been working on the 9/11 page, but been busy on other pages lately and didn't notice your talk page comment. It's very helpful to catch such inaccuracies in the article. If you see anything else, please don't hesitate to speak up or just be bold and fix it. Or want to help in any other way... --Aude (talk) 19:51, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiproject Miami

Please don't add the category to the regular articles, instead to the talk page, this is not the way it is supposed to be done. Jaranda wat's sup 02:35, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

  • Ugh. I thought it was linked to both. I was basing it on the Texas page which had some non-talk links. I will clean it up. Not gonna be fun.... :( Thanks for letting me know though. CodeCarpenter 03:33, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Or risk losing both

Well, before I get into the issue, let me first say very sincerely that I appreciate your discussing it to see if we can work out here, rather than just jumping to edit warring. That level of respect and cooperation is sometimes missing here so when it's present, it's genuinely appreciated. Thanks. 8-)

As to the issue at hand though . . . actually, players asking to be traded, but then nothing ever coming of it happens frequently in all pro sports. There's nothing uncommon about it all. Shoot, Manny Ramirez with the Red Sox has asked to be traded so many times over the past couple of season, it's not even news any more when he does. Yet he's remained with the team and productive and (apparently) happy. Shaq also once publicly said he'd retire before ever playing for any coach other than Phil Jackson. Yet, when Phil was let go, the only talk was of trade, not retirement. This type of stuff happens and later blows over all the time.

A player (particularly one pulling in Shaq's salary) just sitting out refusing to play until he's traded, on the other hand, is very uncommon. (It was the Sixers' choice to sit Iverson, not his.)

Holding out for a new contract, yes. Especialy in the NFL since contracts there are not guaranteed. But not an "I-refuse-to-even-consider-staying-with-you-and-I'm-going-to-sit-until-you-trade-me" hold out. And in the NBA in particular, even holding out just for a new contract is a rarity because the contracts are guaranteed.

I won't say no one's ever refused to play until traded in the NBA, but I certainly can't remember the last time that occurred. It's definitely a lot less common than the amount of times a player asks to be traded and it just doesn't happen.

So I would disagree with you (still with all due respect, though, of course) that Shaq just sitting out if he wasn't traded was at all a likely scenario. In fact, numerous GM's, including Pat Riley, said they didn't take Shaq's trade demand seriously at the time he made it, but rather figured the Lakers would still never trade him .. . . skeptical even after the Lakers publicly announced they would try to accomodate him. It was ony after the Lakers actually started making and taking calls that they thought there was any chance at all that a trade would really happen.

The Lakers did not trade Shaq because they were afraid of losing both. Quite the opposite. They risked losing both by trading Shaq, since Kobe still could have (and by most accounts almost did) leave the team even after the Shaq trade. The Lakers chose to take the risk because Jerry Buss had long since decided that if he had to choose between the two, then Kobe was his choice. Mwelch 22:58, 20 December 2006 (UTC)


Good point reminding me about Mourning, which I'll confess I had forgotten. But actually, even that situation was unique in that after the Nets traded him to the Raptors, the doctors didn't clear him as physically able to play. So, with his contract being guaranteed, that meant he was free to sit out all he wanted and the Raptors still had to pay him. So that was some major leverage that enabled him to sit out and force the Raptors to buy out his contract and release him, that the typical "I want to be traded" NBA player doesn't have. For everybody else, if you sit out, you don't get paid.

As for the jumping back and forth between talk pages . . . ya know, to be honest, I guess I really hadn't ever given it alot of thought before. You've actually got a pretty good point there. There certainly oughtta be a better way to do it, huh? LOL Mwelch 00:35, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Greenspan Page

I did read your comments on my talk page. Yes, it is good to stay constructive and positive so sure I may say "sorry I have to revert this." When you say things like "stock market crash of almost 3000 points" or "Fed dropped the discount rate from 3.50 to 1.25" these certainly must be referenced. I know that you wikilinked to 9/11 and Enron and generically to "accounting scandals" however those are not supporting references such as the Wikipedia guideline WP:RS and I'm pretty sure other Wikipedia guidelines and policy asks for. In general, according to the WP:RS guideline, we're supposed to use reliable secondary sources. For something like this it might be Business Week or the Wall Street Journal or maybe Forbes.com or something like that. Take it light. DanielM 10:43, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2006 Miami Dolphins season

(moved from the user page) Thanks 4 telling me how cool it was for me adding Week 17 to the article. I noticed it as I was going through the different articles.

Your welcome, praise is all we get paid here, so you deserved a little pay. CodeCarpenter 18:45, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AWB error

Thanks ;-) It's not a bot, it's AWB running with manual supervision, but it's running fast and I can make mistakes ;-) Thanks again for let me know. I'll check carefully the next edits. Happy Editing by Snowolf(talk) on 15:31, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

BTW, I think I've now fixed the error on Tancredo page, let me know if it's ok. Happy Editing by Snowolf(talk) on 15:35, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
I rely on WP:CFD/W for deletion. Anyway, here is the deletion "verdict": 1. Have a nice day and Happy Editing by Snowolf(talk) on 16:46, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Dwyane Wade

I respond to your comment there. Quadzilla99 06:36, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mortgage

Good catch! It should have been 43% retail, thanks. Bbulzibar 17:48, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] hypocenter versus epicenter.

The image of the Nagasaki memorial shows that it is on the hypocenter of the blast. Should this also be changed to epicenter? Just clarifying... CodeCarpenter 17:48, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Good catch! Yes, it should be fixed. Ground zero can refer to the hypocenter, the place of the explosion, or the epicenter, the point on the surface of the planet closest to the hypocenter.--Ryan! 18:01, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Poor Baseball Teams

Hey man, if you think its tough having Loria as an owner, trying being a Pirates fan! We're absolutlely hopeless here. The Nutting family has officially closed their wallet. As long as they're making a profit, they could care less about what's happening on the field. A salary cap saved my Penguins, maybe it'll save our struggling baseball teams someday! Mr. Vitale 01:48, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] barnstar

CodeC,

You are, I presume, a cryptographer, albeit of an obsolete sort of crypto. Or perhaps a code warrior wrestling with obfuscated C. I'd have perhaps chosen CodeKludger for myself, had I thought of the style.

Thanks for the barnstar, though I fear it's misapplied. For a long time, I've been wrestling with several large articles (several of them managed to reach Featured Status), and it's my observation that no solution is ever actually reached. I've no doubt that something untoward will be added to Pearl Harbor soon, if not even immediately. A review of the archived talk for Pearl Harbor will reflect some of this. In any case, you'll note that the discussion is continuing in talk...

Finally, please do not be misled by VitaleBaby's despair (just above) as a Pirate fan. Some people complain about their troubles without realliy understanding what trouble really is. As a Red Sox fan, I can assure him he's got no real grounds for griping. For instance, his team wasn't afflicted by a series of diastrous owners, of which John Taylor was merely the first of the worst, thouhg he stole the name and gave it to the team. for instance, the Pirates' stadium wasn't torched and almost reduced to a cinder during the 30s. Nor were they the object, AFIAK, of Ban Johnson's malevolence though they did, IIRC, benefit from some of it in the case of Pie Traynor, whose theft from the Red Sox was connived in by Johnson. Nor did Pirates ex-players end up winning Pennants and World Series for most of the 20s and 30s for another team in the same league. Another effect of Johnson's hostility. And all this after having been the best team in the majors overall, despite its owners, for most of the first two decades of the last century. The Pirates' woes pale in comparison. And as for that Goat Curse in Chicago, hah! Mere bad luck, not the result of conspiracy both mundane (Ban Johnson and bad owners) and Infernal (the never to be sufficiently condemned Yankees). Be assured that Pirates fans have suffered little in comparison to true sufferers of a cosmic fate. ww 17:27, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

It's my first. You made my day. Trekphiler 04:30, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar for you

The Original Barnstar
For noticing little errors like "It takes two to tango" LordHarris 22:18, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Elian and all that

My rationale for the edit you mention was simple:Not complicated; as the Republican leadership said they didn't have the votes to pass it in late January; Ros-Lehtinen's promise in February to introduce such a bill didn't make much sense in context.

By the way, I had to DIG to find out how that lawsuit came out; Judicial Watch trumpeted the suit from the skies--except the outcome, ha ha.--Wehwalt 20:51, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

Thanks for the barnstar for the gasoline and petroleum price graphs. I really appreciate the feedback. Jpo 22:22, 11 May 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Pearl Harbor FA review

I've left a comment on this at Featured Article Review. I think there's a significant problem or two here. perhaps you'd like to respond or comment yourself?

And, of course, Go Red Sox! Sometimes, though far too rarely, things seem to balance out. Climate change leading to disaster, Yankees in the cellar while the Sox are flying. Sigh... Bliss, I tell you, bliss. ww 11:38, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pearl Harbor links

Don't think that was one of the points I raised - my worries were mainly about POV and much more fundamental than formatting! Without having looked at the article I'd suggest that links to websites in the body of the text are treated as inline citations... The Land 17:32, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unformatted links

By "unformatted weblinks" I meant "embedded links" that have simply been enclosed in the external link square brackets:[http://edition.cnn.com/], which appears like[1]. These are not disallowed by Wikipedia policy, but in practice are not used on FAs (which I hope you're shooting to get Pearl Harbor back to!). Consistent reference formatting, including author, date, publisher, access date etc., is encouraged. See Wikipedia:Citation templates. Note you do not have to use the templates themselves, but one in use will show you a consistent format. See also Wikipedia:Verifiability for policy on referencing. Cheers, Marskell 19:37, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] United States housing bubble, featured article candidate, 28 June 2007

Please take a moment to enter your thoughts for this article as featured at Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates#United_States_housing_bubble. Frothy 13:48, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Miami-area special project: Your input needed!

Dear CodeCarpenter,

You appear to be active in WikiProject Miami, or have contributed a lot recently to Miami-related articles. I would like to invite you to contribute your opinions on a grant proposal for a project that may provide unique and helpful resources for Wikipedia in Miami.

Over the last six months, Wikipedia and Wikinews have been discussing a project proposal with the Knight Foundation which could create a new type of an environment for locally-oriented encyclopedic and news content. The general idea involves an official sanctioning of a local Wiki community in one or two charter areas, one of them being Miami. The Wiki community would be empowered to cover all things Miami -- even things that normally would not pass notability restrictions -- and cover both encyclopedic information as well as current events in the South Florida community. The proposal may even involve the creation of a physical "wiki space": some sort of a local room or office to coordinate efforts and provide community members with a place to create and edit articles.

I'm working on formalizing the proposal, and would like to invite you and other Miami contributors to a project brainstorming session via chat. The chat will take place this Saturday, July 14th, at 12 noon Eastern Time (9am Pacific). If enough people can't make it there will be an additional repeat meeting at some later time.

The online meeting will happen using IRC on the channel #wikipedia-miami -- you can use your own chat client or the use this handy link to join the chat. Please don't forget to provide your username when you log into chat.

I look forward to talking with you. Thanks! -- IlyaHaykinson 04:22, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Invite

Century Tower

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[edit] Wikipages in need

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Plain White T's needs a lot of help. It is a sketchy article.

8- inch floppy disc also needs help. There were a few notes that floppy disk was too long so I made a new article from part of that one.

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