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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 12 RE: Player Stats 13 Seeking community input re standardizing baseball roster pages 14 B. Wagner/R. Wagner 15 Gillespies 16 Am I leaving? 17 RE: Reverting my edits 18 Piped links 19 DYK 20 Dave Roberts and Okinawa 21 DYK 22 Template Colors 23 Template:Cbb link 24 DYK 25 CBB template colors 26 Case references 27 NXWM Route List 28 2007-08 NCAA Division I men's basketball season 29 AfD nomination of Phil Forgit 30 Dalrymple railway station 31 Connaught Cup Stakes 32 Valparaiso Crusaders 33 Redirect of /Current players by birthplace 34 Caër--not referenced

[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)

[edit] RE: Player Stats

Alright. I have received so much static from all these users about this. Most of them were asking me why I wanted to wait a week to remove them. I didn't want to have to deal with this anymore, so I just went with the consensus we had from the discussion, which was to remove it. --Ksy92003 21:57, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Seeking community input re standardizing baseball roster pages

Hi ... I'm leaving you this note because you recently made edits to one of the Major League Baseball roster pages. I've made a proposal for standardizing the format, structure and content of these pages here and would appreciate your input so that we may reach a consensus. Thanks. --Sanfranman59 06:29, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] B. Wagner/R. Wagner

Hi, I'm Greg, and I've been editing the season game logs of many of the MLB teams this year. I noticed you reverted an edit I made on the Nationals game log regarding the clarification of Billy and Ryan Wagner. I understand your decision to do so, but I think it might be more accurate to leave the name of Ryan Wagner un-clarified ("Wagner") on the Nats log while keeping Billy Wagner in the clarified form ("B. Wagner"), while on the Mets log keeping Billy Wagner in the un-clarified form ("Wagner") and putting Ryan Wanger in the clarified for ("R. Wanger"). It just makes sense to me that the Nats log should be from the standpoint of a Nationals fan, who would know that their pitcher is Ryan, not Billy (as established by the bolding of names of a team's pitchers while leaving opposing pitchers unbolded), and that the Mets log should be from a Mets standpoint (vice versa). I won't revert your edit back until I hear back from you about your opinion. It's not really a big deal to me, I just thought I'd ask you what you thought. Thanks, Greg.Greggreggreg 20:57, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I agree to an extent. But I think it looks odd to look down the "Save" column on the Mets log and see "Wagner, Wagner, B. Wagner, Wagner, etc.". It makes it seem as if there are two Wagner's on the team. Do you see what I'm saying? I mean, the bolded names already establish which team's each pitcher pitches for in the game, so I don't see why it's necessary to make such a distinction. That's why I proposed only using the first initial for the opposing Wagner. Any thoughts on this?Greggreggreg 23:14, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gillespies

A disambiguation page is definitely in order, I would say. I'm going through a creating a crapload of stubs - if you wouldn't mind created the disambig page, that'd be great. --fuzzy510 00:41, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Am I leaving?

Of course not. If I really were leaving, I'd leave a more noticeable note. Certainly not in an edit summary. i apologize for any misunderstand. I use "adios" in my edit summaries whenever I remove an unnecessary section after discussion about its inclusion in the article. I honestly didn't think that could be misunderstood as me leaving Wikipedia. I apologize. From now on, I'll try to make a less-confusing edit summary, but should I forget, just be aware that that's all that means. Trust me, if I were leaving for whatever reason (which I hope doesn't happen for a long time), I would post somewhere on the project page my departure. Don't worry, I'll be around for a while.

However, if you have noticed, my number of edits has declined over the past week. That is because this week for us High School students was STAR testing, and this morning I took the SAT. I've been studying a lot for all of these tests and haven't been able to contribute nearly as much. But now that all the tests are completed for now, my contribution tally should increase back to its previous amoung. --Ksy92003 03:05, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Reverting my edits

What? You're the one who started reverting my edits. In either case, I left an explanation at Talk:2007 Washington Nationals season#Reverting changes. Look at this and don't come all after me for reverting your edits when you reverted me first. Thank you. --Ksy92003 03:21, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Piped links

Hi. Just a quick pointer that if you want to say "Joe Smith's [whatever]", you don't actually need to pipe the link. Just put "Joe Smith" in double-square brackets and then add "'s" outside them. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 23:06, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

On June 22, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Jack Lelivelt, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Thanks!Blnguyen (bananabucket) 04:44, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for nomintating Ross Detwiler for DYK, and citing my creation of that. Very cool. Thanks. -- Sholom 18:33, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dave Roberts and Okinawa

I deleted your entry to the List of Career Home Run Leaders by Birthplace that listed Dave Roberts as the player with the most career HRs who was born in the U.S. territory of "Okinawa" (it was actually called the Ryukyu Islands, with Okinawa being the most important island), since Roberts was born in Okinawa on May 31, 1972, which actually was a few weeks after the island was returned to Japanese administration on May 14, 1972. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Civil_Administration_of_the_Ryukyu_Islands The only major leaguer to be born in the Ryukyu Islands under U.S. administration was infielder Bobby Fenwick, born in U.S.-occupied Okinawa on December 10, 1946, but he did not hit any career homers. I was actually pretty pissed that Roberts was born after the handover, since I wanted to add him when I added Carew for the Canal Zone. BTW, if the handover date listed on the Wikipedia page is incorrect, then I apologize and will revert your entry (and will fix the Ryukyu Islands page as well). Cheers, AuH2ORepublican 19:14, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Both 1972#June and Okinawa Island refer to the hand-over as occurring on June 17, 1972. However, United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands is a little bit confusing. Then look at the sentence, 'After a referendum, on May 14, 1972, control of Okinawa was given back back to Japan, and USCAR was abolished.' Does this mean that control was returned to Japan or that the referendum occurred on May 14? Fbdave 21:16, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

It appears that May 14, 1972 was the date of the referendum but that Okinawa and the other Ryukyu Islands then under U.S. administration were returned to Japanese rule on May 15, 1972. See http://www.okinawa.usmc.mil/About%20Okinawa/History%20Page.html and http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0XPQ/is_2002_May_20/ai_86028298. I'm not sure what exactly occurred on June 17, 1972 (other than the Watergate break-in), but it doesn't appear to have been control of the territory. Too bad, because I would have loved for the flag of the Ryukyus to appear there next to Dave Roberts's name. AuH2ORepublican 23:24, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Did you know? was updated. On 18 September 2007, a fact from the article Ross Detwiler, which you recently nominated, was featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Cheers, Daniel 05:55, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template Colors

Please stop changing the colors on the CFB Schedule template. If you wish to change it, please discuss it first on the Template's talk page. Those colors were chosen by the CFB WikiProject and are used on several articles and lists.↔NMajdan•talk 22:28, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Cbb link

Hey ... you had the right idea with [1]. Mediawiki is a little quirky, though with complex templates. Sometimes you have to purge it a couple of times to get it to show up. --B (talk) 05:41, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

On 21 December 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mike Palagyi, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Thank you for you contribution. --Royalbroil 06:23, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CBB template colors

I chose those colors because they are similar to the ones used in the football template. Go ahead and change them back should you feel the old colors are more appropriate. CrdHwk (talk) 21:28, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Case references

Those case pages which you've tagged are referenced: by the case citation, at the article's start. Can you please remove your tags, and not do that again on other such pages. It's a bit of a bore. Wikidea 20:08, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

It looks like these are the cases, not actual references. Am I wrong? Fbdave (talk) 23:40, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes. They're the case citations - so when you want to look at a case, you'd find the corresponding report (so, All ER, for instance is All England Reports; AC is Appeals Cases), and then the following number is for the page. So it is an actual reference! I mean of course more references could be added, footnotes and so on, but I think expansion of the article is necessary before that: something needs to be written further before there are references, hence the stub tags! Please, you put them up, so make the effort to take them down. Wikidea 10:28, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] NXWM Route List

Please inform me what is unreferenced on this page please.

List of National Express West Midlands Bus Routes

Westbromdepot (talk) 00:53, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 2007-08 NCAA Division I men's basketball season

I don't see any reason to delete the article even if it should have been moved from my user space. The only reason I didn't just start the page was because it had no substance and I hate creating sub-stubs. Phydend (talk) 02:27, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Phil Forgit

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[edit] Dalrymple railway station

Hi, I have reverted your move of this article, as there seems to be no reason for it. Every other railway station article in the UK has either 'railway station' or just 'station' in lower case after the name, why should Dalrymple be the odd one out? --- Dreamer ⁸⁴ 23:11, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Connaught Cup Stakes

You should be aware that the website connection to the racetrack, and hence the race, is a reference in the infobox. Thanx. Handicapper (talk) 12:56, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Valparaiso Crusaders

Why did you revert my edit completely? That particular section was not well-written, and there was no need for three paragraphs on the athlete in comparison to the rest of the article. I at least want to rewrite things like the "Saturday March 10" thing, but when I try rewriting, I realize how much of it is superfluous ... but if I get rid of the superfluous text, I get reverted with no explanation. What gives? Spell4yr (talk) 01:14, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Please discuss this on Talk:Valparaiso Crusaders. Fbdave (talk) 22:31, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Redirect of /Current players by birthplace

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[edit] Caër--not referenced

I would suggest that the co-ordinates serve as a verifiable reference, but if not so, I can add another...(?) LaFoiblesse (talk) 07:20 2008-06-09 (GMT)