User talk:Katydidit

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[edit] Cardinals game log

Hi. Please try to be more careful when you edit Template:2007 St. Louis Cardinals season game log. The background color for wins, should be bgcolor="bbffbb"; for losses, use bgcolor="ffbbbb". The last couple of days you've changed the background color for their four most recent losses from ffbbbb to bbffbb. Thanks for your efforts at keeping the log up to date. --Sanfranman59 17:38, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hey

You gonna take the Yankees-Cleveland game tonight? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Madretsma (talk • contribs) 00:28, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Postseason

Hi, you might find me updating game also. Do you use gameday on MLB.com or do you actually watch? VoL†ro/\/Force 01:22, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Watch. Use GAMEDAY also for confirmation or when not watching at times. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Katydidit (talk • contribs)

[edit] All Star Game

Hello. I just want to let you know that you are doing a good job on my Sandbox page, and I really appreciate the help. I didn't think anyone would be helping me with this, so I really appreciate it. Thanks again. Shawn W 19:04, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Do you know how to make the 'All Star Template' appear only at the bottom, as well as the 'Confirmed future sites', so the actual table appears at the top of the page?? Shawn W 20:48, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Your welcome! Thanks for the thanks. It was just something I thought I could help with and I had some free time. As for your question, I'm not sure I understand it completely, but I think you just copy the " ===Header Name=== " you want on a page where you want it to go and that should include a Template name. --Katydidit 01:51, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

I would like to have the table that lists the individual years (the one right in the middle of the page above the results table) listed on the bottom, like it is on the main Major League Baseball All Star Game page. Do you know how to do this? Shawn W 02:16, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

On the 'External links' section of that main page, below it is the little box with all the years listed. If that is what you want copied elsewhere, just click on 'edit' of that 'External links' section, and just copy-paste this:

v • d • e
Major League Baseball All-Star Game
1930s: 1930 • 1931 • 1932 •1933 • 1934 • 1935 • 1936 • 1937 • 1938 • 1939
1940s: 1940 • 1941 • 1942 • 1943 • 1944 • 1945 • 1946 • 1947 • 1948 • 1949
1950s: 1950 • 1951 • 1952 • 1953 • 1954 • 1955 • 1956 • 1957 • 1958 • 1959 • 1959²
1960s: 1960 • 1960² • 1961 • 1961² • 1962 • 1962² • 1963 • 1964 • 1965 • 1966 • 1967 • 1968 • 1969
1970s: 1970 • 1971 • 1972 • 1973 • 1974 • 1975 • 1976 • 1977 • 1978 • 1979
1980s: 1980 • 1981 • 1982 • 1983 • 1984 • 1985 • 1986 • 1987 • 1988 • 1989
1990s: 1990 • 1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999
2000s: 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009
2010s: 2010 • 2011 • 2012 • 2013 • 2014 • 2015 • 2016 • 2017 • 2018 • 2019
² — Two All-Star Games were played these seasons.

where you want it to go. I believe that is what you want copied elsewhere. You have to identify the " [[ ]] " command (what I call it) that corresponds to the detail you want copied elsewhere, if not the entire section-header " ===Header Name " as I mentioned earlier. I'm a beginner on editing and just picking it up as I go along.

Now that the ASG table is finally finished (I added the missing Attendance figures earlier tonight), are you (or someone else you know) going to do all the individual detail years of all the other AS Games that aren't done yet? In that little box with all the years, these come up as needing editing: 1941-1944, 1946-1956, 1958, 1960-1976, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984-1985, and 1987. --Katydidit 02:31, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

I put the years table explicitly on the page as you can see. What you do is put TWO BRACKETS MLBAllStarGame TWO BRACKETS before and after that middle section to make the table appear. A finished bracket are these symbols: { } and you just put 2 of them on each side of MLBAllStarGame to get it to appear where you want.

  --Katydidit 02:37, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
In response to your question, I will work on the missing pages if I have time. Shawn W 01:05, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Milestone home runs

You may have an opinion on Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Milestone home runs by Barry Bonds.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 14:39, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Eckstein/Taguchi

Eckstein has filed for free agency, meaning he has no contract with the Cardinals. As his former team, the Cardinals have sole negotiating rights until free agency begins, but that's only the power to negotiate. He is not a member of the team. As for Taguchi, his team option was declined on on November 6, making him a free agent.

All players that have filed for free agency, because they have no obligations to their former teams and can sign with whomever they choose when free agency begins, have been removed from the roster templates. Eckstein is no different.►Chris NelsonHolla! 15:45, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

It's not a matter of opinion. It's a fact. Eckstein and Taguchi are not members of the Cardinals. They don't work for them. They don't have contracts with them. They are unemployed. So to have them on the template is 100% false. That's why you remove them now and then re-add them if they re-sign - because to have them there the entire time is totally inaccurate. Like I said, it's not my opinion, it's reality. So yes, I will undo your edit because I'm not going to ignore an edit I know to me factually incorrect.►Chris NelsonHolla! 16:17, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Invitation

Nice job with the stats on 2007 Missouri Tigers football team.

 Hello, I noticed you've made edits to University of Missouri articles or that you are in some way connected to the University of Missouri. I thought you might want to become a member of the Mizzou WikiProject. We've recently built the project page and started a drive to improve Mizzou related articles. Please take a look to edit an article or add one of your own. Once an article's status has been agreed upon, feel free to stop by and lend a hand in getting it to featured article status. Hope you can participate!

Grey Wanderer | Talk 01:02, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2008 St. Louis Cardinals season

Good job placing the spring training log there. I haven't seen that on any other season pages.   jj137 ♠ Talk 03:23, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ron Paul Revolution

Ron Paul Revolution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Ron_Paul_Revolution#Ron_Paul_Revolution

If you have time I would like to hear your comments on this page. Thanks--Duchamps comb (talk) 19:48, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject St. Louis

 Hello, I noticed you've made edits to St. Louis articles or that you are in some way connected to metropolitan area. I thought you might want to become a member of the St. Louis WikiProject. We've recently built the project page and started a drive to improve St. Louis related articles. Please take a look to edit an article or add one of your own. Once an article's status has been agreed upon, feel free to stop by and lend a hand in getting it to featured article status. Hope you can participate!

Grey Wanderer | Talk 21:10, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2008 St. Louis Cardinals

No other page for any of the other 29 teams has a spring training game log. Vidor (talk) 07:35, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

But they could :) Kingturtle (talk) 05:42, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Template:2007-08 NHL Central Division standings

Greetings. I noticed that you updated the Central Division standings tonight to reflect St. Louis's result. It would be helpful that when you do update the standings in a particular division, that you also update any other completed games in that same division. At the time of your update, the Detroit game was final, as probably was the Blue Jacket game. Selective updating is one of the reasons why, that as a project, we do not do mid-season updates to statistical pages because many editors may focus on only their teams or players that they follow and not the rest of the league as a whole. Updating standings the same way brings up some of the same problems. Please take this into consideration when you update the standings. Thanks. -Pparazorback (talk) 02:39, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your 2008 primaries contributions

Hello Katydidit. Just wanted to send you a quick note to let you know that I appreciate all the work you've been doing to keep the various 2008 Primaries articles (such as Results of the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries) up to date. Your edits are always accurrate and timely. I haven't seen any comments from you on the discussion pages of these articles, which is fine, it just doesn't give me the opportunity to thank you for your help on the articles themselves. So, I'm thanking you here. --Bryan H Bell (talk) 21:22, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

That's very kind of you to say that, Bryan. Appreciate it! I still can't stomach those 'big' numbers compared to the more elegant-looking normal-sized delegate numbers. Katydidit (talk) 05:15, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

I understand your queasiness with the 'big' numbers. Two other editors have expressed the same sentiment. Counting your opinion in with the folks discussing this on the article's talk page, we're 3 opposed vs. 3 supporting. Frankly, I'd prefer to use something other than 'big' if only I could figure out a way to do it without violating Wikipedia's "don't use color-coding only" guideline. The problem is figuring out how to display "1st, 2nd, 3rd, withdrawn" as different without using color alone. So the best I could come up with was "big, bold, italics, square brackets". If someone could come up with a better alternative, I'd be happy to use it. --Bryan H Bell (talk) 08:33, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Why not just use the BOLD (html) option for the winner (leader), and be done with it and forget about using the 'big' (html) option? What's the matter with that? Katydidit (talk) 14:20, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

It depends on what you mean. If you mean drop 2nd/3rd and only highlight 1st, then yes I agree that's a good idea. In that case, we could use bold/blue alone. Another editor, Subver, suggested the same thing on the article's talk page. I've voiced my support of this idea and I'm waiting to see what the other editors think. If you think this is a good idea, I invite you to post your support for it on the article's talk page.
If you mean just use bold/blue for 1st place, normal/lightblue for 2nd, and normal/lightestblue for 3rd, then that won't work. In that case, people who are colorblind, who are using black & white displays (or printouts or cellphones or PDAs) wouldn't be able to tell the difference between 2nd and 3rd. That's the reason behind Wikipedia's "don't use color-coding only" guideline. --Bryan H Bell (talk) 19:03, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi again. I notice you changed the formatting of the total rows on Results of the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries to 1st=bold and 2nd=normal. Your change made it so those rows don't match the key at the top of the table or the rest of the rows in the table. I've changed those rows back to 1st=big and 2nd=bold. I understand you don't like the way the big text looks, but I'd appreciate it if you would leave it be until a consensus is reached on the article's discussion page. If we do decide to remove the big text, we should at least make sure the changes are consistent across the entire table and with its key. Again, I agree with you that using "big" might not be ideal in terms of appearance. I just don't think improving appearances is enough reason to exclude certain groups of users (i.e. the color blind) from enjoying the same access to information that the rest of us enjoy. --Bryan H Bell (talk) 23:52, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sandbox

Here is my sandbox.

[edit] Delegates count at Democratic Convention

Hello Katydidit. If you're going to use 4047? please put a 'reliable source link' next to that numbers. GoodDay (talk) 19:46, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wyoming delegates awarded

Hi. Please can you indicate the source of awarded delegates? --Subver (talk) 19:57, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Done! I just used the percentage received by 12 del. total. --Katydidit (talk) 20:03, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm sorry, but I think that this method is not fair. It's better to leave blank delegates for now. Also because the unification of the results in Primaries-Results-SingleStates pages. Please see also the Result Page Talk, regarding standardization of sources. --Subver (talk) 20:10, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mississippi Democratic primary, 2008

Please make sure to include a reference, or change the existing one, if you add popular vote/delegate counts, or when you update either of these to not match the given source. In particular, the CBS source lists Clinton as having 14 delegates, not 11 as indicated by your recent edit. Andareed (talk) 04:58, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vote to overturn previous consensus on rows

Thanks for your past comments and contributions at Results of the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries. Right now there is a significant vote taking place at Talk:Results of the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries#Vote to overturn previous consensus on rows about whether or not to overturn a previous consensus that each row in the Overview of results table should represent individual nominating events. The vote ends at the close of March 19, 2008 (UTC). The vote contains the negative-option that if there is a tie or fewer than 4 total signatures the previous consensus will prevail. I invite you to visit the talk page and submit your vote on the matter. Thanks! --Bryan H Bell (talk) 01:55, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New Mizzou-related articles

Hey Katydidit, I was sorting through some dead links and such and I ran across three articles (Missouri tigers under Bob Stull, 2007 Missouri vs. Kansas football game, Missouri Tigers men's basketball) that are fairly new and poorly organized/categorized. I've seen your edits on a lot of Missouri sports articles and thought that if you had the time you could take a look at them, I don't know where to begin. Thanks!-Grey Wanderer | Talk 00:17, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Please use descriptive edit summaries

...unlike the one you used here. This is especially important for articles that touch on sensitive topics and are the subject of intense discussion. Thanks. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 18:36, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Barry Bonds

If the statement you tried to add to Barry Bonds is a fact please readd it with a proper citation.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 07:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

I found a ref and he is the 5th not the 4th or the 3rd.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 07:49, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Democratic Primaries

Hi there. Thanks for all your work updating the Democratic primary totals. As I tried to point in the edit summary, your practice of changing the percentages goes against consensus here: Talk:Results of the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries/Archive 11#Proposal: Calculate percentages as a total of delegates TO DATE, not ALL delegates. Established practice when reporting about elections is to measure percentages in terms of votes tabulated up to that point, not the potential sum of all votes. It seems to me we should use the same practice in reporting delegate totals. If you'd like to revisit the issue, please do so on the talk page. Thanks for all your hard work!Northwesterner1 (talk) 20:16, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cardinals closers

Please do not add the closer notation beside Franklin's name until either La Russa announces him as such, or at least he gets a bunch of the opportunities in a row. The quote from La Russa reads: "We'll mix and match," La Russa said. "I think all things, everyone rested, Franklin and Springer are the guys that match up the best." Just because Franklin got the save today does not make him the official closer, even if he's the guy most likely to get more chances than anyone. The last word we have from La Russa is that it is not a one-man job, so until something changes on that front there should be no closer notation on the Cardinals' template. Thanks.►Chris NelsonHolla! 06:10, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WP:SOX invite

 Please accept this invite to join the Red Sox WikiProject, a WikiProject dedicated to improving all articles associated with the Boston Red Sox. Simply click here to accept!

If you gave any questions, just ask. I hope you join and start to contribute there. Regards, RyRy5 (talk) 07:37, 1 June 2008 (UTC)