User talk:Otav347

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Yea, that's what I get for getting excited when Nashville was down 1-0 in the third last night, 10 minutes til gametime...we'll see in a couple hours =) scsgoal31 18:50, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] The Running Man Barnstar

The Running Man Barnstar
I would like to award The Running Man Barnstar to Otav347 for his excellent work on sports related articles, more specifically his work on American soccer articles. He has shown great persistance in keeping the American Soccer leagues up to date and full of information. This has immensely helped users, especially me, find information on American soccer, a topic that is talked about very little in the American media. I would especially like to draw attention to Otav347's work on the 2006 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, an American tournament that I never would have known if it wasn't for him. Otav347, I appreciate your work and edits. Thank You. Jaysscholar 14:34, 11 July 2006 (UTC)


I hope I put the star in the right place man. If not, feel free to move it to where you want it. --Jaysscholar 14:34, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Open Cup

Hi, your edit on the US Open Cup from my reformatting could have been acomplished by a easier process. You could have reverted the edit from when before I messed with it by checking the history of the article and saving the page. Anyway I understand your format, but I'm going to try to mess around with it a little bit. Cheers! Minfo 17:20, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Nice working with you on the Open Cup articles, and thanks for finally putting a template for the different tournaments up. We're getting into the years where info might be hard to find soon ... you going to go pre-MLS? --Jyardley

[edit] A Barnstar for you

The Working Man's Barnstar
for all you work to the Arena Football League's seasons I, Roastytoast award you the working man's barnstar ROASTYTOAST 03:46, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Arena Football League

I was just wondering if you would like to join the project above, take a look at the page. If you would like to join just sign your name on the page. --ROASTYTOAST 03:49, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] PDL Standings

Hey, just a quick question... you edited the PDL standings page after this weekends games, but are you sure you have them correct? For example, you show San Jose Frogs ahead of San Fernando Valley Quakes, and LA Storm ahead of Lancaster in the Southwest table - but how is this possible as both the Quakes and the Rattlers have a better goal difference AND have scored more goals than the Frogs and the Storm? I was under the impression that the table was determined by points, then goal difference, then goals scored, then head-to-head results? The USL website shows it like that... just wondering. --JonBroxton 15:55, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MDOT PR Finder

Can you help me with using this resource to get the mileage data to complete the intersection lists on the M-26 and M-28 articles? --Imzadi1979 (talk) 22:05, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] MLS Standings

I've started a vote for consensus on the mLS talk page. Kingjeff (talk) 06:32, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Here is the voting area. Kingjeff (talk) 06:35, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Do you know of any redirection template that we could put on the cup competition talk page? Kingjeff (talk) 06:47, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

I changed it back to W-L-T because he should have discussed it before he made the change. Kingjeff (talk) 21:08, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm at the 3 Reverts for all the MLS standings templates. Can you do the watch? Kingjeff (talk) 22:04, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Can you revert Template:2008 MLS standings - Eastern, Template:2008 MLS standings - Western and Template:2008 MLS standings - Overall. I'm at my 3rd revert on each of them and can't make anymore for like the next 22 hours. Kingjeff (talk) 23:52, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

But he has made 3 reverts by reverting my 3 reverts on each of them. He isn't entitled on making anymore reverts on these 3 templates. Kingjeff (talk) 00:02, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

The status quo should remain until after consensus is reached. The article has remained in this format for over a month. Change it back. I would, but I don't want to break the 3RR. You and Jeff are tagteaming to keep this edit war going. -- Grant.Alpaugh 00:08, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Good luck with your final and seriously, thanks for the moral support. The things people will take personally! Anyway I meant what I said about looking forward to constructively editing the US Soccer articles after this is over. Have a good one. -- Grant.Alpaugh 03:06, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, sure, what do you want to do. Also, let's figure out a system by which we can figure out how to change everything over to the American format. -- Grant.Alpaugh 04:10, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Okay, so USMNT and USWNT and youth teams should stay in international format because they, by definition, play in international competitions, right? -- Grant.Alpaugh 18:39, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

US and Canada are covered under the same footy task forse, so I'd go for it. Also, make sure that all the club teams that have first game, biggest win, and biggest loss area all changed to Away-Home. But we're also leaving the US MNT, WNT, and all YNTs (though they don't usually have articles) should remain on the international format because they only play internationally, right? -- Grant.Alpaugh 21:33, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Hello, are the home-neutral-away and w-d-l-t discussions done? I did not know about these until now. Those of us that do the historical stuff tend not to hear about things until they are ancient history. Anyway it was a long talk and I did not read it all (sorry) but I don't want to make anything else unless I am clear on how it has to be. There are a lot of old open cup pages done that will be a lot of rework. Shouldn't formats also reflect the time period they were used in? Well I can try an help with the pre-1992 open cups. Let me know. Libro0 (talk) 08:29, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

What happened was that yesterday I made 1932 National Challenge Cup and didn't know about the format change until I was done. My concern was not just for time period but also for the source information. I make the articles based on the format of the source. In general the old Open Cups show home team first. I think the discussion was related to region but not to era. Either way I am not trying to go against the grain. Libro0 (talk) 21:06, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

This is a box score from the 1914 open cup and lists the home team on the left. Libro0 (talk) 22:05, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I tried to find more online examples to show but all I have are my notes from microfilm. Anyway even the tournament draws will usually say 'on the grounds of the first named team' therefore it is listed home-away for draws and results. So that is basically the way I report them here. Libro0 (talk) 22:28, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Agreed. Libro0 (talk) 21:15, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Apology

Hey I just wanted to say that apologizing like that was very big of you and I really appreciate it. I still disagree with you, but I'm glad it looks like we can discuss this with a good amount of civility. Cheers! -- Grant.Alpaugh 22:03, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] USASA

Right, and so in the article about the USASA tournaments (which presumably doesn't exist) we can use those titles, but in the article about the USOC, the labels I used are more appropriate. -- Grant.Alpaugh 05:04, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Supporters' Shield

Hey I was wondering what your thoughts about the Supporters' Shield in the Major League Soccer article. I added it to the infobox many months ago because it is the regular season champion, yadda yadda. I had also added it to the table of MLS Cup winners because if it belongs in the infobox it belongs in the main article. I realize that in North American sports we don't necessarily do it that way, but the fact remains it is a major trophy determined entirely by MLS play and if you look at the A-League article you'll see the same thing (note they call it the Premiership with the playoff champion being called the Championship proper). I really think that this belongs in the MLS article, not because it is the single table or whatever, but because it is a major trophy. Thoughts? -- Grant.Alpaugh 04:44, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

So do you mind joining the discussion on the talk page about it. I gave up on it when three or four guys came out against me. I think if it's in the infobox it should be in the article, and they're like "fine well remove it from the infobox then." -- Grant.Alpaugh 05:06, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
Can you help me out a bit on this? -- Grant.Alpaugh 02:04, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
The discussion has started up again on talk:Major League Soccer, so if you'd care to weigh in I'd appreciate it. The Supporters' Shield is a major trophy given out by MLS. D.C. United included it in their major trophy count, as does every other team in MLS that has won it. The simple fact is that MLS awards two trophies, the MLS Cup and the Supporters' Shield, and the histories of both trophies should be included in the article's infobox and the article itself. Either way, please involve yourself in the discussion. -- Grant.Alpaugh 19:37, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Problem with an anonymous editor

Hey, Otav, I have a question for you... in my recent updates of the Austin Aztex U23 roster, I noticed that the player Jamie Watson (soccer) is playing for them this year... so, naturally I added his details to his bio page. However, some anonymous user persists in deleting all references to the Aztex on Watson's bio. Now I KNOW I am in the right here... he is shown on the USL website (http://www.uslsoccer.com/teams/2008/roster/8969453.html), and the Aztex website confirms that this Jamie Watson is the same Jamie Watson that used to play for Real Salt Lake (http://www.austinaztex.com/u23/roster/index_E.html - he's #23, second row from the bottom)... but as this person is an anonymous user I can't contact him to tell him not to keep deleting the Aztex stats... so, basically, it's descended into an edit war where I keep undoing his deletion, then he undoes my deletion, and so on... Have you got any ideas on what I can do? --JonBroxton (talk) 04:21, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

  • Well, thank you at least for confirming I'm not going insane. It's just totally baffling to me. The reason I asked you is because I thought you might know of someone I could report it to - I really don't want to have to spend my free time continually undoing his changes. Thanks anyway! --JonBroxton (talk) 04:50, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Thanks for admin help offer. I posted something on the US Soccer WikiProject page in the hope that they can offer some advice too. It's just so frustrating, because you and I and all the others work so hard to keep the stats up to date and make it all correct - I know, in the bigger scheme of things, having an accurate Wikipedia bio for Jamie Watson is completely inconsequential, but I just want to get to the bottom of things! I'm sure you're right about him hanging around to go to Aztex in USL1 year. Wynalda signed for Bakersfield because he's a buddy of Francisco Gomez. But there's a few ex-MLSers in the PDL this year, especially in the Western conference: Benjamin Benditson, Rodrigo Lopez, Esteban Arias, Bryan Byrne, for example. --JonBroxton (talk) 01:53, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
  • The Jamie Watson guy is back again. --JonBroxton (talk) 01:42, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikinews invitation

Would you like to join Wikinews? We need more football writers. Kingjeff (talk) 15:21, 30 May 2008 (UTC)