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[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey

Welcome to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey project. Let me know on my talk page if I can help in any way. Kevin Rector (talk) 13:33, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Football AID 15-21 January

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[edit] James Blunt - Trivia

Hi RomeW - I too am from Toronto and know the story of Jane Creba; certainly it was a terrible loss. Having said that, her listening to "Goodbye My Lover" a great deal in the period before her death isn't particularly exceptional. I have heard many stories from all over the English-speaking world where that song was important to a recently deceased person. If the song is to be mentioned in the same breath as a death, I would suggest that the death of the Quebec police officer is more appropriate; that time, an extended clip of the song, being played at her funeral, was broadcast on national television news. I'm also concerned that your chosen title seems to, well, trivialize Jane's death.

There seem to be some pretty heavy hitters watching this article (it's been subject to recurrent vandalism), so I thought I'd mention my thoughts on your own talk page rather than the one for the article. I won't make any edits at this point, but will watch to see if anyone else does, or if anyone starts to add truly trivial information; if that happens, then I think it would be best if this serious piece of information is either moved or removed. I'll look forward to your thoughts. Risker 06:57, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

I thought it might be interesting, for good or ill, because even though it's an unfortunate event, it is nevertheless James Blunt-related. To be honest, I knew that "Goodbye My Lover" was used in her memorial at her high school too, but I couldn't find a link for that. Also, if you do a search for "James Blunt" and "Jane Creba" you're going to get quite a few hits, especially from the big hitters like CTV and Canada.com (CanWest Global)- people made a big deal about it.
Nevertheless, I am aware that it's not *entirely* exceptional, but not knowing that much about Blunt, I knew of no other instance of where "Goodbye My Lover" was the song of choice of a recently deceased person, hence the only reason why Creba was highlighted. Perhaps my trivia note would be better expanded to include those other references, not just Creba, because then that would be exceptional.-RomeW 07:26, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
How about adding this to the article on the song itself? (Sorry was sleep-keyboarding last night, should have thought of it then.) Here is a reference article to help, which was posted on a message board but is a scan of an actual newspaper article: http://bluntygirl.proboards43.com/index.cgi?board=news&action=display&thread=1131397851 Also, the police officer killed in Montreal was named Valerie Gignac. That would probably make more sense overall. Perhaps a better heading would be "Funerals" or something to that effect. Risker 14:18, 14 March 2006 (UTC) Sorry, here is a link confirming the playing of the song at Gignac's funeral. http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=36c8a1fe-b86b-4150-ba76-6801a9bb6e27&k=72933 Risker 14:21, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. I added both to the trivia section. Let me know what you think- I think it looks better now. -RomeW 23:34, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scary Movie 4

Andre Benjiman IS in the movie! Why do you need me to give a site where you can easily search "Andre Benjamin in Scary Movie 4" at google or even Yahoo! and you'll see many sites! Cigammagicwizard 23:05, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jennifer Government: NationStates

As I said when I changed your user page NationStates link, I hope you don't mind. There is also a category for those who play. All you have to do to join it is to type [[Category:Wikipedians who play NationStates|{{PAGENAME}}]]. Please join us there.
—Lady Aleena talk/contribs 11:34, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:MarkusNaslund.gif

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[edit] Ice Hockey Project discussion of hockey player notability and project scope

Please come join the WikiProject Ice Hockey Notability standards for hockey players discussion. I'd like to see input from all our project members who have an opinion. Thanks! ColtsScore 03:15, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Juventus

The thing is we're trying to keep "The "Calciopoli" scandal" section trimmed down as possible with just the essentials, so it can pass a good article review without too much recentism. I mean four, big hefty paragaphs on it while the whole decade before has around about the same ammount of information is too much, expanding even more probably isn't a good idea. The reaction to Inter and the subsequent Telecom Italia scandal is sourced by people like Channel 4, and even Giovanni Cobolli Gigli has stated its essential for Juve to beat Inter next season because of this.

Names like Ibrahimovic aren't essential to the history of the club, so we don't need to be too specific with players like that. While Cannavaro a World Cup winning captain is, if you can think of a way to incorporate how it was seen as harsh towards Juventus to be relegated while non of the others were then feel free, but as I said the article is already longer than it is supposed to be so it says "This page is 69 kilobytes (kibibytes) long." at the top - The Daddy 09:43, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Ice Hockey August 2007 Newsletter

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WikiProject Ice Hockey Newsletter

Dear RomeW! You are receiving this newsletter because you have signed up as a member of WikiProject Ice Hockey. The purpose of this newsletter is to update on the goings on of the project, as there have been major changes, and a lot of new recognized content in the past few weeks. If you are an inactive user, you probably won't recognize the new and improved state of the WikiProject!

From the project, Maxim.

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New recognized content

By Maxim
There have been a lot more Good and Featured articles written in the past few weeks. Here is a list:[1][2][3][4]

Featured articles
Good articles
Featured lists[5]
Notes
  1. ^ All articles are in order of promotion, as written on the main WikiProject page; FA's have official dates of promotions.
  2. ^ A star represents a featured article or list
  3. ^ A green circle represents a good article
  4. ^ Stanley Cup is an A-Class article
  5. ^ The lists system differs from articles, and doesn't give an official date of promotion
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Article Improvement

By Maxim

Upon some discussion on the WikiProject talk page, the Article Improvement Drive page was revamped by Krm500 and Maxim. It was renamed Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey/Article Improvement, and it includes two section. The first section is called articles in dire need of improvement. It list articles, usually important, that are in very poor shape. The second section is called requested help. Users list an article they request help improving a certain article, which will facilitate collaboration, which is the aim of any WikiProject. There is one article currently listed there, Henrik Lundqvist, here. The goal is to at least get it to Good article status.

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Diacritics

By Maxim

In the past few weeks, there has been quite heated discussion about the use of diacritics in article name. The current guideline is using diacritics in the pages of articles of all player names which require them, but redirects are exempt.

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Task forces

By Maxim
There have been two new task forces started within the WikiProject to coordinate major topics.

Sweden Ice Hockey task force

This task force was initiated by Krm500. Its current goal is to improve Henrik Lundqvist to Good or Featured article status. It covers all Swedish clubs, leagues and competitions and associated articles, players and coaches that are Swedish, or have played/coached for a Swedish club, and arenas in Sweden. They plan to eventually operate as a sort of a sub-project, which will have its own articles for creation, ranking importance and quality of articles, and co-ordinate article improvement. Its current members are Krm500, Bamsefar75, and CLAES.

New Jersey Devils task force

This task force was initiated by Bsroiaadn. Its goal is to improve New Jersey Devils to Featured Topic status. Although it currently meets the required article count, the task force wishes to improve it further. Its area of coverage is very similar to the Sweden Ice Hockey task force. Its members are Bsroiaadn, JHMM13, FutureNJGov, Sportskido8, Michael Greiner, JRWalko, and Soxrock.

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Requested Images

By Maxim
After discussion on the WikiProject talk page, Serte created a page for Requested Images. The page encourages users to license images for use on articles. The page also has section to request images for players, arenas, game situations, miscellaneous, and team and league logos. The page has been quite popular; since it was created on July 21, there have been six completed requests. There are four currently outstanding requests:

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Article assessement completed

By Maxim
On July 12, Kaiser matias announced that he had completed assessing all the articles with a {{ice hockey}} tag, sorting them into Category:Unassessed Ice Hockey articles. Kaiser matias has ranked about 9000 articles in that category, and most were stubs, and "have no information at all", according to him. Everybody is encouraged to expand the stubs into real articles. This effort took around 5 months. A big thanks goes to Kaiser matias from me and all the project.


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[edit] WikiProject Ice Hockey newsletter

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WikiProject Ice Hockey Newsletter

Dear RomeW! You are receiving as you are a member of WikiProject Ice Hockey There's been more new thing going on at WP:HOCKEY, and I think this will help you to stay informed. Since the last newsletter sent out in August, there's been great changes. Read on to find out! Maxim(talk)

This just in:
Maurice 'Rocket' Richard Trophy has just been promoted to featured list status, while the bot was delivering the newsletter. Maxim(talk) 02:02, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

And I've just promoted Art Ross Trophy. And Clarence S. Campbell Bowl is at FLC. This should be the last update. Maxim(talk) 00:40, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
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New recognized content

By Maxim

Especially due to the featured topic drive, there have been many new featured lists promoted concerning NHL awards. Here's the full list of all the 13 FL's promoted since the last newsletter.[1][2]

  1. Featured article Hart Memorial Trophy
  2. Featured article James Norris Memorial Trophy
  3. Featured article Vezina Trophy
  4. Featured article Conn Smythe Trophy
  5. Featured article Frank J. Selke Trophy
  6. Featured article Lady Byng Memorial Trophy
  7. Featured article Lester B. Pearson Award
  8. Featured article Calder Memorial Trophy
  9. Featured article Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy
  10. Featured article King Clancy Memorial Trophy
  11. Featured article Jack Adams Award
  12. Featured article Presidents' Trophy
  13. Featured article List of Calgary Flames players

There have been no new good articles or featured articles. Maurice 'Rocket' Richard Trophy has been given A-Class status due to multiple issues raised at FLC.

  1. ^ The last one, List of Calgary Flames players, is the only one not associated with the featured topic drive.
  2. ^ At the time of publishing, there were 5 lists at WP:FLC and 2 lists in the "Holding cell", as there's been an accepted guideline to not put more that 5 trophy lists at the same time to, "compensate for the sanity of the reviewers".
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Did You Know?

By Maxim
There have been 4 new articles featured in the Did You Know section? on the Main Page since August.

...that Wally Tatomir, head equipment manager of the Carolina Hurricanes, holds four patents on ice hockey-related equipment?

...that ice hockey player Mark Major attained 355 penalty minutes during the 1997-98 AHL season for the Portland Pirates, where he averaged 4.5 penalty minutes a game and still holds the club record?

...that Garth Butcher was a member of Canada's first-ever gold medal team at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships before becoming a pest and setting team records for penalty minutes in the National Hockey League?

..that the AMP NHL Winter Classic is scheduled to be the first regular-season outdoor National Hockey League game in the United States?

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Featured Topic Drive

By Maxim

Started by User:Scorpion0422, the aim of this drive is to make NHL awards a featured topic. A featured topic is basically a set of very high quality articles (good articles and featured articles/lists). In this case, the topic is NHL awards. Many users have helped, including Scorpion0422, Resolute, Serte, Hasek is the best, Maxim, Croat Canuck, Spike Wilbury, FutureNJGov, and T Rex/Dinosaur puppy. The progress has been very good; there are 12 featured lists promoted, and 2 good articles:

  1. Featured article Hart Memorial Trophy (Scorpion)
  2. Featured article James Norris Memorial Trophy (Scorpion)
  3. Featured article Vezina Trophy (Scorpion)
  4. Featured article Conn Smythe Trophy (Serte)
  5. Featured article Frank J. Selke Trophy (FutureNJGov)
  6. Featured article Lady Byng Memorial Trophy (Scorpion)
  7. Featured article Lester B. Pearson Award (Scorpion)
  8. Featured article Calder Memorial Trophy (Croat Canuck)
  9. Featured article Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy (Maxim)
  10. Featured article King Clancy Memorial Trophy (Maxim)
  11. Featured article Jack Adams Award (Maxim)
  12. Featured article Presidents' Trophy (Scorpion)
  13. Good article Stanley Cup (Earlier collaboration, very many involved)
  14. Good article Traditions and anecdotes associated with the Stanley Cup (Maxim)

Check the project page if you are interested in helping out. Although it's closer to being done than not, there's still work to be done. The next topic that might be tackled is Stanley Cup, but this remains purely speculative and in discussion.


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[edit] Scary Movie 4

Ok, it has been a while editing that page...so I really do not care if he's in it or not so you can edit him out or just leave him in. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cigammagicwizard (talk • contribs) 00:11, 17 December 2007 (UTC)