User talk:Timpcrk87

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[edit] Oscar Robertson

Thanks for your proofing of the Oscar Robertson article. Your efforts there were noticed and much appreciated. In case you didn't know, there are a number of NBA-related articles currently being pushed for GA or FA status at this time that could use a similar scrubbing. If you have the time, interest, and motivation, the articles George Mikan, Wilt Chamberlain, and Bill Russell (which already has FA status) could use some of your editorial scrutiny. Myasuda 15:23, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] League / Team article standardization

Hi! Would you be interested in helping on my project? See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Baseball#Request for help!. --CPAScott 17:25, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Astros History

What is the point of this when this is just a copy and paste from the main site? HouAstros1989 03:23, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Oops! I goofed. Thanks for cleaning up my mess at Template:St. Louis Cardinals roster! --Sanfranman59 00:21, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cardinals

Thanks for the invite. At various times I've added what I know about the Cardinals to the main article. I don't know enough about them in the kind of detail needed for in-depth year-by-year pages, nor do I have the time to research it, to be of much further help. d:) Wahkeenah 11:21, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Mark Bavaro

I respond to your inquiries there. Quadzilla99 19:28, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pardon the Interruption failed GA nomination

Could you please expand more (on the Pardon the Interruption talk page) on your comment about the failed GA nomination, like what places in the article need more/better citations, if it wouldn't be too much trouble? bmitchelf•T•F 04:26, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Retroactively Awarded National Championships

We've been attempting to reach a consensus regarding retroactively awarded championships on the Gophers' talk page. It would be helpful if you could contribute to that discussion. matt91486 21:04, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Derry City F.C.

Hey there. Would you have any interest in contributing a suggestion or adding your support to the nomination of Derry City F.C. for featured article status? Cheers. Danny InvincibleTalk|Edits 02:12, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FL Main page proposal

You either nominated a WP:FLC or closed such a nomination recently. As such, you are the type of editor whose opinion I am soliciting. We now have over 400 featured lists and seem to be promoting in excess of 30 per month of late (41 in August and 42 in September). When Today's featured article (TFA) started (2004-02-22), they only had about 200 featured articles and were barely promoting 20 new ones per month. I think the quality of featured lists is at least as good as the quality of featured articles was when they started appearing on the main page. Thus, I am ready to open debate on a proposal to institute a List of the Day on the main page with nominations starting November 1, 2007, voting starting December 1, 2007 and main page appearances starting January 1, 2008. For brevity, the proposal page does not discuss the details of eventual main page content, but since the work has already been done, you should consider this proposal assuming the eventual content will resemble the current content at the featured content page. Such output would probably start at the bottom of the main page. The proposal page does not debate whether starting with weekly list main page entries would be better than daily entries. However, I suspect persons in favor of weekly lists are really voicing opinions against lists on the main page since neither TFA nor Picture of the day started as weekly endeavors, to the best of my knowledge. Right now debate seems to be among support for the current selective democratic/consensus based proposal, a selective dictatorial approach like that used at WP:TFA or a non-selective first in line/calendar approach like that used at WP:POTD. See the List of the Day proposal and comment at WP:LOTDP and its talk page.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 19:13, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Featured List of the Day Experiment

There have been a series of proposals to initiate a Featured List of the Day on the main page. Numerous proposals have been put forth. After the third one failed, I audited all WP:FL's in order to begin an experiment in my own user space that will hopefully get it going. Today, it commences at WP:LOTD. Afterwards I created my experimental page, a new proposal was set forth to do a featured list that is strikingly similar to my own which is to do a user page experimental featured list, but no format has been confirmed and mechanism set in place. I continue to be willing to do the experiment myself and with this posting it commences. Please submit any list that you would like to have considered for list of the day in the month of January 2008 by the end of this month to WP:LOTD and its subpages. You may submit multiple lists for consideration.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:LOTD) 15:45, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Author requested speedy deletions

Hello Tim! I don't mean to sound rude, but the recent author requested deletions you put up at CSD, caused a severe backlog. Just try and space it out, for e.g request one be deleted every one 10 minutes or so. Thanks! Regards, Rudget. 21:45, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Phillies/Cardinals list standardization

First, thanks for your kind comments. It's nice to have all that hard work recognized and appreciated. As to your 7 points:

1. Separation of footnotes and citations This was copied from a featured list candidate in WikiProject Basketball, and I think it works really well. You can drop me a line if you have any questions about it, but I think it's pretty simple.
2. The inclusion of the current season This was actually part of the peer review and candidacy for this list, because originally the lead of this article said seasons completed. However, the problem that we have had is that there are a lot of zealous Phillies fans who want to update the record, and if I take off the current season, I'm afraid it will cause a lot MORE edits to the list because people want to see it updated. In addition, that bottom part of the list gets a lot more exposure than the full body because it's transcluded into the article Philadelphia Phillies, so it offers a lot more opportunity for people to see it and try to make an edit that they may not know how to undertake. I really don't have any moral/ethical problem removing it or anything like that, but for simplicity's sake and to save my own sanity, I thought that it might be better to leave it.
3. Column headers I did notice that in your list, and I understand the reasoning behind it, but I thought that it was not as aesthetically pleasing as I might have liked. I've been investigating if there is a different way to put the table together so that the column headers wouldn't have to be repeated all the time, but so far I haven't come up with anything; if I do, I will let you know.
4. Championship highlighting style I was actually surprised that this didn't come up in the candidacy review, because your list was the only FL in baseball for comparison. I thought about changing it several times, but no one mentioned anything. I will fix that as soon as I have a chance.

Championship highlighting has been standardized. KV5 (talk) 13:00, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

5. Totals at the end of the list This code was copied directly from New York Yankees seasons.
6. Seasons columns wikilinks I will go back through and check out those links so we can get standardized.
7. Did You Know-style footnotes This is a great idea; I will go through and see what interesting facts I can find to add to the table so it isn't so dry. Thanks!

That's all for now. Let me know if you have any questions about anything I wrote. Thanks again! KV5 (talk) 11:43, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ozzie Smith facts reply

Thanks for the link to the CNN/SI article ([1]) about Ozzie's rank among shortstops for different fielding stats. Unfortunately, I do think it is too outdated to be of much help. As you can see my by last edit to Ozzie's stats, Vizquel now has the lead the in games played at shortstop, and the reference I found here ([2]) says Vizquel now has the top spot in most career double plays at short. I've found a source that confirms Ozzie is now second in career double plays, so I'll add that in soon.

Thanks again for your help, and definitely feel free to add in anything to the stats section if you find a good reference for it. Monowi (talk) 17:11, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Tennisball

I have nominated Tennisball, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tennisball. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? LegoTech·(t)·(c) 01:38, 1 June 2008 (UTC)