User talk:SounderBruce

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Template question

Hi Bruce. I noticed you added a comment to another editor's talk page on 3 November 2019 which appeared, to my eye, to be boilerplate text generated by a template you used rather than text you composed yourself. My question is, what template generated that text? Thank you. Spideog (talk) 17:53, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Spideog: The template's name ({{uw-unsourced1}}) is commented out on that page. It was generated using Twinkle. Sounder Bruce 21:54, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

MLS Cup 1999

Hi, you have listed this for TFA at pending for November. I have tentatively reserved a date for it, but if you would still like it be considered you will need to nominate it at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests, which is now open. Cheers. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:18, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reminder and for leaving the slot open. I have posted my blurb to TFAR. Sounder Bruce 00:28, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A barncompass for you!

	WikiConference North America 2024 Barncompass
	Thank you for successfully completing all 13 tasks in the 2024 edition of the Editing Challenge! We hope you continue to contribute towards different sister projects. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 05:02, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

MLS Cup 1999 scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 21 November 2024. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 2024, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/November 2024. Please keep an eye on that page, as notifications of copy edits to or queries about the draft blurb may be left there by user:JennyOz, who assists the coordinators by reviewing the blurbs, or by others. I also suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before it appears on the Main Page. Thanks, and congratulations on your work! Gog the Mild (talk) 12:17, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Golden W Award

		Golden W Award
		Congratulations! You have been awarded the Golden W Award for your contributions to each long-time section of the Main Page: a Featured Article at Today's Featured Article; articles listed on In The News, Did You Know and On This Day; and a Featured Picture at Picture of the Day. Your contributions to Wikipedia put you in a class of prolific, highly skilled editors. Cowboygilbert - (talk) ♥ 01:48, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats, you were nominated by @SounderBruce! You can display this using Template:Golden W UBX!

Category:Sound Transit logos has been nominated for merging

Category:Sound Transit logos has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle (talk) 23:02, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to the drive!

Welcome, welcome, welcome SounderBruce! I'm glad that you are joining the November 2024 drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

Fix a random page lacking sources

Cielquiparle (talk) 13:10, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2024 November newsletter

The 2024 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round being a very tight race. Our new champion is AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), who scored 2,283 points mainly through 3 high-multiplier FAs and 3 GAs on military history topics. By a 1% margin, Airship beat out last year's champion, BeanieFan11 (submissions), who scored second with 2,264 points, mainly from an impressive 58 GAs about athletes. In third place, Generalissima (submissions) scored 1,528 points, primarily from two FAs on U.S. Librarians of Congress and 20 GAs about various historical topics. Our other finalists are: Sammi Brie (submissions) with 879 points, Hey man im josh (submissions) with 533 points, BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 432 points, Arconning (submissions) with 244 points, and AryKun (submissions) with 15 points. Congratulations to our finalists and all who participated!

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The Seattle Center

Clearly we see this differently. Can you provide some examples where e.g. Seattle Times calls the entire complex "The Seattle Center"? We're not talking about uses like, "The Seattle Center fountain" or "The Seattle Center Armory building" or "The Seattle Center Foundation. Speaking of which, please find an example of your usage anywhere on https://seattlecenter.org/ Thanks. (— 𝐬𝐝𝐒𝐝𝐬 — - talk) 01:42, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sdsds: From The Seattle Times: This recent article heavily uses it, in reference to the whole complex, in addition to this 2008 article and this profile. The use on the official/promotional website does not factor into the Manual of Style, per examples at MOS:BRAND.

I should also mention that the city council uses both forms [INDX& in legislation], but "the Seattle Center" seems to have a greater number of hits. Sounder Bruce 01:50, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for finding those. WP:DUE seems to apply, as there are multiple opinions on which is the preferred usage. Of course that flies in the face of consistency. Perhaps the article would benefit from a short section on the multiple ways used to refer to the site. (— 𝐬𝐝𝐒𝐝𝐬 — - talk) 01:04, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sdsds: Unless a reliable source has significant coverage of the difference, it does not belong in the article. We just have to choose a rule that best fits the MOS and consensus and keep it standardized across all mention of the Seattle Center and its component buildings. Sounder Bruce 04:17, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And are you willing to apply that same logic to the Central Park article? Rockefeller Center? New York Penn Station? Yellowstone National Park? Trafalgar Square? (— 𝐬𝐝𝐒𝐝𝐬 — - talk) 06:04, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Collab Idea

Hi SounderBruce! Hope everything is going well. I was wondering if you would be interested in a collaboration? I am pretty close to getting Packers-Seahawks rivalry to WP:GAN. I have also been working on some of the more famous games between the two. I was wondering if you would be interested in a long-term collab to create a Packers–Seahawks rivalry Good Topic? No worries if you aren't interested or have other priorities. As the resident Seattle-sports person, I figured I would ask! I am going to try to finish up Packers-Seahawks rivalry, then work on the two other missing games. Tackling Fail Mary last (I always feel like it is harder to rewrite an article compared to writing from scratch). Then it would leave the two team articles (which will be hard). I would be up for putting in the effort for Green Bay Packers but doubt I would be able to do Seattle Seahawks. Let me know what you think, and again, no big deal either way! « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 21:36, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Gonzo fan2007: Sounds like an interesting project! I'm not that well-versed in NFL lore, so I'll leave the game articles to you, but I certainly could try to tackle the main Seahawks article once my schedule is cleared up and other high-priority stuff is out of the way. Sports-wise, I still need to finish up my MLS Cup topic and figure out how to close out the Seattle sports season series I've been working on for just over a year. Sounder Bruce 22:54, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome. I'll be working on the game articles for a bit. Let me know when you are ready to attack Seattle Seahawks and then maybe we can develop some type of common layout for that one and Green Bay Packers. Nice work so far on MLS and the Seattle sports season series! « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 16:53, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]