User talk:Dirtlawyer1/Archives/2011/September

College sports navboxes

Dirtlawyer1, Thanks for you support re: the navboxes. I'm working on a big cleanup project and could use some help. Maybe start with Florida and the SEC. If you look at Michigan (Category:Michigan Wolverines navigational boxes) and the Big Ten (Category:Big Ten Conference templates), I think you'll see what I'm getting at. Thanks. Jweiss11 (talk) 17:21, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Check out how neat and orderly the standings templates and navboxes are for the ACC, Big 12, Big East, and Big Ten and how ragtag and messy they still are for the SEC: Category:American college sports templates by conference. I think the SEC needs some dirt-lawyering. Jweiss11 (talk) 04:29, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

User:Bullz-Eye13

He's almost certainly a sock of DragoLink08, a similarly disruptive editor. See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/DragoLink08. After this one is blocked he'll almost certainly re-emerge with a new account, so if you see him don't hesitate to file a sockpuppet report! JohnInDC (talk) 22:41, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, John. I had followed his trail of contributions and found you and Jrcla were already hot on his trail. Let me know what I can do to help. If this is the same guy, it's almost like he's autistic or has Asperger's from the way he responds and interacts. Rather odd duck. Feel free to email me if you want to alert me off-wiki. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 23:20, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Will do. Thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 01:34, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Florida link crisis

DL, we've got a little link crisis brewing on the Florida Gators team pages. I stripped out Template:Division1floridacolleges and Template:Florida Sports from the individual teams pages. Those belong at Florida Gators, but on Florida Gators baseball, et al, I think it's overkill. Also, the external links sections are pretty heavy. For the baseball article, you want to drive directly to http://www.gatorzone.com/baseball/. Making use of Template:Official website seems like the way to go there. The rest of the links (ufl.edu, the conferences, media coverage, UAA) should be stripped out. Jweiss11 (talk) 12:16, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

JW, I saw what you did in stripping the various Florida Division I and similar navboxes from the various Florida Gators team pages. I have been systematically adding a team-specific navbox to each team page (e.g. "Florida Gators baseball navbox"), and then stripping the general university navbox, the coaches navbox, the seasons navbox, etc. From a Florida Gators viewpoint, the team pages don't need more than one navbox. I had, however, hesitated to strip the Florida Division I navbox and the like out of respect for the work of the previous editors who created them; that having been said, I'm glad you did. I don't think they really add any value . . . .

I am responsible for adding most of the external links currently shown. At your suggestion, I will critically review these links and make some decisions about paring them down. I'm fairly adamant about maintaining The Gainesville Sun sports link (best online source for Gators news), but the GatorZone link can and should be made team-specific. The SEC links used to be more meaningful, but the SEC's new website eliminated most of the useful historical records when it was redesigned in the past year. I'll take a look at the others. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 12:39, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

The Gainesville Sun links seem reasonable to me. But they should be listed after official sites and should be subject specific, e.g. link directly to http://www.gatorsports.com/section/gatorsbaseball at Florida Gators baseball. Jweiss11 (talk) 16:48, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame

Template:University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Powers ^T 02:25, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Adrian Moss

Hello DL- Hope you are well. I have been on a mission to complete all redlinked players on the college basketball national championship templates and was hoping that you might be willing to help me with one. On Template:2006 Florida Gators basketball, there is only one redlinked notable player (players who are not notable per WP do not appear, just like football) - Adrian Moss. Would you be willing to create at least a stub for him? This would render both UF templates complete. Emphasis should be on his significant role for the Gators (and the media coverage he received) as well as his pro career overseas. If you feel like he isn't notable for whatever reason, feel free to take him off the template. Let me know what you think! Rikster2 (talk) 13:08, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	In recognition of your unending quest to improve coverage of UF-related topics against the constant headwinds of wiki-nonsense. Zeng8r (talk) 17:52, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Abby Wambach

Hi, Dirtlawyer. I'm confused by your edit summary. It says you undid my change, but you didn't.

An IP editor upped Abby's goal total by one on Saturday; I assumed that was the PK she scored in the 1-1 tie vs Canada. But the IP editor didn't increment her caps, so I did that in my edit. Now you're adding another goal. Are you sure 124 is correct? And if so, could you update the footnote to say that her national team stats are current as of today? Thanks!

-- Powers ^T 17:11, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

My apologies, LtPowers. I misunderstood your edit summary; I thought you were subtracting a legitimate national team goal, when, in fact, you were adding a national team appearance. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 17:19, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Ah, I can see how my summary could have been misleading. I should have been more clear. Thanks for fixing it up. I'll update the asof parameter. Powers ^T 17:52, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Our "friend"

Blocked for IP sockpuppeting. Jrcla2 (talk) 15:08, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Something that may interest you

I just created the Tony George article, and I thought that it may be something that you would be interested in improving.--Yankees10 21:30, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, Yankees. That's very kind of you. I will take a look at it this weekend when I have some time to piece together a basic bio for Tony. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 23:47, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Great! I'm glad I brought it to your attention. I also think this would be a great time to apologize for accusing you of ownership problems a few weeks back. You've done a great job with those articles and you didn't deserve that.--Yankees10 00:39, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Hey

Hello Dirtlawyer1, I would just like to thank you for welcoming to this project and talking to me. I would like to know what to do on the wikiproject florida gator page but there is no to-do list what do i do? Do i make one or just wait.Gatorfan6 (talk) 21:57, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

That was quick. LOL

There are several Gators team articles that desperately need work, including men's basketball, women's basketball, cross country, gymnastics, softball, swimming and diving, men's tennis, volleyball. For information and history, I suggest you start with the GatorZone.com links to the most recent PDF versions of the official media guides and/or media supplements, as well as the new webguides. Links to these are generally found under "history" on the individual team pages on GatorZone.com. The media guides and supplements generally provide lists of All-Americans and other awards, coaching history, season records, lists of lettermen, etc. When you run out of source material there, you need to discover and play with Google News Archive, which is an absolutely fabulous source for images of old newspaper articles. As a few examples of recent article upgrades I've done, take a look at the baseball and women's tennis articles. Both are still works in progress, but I've spent a fair amount of time layering in program history, etc. All Florida Gators team articles should be at least that good, if not substantially better. Several of the ones I've listed are embarrassingly awful in their present condition. I've been working on Wikipedia articles related to the University of Florida for over two years, and there are days I feel like I've barely scratched the surface . . . . My best work to date is the Andrew Sledd article.

BTW, the "Wikiproject Florida Gators" was started by a non-Gator who promptly disappeared after setting up the project page and tagging a bunch of article talk pages. Strange, but true. The project page has been largely inactive and unmaintained since, and it was always redundant with the parent Wikiproject University of Florida. Best way to find others is to leave messages on the talk page for the Wikiproject University of Florida. There appear to be about five to ten of us that are currently active, and several other who reappear periodically when the spirit moves them. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 22:20, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Would it be okay if I took control of the Gator project?Gatorfan6 (talk) 23:08, 25 September 2011 (UTC)