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Calton

I see you have come in contact with Wikipedia's favorite know-it-all. Next time Calton comes around, please just give him one sentence and leave it at that, cause no matter how hard you try, you will never get through to him no matter how right you are. You will just be wasting your breath with him, trust me, I have. If you ever need any help with anything, please drop me a note on my talk page and I will be glad to help you. Rock on...SVRTVDude ^{(Yell - Toil)} 09:49, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that's kinda the way it goes with him. No real edits, slams anyone making edits that he doesn't like, and berates them endlessly. If you do, though, ever need help with anything (no matter the subject) please let me know and I will be glad to help you out, if I can't, I will find someone who can. Take Care and Rock on...SVRTVDude ^{(Yell - Toil)} 20:32, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Calton has 10,678 mainspace, or "real" edits. For some history between these two, see Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Calton. The "outside views" provide interesting reading. --Tractor kings fan 20:58, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well it's hard to tell. He looks like he's largely abandoned mainspace edits of late. And he's definitely abandoned WP:CIVIL, WP:AGF, and WP:DICK. Gateman1997 03:40, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I concede your point on that. --Tractor kings fan 04:39, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Interstate 238

I 100% agree with you that it's not a parent of I-80. However, I don't think any of the five links are really helping your case that much. AA roads and the indigestion page do seem to explicitly state that it's not, but these are both roadgeek fan sites that aren't really reliable sources on the matter. The route log is just a list of routes in numerical order; it doesn't say anything about what's a parent of what. The FAQ-type page doesn't even mention I-238.

That being said, I think the burden of proof is really on the other guy. The article as it's currently written doesn't explicitly state that it isn't (or is) a child of I-80. If he proposes to include I-238 on {{3di 80}}, he's going to have to come up with some source proving his case. -- NORTH ^talk 09:20, 31 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Activity

You did not post an astersisk on Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Newsletter/List. As such, you were considered inactive. Are you currently active in U.S. Roads? --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 21:29, 31 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dude you're involved with a debate on I238 with me right now. Of course I'm active. I just didn't want the newsletter. Gateman1997 21:29, 31 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

So Weird and Cara DeLizia pages

Regarding your revert of the So Weird & So weird page switch: I can appreciate the potential problems in leaving the history behind - it wasn't my intention to create new problems with the move. However, the placement of the article under the decapitalized entry has been a long-standing error. How would you advise fixing this inaccuracy without moving the entry to the proper page?

Regarding your edit of the Cara DeLizia page: May I ask for what reason you removed the "no free image" graphic? You left no explanation when you made the edit.

Thank you for explaining - I was, in fact, completely oblivious to the presence of a "move" feature. Do you really believe the move would be considered controversial, though? I've never seen any reference to So Weird sans caps anywhere outside of Wikipedia (not in print, on official sites nor fan sites), and I did look for a while to make certain - otherwise I would've done this some time ago, when I first noticed. --Adam the Alien 04:18, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've sort of been following this today, so I thought I'd pop up here with a comment or two. I don't understand moves and redirects very well, but in principle I think the article title should be So Weird, because a) the capitalized version seems more common, and b) I've seen a few other titles go by in which the determination was that a lower case logo was merely a design issue, not the correct way to render the title itself. Perhaps we should bring it up on the article's Talk page and see whether there is much resistance to making the change. My experience with the article is that it's had the lower case spelling (inconsistently within the article itself, sometimes) since at least last July when I first looked at it. I'm not sure what the move in February 07 accomplished, but there used to be a note about a technical limitation preventing the article name and first two words from appearing as "so weird". Perhaps February was when that limitation went away? -- Karen | Talk | contribs 05:09, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ah! Related question, then....

If cut and paste is inappropriate, does that also go for spin-off articles, or is that another matter entirely? For example, about two months ago I broke out The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947 film) from the article about the short story, because the film material was overwhelming the rest of the article. I then added one of those "see also" templates (For the 1947 film, see The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947 film).) to each article. Did I do anything wrong? -- Karen | Talk | contribs 05:29, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cisco Field Image

I have a higher resolution image that you could use to replace the current image for Cisco Field, if you would like. It is the exact same image, just a larger file. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sdkucera (talk • contribs) 21:05, 1 May 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Stoopid Monkey Logos

As you are probably aware, the Stoop!d Monkey page was the subject of an AfD and the result was, of course, "Keep". Currently, the logos are a point of contention with myself saying that they were part of the "Keep", while User:Calton saying they were to be dropped and the article was to remain.

I asked the admin who closed the AfD his opinion and he replied, "I just said the article was to be kept, I don't know about the logos". There wasn't a decision given on the logos and in the AfD only 3 users said the logos should go, only 1 said keep the article, lose the logos.

I am not sure how to handle this, but since the admin who closed the AfD made no decision and the AfD wasn't about the logos in the first place (and the majority said to keep the logos if you want to be picky about it, as far as I can tell).

This wasn't an issue from April 16th (immediately after the AfD) to May 3rd when User:Calton realized that I was blocked for 48hours (not related to this) and I couldn't revert his changes. User:Calton had no interest and made no changes on the page itself or the talk page during that time. So, to me, his initial revert on May 3rd was done because of my block.

I have asked two admins (in case one is offline) to revert his changes and put a block on the page until this can be worked out. I am also asking you, since you contributed to the AfD, what your opinion is on just the logos themselves. I appericate you input one way or the other. Thanks...SVRTVDude ^(VT)

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We're proposing merging this into {{California-road-stub}} at WP:SFD. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 23:43, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

References

Buck Shaw Stadium has this ^[1] reference and McAfee Coliseum this ^[2] one (the same) .

Rich Farmbrough, 16:36 14 September 2007 (GMT).

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USRD Inactivity check and news report

Hello, Gateman1997. We had a few urgent matters to communicate to you:

Please update your information at Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Participants, our new centralized participant list. Those who have not done so by October 20th will be removed.
There are important discussions taking place at WT:USRD relating to whether WP:USRD, WP:HWY, or the state projects should hold the "power" in the roads projects.

Regards, Rschen7754 (T C) 23:19, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Byington Vineyard

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November 2007

Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary, which wasn't included with your recent edit to [[USS Iowa (BB-61)]]. Thank you. MBK004 01:57, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

San Jose Earthquakes

Version one The San Jose Earthquakes, a professional soccer team located in San Jose, California,

Version two The San Jose Earthquakes are a professional soccer team located in San Jose, California

Every other football team uses version two, undo your edit so it looks like version two.

Happy editing, michfan2123 (talk) 19:09, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your way doesn't follow the standard format policy, change it or eventually your decision will be overridden. michfan2123 (talk) 19:19, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Infobox logos

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Not sure if this is the same issue, but nonetheless...

The fact of the matter is that the infobox is starting to look too awkward. In Rogers Centre, the image of the stadium is actually obscured. The differences in the proportions of different logos doesn't help either. Logos like PNC and Chase Field may loog fine, but tall logos like Nationals Park and Minute Maid Park can be more problematic. With the logo on the opposite side, the infobox looks much tighter. There's no issue with the change save for the occasional small opening paragraphs which cause the table of contents to be moved over, but no introduction (blanking on the correct Wikipedia terminology here) for these ballparks should be that small anyway. I'm planning on going in an straightening a few things up. I was just trying to get all the logos done before I went to bed so I wouldn't get some guy who saw some ballpark logos being different immediately reverting the different ones. Of course, I hadn't thought of football fields. Nonetheless (yes, I used that twice in one conversation), I think the change is a positive change for the aesthetics of the infobox. I wish I'd thought of it when I originally introduced the logos in the infoboxes, but I didn't. --The Silent Wind of Doom (talk) 11:34, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Football club infoboxes

I've created a draft new infobox for football clubs incorporating the features present in the MLS box at {{Infobox Football club2}} (see User:Number 57/Toronto FC for how it displays). Please give your thoughts on WT:FOOTY. Cheers, пﮟოьεԻ 5 7 08:54, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've asked someone else to fix that (and hono(u)rs as well), as I'm not sure how to do it. пﮟოьεԻ 5 7 16:32, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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One Circuit

Hello, Gateman1997. The Streets of Long Beach circuit map looks great. Could you do a map of Thunderhill Raceway Park? It's a road course that has five roadways to make different configurations. Thank you. Fclass (talk) 19:22, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Request to move article Monster Park incomplete

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Mediation case.

Hello, I am Atyndall and I have taken on a mediation cabal case Roehl Sybing filed regarding Major League Soccer in hope to help all editors involved to solve your dispute. This discussion will be taking place here and I implore you to please add your opinions on the matter there, I will be researching the issue also but your help in the matter is greatly appreciated. Thankyou. Atyndall93 | talk 10:25, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Baseball Newsletter

The Baseball WikiProject Newsletter

Issue I – July 2008

: "A home opener is always exciting,; no matter if it's home or on the road."; - Yogi Berra

News and announcements

Welcome to the first Baseball WikiProject Newsletter, dated Tuesday, July 15, 2008.
The Article Improvement Drive has been revived. Check it out!
The Outreach department is in the works, please contribute your ideas!

Featured content

In the past month, WikiProject Baseball has had the following articles promoted to Featured Article status:

This month's newsletter was designed and written by Wizardman, jj137, and Black ngold29. If you would like to contribute to future newsletters, please contact the Baseball WP outreach dept.

News from the diamond

The 79^th MLB All-star Game is scheduled for this evening.
The 2008 Home Run Derby took place yesterday. Justin Morneau defeated Josh Hamilton in the final round, 5 home runs to 3, although Hamilton broke a record with 28 home runs hit in the first round.

From the Editors

Baseball has a history unlike any other sport. It has been played in countless countries throughout the decades, and it will undoubtedly continue play for many more. On this eve, some the finest players the sport has to offer will take the field at the Yankee Stadium. Four popes spoke there, Pelé scored goals there, "The Greatest [football] Game Ever Played" was battled out there, John Philip Sousa lead a band there, George Costanza worked there; but what do all these events have in common? They fail to reach the level of greatness that the baseball that was played there did.

In 1923, a man named Babe Ruth decided to build a new house, and over the years, that house was a home to some of the greatest baseball ever played. If I were to list out all of these great moments, it would be longer than the bill for the New Yankee Stadium. So I'll sum it up by saying that we can remember these great moments by adding them to this place we've gathered at for future generations to read about, to learn about, to dream about; but more importantly we can watch tonight and we can remember how baseball is unlike anything else that we will encounter in our lives. — Black ngold29

-- jj137 (talk) 03:03, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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User:Gateman1997/Systemwars.com

I have temporarily semi-protected the page at User:Gateman1997/Systemwars.com because it has devolved into a general attack page against members of that forum, which is against Wikipedia policies. I understand your attachment to it being your first article, but unfortunately its current form is not acceptable, even if it is in your user space. Either I can revert it for you (and probably semi-protecting it permanently would be a good idea unless you plan to watch list it) or delete it for you. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 05:21, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re your messages: No problem. I semi-protected creation of the talk page, too. After I semi-protected the page, one of the new accounts shifted to the talk page. It is rather bizarre that it attracted vandalism. Perhaps it got mentioned on some forum and away they went. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 05:42, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re your message: Are you sure you want to do that? Since it appears to be a single account currently doing the vandalism now, if he keeps it up, he's going to get his account blocked. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 23:54, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re your message: Done. It's been create protected for awhile, too. If you need anything else related to this, feel free to drop me a note. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 00:02, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your user sub page

Hello there. I noticed that there were a lot of vandals attracted to that page of yours. I reverted some of those edits (I guess I should have reported it, although I had my hands full). Thankfully, the page was protected. Did I miss something there? ~ Troy (talk) 21:35, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Alright. It seems that a lot of socks suddenly messing up your page, and I just happened to come across it. Let me know if you need anything. Regards, ~ Troy (talk) 21:39, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. But remember that he uses a million IP socks and manipulates different accounts. If he's blocked, I'm afraid that it won't do terribly much (consider getting help from a checkuser). ~ Troy (talk) 23:25, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, sorry, but I'm not an admin. As I said, I happened to come across it when I was searching for plain old vandalism. You could contact an admin, though. There's a lot of them (User:J.delanoy seems to be one of the more active ones that I know of). Good luck, ~ Troy (talk) 23:32, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Jarrett Bush

In my opinion blogs are unimportant and shouldnt be in articles--Yankees10 23:16, 2 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

yes, I think that the external links should only have players websites and there stats--Yankees10 23:21, 2 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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BC Lions

No, I do not. In the near future, I'll summarize the history article, and add it to the Lions page. — Hucz (talk) 20:31, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

SJ

Fair enough, I wasn't aware of that. Hopefully I didn't create any problems. Cheers! -- Grant .Alpaugh 21:05, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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October Baseball WikiProject Newsletter

The Baseball WikiProject Newsletter

Issue III – October 2008

: "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving a baby's life...; she'll save the baby without even considering how many men are on base!"; — Stephen King (The Dark Tower)

News and announcements

The Baseball Project promoted 13 lists to Featured status in August and 8 more in September. Amazing job!
A combined eleven articles were promoted to Good Article status in August and September.

Featured content

In September, WikiProject Baseball has had the following articles promoted to:
Featured Article status:

Nashville Sounds

Featured List status:

List of New York Mets Opening Day starting pitchers, List of Colorado Rockies Opening Day starting pitchers, List of Florida Marlins Opening Day starting pitchers, Nashville Sounds seasons, List of Tampa Bay Rays Opening Day starting pitchers, List of Seattle Mariners Opening Day starting pitchers, List of Boston Red Sox Opening Day starting pitchers, List of Arizona Diamondbacks Opening Day starting pitchers, New York Yankees seasons

Good Articles of August and September:

All the Way (Eddie Vedder song), Cy Young, Dan Brouthers, Harmon Killebrew, Rickey Henderson, Billy Pierce, Kinston Indians, Three Rivers Stadium, Bill Lange, Calgary Cannons, Hugh Daily, Homer at the Bat

This month's newsletter was designed and written by Wizardman, jj137, and Black ngold29. If you would like to contribute to future newsletters, please contact the Baseball WP outreach dept.

News from the diamond

The 2008 opening round playoff matchups with be:
- Boston Red Sox vs. Los Angeles Angels
- Milwaukee Brewers vs. Philadelphia Phillies
- Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Chicago Cubs
- Chicago White Sox vs. Tampa Bay Rays
Help to keep the articles of the postseason updated

From the Editors

We apologize for not sending out our August newsletter, we have tried to cover some events of the month in this issue.

The playoffs have started! The Dodgers and Phillies have won their respective Division Series and will face off in the NL Championship Series. Both series in the American League have yet to be finished. Show your support for your favorite teams by keeping up with their season pages!

-- jj137 (talk) 00:02, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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San Diego Freeway

Should this article stay merge with I-405. Since most contents on SD Frwy is I-405 stuff, control cities, and community serve, basic stuff we should try to avoid. We have too little to wirte of I-5, I know SD Frwy is both I-405 and I-5, is the FRWY I hail off of.--Free way guy 22:04, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

~~Answer this please.--Free way guy 00:39, 24 October 2008 (UTC)~~[reply]

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Thanks for adding an image to Clancy Brown. It looks good. I've tried to find one but I've always been unsuccessful.--CyberGhostface (talk) 17:35, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello! I wanna use File:WomensProfessionalSoccerMap2009.PNG at ja:WPS (女子サッカー). Could you transfer it to Commons?--Ziman-JAPAN (talk) 23:24, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bruce De Palma

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Use of your User Page

Why do you not allow people to edit your user page? This isn't Myspace or Faceboot it's wikipedia. This is not neant to sound rude, I just wanna know. Standleylake40 (talk) 02:17, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

MLS Stadiums template

Why don't you believe the future MLS stadiums deserve mention? Tom Danson (talk) 19:18, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WPS Map Update

Hi Gateman! Noticed you had done the WPS teams map all by your lonesome, and since I don't know how to edit images (especially those created by others) here on Wikipedia, I was wondering if you could update the map to reflect Athletica's move to the Missouri side of the Mississippi river - highlight MO, and maybe move Athletica's square down one square-height or so. =-) Thanks! CyMoahk (talk) 03:33, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi

An editor that expressed concerns before now completely ignores the sources and wants to say which sources are valid and which isn't. This in no way helps with the wiki article. Please have a say here:Talk:Strikeforce Sea888 (talk) 23:58, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

JetBlue Airways and the JFK Airport hub.

Hi,

I have started a discussion at both Talk:JetBlue_Airways#JetBlue_Airways_and_the_JFK_Airport_hub and in the WP:Airlines talk section in regards to the listing of hubs/focus cities for JetBlue Airways. I know your folks decided on a consensus 1 year ago, but consensus can change if people in the discussion has a strong argument.

Cheers. --Sb617 (talk · contribs) 10:09, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

USL-1 stuff

Hey, how's it going? I noticed you have been making changes to the USL1 team list and some USL1 team pages following today's announcement that some of the TOA teams want to form a new league; I think we should wait until we have some more concrete information before we start making sweeping changes to the pages. TOA have only announced their intent to form a new league; it doesn't have a name yet, doesn't have approval from the USSF or the CSA to actually become a league, and nothing is finalised with regards to the league's detail, so we have no sources to confirm the changes. The fact that each TOA team page has a sourced paragraph outlining the 'intent to form a league' detail is enough.

Also, USL1 hasn't announced it's format for 2010 either, so we should wait until we can confirm which teams are in and out. Montreal might come back. Ottawa might not get their franchise. Tampa might jump to TOA. We have no sources to confirm what the 2010 USL1 teams will be, so I think we should wait until USL1 issues a formal press release. It'll only be a few weeks probably. --JonBroxton (talk) 20:46, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Great job on the TOA/USL1 stuff following the announcement today. It's all coming together nicely. --JonBroxton (talk) 21:58, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say you can probably just overwrite the current redirect page at North American Soccer League. The hatnote at the top of the new NASL page will make sure there's no confusion. --JonBroxton (talk) 22:09, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There are around 2000 articles linking to North American Soccer League when they actually should link to the old article? This should be taken care of. --Papuass (talk) 11:36, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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RE: Tonight Show

It is against WP:CRYSTAL to include what is referred to as "future history" in articles. We cannot add a range of (2009–2010) if the host is still hosting as of the present. We must wait until January 22 or 23 to add that Conan is no longer hosting the show. As for Jay's second tenure of the show, we must, again per CRYSTAL, wait until March 1 to include his second tenure in any lists. — CIS ^(talk | stalk)

We can add this information to the article body, certainly, as we have done. But we cannot add date ranges for events that have not yet occurred. Read point #3, the "future history" section, at WP:CRYSTAL. — CIS ^(talk | stalk) 18:11, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Beginning January 22 we can add a date range of (2009–2010) for O'Brien's tenure. But we cannot add Leno as a successor host in any "lists" (i.e. Jay Leno (2010–present)) because this amounts to future history. Posting dates for future Boxing events et. al. is a totally different matter, because it isn't a date range suggesting that the "present" is in the "future". We do confirm that Leno is scheduled to take over the Tonight Show on March 1 in the article body, but this cannot be used in any date ranges until he actually begins his tenure, same as O'Brien for when he ends his. It makes no sense to say "Jay Leno (2010–present)" when he's not even hosting until March 1. — CIS ^(talk | stalk) 18:19, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

FC in names

Hi. I'm not saying that we don't have FC in the team names - clearly we do. I'm saying we don't have it in the link piping. Like, we don't link to Manchester United FC, we pipe the link to Manchester United; we don't link to Chelsea FC, we pipe the link to Chelsea. It's always been standard practice. The only exception is on certain American teams where the FC part of the name is actually spoken, like Seattle Sounders FC, FC Dallas, and in the case of the NPSL, Tulsa FC and so on. --JonBroxton (talk) 17:56, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, but that's my point. If you watch an MLS broadcast, Seattle Sounders FC is spoken as Seattle Sounders FC, so we pipe the link as Seattle Sounders FC. However, Chicago Fire S.C. (the formal name of the team) is spoken as Chicago Fire, so we pipe the link as Chicago Fire. We've always done it like this, so I don't understand why you're making an issue of it now. --JonBroxton (talk) 20:06, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

SFD

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{{MLB infobox}} edits

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Please support your statement on Talk:Vancouver Whitecaps FC. The fact is they are the same team as is evident from the fact that today's pres conference was held in the Whitecaps' office. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 18:11, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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MK Dons

Hi Gateman. Can I respectfully suggest that you don't get involved with editing MK Dons? It seems to me that the wikipedia community has done a pretty good job of creating an NPOV entry for this sensitive topic. Thanks. Daveofthenewcity (talk) 21:27, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Out of interest, why are you concerned with this? From your user page it wouldn't appear that you are local to either Milton Keynes or Wimbledon... Daveofthenewcity (talk) 21:38, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I live in Milton Keynes and support the Dons. 'Franchise' is sometimes used wrt to the Dons but it really is not a true nickname. Daveofthenewcity (talk) 22:07, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well I'll leave it and see what others do. It's just it'll be a shame after reaching a pretty good compromise someone comes in from California and inflames things again! Not that I've got anything against California or Californians mind you. I had a very enjoyable holiday there last Christmas - based on the Emeryville/Oakland border.Daveofthenewcity (talk) 22:26, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hollywood United Hitmen

The evidence is that I am the press officer for the Hollywood United Hitmen (my name is on the website - http://hollywoodutd.com/contact_us.html) and I wrote the press release that will confirm our division :) We're in the NW to even out the schedule, 5 teams in each division. Every team is playing the other teams in their division twice, one team from the other division twice (in our case SD Flash), and the other teams from the other division once, for a 14-game regular season. JonBroxton (talk) 23:17, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Shibe Park infobox

Hi, Gateman1997. I'm not out to start a tussle over the statistics at Shibe Park, so I just wanted to give you my reasoning in changing the infobox: The term US$ is meant to provide a point of comparison of contemporary values of money — between contemporary US dollars versus Canadian dollars versus Australian dollars, (and I'm sure there are others). 1909 dollars, as in the Shibe infobox, are factually not US$s, because their 102-year-old value is incomparable with 2011 dollars. Also, the Philadelphia A's and the Philadelphia Phillies of the Shibe era were not MLB teams: their franchises were granted by the American League and the National League respectively. The fact that these two franchisors, independent corporations at the time, were folded into the Major League Baseball corporation in the 1990s, does not make the Shibe-era teams MLB teams. You can't be a member of something that doesn't yet exist. Cordially, — HarringtonSmith (talk) 20:14, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Seating capacity nonsense at Griffith Stadium

I'm sure you knew that the fellow who adds the long lists of seating capacities struck again a few weeks back at a bunch of park articles. I think this information is worthless, tedious trivia, but in the unlikely event there is some reader who finds it valuable, I didn't want just to delete it. At Griffith Stadium, I moved it all into a footnote to the mention of seating capacity in the text (it's footnote 7). This way, the information still exists in the article, but without clogging the flow of it. Users Delaywaves and Baseball Bugs are in agreement with the approach, and if you agree, then we might have a prototype for how to deal with this fellow. (You can answer here, I'll be watching.) Cheers! — HarringtonSmith (talk)

Seems a sound solution to me. I'll back you on this as well. Gateman1997 (talk) 15:23, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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"Snapdragon Stadium"???

Renaming the article with the intent of reverting it 10 days from now? What's the point? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:59, 16 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

And by the way, if this announcement is still accurate,[1] the name change does not even kick in until Sunday. This is stupid. Why not just create a redirect? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:02, 16 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Because we can always move it back on the 28th. It takes all of 2 minutes to undo it at that point. And while short lived it is an official name change. They've taken down all the Qualcomm signage as of today and put up the new Snapdragon signage. Gateman1997 (talk) 23:34, 16 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It is not wikipedia's purpose to act as a lackey for corporate whims. A redirect was the right way to handle this nonsense. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:33, 17 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Then explain to me why we renamed Landshark Stadium during the time that venue was given that particular name during nothing but a corporate naming stunt? Gateman1997 (talk) 17:51, 17 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In that case it was a change of company and resultant change of naming rights. This is the just one company, playing games with the name to try and promote a new product. Its like if Citi Bank's New York ballpark were to rename itself "Special Deal on a Big Blue and Orange Giftcard for Christmas!" for the next week. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:09, 17 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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USS Hornet debate

If the CV-12's recommissioning was only a ceremonial act, then why was their officers of the US Navy present, including a (retired) Navy chaplain and Navy reservists ordered to man the Hornet? Why did then the plankholders of the CV-8 and CV-12 present at the recommissioning the ceremonial ship's log and glasses? And if it was only a ceremonial act, why was an official commissioning pennant hoisted in proper manner? I'd like some explanation how much you know about the 1998 recommissioning ceremony. I've read the program from the ceremony and saw a video about it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jok13vWbOmw 68.236.155.234 (talk) 09:01, 8 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Check the Naval Register http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/CVS12.htm. The Hornet is not listed as an active ship and still remains stricken. The ceremony you are referring to was simply part of the 5/26/98 ceremonial transfer to her new owners at the now USS Hornet Museum, nothing more. She has not been "recommissioned" in any Navy and is still properly referred to as "ex-Hornet" when talking about her in a commissioned vessel sense. You'll also note the Navy officially considers her "disposed", not "in commission." Gateman1997 (talk) 15:58, 8 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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'Excess' at Milton Keynes Dons

The 'excess' was the information that Wimbledon previously played at Crystal Palace and the specific destination stadium is the Hockey Stadium. Both of these are excess detail from the lede section. I added that WFC went into administration: surely that should be in the lede - after all it is in the body.

So rather than the knee-jerk revert, tell me what specifically you didn't like about my version, which I believe is a tighter edit of what was there before:

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Milton Keynes Dons were created on 21 June 2004, nine months after Wimbledon F.C.'s relocation to Milton Keynes in September 2003 and its subsequent administration, rescue and renaming. Being in law the same business, MK Dons initially claimed the history of Wimbledon F.C. as its own, but stopped doing so in 2007, in part to ensure the recognition of its supporters groups by the Football Supporters Federation, which had previously boycotted the team. Since 2007, the Board of MK Dons has maintained that the club is a new one, founded in 2004.

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You reverted that back to the long-winded and pussy-footing:

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Milton Keynes Dons were created on 21 June 2004, nine months after Wimbledon F.C.'s relocation to the town's National Hockey Stadium in September 2003. Wimbledon had previously shared Crystal Palace's Selhurst Park ground, in an arrangement which started in 1991.

MK Dons originally claimed the history of Wimbledon F.C. as its own, but stopped doing so in 2007, in part to ensure the recognition of its supporters groups by the Football Supporters Federation, which had previously boycotted the team. Despite remaining a legal continuation of the original Wimbledon club, MK Dons have maintained since 2007 that it is a new team, founded in 2004.

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How is that better than what I wrote? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 18:50, 22 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've moved this discussion to Talk:Milton Keynes Dons F.C. where my proposal already has support from a sceptic and respected editor. If you have anything to say, please do so. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 14:14, 31 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Jared Padalecki's page

I am aware that you will most likely retaliate to this message with a rather angry reply, but I am quite distressed at your inability to have fun. While it may be inconvenient for some users to have GISHWHES team names on Jared's wiki page, it is also a sign of your uncaring attitude to charities that you have locked down his page. I politely request that you allow ALL GISHWHES participants to post on his page for the 6 days (in reality not a very long span of time) so that we may complete our challenge and raise more money for Misha Collins' charity RandomActs. Upon the end of the event I will personally clean the page and ensure it is back to it's regular standard of information. On another note, I am sure Jared Padalecki himself would approve of our use of his wikipedia page for Misha Collins' event. I also appologise if my formating of this request is incorrect as I am new at editing Wikipedia Yours sincerely Faith Lavinia (talk) 06:28, 30 October 2012 (UTC)FaithLavinia[reply]

Thank you for your reply. I have read the vandalism rules and have understood them. The suggestion made on Jared Padalecki's talk page however seems like a decent and encyclopedic entry. Encyclopedia is defined as "a book or set of books giving information on many subjects or on many aspects of one subject and typically arranged alphabetically" (google definitions) and "encyclopedia articles focus on factual information to cover the thing or concept for which the article name stands" (Wikipedia entry on encyclopedia). These definitions suggest to me that an event such as GISHWHES is something that can be placed in an article, and therefore since the suggestion made by Sarah.J.Campbell is to create a new section on Jared Padalecki's page and it's inclusion in the GISHWHES list is "an aspect of one subject", this subject being Jared himself. I believe that the page should be reopened and the teams allowed to post in this new section. Thankyou for your time Faith Lavinia (talk) 06:58, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Furthermore I would like to direct you to one of the 5 pillars of wikipedia "Wikipedia does not have firm rules. Rules in Wikipedia are not carved in stone, as their wording and interpretation are likely to change over time. The principles and spirit of Wikipedia's rules matter more than their literal wording, and sometimes improving Wikipedia requires making an exception to a rule. Be bold (but not reckless) in updating articles and do not worry about making mistakes. Prior versions of pages are saved, so any mistakes can be corrected." My interpretation of this rule is that posting on Jared Padalecki's page should be allowed as the rules of Wikipedia are not set in stone and are open to creative interpretation. I thank you for your time and I am sure that my well worded arguments will be seen by all and they will agree with me. Thankyou Faith Lavinia (talk) 08:19, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I too am a GISHWISH participant. Given their friendship, Misha Collins- one of Jared's friends and colleagues from the show Supernatural, has marked his wikipedia page as a target, with the consent of Jared Padalecki. I will contact Jared to try to get his consent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gishwhes2012fcls (talk • contribs) 00:17, 31 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry but Jared Padalecki actually has no control over his page, so his consent is meaningless in this instance. Gateman1997 (talk) 00:30, 31 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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