User talk:IlliniPride

March 2007

References to Milwaukee in NCAA Tournament articles

Just thought you should know that all athletics teams at UW-Milwaukee are now called only "Milwaukee", just as all athletics teams at its sister school UW-Madison are called only "Wisconsin". I believe you know what I am talking about, as your school, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign does the same thing. Just thought I'd give you a friendly, formal notice (in case you didn't realize it) in order to save you the trouble of incorrectly reverting it yet again. Cheers! CollegeSportsGuy 02:06, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome, and thank you for experimenting with the page 2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament on Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. ⋆Zamkudi⋆(talk)⋆ 04:01, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PLEASE do not list the full name "Southern California" in the NCAA Brackets in the 2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament pages. They are listed as seen in the official brackets from the NCAA. If you do this again, someone will report you for vandalism. NoseNuggets10:54 AM US EDT Mar 21 2007

Speedy deletion of Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball

A tag has been placed on Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

This subject is already covered in the article Illinois Fighting Illini, and there is insuficient context to show the need for a separate article on the basketball team.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not meet very basic Wikipedia criteria may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as an appropriate article, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is appropriate, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Realkyhick 04:24, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Don't let this bother you too much. Obviously, speedy deletion of this article was inappropriate, but it frequently happens when someone not familiar with a content area looks at something. You may want to consider working on short articles in a subpage of your user page. (For example, you could make User:IlliniPride/2006-07 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team.) Then, when the article is ready and will survive the deletionists, you can copy and paste the contents into article space. (Copying and pasting is normally bad, but if you are the only author, it's fine.) One other thing you may want to be aware of is {{Cbb link}}. Any time you are linking to another school's basketball team, this template simplifies it. If Illinois is playing Drexel and Drexel doesn't have an athletics page, but might at some point in the future, you can use this template to link to the other school. That way, if someone ever creates Drexel Dragons men's basketball, the link will automatically be updated. See the schedule table at 2006-07 Virginia Tech Hokies men's basketball team for an example. By the way, I'm a Tech fan ... I hear we have a game or something this week. ;) --BigDT 01:05, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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