User talk:JRA/Archive 1

This is an archive of inactive discussions between 29 November, 2005 and 18 June 2007. Please do not edit it. If you wish to revitalize an old topic, bring it up on the active talk page.

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Rules

Battrick and Battrick Cup will probably be accepted on Wikipedia but, no thanks, we do not want Battrick Rules. This is source material which you do not want changed! Wikipedia is for colaboratively edited articles about subjects not for the subjects themselves. -- RHaworth 13:40, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

North Queensland Cowboys Userbox

Hey, glad to see you support the NRL. I recently changed your custom Cowboys userbox to a new standard Cowboys userbox. I hope you enjoy the new box! mdmanser 02:54, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Cowboys Userbox

Yeah originally the userbox did have a picture, but a Wikipedia copyright flaw was later pointed out by User:Kelly Martin. The Wikipedia copyright policy states that Fair Use images (such as the Cowboys logo) are NOT to be used on User pages. So yes, I did change your userbox to the new one with the logo, but it has since been reverted to a box without an image, and I can't see images being allowed on userspace for quite some time. Cheers. mdmanser 07:42, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject Rugby League

Gday, I see you're interested in Rugby League, so I would like to invite you to the WikiProject Rugby League, which aims to make Wikipedia the world's foremost reference on rugby league in terms of both quantity and, most of all, quality. If you're intersted in helping out, feel free to join at any time, and drop a note on my user talk page at any time if you may have any questions. Cheers, User:Mdmanser 05:57, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Welcome to Wikipedia:Community Justice!

Thanks for joing Community Justice! 11:59, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Please see the argument against 'merge' of the two butterflies

You had placed a merge on Delias descombesi for suggesting a merger with Delias sanaca. They are valid species of Jezebel butterflies found in India. I have placed the technical or scientific argument on Talk:Delias descombesi. However, I submit some more information to help you place things in context.

These stubs have been manually created by me for adding information on Indian butterflies. Please See List of butterflies of India (Pieridae). I have created a stub for each species of that family which is listed there. We shall shortly be adding photos and information over the next three months. We are in the process of doing so so for other families also, for example Papilionidae.

These stubs are necessary as we get a lot of information from Indian naturalists supporting our cause in the form of books, references, and photos. These come in bits and spurts so we need all the stubs up beforehand so that the information and images can easily be loaded.

Our endeavour, List of butterflies of India is a proposed project under Wikipedia:WikiProject Arthropods. We have placed over a hundred photos on Wikimedia Commons in support of our endeavour on Indian butterflies.

Since we have a well thought out and deliberate plan adhering to all Wikipedia usages and conventions, I request you to kindly remove the merge tag.

An example of the kind of good (I hope :) ) work that we are doing can be seen at :-

Regards, AshLin 06:44, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for removing the 'merge' tag. AshLin 09:46, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey there

Thanks for commenting on my RfA...it was greatly appreciated! --Osbus 21:24, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AFL sucks

There is no such sport as "AFL" - it's actually called Australian rules football. It'd be like me calling your sport the "NRL". R o gerthat ^Talk 08:52, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'll watch the Origin game of NRL then in your honour mate. Hahaha :) R o gerthat ^Talk 10:25, 3 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding {{notability}} placed on Battrick

The article lacks links to other reliable sources (excludes forum and blog posts) that discuss the website in detail. The first criteria of WP:SOFTWARE says, "Web specific-content is notable if it meets any one of the following criteria: 1. The content itself has been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the site itself.". Sadly, the other articles you mentioned, Kings of Chaos and OGame, also fail this criteria. Hattrick barely passes (it has a sizable "References" section, but whether these links are all from reliable sources, I haven't looked in detail).

That said, I'm not about to go on a rampage nominating lots of website articles for deletion anytime soon, although someone else may probably do so. Many website / online game articles we have may be non-notable. :( Kimchi.sg 16:14, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

To me, that link looks okay. As for what's a reliable source, some reading on how to find one is at Wikipedia:Reliable sources. Kimchi.sg 08:51, 9 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Baseball

Cheers mate. If you want to help out with any of the Baseball in Australia and Australian Baseball League pages feel free to or leave a note on my talk page if theres anything u could contribute with, the biggest problem im having is finding photos of teams uniforms so i can make the uniform pictures like on Waverley/Melbourne Reds page and with venues that were used and also results from each seasons. --Dan027 07:55, 15 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thats preety good then, hopefully you can find out abit more info on the Bandits background aswell, any chance of photos then? --Dan027 07:04, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rugby League Ball Questions

I'd take a picture of any type of ball, beat up or clean. I'm using it for the Portal:Rugby League and Portal:Rugby. I live in the US, so the only exposure to the game here is Union, but Setanta Sports are now showing league games (mainly the UK stuff, although I did catch the 3rd state of origin match). I created the Rugby Portal, and subsequently the Rugby Union and Rugby League Portals to try and encourage any and all rugby players/supporters to get rugby articles featured on Wikipedia. That is my end aim. Does that answer your questions? Thanks for your response. Cheers! Rowlan 13:51, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Batrick Cup

Hi ... sorry it's my fault, I should have left a note on the article's discussion page, but I somehow must have forgot!!!! Anyway the reason why I added the context tag is because I didn't have a clue what sport was being played, until I got to the bottom and saw what category it was in. I know absolutely nothing about the subject so I decided to tag it, so that someone who does know can rectify the problem. Cheers !!! DavidHumphreys^{SPEAK TO ME}ABOUT_{THE THINGS I MESSED UP} 22:16, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hattrick & Battrick

Hey mate, concerning what you asked me, yea, I've played Hattrick for 4 years now, also been a GM there. ;) It's really a great game although I find it gets kinda boring over time. I've also tried Battrick but I don't even know cricket's rules, lol, so I ended up quitting. About the deletion nazis, well, I guess they've got nothing better to do. Hopefully our articles get kept. Cheers aenariel 11:14, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rugby League Template

Na of course I dont mind. Go right ahead and post it on the discussion page if you want, that'd be fine. --Sahafan 08:19, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rugby League Ball

Brilliant! Cheers. That picture was previously on here, but someone took it down...Let's hope it flies a bit under the radar for now. You can see what I've done with it here: Portal:Rugby. Again thanks for your help. Rowlan 14:00, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Talk alteration

I'm not sure what you're referring to - could you clarify? Thanks, Tewfik^Talk 06:26, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was actually talking about a different page. What exactly is the problem that you've had with the user? Tewfik^Talk 06:43, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, I don't have time to take care of this now, but if you go to WP:3O, they may be able to help. Let me know if it works out. Tewfik^Talk 15:54, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New Australian Baseball League in 2007

how awesome ay? check it out here [3]. i guess we will have to make some improvements and re-writes to the ABL article and main Baseball Australia article. --Dan027 08:41, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah can't wait! There is going to be some pro's over here agian. Not much information is out yet though, I guess we have to wait --JRA WestyQld2 06:59, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Regarding User talk:123459

I did not personally attack that person, do not make wild allogations without looking at your information. Thank you --JRA WestyQld2 17:33, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

that message was not for you please assume good faith next time and take context into consideration thanks Yuckfoo 03:22, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Australian Baseball

A WikiProject for Australian Baseball articles has been created, you can check it out and join at Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian Baseball. cheers --Dan027 07:26, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for joining the project. Anything you can contribute is great, even if it is something really small. :) --Borgarde 13:52, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Redlands "Stadium"

Nice work on the Holloway Field article, i was just wondering is Redlands also a "Stadium" or just a local field? --Dan027 03:31, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

They hosted something international at Redlands (I forgot what, I'll ask around), so it is one of the better fields. I wouldn't call it a stadium though. I think I play them soon after the Christmas break so I'll take some pictures of it then. If I have time I'll fill in a few more Greater Brisbane Baseball clubs and fields as I visit them ;-) --JRA WestyQld2 10:49, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ugh, it was used a training ground for the Americans before the 2000 Olympics. I'll look into a bit more... --JRA WestyQld2 10:50, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that, im not sure if to list it on the stadiums template or not. --Dan027 13:19, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nah don't worry, it's probably too small. i might create a baseball facilitys in Queensland template or something... --JRA WestyQld2 09:57, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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WPRL Article Improvement Drive

Hey I've noticed you're a regular on rugby league articles, particulary NRL ones. I need your advice on something I'm thinking of starting up on the project. Many WikiProjects have Article Improvement Drives which have different levels of success. I'm thinking of starting one up for this one too, but instead of voting on an article I would rather strive to improve one NRL club every fortnight and bring it up very close to featured status. Now it seems as though there'd be a lot of work involved, but there are also a lot of club fans out there who'd probably be willing to participate. Basically there are 30 weeks in the NRL season and there are 15 club pages that are not yet featured. I propose that we all have a schedule to work on one new article every second round, in alphabetical order. By the end of the season hopefully we will have 15 near-complete, if not complete articles. My only concern at this stage is the dedication of editors to help out other team pages that they are not interested in. Basically in order to get the support of editors like these, we need a few leaders in the project. If you are willing to dedicate a bit of your time every week into this and if you have any further suggestions, could you let me know at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Rugby league/Article improvement drive? Thanks, --15:07, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

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