User talk:Mproud

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I swear I scoured the talk help pages for the commenting and didn't see anything about the tildes! Thank you very much! — Mproud 08:00, 14 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Commencement Speaker page

Hi - you wrote: 'Much obliged on merging it with the commencement speech page!

No problem. Two stubs on almost identical topics - it just made sense to put them together. BTW - your user page confused me for a second - I drive past Knox College almost every day - but a different Knox College! Grutness...wha? 07:55, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Red link at the Word Association game

Umm... I think you may have misunderstood my question because I framed it poorly. Just got here refers to the game and not to WP. So my question is why do folks add a non-article-link in a game that you had obviously intended be real-article-linked? Sorry about the confusion. :-) --hydnjo talk 20:03, 21 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I forgot, where is the "Word to Word" dis-association variant? Thanks. --hydnjo talk 20:12, 21 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Whoops! Sorry I didn't catch what you were trying to say!

Hmm... how else will people know whether a real article exists on a word without making the link first? Personally, I think we're better off cleaning up after people rather than trying to force people to check for wiki page existence, since that's really not the point of the game anyway. I always thought it should be quick, easy, and fun.

The "dis-association" was short-lived, and is no more — but does exist in an archive. I suppose someone could restart it, if adding yet another game isn't too much... :) —Mproud 13:38, 23 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

United States Collaboration of the Week

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Name (minor)

Which is a better name? WA2 or Last Word? Simply south 19:37, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Look, no one will look into the Casually observing players section for an invisible branch. And besides, how can people check to see if the words work?

What I'm saying is: I doubt people would have looked in that area if it doesn't belong. So I had to delete it. I'm sorry for any inconvenience but it really wasn't part of the plan. --Addict 2006 15:14, 31 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No objection from me. Thanks for being involved and actively improving the WA! —Mproud 03:00, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Minnesota Twins

While placing the cn tags is fair, your snide comments in the edit summary indicate you are totally ignorant of the situation. →Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots 03:53, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I put [minnesota twins contraction] in google, and this [1] is the first thing that came up. It talks about the court case and the threat to contract the Twins (the Expos were to be the other team contracted). →Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots 03:58, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I just checked your user page. This is downright scary. You're a native of the area, and a Twins fan, and didn't know they were nearly contracted out of existence in 2002? Yikes. →Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots 04:03, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No, my snide comments do not indicate I am totally ignorant of the situation. I made a snide comment and I can take responsibility for that. I'm sorry if it has offended you, but that is not necessarily indicate causality. ~~Please discuss this before coming to conclusions like this.~~ Oh good. I'll put forth what I can find. Give me a moment. Save your breath. —Mproud (talk) 04:04, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You did not offend me. I was just startled that you didn't seem to know about it. I see now that it's just that your take on the situation was different. →Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots 04:18, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The whole situation was blown way out of proportion. The North Carolina businessman was not serious in taking the team, the population was nowhere large enough to handle the Twins, and the people said they didn't want the team. It was publicized as political pressure to get the Twins what they wanted. Sly manipulation, making it seem like there was a deal when there really wasn't. It's not to say the Twins couldn't be contracted or relocated, but the actual threat I'd dare to say was much less. The North Carolina deal was probably the most serious and in reality it was not a viable option at all. Scare tactics that some may say actually paid off.

There was an excellent StarTribune article and a book written about this. I'll try to find my sources. —Mproud (talk) 04:13, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't question it was extortion, and I agree the idea of moving to North Carolina was a joke which the citizens there didn't find funny (although, coincidentally, the old-old Winston-Salem team was called the "Twins"). But the threat of contraction appeared to be real, and the state decided not to call Bud Selig's bluff. →Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots 04:16, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is all conjectural. What it comes down to is this: I put in some ^{[citation needed]}'s and I made what appeared to be a snide comment. Perhaps once I find some of these sources, articles that question Don Beaver's legitimacy (like [this one]) that I might put in another point of view. I'll take responsibility for any "rough comment" but really this discussion should probably be back at the Twins' talk page. Sound good? —Mproud (talk) 04:25, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You could move this whole megillah there, and sweep it off your own page, if you want to. →Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots 04:30, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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