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Meh. I questioned it when I read it in the source the first time, but double-checked somewhere, and it seemed to check out, actually. Honestly had forgotten about Chapman; perhaps an injury precluded him from being included in whatever the source said. I'm fine with whatever wording proves most accurate and least nuanced. Go Phightins! 20:36, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
- I was reading "a twisting motion to generate the hardest fastball thrown by any lefthanded reliever in baseball" from the source. Good catch. Go Phightins! 20:39, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
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Kyle Lohse
I was wondering if you changed the wording regarding the Native American portion of Kyle Lohse and why? Thanks RVDAD (talk) 21:36, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
- The information on Lohse being a member of that tribe is reliably sourced. Do you have any reliable sources for the claim that he isn't? – Muboshgu (talk) 15:28, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
Lohse-not a member
Yes I do have a reliable source. That's why I thought it should be changed. My cousin is a tribal member of the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians. The Lohse family along with a few others were disenrolled and did not meet the criteria to be members of that tribe. I can give you her name as a reliable source? Are restricted from communicating via other methods? 166.181.67.1 (talk) 15:45, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
- Please read WP:RS. "Someone you know" does not fulfill Wikipedia's requirements. – Muboshgu (talk) 13:28, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
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Request for Comment: Rhode Island gubernatorial election, 2014
Hi, I saw that you've been involved in discussions about including third-party candidates in election infoboxes. We're currently discussing whether or not a candidate should be included in the Talk:Rhode Island gubernatorial election, 2014 page. I think I made a good case on the talk page that the impact the candidate has, and significant media coverage should warrant inclusion to the infobox. RhodeIslandGreen (talk) 18:12, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
Adding Refs to Rusney Castillo page (Biography, Baseball, Cuban Baseball)
yes, thank you! 1st timer! i was trying to add refs how do you get to the page that was removed to add refs? the refs appeared on wiki, without the article i wrote. thx! Norcalbostonfan (talk) 16:30, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
- I'm not completely sure what you mean by your question. You can read Help:Referencing for beginners for further assistance. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:37, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
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Nice work! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 07:33, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks! – Muboshgu (talk) 14:45, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
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I'm confused. Why are you thinking that draft should be capitalized in Major League Baseball Draft? I can understand treating MLB as a proper name, as some sources have come to do, but draft? See n-gram stats. Dicklyon (talk) 15:00, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
- Is that only the Google Books result? I believe the draft is also a proper name, but acknowledge I'm not sure. I just saw that the page was unilaterally moved, so I unilaterally moved it back. Perhaps a discussion is in order. – Muboshgu (talk) 15:12, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
- Did you see my earlier case cleanup edit there? There was no hint of suggestion that Major League Baseball Draft was a proper name, or that case had been considered in light of MOS:CAPS in that article. So it would be a novel proposal. Dicklyon (talk) 17:56, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
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Jody Hice
Ok, I'm sorry. This is absurd. Just because MSNBC says it is true does not make it so. I OWN the book, the book does NOT SAY that muslims should not be granted first amendment rights. It says radical muslims who incite violence against the United States and her people.
This are taken way out of context and I will not allow them to remain on the wikipedia page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CranberryCash (talk • contribs) 17:28, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
- You'll have to show me how it's "out of context", and not just by claiming you own the book. Remember, Wikipedia prefers secondary sources (like MSNBC, AJC, etc.) to primary sources (like the book). – Muboshgu (talk) 17:40, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
"For those Muslims in America who have nothing to do with the jihad or adherence to the 'Medina' text, let them worship freely. But for those who follow the dictates of the Koran's radical teaching, they must be viewed as national enemies." pg. 151-152 It's Now or Never: A Call to Reclaim America by Dr. Jody Hice
If someone would like to write something else that more fairly represents the position outlined in the book I would not have a problem with that. I do have a problem with it being said that the book states no muslims should have first amendment protection, which it does not.
--CranberryCash (talk) 17:56, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
If you don't understand what I am looking for please refer to Congressman Paul Broun's page (the former Congressman for GA-10). Although he has radical stances they are not presented in a clearly negative manner. Jody Hice's page on the other hand is written in a very negative manner. I'm solely looking to make the page with as little bias as possible. --CranberryCash (talk) 18:02, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
- I agree that Hice's page is not well written. I found it before he won the primary, and it was an unambiguous advertisement. Now, others have added more negative content that does make for an odd and poorly written article. It needs work.
- As far as I can tell though, he's trying to have it both ways by saying that Islam is a geopolitical force and not a religion (and therefore not subject to the first amendment) but also saying that individuals should be able to pray as Muslims, which seems contradictory. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:09, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
Ok, we can agree on that! Can we agree that he does not flat out state that all muslims should not be granted Constitutional protection as his page previously implied?
He also distinguished in the book that he thinks Islamist and Muslims are two different entities that need to be separated, I'm not saying I agree I'm just pointing it out for the purpose of his argument.
I'm really just annoyed with the disrespectful tone that his article is written with and citing of (widely known) left-wing media pieces. Basically, I have never seen another candidate/congressman's page written with so much callousness. I'm more than happy to work with you to try and make the page more neutral! --CranberryCash (talk) 03:45, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
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- That's great! For some reason I had thought it closed as a no pass months ago. Whoops. The good kind of whoops though. – Muboshgu (talk) 12:07, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
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My error about the link placement. I'll make a new entry in the correct section at a later time. Instead of making the word 'crashed" and external link, would it have been correct to give it a foot note [17]? I'm sort of new here. Thanks. FD347 (talk) 15:58, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
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- I forgot to change the edit summary on that undo. I was merely trying to add something akin to arrows, as you can see on Template:Infobox Super Bowl. – Muboshgu (talk) 12:31, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
- OK, I thought so but was just double-checking. Although I couldn't find anything in my quick skim of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines from the World Wide Web consortium, my understanding of best practices for accessible web markup is not to use characters such as > solely for their appearance (as screen readers reading out "greater-than" tends to be unhelpful), so when I introduced the "Previous season"/"Next season" links, I didn't make use of them. However, I appreciate the visual appeal for readers with sight. Wrapping the characters in a span with the aria-hidden property set to true might help. isaacl (talk) 20:16, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
It's not your place to edit Wiki election pages based on polling data
Hey Muboshgu,
Revert your changes.
You're censoring a valid ballot listed candidate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.128.213.87 (talk) 20:26, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
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Dahnshaulis's edits
Hello Muboshgu, earlier today I was looking at some recent edits to the Education Management Corporation article and noticed that you'd reached out User:Dahnshaulis, who had edited the article to add some financial information.
In the interest of full disclosure, I previously worked with Education Management Corporation to help improve their Wikipedia article and the articles for some of the company's colleges. I did so fully disclosed then as well, and never made direct edits to articles, but rather suggested draft material and discussed it with other editors. During that process and later, an editor using several different IP addresses kept adding information to the introduction that they said was "important investor information", similar to the edit summaries used by Dahnshaulis.
Although I am not working with EDMC any longer, I still want their article(s) to remain in good shape, and I'm concerned that some of the recent edits (I believe) by Dahnshaulis are problematic. Since you've already been looking at their edits on another article, I wondered if you could take a look at the edits to EDMC and make any changes you think are needed.
Here's a quick breakdown of the recent edits that I think are concerning:
- Edit on October 24—Adds that EDMC is "expected to be delisted" from NASDAQ, however the source makes it clear that although EDMC meet the requirements to be listed they are voluntarily delisting
- IP address edit September 5—Adds detail about stock value to be diluted, the source link is broken and from what sources I've been able to find about this, this explanation doesn't seem quite right
- IP address edit September 3—Information here simply isn't in the source provided
I'm certainly not against the addition of information about EDMC's recent troubles, but it seems like these edits take that information and skew it even more negatively against the company. What do you think? Cheers, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 14:25, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
Oscar Taveras
Scratch that... The wording of the introduction is unclear. Is it talking about his times in the minors? (228CF/(87RF+84LF), or are we talking about his time in the majors (62RF/3CF). At the beginning of the season, it was discussed that he could probably play CF at a just below average level, but it was clear that he would be stuck at the RF/LF positions. I never realized that he spent most of his Minor league career at CF.--RandomLittleHelpertalk 01:23, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
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Please Stop Erasing News Article quotes in talk Page
Would you please stop erasing quotations of an article today October 29th in the Washington Examiner. No concensus about the content is reached. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:6:3A80:384:3C56:D136:77FE:C504 (talk) 19:57, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
- What you are adding has a strong POV and is not acceptable. – Muboshgu (talk) 20:21, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
- It is a 1) talk page with 2) an opinion piece written in a News article. NOT by me. It is published in the public domain. It is an explaination of why her campaign is failed. That is always an opinion piece. In any event I didn't write it it was the Washington Examiner. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:6:3A80:384:3C56:D136:77FE:C504 (talk) 20:26, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for watching this talk page. I was beginning to think no one else thought there was an issue. --NeilN talk to me 17:12, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
- No problem. You certainly are not alone. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:26, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks for thanking me about my edit at Ross Mirkarimi. I think a noobie defender of Mirkarimi wants to engage in an edit war. If you could help me with this, I'd appreciate it. Chisme (talk) 17:51, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
- I thanked you in part so you'd know that I saw the edit and was just about to revert it myself, before I saw that you beat me to it. I'm watching it for the next few hours. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:54, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks again. This might need a 3RR. I don't like to bring admins into these things, but I have a bad feeling... Chisme (talk) 18:12, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
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Why have you deleted key credible information about University of Phoenix? I will be watching any further deletions that you make on this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dahnshaulis (talk • contribs) 00:34, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
- You're deleting valid sourced information to add dubiously sourced information. – Muboshgu (talk) 21:28, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
Why don't you talk to journalist Aaron Glantz about the credibility of his sources before you delete information? He is trying to reach you.
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Midterm elections
Since you've been working on some articles on some candidates for the midterm elections, just thought I'd drop a line to say that I have a few articles ready to go for some congressmen in the event they win election (in Iowa/NJ/FL), FYI.. Connormah (talk) 21:34, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
- Great. Maybe we should be collaborating on some, since I have a partial draft for Tom MacArthur that I won't put up yet because I don't think it'd pass GNG at the moment. – Muboshgu (talk) 21:38, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
- I've got drafts for Rod Blum, Stewart Mills, David Young, Carlos Curbelo and Tom MacArthur. Very brief though, so I can defer to you on MacArthur... but these should hopefully help the articles get started if these people are elected. Are there any others you know offhand that lack articles that have a good chance of winning tonight? (Gwen Graham perhaps?) Connormah (talk) 21:50, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
- I've got a little bit on Graham, French Hill, Forrest Dunbar, Aaron Woolf. You can take the lead on those others. – Muboshgu (talk) 23:25, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
- I may take up Greg Duke/Rick Allen from Georgia in the event they win as well.. Connormah (talk) 00:31, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
- Sounds good. I haven't looked into those Georgia races since Bishop and Barrow always seem to pull it off. – Muboshgu (talk) 01:20, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
- @Connormah: I started Curbelo's page. You can take it from there. I have to walk my dog and probably won't stay awake much longer; this was easier to do when I lived in California. – Muboshgu (talk) 03:17, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
- Sounds good. I haven't looked into those Georgia races since Bishop and Barrow always seem to pull it off. – Muboshgu (talk) 01:20, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
- I may take up Greg Duke/Rick Allen from Georgia in the event they win as well.. Connormah (talk) 00:31, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
- I've got a little bit on Graham, French Hill, Forrest Dunbar, Aaron Woolf. You can take the lead on those others. – Muboshgu (talk) 23:25, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
- I've got drafts for Rod Blum, Stewart Mills, David Young, Carlos Curbelo and Tom MacArthur. Very brief though, so I can defer to you on MacArthur... but these should hopefully help the articles get started if these people are elected. Are there any others you know offhand that lack articles that have a good chance of winning tonight? (Gwen Graham perhaps?) Connormah (talk) 21:50, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
Sounds good, thanks. I suspect the Iowa ones will be coming in pretty late as well. Connormah (talk) 03:19, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
- Rick Allen won. I also started that page, Rick Allen (politician). Almost bed time for me. – Muboshgu (talk) 03:55, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
- Sorry to step on your toes but I had already created it at Rick W. Allen - did some searching and it appears that Rick W. Allen is his more common iteration of his name, so I redirected it. Connormah (talk) 04:04, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
- I think I got most of them tonight..for Johnny Tacherra I have a draft article in hidden text of the redirect in the event that he wins and it gets called overnight. Connormah (talk) 07:48, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
- I never even heard of Johnny Tacherra. Democrats got pasted. – Muboshgu (talk) 12:46, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
- Rick Allen won. I also started that page, Rick Allen (politician). Almost bed time for me. – Muboshgu (talk) 03:55, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
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