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Missing OTRS permission. When the OTRS agent approves the permission, it should be restored. --Maxim(talk) 19:39, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject College football April 2008 Newsletter (full contents)

The College football WikiProject Newsletter
Issue V - April 2008
Project news
  • This month is spring practice season for most college football teams. Be sure to update your team's season article and grab a few pictures if you're lucky enough to be on hand for a spring game. Remember, even the worst picture of all is better than the picture that wasn't taken.
  • The number of College Football Good Articles being added to the project continues to grow. Nine new GAs were added in March, bringing the total of GAs produced this year to 29. At the current rate, the project will produce 116 GAs this year, nearly three times the number of GAs that were produced in the past two years. Keep up the great work!
  • With all the new GAs and FAs produced by the project, reviewers and commenters are continuously needed. Keep an eye on the project talk page, WP:FAC and WP:GAC for new college football articles to review and comment upon. Even one suggestion or support message goes a long way toward helping create a new Featured or Good Article.
  • Notre Dame Fighting Irish football under Tyrone Willingham and Skip Holtz need a Good Article review.
  • A discussion is ongoing about the possibility of creating a master team list for Division 1-AA, Division 2, Division 3, and NAIA football teams.
  • A discussion about article notability is ongoing on the project talk page. Editors are encouraged to participate.
From JKBrooks85

Welcome to the latest issue of the College football WikiProject newsletter! I hope that you're enjoying regular updates about the goings on of college football on Wikipedia, but if not, feel free to add your name to the "no delivery" section on the newsletter signup page.

I encourage everyone to make regular visits to the College Football Portal and perhaps make it your Wikipedia entry page instead of using the Main Page as your gateway. Nominations for selected articles and pictures are always welcome, and can serve as a great way to show off that new article you just shepherded to Good Article status or the great picture you took the last time you were at a game.

Comments and suggestions on improving the newsletter are always welcome, and help me improve it on a monthly basis. Keep contributing and editing, and don't hesitate to contact me or post on the College Football Wikiproject talk page if you need help or just want someone to look over your article.

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WikiProject College football May 2008 Newsletter

The College football WikiProject Newsletter
Issue VI - May 2008
Project news
From JKBrooks85

Welcome to the latest issue of the College football WikiProject newsletter! I hope that you're enjoying regular updates about the goings on of college football on Wikipedia, but if not, feel free to add your name to the "no delivery" section on the newsletter signup page.

I encourage everyone to make regular visits to the College Football Portal and perhaps make it your Wikipedia entry page instead of using the Main Page as your gateway. Nominations for selected articles and pictures are always welcome, and can serve as a great way to show off that new article you just shepherded to Good Article status or the great picture you took the last time you were at a game.

Comments and suggestions on improving the newsletter are always welcome, and help me improve it on a monthly basis. Keep contributing and editing, and don't hesitate to contact me or post on the College Football Wikiproject talk page if you need help or just want someone to look over your article.

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An image that you uploaded, Image:Cains_Ballroom_Tulsa.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Copyright problems because it is a suspected copyright violation. Please look there if you know that the image is legally usable on Wikipedia (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), and then provide the necessary information there and on its page, if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Kelly hi! 19:50, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on Image:Cains Ballroom Tulsa.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section I9 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted images or text borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on [[ Talk:Image:Cains Ballroom Tulsa.jpg|the talk page]] explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Kelly hi! 21:25, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

I think you may have been the victim of an erroneous notification...the image on the Commons is not the same as the image that was deleted, to the best of my recollection. I think someone may have uploaded a copyvio image on top of the local version of your photo. Sorry for any trouble. Kelly hi! 13:44, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
OK, I looked up the log for the image - it looks like you were the uploader of the local image, but the copy here was different - it came from http://www.flickr.com/photos/strph/112316958/, which apparently doesn't have a license compatible with Wikipedia. (I can't access Flickr from where I am at the moment.) Kelly hi! 13:48, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Ahh, ok. Thanks for clarifying.↔NMajdantalk 19:33, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
No problem. I'm guessing that what happened is that the image had a free license when you uploaded it, and then the Flickr user changed the license subsequently. It happens a lot...that's why I'm working now to move our Flickr-sourced images from here to the Commons. Commons has a Flickr license verification scheme so that we're protected even if the license is subsequently changed. I highly recommend that you upload future Flickr images there, and move any of your existing images there whenever you get a chance. Let me know if I can help - I can point you to a handy bot that does all the hard uploading work and image description formatting for you, in addition to verifying the license. Regards - Kelly hi! 19:47, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Update - I had some free time so I went back through your uploads...you didn't have any other Flickr images, but I added a lot of missing fair use rationales and moved some free images to Commons. The only ones I couldn't resolve were the image mentioned below, and Image:Bedlam.jpg needs a fair use rationale because it is a derivative work of copyrighted 3D artwork. (You weren't the original uploader, you had simply reverted someone else's addition of another image with that name. I also notified the original uploader.) Cheers - Kelly hi! 21:17, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Possibly unfree Image:BOK Center-BothRenditions.jpg

An image that you uploaded or altered, Image:BOK Center-BothRenditions.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the image description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Kelly hi! 20:22, 22 May 2008 (UTC) --Kelly hi! 20:22, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject College football June 2008 Newsletter

The College football WikiProject Newsletter
Issue VII - June 2008
Project news
  • There's still more than two months until the 2008-2009 college football season kicks off, but that's no reason to stop editing! Plenty of historical articles, such as past bowl games, need to be written, and editors are always needed to update teams' season articles. Don't fall into the summer malaise — check out the to-do list on the Wikiproject College football talk page.
  • Wikiproject College Football recently created its first featured topic, ACC football championship games. Featured topics are collections of good- or featured-level articles, and represent the apex of featured content on Wikipedia. If you have multiple good or featured articles that can be connected by a common topic or article, consider submitting them as a featured article. There are currently very few featured topics and even fewer sports featured topics.
  • Several NAIA coaches' articles (ex. Ronald Beard) were nominated for deletion, but were rescued by editors.
  • Paul McDonald has created a formal draft of notability requirements for college football articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject College Football/Notability. This is an updated draft of the older proposed guidelines and goes into far more detail. All editors of college football articles are requested to examine the document and leave comments or suggestions. If implemented, it will affect future AfD discussions dealing with college football articles.
  • The College Football Portal needs more pictures scheduled. Do you have a great picture that illustrates the best of college football? Consider adding it to the featured image queue on the portal.
From JKBrooks85

Welcome to the latest issue of the College football WikiProject newsletter! I hope that you're enjoying regular updates about the goings on of college football on Wikipedia, but if not, feel free to add your name to the "no delivery" section on the newsletter signup page.

I encourage everyone to make regular visits to the College Football Portal and perhaps make it your Wikipedia entry page instead of using the Main Page as your gateway. Nominations for selected articles and pictures are always welcome, and can serve as a great way to show off that new article you just shepherded to Good Article status or the great picture you took the last time you were at a game.

Comments and suggestions on improving the newsletter are always welcome, and help me improve it on a monthly basis. Keep contributing and editing, and don't hesitate to contact me or post on the College Football Wikiproject talk page if you need help or just want someone to look over your article.

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:Seal of Tulsa, OK.gif)

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:C-paw.gif)

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:Sandsprings seal logo.gif)

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:Us-ok-tu.jpg)

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1916 Cumberland vs. Georgia Tech football game

You worked on the article 1916 Cumberland vs. Georgia Tech football game. Nice job!

This article needs to have the references placed inline, and a tag has been placed on the article. I'd love to do it myself, but it would be easiest if the original resarchers would take care of it. Thank you very much!--Paul McDonald (talk) 19:00, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject College football July 2008 Newsletter delivery

The College football WikiProject Newsletter
Issue VIII - July 2008
Project news
  • There's just under two months until the 2008-2009 college football season kicks off, but that's no reason to stop editing! Plenty of historical articles, such as past bowl games, need to be written, and editors are always needed to update teams' season articles. Don't fall into the summer malaise — check out the to-do list on the Wikiproject College football talk page.
  • A discussion about notability guidelines in regards to individual college football players is continuing on the project talk page and at Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Notability#Players. Editors are requested to leave comments and suggestions at either location for consideration.
  • The College Football Portal needs to be updated with featured articles and pictures. Do you have a great picture that illustrates the best of college football? Consider adding it to the featured image queue on the portal.
From JKBrooks85

Welcome to the latest issue of the College football WikiProject newsletter! I hope that you're enjoying regular updates about the goings on of college football on Wikipedia, but if not, feel free to add your name to the "no delivery" section on the newsletter signup page.

I encourage everyone to make regular visits to the College Football Portal and perhaps make it your Wikipedia entry page instead of using the Main Page as your gateway. Nominations for selected articles and pictures are always welcome, and can serve as a great way to show off that new article you just shepherded to Good Article status or the great picture you took the last time you were at a game.

Comments and suggestions on improving the newsletter are always welcome, and help me improve it on a monthly basis. Keep contributing and editing, and don't hesitate to contact me or post on the College Football Wikiproject talk page if you need help or just want someone to look over your article.

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A discussion

An important discussion on Should WikiProjects get prior approval of other WikiProjects (Descendant or Related or any ) to tag articles that overlaps their scope ? is open here . We welcome you to participate and give your valuable opinions. You are receiving this note as you are a member of WikiProject Council -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 12:40, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject College football August 2008 Newsletter

The College football WikiProject Newsletter
Issue IX - August 2008
Project news
  • There's less than one month until the 2008-2009 college football season kicks off, and that's no reason to stop editing! Plenty of historical articles, such as past bowl games, need to be written, and editors are always needed to update teams' season articles. Break out of the summer malaise and get ready for kickoff — check out the to-do list on the Wikiproject College football talk page.
  • A hearty congratulations should go out to everyone who has elevated an article to Good Article status since January 1. During the past seven months, the project has more than doubled the number of Good Articles! In 2006 and 2007, there were a total of 40 college football GAs. In the first seven months of 2008, we've created 42. Give yourself a pat on the back! For those of you who haven't yet created a college football good article yet, what are you waiting for? At the present rate, there will be more than 120 by year's end. Be a part of something bigger and build a GA-class college football article today!
  • During the past few months, an excellent notability guideline for college football articles has been constructed at Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Notability, but your help is needed to make it complete. In particular, your help is requested in defining what makes a college football player notable — Is it being a multiple year starter at a position? Is it being named the best player at a position? Or is it something as simple as holding a school, conference, or national record? Participate in the debate at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football/Notability.
  • The College Football Portal needs to be updated with featured articles and pictures. Do you have a great picture that illustrates the best of college football? Consider adding it to the featured image queue on the portal.
From JKBrooks85

Welcome to the latest issue of the College football WikiProject newsletter! I hope that you're enjoying regular updates about the goings on of college football on Wikipedia, but if not, feel free to add your name to the "no delivery" section on the newsletter signup page.

I encourage everyone to make regular visits to the College Football Portal and perhaps make it your Wikipedia entry page instead of using the Main Page as your gateway. Nominations for selected articles and pictures are always welcome, and can serve as a great way to show off that new article you just shepherded to Good Article status or the great picture you took the last time you were at a game.

Comments and suggestions on improving the newsletter are always welcome, and help me improve it on a monthly basis. Keep contributing and editing, and don't hesitate to contact me or post on the College Football Wikiproject talk page if you need help or just want someone to look over your article.

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WikiProject College football September 2008 Newsletter

The College football WikiProject Newsletter
Issue X - September 2008
Project news
  • Two college football articles are featured article candidates and are looking for comments, criticism, and/or your support. Be sure to visit 2007 USC Trojans football team and 2005 Sugar Bowl to put in a few words.
  • The 2008-2009 college football season has kicked off, and it's time to kick into full gear! Teams ranked in the top 25 should have a single-season page or at the very least a separate football page. Rankings pages and the overall season page should be kept updated, as should the pages of players of note.
  • Heading out to a football game? Be sure to carry a camera and get pictures of players, teams, stadiums, and all the action and pageantry of college football. An excellent guide to taking pictures for WP:CFB can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Images. Even if you don't think a photo can be immediately used for an article, try uploading it to Wikimedia Commons so future article authors can use it.
  • The College Football Portal needs to be updated with featured articles and pictures. Do you have a great picture that illustrates the best of college football? Consider adding it to the featured image queue on the portal.
From JKBrooks85

Welcome to the latest issue of the College football WikiProject newsletter! I hope that you're enjoying regular updates about the goings on of college football on Wikipedia, but if not, feel free to add your name to the "no delivery" section on the newsletter signup page.

I encourage everyone to make regular visits to the College Football Portal and perhaps make it your Wikipedia entry page instead of using the Main Page as your gateway. Nominations for selected articles and pictures are always welcome, and can serve as a great way to show off that new article you just shepherded to Good Article status or the great picture you took the last time you were at a game.

Comments and suggestions on improving the newsletter are always welcome, and help me improve it on a monthly basis. Keep contributing and editing, and don't hesitate to contact me or post on the College Football Wikiproject talk page if you need help or just want someone to look over your article.

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Liquidity crisis

I was deleting the vandal edit summaries created by a pagemove vandal. NawlinWiki (talk) 19:11, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject College football October 2008 Newsletter

The College football WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XI - October 2008
Project news
  • A college football article is a featured list candidate and is looking for comments, criticism, and/or your support. Be sure to visit Alabama Crimson Tide football seasons to put in a few words.
  • Two new featured articles have been added to the project (2007 USC Trojans football team and 2005 Sugar Bowl), bringing the project's total to 12 featured articles.
  • The 2008-2009 college football season is in full swing! Teams ranked in the top 25 should have a single-season page or at the very least a separate football page. The rankings page and the overall season page should be kept updated, as should the pages of players of note, particularly Heisman Trophy candidates.
  • Heading out to a football game? Be sure to carry a camera and get pictures of players, teams, stadiums, and all the action and pageantry of college football. An excellent guide to taking pictures for WP:CFB can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Images. Even if you don't think a photo can be immediately used for an article, try uploading it to Wikimedia Commons so future article authors can use it.
  • The College Football Portal needs to be updated with featured articles and pictures. Do you have a great picture that illustrates the best of college football? Consider adding it to the featured image queue on the portal.
From JKBrooks85

Welcome to the latest issue of the College football WikiProject newsletter! I hope that you're enjoying regular updates about the goings on of college football on Wikipedia, but if not, feel free to add your name to the "no delivery" section on the newsletter signup page.

I encourage everyone to make regular visits to the College Football Portal and perhaps make it your Wikipedia entry page instead of using the Main Page as your gateway. Nominations for selected articles and pictures are always welcome, and can serve as a great way to show off that new article you just shepherded to Good Article status or the great picture you took the last time you were at a game.

Comments and suggestions on improving the newsletter are always welcome, and help me improve it on a monthly basis. Keep contributing and editing, and don't hesitate to contact me or post on the College Football Wikiproject talk page if you need help or just want someone to look over your article.

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AAU reminder notice

A friendly reminder from the Adopt-a-User project =)
Hey there Nmajdan! This is a friendly reminder to update your status at Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User/Adoptee's Area/Adopters whenever it is appropriate in order to provide new users with the most up-to-date information on available adopters. Also please note that we will be removing adopters who have not edited in 60 days. If you become active again (and we hope you do!) please feel free to re-add yourself. Cheers!

RfD nomination of WPP:CBB

I have nominated WPP:CBB (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. MBisanz talk 21:51, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

2009–10 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team

I am having problems with your colege recruit template at 2009–10 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team. How do I find the rivals IDs?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 23:22, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Let me clarify my request. I am having trouble getting Template:College Athlete Recruit End to work at 2009–10 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team and will be also trying to use it at 2008-09 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team (The source code has been added, but hidden). Can you provide some assistance.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 14:23, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Would appreciate your opinions on this topic

Hey Nmajdan, I would appreciate if you would take a second to give your opinions on this topic Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football#Should we have a standard on linking Specific .28weekly.29 rankings.3F since you are a regular editor on the College Football Project. Thanks. Rtr10 (talk) 05:40, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject College football December 2008 Newsletter

The College football WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XIII - December 2008
Project news
From JKBrooks85

Welcome to the latest issue of the College football WikiProject newsletter! I hope that you're enjoying regular updates about the goings on of college football on Wikipedia, but if not, feel free to add your name to the "no delivery" section on the newsletter signup page.

I encourage everyone to make regular visits to the College Football Portal and perhaps make it your Wikipedia entry page instead of using the Main Page as your gateway. Nominations for selected articles and pictures are always welcome, and can serve as a great way to show off that new article you just shepherded to Good Article status or the great picture you took the last time you were at a game.

Comments and suggestions on improving the newsletter are always welcome, and help me improve it on a monthly basis. Keep contributing and editing, and don't hesitate to contact me or post on the College Football Wikiproject talk page if you need help or just want someone to look over your article.

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RE: college coach infobox

Will you talk to Topgun530 (talk · contribs) and tell him that using the <small></small> tags, makes the columns off line when viewed with Mozilla Firefox. Try viewing it with Firefox. Although it looks fine in MSFT IE, but not Firefox, why not leave the small tags out so it looks fine in both? - 4.240.78.248 (talk) 23:35, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

New straw poll

You are a user who responded to RFC: Use of logos on sports team pages. As someone interested in the discussion a new straw poll has been laid out to see where we currently stand with regards to building a consensus. For the sake of clarity, please indicate your support or opposition (or neutrality) to each section, but leave discussion to the end of each section. — BQZip01 — talk 23:23, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

As a user who responded to the straw poll regarding non-free images in sports, your further input is requested with regards to the Straw poll summary and proposed guidelines on image use — BQZip01 — talk 01:05, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject College football January 2009 Newsletter

The College football WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XIV - January 2009
Project news
From JKBrooks85

Welcome to the latest issue of the College football WikiProject newsletter! I hope that you're enjoying regular updates about the goings on of college football on Wikipedia, but if not, feel free to add your name to the "no delivery" section on the newsletter signup page.

I encourage everyone to make regular visits to the College Football Portal and perhaps make it your Wikipedia entry page instead of using the Main Page as your gateway. Nominations for selected articles and pictures are always welcome, and can serve as a great way to show off that new article you just shepherded to Good Article status or the great picture you took the last time you were at a game.

Comments and suggestions on improving the newsletter are always welcome, and help me improve it on a monthly basis. Keep contributing and editing, and don't hesitate to contact me or post on the College Football Wikiproject talk page if you need help or just want someone to look over your article.

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Final version

As a contributor to the discussion regarding sports team logos, I am soliciting feedback as to the latest version of that guideline. Your support/opposition/feedback would be appreciated. — BQZip01 — talk 21:40, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

College Athlete Recruit Templates

Is it possible to make any adjustments to {{College Athlete Recruit Start}} and/or {{College Athlete Recruit Entry}} so that {{College Athlete Recruit End}} is not necessary to close the template. I add the player ratings to their bio pages (E.g., Manny Harris and DeShawn Sims). It would be good if I did not have to include the team stuff at the bottom of the template when I put it on a player bio page.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 21:25, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject College football February 2009 Newsletter

The College football WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XV - February 2009
Project news
  • The offseason is here, but that doesn't mean there isn't work to be done. National Signing Day has concluded, and a raft of new players are preparing for the season.
  • Two college football-related featured article candidates have been proposed: 2008 ACC Championship Game and 2008 Humanitarian Bowl need your comments, questions, and criticism to become featured articles.
  • A backlog of college football good article nominees is developing. Six college football articles: Darren McFadden, 1998 Gator Bowl, Mark Sanchez, 1954 Orange Bowl, Thom Darden, and Keith Bostic (American football) need to be reviewed for Good Article quality.
  • A lengthy discussion about the use of team logos in different articles is under way, and your help and comments are requested. Because the argument has gotten heated at times, editors are reminded to stay civil and respect other viewpoints, even if you may disagree with them. An excellent overview about Wikipedia's rules for non-free images can be found here.
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Template:NCAATeamSeason

Good afternoon,

I have created various 2009-10 season pages for NCAA Women's basketball teams. I have come across a small problem. When I use the teamplate NCAATeamSeason, it always defaults to a men's team. Is there a way to make it default to a women's season or would a new template need to be made? Maple Leaf (talk) 18:47, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Nmajdan - you should be able to ignore the request - as you know, adding |sex=women achieves the desired goal. I'll let Maple leaf know.Sphilbrick (talk) 01:53, 23 May 2009 (UTC)


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NMajdantalk 19:14, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Hey Nmajdan, I've nominated this template, among others, for deletion. If the template is only used on a single page, its unnecessary, and the table can just be placed in the same section where the template was transcluded. Grsz11 20:39, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

This looks like a page in development rather than one ready for the main article space, so I've moved it under your user space. You may continue to develop it there and move it to the main space once it has been referenced and is generally ready for the main space.--RadioFan (talk) 15:51, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. Actually, after your move, I checked WP:SUBPAGE and it said it was ok for a development subpage to exist on the articles talk page, so I moved the page from my userspace to Talk:Oklahoma Sooners starting quarterbacks/Dev. But thanks for pointing this out to me. I had a couple other dev spaces in article namespace that I have now moved to talk namespace.—NMajdantalk 16:33, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

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You reviewed this artical, your concerns have been addressed, please edit the page.--Pedro J. the rookie 11:03, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Randomly interesting lawsuit

Not sure if you want to integrate any of this information into a women's coaching article, but evidently there was a some controversy on the team and there was a federal case about it. See - here. Randomly interesting stuff, which I thought you might be interested in. Remember (talk) 14:08, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_College_football#Conference_awards

Please comment at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_College_football#Conference_awards.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 15:59, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

Responded. The Flash {talk} 01:27, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Big 12 WikiProject

Hi, I've noticed you've been involved in editing Big 12 related articles. I'm trying to gauge the interested in created a Big 12 WikiProject and wondered if you'd like to be involved. There are already pages for WikiProject Big Ten and WikiProject ACC. A Big 12 project would cover the schools themselves and anything to do with conference sports including: events, rivalries, teams, seasons, championships and lore. There is already quite a bit of activity here on Wikipedia regarding the Big 12, and I think a project could help coordinate and unify our efforts. Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Big 12 if you are interested, and add your name to the list. Grey Wanderer (talk) 23:43, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I have tried to address your comments on this list but there's still a couple of minor points, please could you have another look. Thanks a lot, -- BigDom 17:49, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Hmm, still struggling but I've noticed that none of the other featured club season lists have sortable tables, so I can't really work out why this one has to... Thanks -- BigDom 19:06, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
I've copied the table into my sandbox here, any help much appreciated. Thanks -- BigDom 21:20, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
Looks to be sorting mostly correct. The Pos column needs to be fixed now, but that shouldn't be too hard.—NMajdantalk 22:18, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks a lot, very grateful. Have managed to do the Pos column by using the {{sort}} template on all the single-digit positions. -- BigDom 22:42, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
I believe that I have now addressed all your comments. Thanks, -- BigDom 07:31, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
All definitely resolved now, so would you mind having another look? Sorry to keep pestering you... -- BigDom 17:36, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Family Guy season 5

you supporrt ed this artical for FLC but it was not promoted, i will nominated soon again may you review it again.--Pedro J. the rookie 16:22, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Just thought to mention your concerns have been fixed.--WillC 13:51, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

DYK

Want to help me bring Fred Boye to DYK? I am pretty much finished with it, but I would still really appreciate any help you could provide. You can find the draft article here -Fred Boye. Remember (talk) 20:35, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

The requirements for DYK are not too strict. What are you needing help on? Obviously, the article needs to be longer.—NMajdantalk 20:39, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
Not sure there is much to do, but take a quick review of it if you could. Also, if you were able to find any other sources on this guy that would be helpful, cause I can't find anything else. Remember (talk) 20:40, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
You're right. There's not much out there about him. Did he play polo?—NMajdantalk 20:50, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
I don't think so. But that's funny cause I came across the same stuff and wondered the same thing. Maybe I will just expand the article based on the one source I have. Remember (talk) 20:57, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

I have added more stuff and I am about to create the article and propose it as a DYK. Let me know if you see any remaining issues. Thanks. Remember (talk) 18:25, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for all your help. The nomination can be found here - [2]. Remember (talk) 19:29, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Updated DYK query On November 30, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Fred Boye, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Thanks for all your help. Remember (talk) 13:29, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Hey man, thanks for reviewing List of Minnesota Vikings starting quarterbacks. Without your help, we wouldn't have yet another featured list here! As a follow-up to that list, you may have noticed that I have now nominated List of Minnesota Vikings head coaches for featured list status. I would therefore like to ask you to make a couple of comments about that list, provided that you have enough spare time on your hands. Many thanks. – PeeJay 10:53, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Hello,

I'm a bit confused by the merger templates placed on the talk pages of the templates mentioned above. It looks like an editor has made a comment here, but I can't find a note providing the rationale for the merger proposal. I also couldn't find the proposal listed at WP:TFD. If you need assistance with completing the merger proposal steps, don't hesitate to ask. Best regards, momoricks 23:22, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

In case this is your first template merger proposal, the process is outlined at WP:TFD. Thanks, momoricks 01:04, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Infobox code

Hey, I know you're handy with all the complicated syntax stuff and I was wondering if you could take a look at {{Infobox NCAA Division I FCS season}} and help figure out why the 2010 year won't appear in the infobox when linked from 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season to 2010 NCAA Division I FCS football season. There is no 2010 FBS season article yet so I'm not sure if the same situation will arise there as well with the FBS box(probably since both templates pretty much use the same code). Geologik (talk) 21:45, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Looks like the link to the 2010 article will appear on January 1.—NMajdantalk 21:48, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
/facepalm
And here I've been combing through the pages trying to find out what was going on. Doh. Geologik (talk) 21:52, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

FLC

Can you review the Family Guy season 5--Pedro J. the rookie 23:59, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

it has been re-nominated as you reviewed it can you do tjhat again--Pedro J. the rookie 00:01, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Another DYK

If you want to help out with another possible DYK, I am working on the Monk McDonald article now. Any help you want to give you would be, as always, most appreciated. Remember (talk) 15:27, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

The article is pretty much done now, but if you want to review it before it goes live, I would appreciate it. Remember (talk) 19:30, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
The article has gone live and can be found at Monk McDonald. But any review you could give would still be appreciated. Remember (talk) 00:08, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Re: List of The Apprentice (U.S.) candidates FLC

I hope you concerns have been addressed. Thanks for taking the time to review the list. --Another Believer (Talk) 21:37, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi, can you revisit this FLC when you have the time? Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 23:03, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Infobox opinion

You may have an opinion on this debate: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_College_football#All-American_in_infobox.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 15:36, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

List of UNC head coaches

I was inspired by your list of Oklahoma head coaches and I have been working on creating a list of North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball head coaches here. I think the list is good enough to go live now and I was going to propose it as a DYK. I was then going to get it up to GA and then FA status. Let me know if you want to help out with any of this. Any help you could give would be most appreciated. Remember (talk) 13:36, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Article has gone live. You can find it here List of North Carolina Tar Heels men's head basketball coaches. I would really appreciate any input you could give on the article and how to make it better. Remember (talk)
Review left on article's talk page.—NMajdantalk 22:03, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your review. I have made lots of changes to the article based on your comment. I am still working through some of them, but check out my revisions and let me know what you think. Remember (talk) 19:50, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
I have worked through all of your comments. Do you have any others?Remember (talk) 16:22, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Do you think this article needs images? Take a look at what I have done to List of American football stadiums by capacity and List of current National Football League stadiums. Would you like to use the same table for this article? (Comment posted at WT:CFB) --Pgp688 (talk) 10:04, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Needs a revisit. Cheers, and Happy New Year, Dabomb87 (talk) 17:34, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks...

...for the protection. Roll Tide, Drmies (talk) 05:29, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your review at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of National Historic Landmarks in Indiana/archive2. I believe I have addressed your comments and would appreciate your support or further comments. Thanks, Reywas92Talk 18:42, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Bump. The list is just about ready to be promoted, so if you have any more comments, please post them ASAP. Cheers, Dabomb87 (talk) 14:51, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
I don't mean to sound high-and-mighty but I take your lack of follow up on that FLC to mean that all the issues were resolved, and that you don't have any more problems with the list. If you do intend to post more comments, make sure to have them up there within 24 hours. Dabomb87 (talk) 23:12, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
I just want to say that I was impressed with your patience and civility at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Oklahoma Sooners in the NBA and WNBA Drafts/archive1 despite the long, protracted discussions. It's not often that we have two-month-long FLCs, but you weathered this one very well. Congrats on the new FL. Cheers, Dabomb87 (talk) 18:18, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
Ha. Thanks. I tend to back off big discussions until a consensus has been decided. Got real burnt out a couple years ago on those types of talks. But glad it passed FLC.—NMajdantalk 01:50, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Template:NCAATeamSeason is causing me problems at 2008–09 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team where I need to pipe Hamburg. Please advise on what to do.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 15:26, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

What is Hamburg? I don't see any use of it on the template. Please give more detail on where this issue is.—NMajdantalk 16:52, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks again for your review of Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Texas Tech Red Raiders men's basketball seasons/archive1. I've replied to your comments on its FLC archive page. I appreciate the comments and suggestions! NThomas (talk) 23:49, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

All of the redlinks have been taken care of. I'd really appreciate your additional comments/support in getting this list passed. Thanks! NThomas (talk) 03:19, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
Another reply. NThomas (talk) 19:01, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
When you get the chance, if you feel that your comments about the In progress column have been addressed, would you mind capping them please? Thanks! NThomas (talk) 06:31, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi. I don't know if you were aware, but even though Mm40 capped his comments, he replied to some of the unresolved issues. Could you address them? Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 17:43, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

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New Big 12 head coaches on the lists

I'm curious what should be done on the Texas Tech and Kansas head coaches lists. Since both schools now have new head coaches, should the lead be written without any mention of the new coaches since the tables are all "as of the end of the 2009 season" or should they be mentioned in the lead but not in the table?

That's a good question. I would include them in the lead but out of the main table under after next year.—NMajdantalk 16:13, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
Sounds good. Thanks! Keep up the good work on the lists. NThomas (talk) 16:35, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

When you get a chance, I've replied to your comments. Thanks. NThomas (talk) 16:51, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Another set of replies. Thanks for basicly another review. Didn't realize how sloppy this one was. NThomas (talk) 04:12, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Kansas coaches list

Just FYI, i've started on the Kansas coaches list here User:Ryan2845/coaches#Coaches. Just figured i'd let you know so you don't start a duplicate (although i'm sure Kansas was probably last on the priority list lol). Ryan2845 (talk) 19:32, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Great! Thanks for letting me know. Also, take a look at the three lists currently up at FLC. There have been some changes since I created the template. Otherwise, feel free to ask me to give it a once over before you submit it to FLC and I'll give you some feedback.—NMajdantalk 19:35, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
One question I did have was the rules for marking Hall of Famers. Are you marking only those that went into the Hall as coaches? Only those that went in as members of the school that the list is for? Or just marking them all no matter what? I ask because KU has had 4 people coach that are in the Hall, but none went in specifically as KU coach, and some are in as players not coaches. Ryan2845 (talk) 22:38, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
I have been doing all that have been inducted as coaches.—NMajdantalk 06:00, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Re: Iowa State List

I wanted to thank you for helping with the Iowa State List. I apologize for being inactive so long, school started up and I got busy.

Thanks,

DUKyleXY (talk) 22:34, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

  • Since that 'Oppose vote came up, I have a feeling this won't pass FL and be merged into Texas Tech Red Raiders men's basketball. I appreciate your review but I feel that any revisions would be in vein if it were to be merged. My whole goal was to get as many Texas Tech lists to FL as possible using existing FLs as templates (ex: your Sooners in the NFL Draft, coaches lists, seasons lists, buildings lists, alumni, presidents, etc). I kinda have no motivation to keep this up if every list after this one is shot down because of size. In that case, there are probably only two lists I could finish. Be careful with your Big 12 football coaches topic because if my nomination is denied on size, your lists are similar in size and they might end up being brought up for reassessment. NThomas (talk) 02:24, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

GA Reassessment of Oklahoma Sooners football

I have done a GA Reassessment of the Oklahoma Sooners football article as part of the GA Sweeps project. My review is here. I have found problems with the article that will require work to maintain its GA status. I have placed the article on hold and I am notifying all interested editors and projects. If you have any questions or concerns please contact me on my talk page. H1nkles (talk) 18:00, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

TAMU head coaches

Thanks for the hard work on the TAMU head coaches article. Keep up the good work. Oldag07 (talk)

Your welcome. Feel free to review it!—NMajdantalk 22:53, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Sortability added as per your request. If you get the chance please give this list a full review (and perhaps it's list-style-sister, List of Los Angeles Dodgers first-round draft picks). Staxringold talkcontribs 20:39, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

KU coaches list

It's pretty close to done, if you want to grab it off my user page (User:Ryan2845/coaches) and take it the rest of the way, feel free :) Ryan2845 (talk) 05:20, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Template:Navbox with collapsible groups

Dear Nmajdan, I'm trying to create this template also in italy.wiki but I have some problems... could you help me?!

The translated name is: "Template:Navbox con gruppi a cassetto" and this is my sandbox page: Template:Navbox with collapsible groups

Thanks very much!!! --Luca Oddone (talk) 10:24, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

HR champs

Could you respond to the FLC, particularly the note I just made? I really don't think the playing time belongs. It simply doesn't have to do with the winner. We also aren't including slugging percentage, for example, another related but not directly pertinent statistic. Staxringold talkcontribs 22:15, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

IPA

Perhaps the easiest way to request IPA is to use the {{Need-IPA}} tag, which will add the page to Category:Wikipedia articles with nonstandard pronunciation. From there, it's just up to someone to do the heavy lifting. Or just request it on the relevant WP:IPA for XX page like you did. Cheers! — ˈzɪzɨvə (talk) 20:04, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. Good to know for the future.—NMajdantalk 20:09, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

There will be too many false positives to drop this into AWB general fixes but I can provide you a simple custom module to use with AWB for you do it semi-automatically. Rjwilmsi 21:18, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Paste this into the Custom module window (replacing whatever is there) in AWB 5.0.2. You have to fill in what other templates you want it to run on. Per request the module replaces all dashes in the template parameters, which I don't think is quite the right approach: there are false positives on, for example, Adolph Rupp and I know for certain that the |pages= parameter in {{cite book}} can contain "7-5" which is "7 section 5" not a range (AWB has specific logic to handle |pages= anyway). A better approach may be to at least restrict hyphen replacement to matches where the hyphen is between two numbers. I will leave it to you to test the module and get back to me. Rjwilmsi 08:44, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Ah, in working on this I found a bug in AWB over parameters that themselves contain a smaller template. I have fixed it on rev 6389 but that missed AWB 5.0.2 so until an AWB snapshot comes out numbered >= 6389 then you'll have to be extra careful. Rjwilmsi 10:22, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
My latest version is at User:Rjwilmsi/Test2. The HTML comments issue is fixed. Rjwilmsi 23:57, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Your CFB list of head coaches template

I'm working on something on Wikipedia: WikiProject College football, the subsection "Structure" was/is based on the WP:NFL's structure and is a complete mess over there. Considering how well put together your Big 12 Conference football head coaches pages are, is there anyway you can create something for the College football Wikiproject similar to act as a guide similar to what was done with this. Here's where your coaches list guide should go: Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Head coach lists format. I'm working on a few myself. Since this one is your expertise, I felt it was only right you do it. NThomas (talk) 03:47, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

I created this awhile back. However, I think it is out-of-date. The requirements for FLC are very fluid and dynamic. Next week, I'll work on updating this style guideline. Honestly, the best style guideline is to just look at the most recent lists that have passed FLC. I have two out there right now.—NMajdantalk 15:52, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

award

The Oklahoma Barnstar
Awarded to Dcheagle for your countless contributions to Oklahoma articles within wikipedia. Kiddo27 (talk) 21:53, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

--Steam Iron 22:35, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Hello, I noticed you had weighed in on the previous FLC for Family Guy (season 5), and I was hoping you could voice your support or opposition to the renomination of the article. Gage (talk) 05:14, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Hi, can you revisit this FLC when you get the chance? Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 03:07, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Also, can you comment on the naming issue that Arsenikk raised? Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 01:10, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

WP:SPORTS conventions

I like your template. Next week I will be soliciting opinions from people from all sports (except maybe hockey) regarding having all sports conform to a common set of standards for templates. Watch for my invite. I will use your template as an example.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 15:31, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Sounds good. I've been making templates for awhile, so I'm willing to help (matter of fact, I'm the original creator of {{Navbox with collapsible groups}}.—NMajdantalk 15:33, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
I left a query on the talk CFB talk page about Peyton Manning who has 31 templates on his page.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 01:44, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
I am hoping to get some sort of response on the WP:TLIMIT.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 02:07, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Thread at VPM about Webcitation.org bot, and about Wikimedia creating its own archive service

Hi there,

I'm reaching out to people who I see have been previously been active in threads related to Webcitation.org.

I started the above-mentioned thread at VPM, which

1) asks how things are going with the webcitation.org bot (because i think it's SUCH A COOL idea), and
2) inquires whether WikiMedia should create its own archiving service, to avoid the risks of relying on another organization's services (e.g., the downtimes experienced now).

I hope you'll take a look. user:Agradman editing as 160.39.221.164 (talk) 06:20, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

List of Phi Kappa Psi brothers FLC

Hello, Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Phi Kappa Psi brothers/archive1 was listed 20 days ago, and is now also listed as one of the "nominations urgently needing reviews." So far four reviewers have weighed in. All objections have been met. There are two votes of support, and none opposed. As per The Rambling Man, "typically, although not prescriptively, Dabomb or I will look for around four votes of support." He also suggested that I contact "regular reviewers" such as yourself to see if you would be willing to comment. I'm happy to address constructive criticism. Hopefully upon resolving critiques, if you believe that the list is worthy, you will also grant support. Thanks, NYCRuss 16:58, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Template policy discussion

You are invited to help consider a common template policy for all WP:SPORTS biography articles at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Sports#Template_policy_discussion.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 22:06, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/1991 College Baseball All-America Team/archive1

Could you please reconsider Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/1991 College Baseball All-America Team/archive1 and offer further guidance. Please strike where appropriate.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 18:38, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

What are your current thoughts?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 16:57, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Don't forget about this one. I need some feedback on if this is the right direction to go.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 15:30, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi Nmajdan, can you revisit this FLC when you get the chance? Dabomb87 (talk) 22:45, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
And Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year/archive1 as well. Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 00:00, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

I'm out of town on business so I won't be able to devote enough time until Monday. I will post my followup's early next week.»NMajdan·talk 03:37, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

OK, thanks for the reply. Dabomb87 (talk) 12:37, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
It is getting close to decision time on Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/1991 College Baseball All-America Team/archive1‎.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 15:44, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

FLC comments

A little while back you left comments on Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year/archive1. We've revised your concerns and I was wondering if you could re-examine the article and either raise more concerns or give it your stamp of approval for FL status. Thanks. Jrcla2 (talk) 18:00, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Hi Nmajdan, can you revisit this FLC when you get the chance (I know you must be busy)? Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 02:42, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

CFB Head Coach lists and category naming convention

Thought you might be interested in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football#Naming conventions for head coach lists and categories NThomas (talk) 17:21, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

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Template: American football roster

Hi, I'm trying to list more than one position for a player using this template but have been unable to do it. Can you help me out? On the 2010 Utah Utes football team page I want to list the player Nick Marsh as both a punter and a placekicker. Any value other than "P" or "K" (such as "P/K") wikilinks to the American football positions page instead of the respective Punter (football) and Placekicker pages. Thank you for any help. —Ute in DC (talk) 01:12, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/1992 College Baseball All-America Team/archive1

Since you supported Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/1991 College Baseball All-America Team/archive1, I thought you might be intersted in commenting at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/1992 College Baseball All-America Team/archive1.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 19:08, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

please give your opinion on the FLC. --Pedro J. the rookie 21:01, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Hotkeys for Welcome_User User script

I use your welcome_user user script all the time and I would really like it if there were hotkeys attached to it. Can you do that? Bernstein2291 (Talk Contributions Sign Here) 02:58, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/1993 College Baseball All-America Team/archive1

Since you supported Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/1991 College Baseball All-America Team/archive1, I am calling your attention to Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/1993 College Baseball All-America Team/archive1 as a list you may be interested in reviewing.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 03:51, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Template:Winning percentage

For Template:Winning percentage, can we add an optional parameter to display the percentage to 4 or 5 decimals places? That would help a great deal with breaking ties on a list like this: List of college football coaches with a .750 winning percentage. Thanks. Jweiss11 (talk) 11:08, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

En dashes or em dashes for null fields?

Nmajdan, please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football#En dashes or em dashes for null fields? for a discussion regarding Template:Winning percentage and head football coaches lists. Thanks. Jweiss11 (talk) 03:19, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

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SoonersWiki.com

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WebCiteBOT Replacement Task Force

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GA Nomination for BOK Center

On April 22, 2011, I, Jim856796, have nominated the article BOK Center for Good Article status. The reviewer was User:Arsenikk, although he is not from Tulsa and he deals with Norway-related subjects. I checked the page WP:WikiProject Oklahoma/Tulsa and found you name. I checked your contributions, and the last one you made was on May 9, so you may be the only active user working for the Tulsa Task Force, I hope you are available to do something about the GA nomination I made and Arsenikk requested that some corrections be made such as "I would recommend that the sections 'event history', 'notable event facts', and 'concert sellouts' be merged into a single top-level section, and renamed 'events'.". Can't you help out on the GA nomination? Jim856796 (talk) 04:28, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

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User subpage

I saw that you are part of the Templates wikiproject, and I was wondering, is there a template (or do you have to put one..) for a user subpage that designates it as a personal repository for the user to leave and grab notices (ex. notices telling other people the user is taking a wikibreak). Let me describe the subpage I want to use the template for. Instead of for example trying to remember the exact code, the user just develops the code and keeps it there. Is there a template for that? If so where can I look for the template and similar ones. I was looking everywhere but I couldn't find the page for it. Could you help me out? I know that what I'm describing sounds vague but if you have any questions about what I'm talking about please let me know. Like I said I just want to know on what page I can find a template for the type of user subpage I just described. Thanks! Lighthead (talk) 04:09, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

I recently found two articles (List of current National Football League head coaches and List of National Football League head coaches) and couldn't help but think that a similar article would be created as a "topic article" for a Big 12 Conference football coaches featured topic. I'd be happy to help with its creation since you put forth the time into the rest of the 11 (soon to be 9) other FLs. NThomas (talk) 20:04, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Could you please review this FLC. Pedro J. the rookie 04:46, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

I've nominated an article you nominated for Featured List status, 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football rankings, for demotion. See Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/2006 NCAA Division I FBS football rankings/archive1 for further information. Albacore (talk) 16:24, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

I've nominated 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football rankings for featured list demotion. See Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/2005 NCAA Division I-A football rankings/archive1 for more information. Albacore (talk) 16:36, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Greetings, Nmajdan.

I'm trying to use some of your old handiwork, the Navbox with collapsible groups, for a HOF that includes 15 separate groups. The navbox instructions say "The template currently supports up to 10 groups/lists but more can be added if needed." After the 11th list/group included, it simply does not display the 12th and subsequent groups/lists. How do we go about adding more groups/lists so that they will display? If you want to see an example of the problem, take a look at the Michigan Wolverines football navbox that uses the template; its 12th group does not presently display. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 14:21, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion for WikiProject United States to Support WikiProject Oklahoma and Tulsa

--Kumioko (talk) 23:45, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Nmajdan there has been some talk of merging WikiProject University of Oklahoma with WikiProject Oklahoma as a task-force under WP:OK as it seems the project has only three active participants. I don't know how active you are with the project so if you would like to put some input in to this the feel free to join us in discussing this on WP:OK'S talk page.--Dcheagle 01:02, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject University of Oklahoma→Task-force OU

As it seems there's consensuses to bring the project under WikiProject Oklahoma I believe a name change is in order I plan to change it to Task-force OU. But I would like to have input from you on this matter So if you would please enter the discussion here it would be greatly appreciated.--Dcheagle 21:22, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Wikiproject Oklahoma

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MSU Interview

Dear Nmajdan,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.


So a few things about the interviews:

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Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

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Annual football conference season navboxes nominated for deletion at TFD

I have nominated all of the annual football conference season navboxes for deletion as I don't believe they are useful navigational tools. You can find the discussion here. Grondemar 02:59, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

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Happy Adminship Anniversary

As a contributor to this article, you may be interested to know I have nominated it for deletion. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office hostage crisis. Robofish (talk) 20:42, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

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Category:College basketball teams in NBA Draft

Category:College basketball teams in NBA Draft, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Armbrust The Homunculus 09:52, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Hi Nmajdan,

We (Ortho Sport and Spine) recently used a photo of yours in our blog. We signed up with wikicommons and thought we were legally able to use you photo of Sam Bradford. We really like the photo and it looks great on our blog, we have been curious if we were able to use your photo on our blog page without any legal ramifications. If you do not want us to use the photo we will take it down immediately! Please let me know if the photo will cause any problems. We hope you let us use it, but we understand if you don't. Here is a link to our blog and the photo we are using. http://orthosportandspine.com/blog/sam-bradford-acl/

If you don't mind, could you please contact me at taylorlgray@gmail.com.

Have a great day, Taylor — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.227.88.40 (talk) 12:34, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Proposal for a new useful template

I see that you created the template {{Winning percentage}}

It is one I use a lot and for that I thank you.

However, I realize that 100% of the times I use the template I am using it in a head-coaching record. See Scott_Rueck#Head_Coaching_Record for example.

I don't propose to change the template you created as it is used by itself in many places. However I like to propose a new template which would be helpful in head-coaching records. I'm contacting you because while I have some template editing skills, they are limited and given your involvement with this template it might be easy for you to implement.

First let me explain the problem. When I find an error as I did in the linked record, I have to change the wins and the losses and then change them again in the template. I hate doing the same thing twice when I can get a computer to do it once.

My proposal is to create a template that takes two parameters: wins and losses and outputs wins, –, losses, percentage (in parentheses).

I'll call the template wins losses percentage or WLP for short.

Invoking {{WLP}} would generate:

178–50 (.781)

To beat the point to death, in the current usage, if the coach won a game and lost a game, I would have to change the 178 to 179 in two places and the 50 to 51 in two places. That seems silly. With my proposed template, I could make a change to the 178 and a change to the 50, and the output would be correct.

Do you have any interest in this?

If not do you have any advice? For example, for all I know such a template already exists and I just need to find it. Or perhaps it would create some problem I haven't considered.

Thanks in advance for any feedback you might have. --S Philbrick(Talk) 22:02, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

I just noticed that {{WLP}} already exists. A small detail. Perhaps {{W L P}}--S Philbrick(Talk) 22:04, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

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