User talk:Philipmj24

2012 FINA championships

Philip, I have taken the 2012 FINA championship articles off of my watch list, as you and other interested editors seem to have these articles well in hand. If anyone attempts to delete any of these FINA championship articles or nominates any of them for AfD, please let me know immediately.

I am continuing to work on the biographies of U.S. Olympic swim team members. All 700+ Olympic swimmer bios are now properly formatted, including "Infobox swimmer," applicable categories, and links to related "see also" articles. We also have navboxes for all U.S. Olympic swim teams from 1912 to 2012.

My plan is to continue to improve the main body text of these articles while adding footnoted sources (which are sorely lacking in many). Apart from the obvious on-line Olympic databases like Sports-Reference.com, it would be helpful if we could compile a list of all known competitive swimming references on the WikiProject Swimming page, including both on-line and hard-copy references. I recently came across a recent book called the "Encyclopedia of Swimming" (or something like that) and will probably buy a used copy of it on Amazon in the coming weeks. I am sure there are other general Olympic and swimming-specific refs out there. We also need references for the AAU swimming championships, which served as the U.S. national championships until the 1970s, and the NCAA swimming championships. Please let me know what other good sources you have found. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 00:55, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Dirtlawyer, I don't believe there will be any issues with the 2012 FINA Championship articles as most of them are expanded and properly sourced. If there's any attempt in deleting them, I will inform you. All things considered, that whole experience has really dampened my spirits on Wikipedia. However, I'm committed to getting over it and getting back to work. In hindsight, I did overreact to that incident and could of handled it better. I did learn a lot from it though and hope to avoid that in the future. Again, I appreciate and thank you for coming to my defense, but more importantly coming to the articles defense.

As for the articles, I've seen your work in formatting them and I'm following that precedent when I'm creating new athlete bios. Please tell me if there is anything I'm missing. I do agree, there can be better work done in adding references (especially to the older swimmers) in their articles. I find it difficult though to find any online sources for them, so I think a hard-copy reference will be our best bet. When you find the details of that book, could you send me the info? I may also buy it if I like what I see. Now you said you needed references for the AAU swimming championships. Are you talking about results? The USA Swimming site has links for meets as early as 1920. You can go here (http://usaswimming.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabId=1834&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en) to browse. As for the NCAA meets, I will have to look, but I will tell you if I come across anything. I will keep an eye open though for sources and relay them back to you if I find any.

My next major task to to get Michael Phelps's article to FA status. I have tried before (twice), but failed. However, I was able to get it to GA status. I have school starting in a couple of weeks though, so it will have to be something for the future. I have his books and everything, it's just a matter of me sitting down and committing to it. Philipmj24 (talk) 03:13, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

RfA: thank you for your support

Philip, thank you, once again, for your kind words and support during my RfA. I look forward to continuing to work with you on Olympic swimming and other articles of interest. Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:19, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

EotW

Hey Philip. Nice to meet you. Your well deserved nomination will be reviewed (just a forrmality) and will then go into a "Q" of other Nominations. So...in about two months I hope you will be surprised all over again. We clerks at Editor of the Week have tried to keep nominations secret which has recently been hampered with the new Notification Procedure. Thanks for coming to my talk. Otherwise I would not been aware that the new procedure lets "the cat out of the bag". TRA! ```Buster Seven Talk 12:32, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

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FYI: response and US swim trials

Philipmj24, just 2 FYIs:

1. I've responded to your question/comment on my talk page.
2. Also, at the USA swimming Olympic Trials, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th place finishers in the 100 and 200 frees are the second group of qualifiers onto the team, after the 1st place finishers in the event. The second place finishers in all the other events come after those relay swimmers (since '88; possibly before as well). So the 3rd place finishers in the 100 and 200 frees should be marked as on the team, if the 2nd place finishers are.

Thanks for your question. -- Hooperswim (talk) 20:50, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

DYK nomination of 1988 United States Olympic Trials (swimming)

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Philipmj24

Editor of the Week for the week beginning June 30, 2013

A veteran editor who deserves the community's acknowledgement and appreciation, Philipmj24 writes about athletic topics, especially swimming. He has served in the United States Marine Corps, and currently studies at Missouri State University. A prolific article creator, he has started over 610 new articles for the encyclopedia. He participates in the Good Article process, helps out with vandalism maintenance, and has an astounding 93% article-space edit ratio.

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• Your level of participation and article improvement is an example for all Wikipedia editors. ```Buster Seven Talk 02:41, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
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Athletics event articles

Hi! I've started a discussion on how best to present results of athletics championships here. Please feel free to contribute to the discussion. SFB 18:40, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Swimmers' articles for the 2013 World Championships

Hello there, Philipmj24 and Dirtlawyer1. I'm about to create the articles for the remaining American swimmers who don't have yet. Can you guys be those who will manage to fill out the information about them. I'll be busy working out on the results and data for all sports in this year's World Championships. I hope you both understand about it. Thank you. Raymarcbadz (talk) 06:25, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

June 2014

Hello, I'm IronGargoyle. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Alex Song, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. IronGargoyle (talk) 01:27, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Hey

Good to see you editing swimming articles again! Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 03:00, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Hey Dirtlawyer! Yeah, I'm just editing here and there as the Pan Pacs Championships are going on. Not making a full comeback yet as school just started and I want to focus on that. Nevertheless, it looks like the articles have been well kept so perhaps I'm not needed :) Philipmj24 (talk) 12:26, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

US men's national team player medals

I see that you are standardizing medals tables for athletes. Thanks for the effort! I did a partial revert of your edit to Chris Paul. Most US men's national basketball teams are notable enough to have their own standalone article e.g. 2008 United States men's Olympic basketball team. For those athletes, that year's team article would be more relevant than the generic basketball competition article. Greatly appreciate if you retain those; I know it's an added burden when making monotonous cookie-cutter changes :-( Cheers.—Bagumba (talk) 21:56, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Bagumba, I understand and will do as you say when I'm editing the pages of Olympic basketball players in the future. Philipmj24 (talk) 02:14, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

• Hey, Philip. Hope you're adjusting well to life after college -- personally, I still miss it. Ping User:Ianblair23 and make sure you and he are on the same page for infobox medal table formatting, etc. He's been reworking a wide range of swimmer infoboxes over the last month or so, and it would be nice if you and he were setting a common standard for editors who don't do a lot of work with Olympic sports, etc. I've poked him gently a couple times to get him to do it the same way all of the American and Australian swimmer infoboxes are done. Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 (talk)

Hey Dirtlawyer, nice hearing from you. I’m adjusting just fine, but am a little anxious about finding a job. Hopefully, there’s a job out there for a college educated veteran like myself. I’ll check out how Mr. Blair does his edits. But from looking at a couple of pages he’s done, it seems he follows the standard I abide by. Philipmj24 (talk) 02:14, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

FYI on Olympic Equestrian

FYI, the link to equestrianism is to a generic page about horse riding generally. It's a useless link for Olympic articles, where Equestrian at the Summer Olympics is the preferred link. Not sure how many articles you changed links on, but if you could be so kind as to fix any remaining ones per my edit for Touch of Class (horse), it would be appreciated. If you prefer, another alternative would be to link to the three specific Olympic disciplines at show jumping, eventing and dressage. Montanabw^(talk) 20:22, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Ok, In the future, I'll be more specific as to show jumping, eventing, or dressage. If you look at my edit, "Equestrian at the Summer Olympics" is already linked under the heading "Olympic Games." So I think linking that in place of Equestrian is redundant. Philipmj24 (talk) 20:36, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Well, I kind of see your point, but the problem is that the equestrianism article is a kind of catchall disaster that I think was originally about horse riding in general ... best solution definitely to link to the specific discipline. Thanks for your consideration! Montanabw^(talk) 04:45, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

1986 FINA World Aquatics Championships references?

Philip, do you have an online reference for the 1986 worlds? I need to create a footnote (or footnotes) for the 4x100 and 4x200 freestyle relay results. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 00:32, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Hey Dirtlawyer, I found this and http://www.usaswimming.org/_Rainbow/Documents/b8cad8e2-2559-4bf5-bdbc-e4d1718ec051/86_worldchamps[1].pdf
. I wish it was more detailed, specifically showing relay members and splits, but was unable to come across anything like that. Philipmj24 (talk) 00:49, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

It's funny. I can find all sorts of newspaper clips for the 1985 Pan Pacs, but can't find anything for the 1986 FINA worlds. I need a reference that lists the team members for the relays for the Mike Heath article. FYI, the PDF you linked above for the 1986 worlds appears to be missing the next-to-last page for the men's results. Nevertheless, I can use the women's results to fill in some gaps in the Mary Watye article. At some point, we can use the refs in the Heath article to assemble a GA for Matt Biondi; I had forgotten how much Biondi and Heath overlapped. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 01:07, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

I figured it was for him, seeing all the work you've done to his article recently. I did a search on Google News Archive and came up with nada. I searched with the times, by relay name members, even the meet itself. Maybe because the U.S. didn't dominate there was limited press coverage? It is perplexing indeed. Philipmj24 (talk) 01:34, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Over the next several months, I'd like to knock out GAs for Heath, Mark Stockwell, Duncan Armstrong, Randy Reese, Eddie Reese and maybe Theresa Andrews -- I think those are the last of the Gators with enough material to build GAs. Then I'd like to look at some of the great historical figures like Mark Spitz, Don Schollander and Jimmy McLane. I also want to keep improving the Americans from the last 30 years -- I keep finding sources that I can use for multiple articles. Speaking of which, you may want to look at some of the online books in the footnotes for the Tim McKee article; they're anthologies that cover multiple great swimmers. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 03:45, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

What do you have in your grab bag of tricks about the 1980 U.S. Olympic swim team? The 1980 U.S. trials? Specifically, I'm looking for a complete list of who qualified in which events. Commentary about who were favorites for medals would be helpful, too. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 02:47, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Here's what I found for the 1980 results: http://www.usaswimming.org/_Rainbow/Documents/bc28e04c-a9d9-4eb0-9029-b005b92f76e3/80_otrials[1].pdf
I will further search for commentary, but that may be difficult. Philipmj24 (talk) 12:31, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, Philip. That's helpful. At some point, we should fill in the gaps for the notable members of the 1980 team that got hosed by the boycott. There were several books written about the boycott and the '80 athletes, but they're not available for online viewing. I may have to spend a little cash and buy used copies. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:03, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, I would be interested in working on that. Philipmj24 (talk) 15:19, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

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Philip, do you have Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Swimming watch-listed? Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 16:47, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Yes, I do and I see there's currently a discussion that should get more feedback. I'll leave a comment by today. Philipmj24 (talk) 16:52, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Philip, I'm contemplating a house-cleaning of non-notable swimmer articles. We have a bunch of junior swimmers and/or college swimmers who simply do not satisfy the notability guidelines for inclusion as stand-alone articles. The applicable notability guidelines are:

1. the general notability guidelines per WP:GNG, which requires significant media coverage in multiple, independent, reliable sources, usually difficult for all but the highest profile international competitors;

2. the specific notability guideline for college athletes per WP:NCOLLATH, which requires either significant coverage (i.e. GNG) or major college swimming awards (i.e. Honda Award; All-American and conference-level honors don't cut it for college swimmers);

3. the specific notability guideline for Olympic athletes per WP:NOLYMPICS, which only requires that they compete in the Olympics; or

4. the introductory language of WP:NSPORTS, which presumes notability for any athlete who has "participated in a major international amateur or professional competition at the highest level (such as the Olympics)." This obviously covers swimmers who have participated in the FINA championships, and probably the Commonwealth Games, Pan American Games, and Pan Pacific Championships, too.

As you probably know, there is no specific notability guideline for swimmers under WP:NSPORTS, but I don't think we need one. A given swimmer could qualify as notable under one or all of the four notability standards above, but a swimmer who has not competed in a senior international event is rarely going to have sufficient significant coverage in multiple independent sources to satisfy GNG. Not coincidentally, almost all swimmers who satisfy NCOLLATH, NOLYMPICS or the general language of NSPORTS also satisfy GNG.

I've already inquired at the talk page for deletion sorting what we need to do set up a swimming-specific deletion sort, so we can track swimmer articles as they are nominated for AfD. Who else is currently editing swimmer articles these days? It looks like most of the old-timers have gone dark. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 21:14, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

From my watchlist, there isn't anyone, besides you, who is consistently editing swimming articles. Of course I'm watching mostly American swimmers so maybe I'm not the best one to ask. As for the article scrubbing, I think that's very much needed. I can't think of any of the articles I created that could be deleted, but I can double check. If you need any help, don't hesitate to ask. On another note, you ever thought about doing another RFA? Seeing that Wikipedia is straining on administrators, you're very active, and you have an excellent record, I think you'll have favorable results. I'll nominate you myself if you wish. Philipmj24 (talk) 23:39, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Missy Franklin, national team and flag icons

Philip, I think this should end the nationality vs. sporting nationality vs. national team debate that has plagued the Missy Franklin article for the last two and a half years: [1]. There is now an alternative parameter for "national_team" built into Infobox swimmer. When "national_team" is invoked, "nationality" is excluded. As you know, most swimmers are notable by virtue of their being members of their respective national team and representing their country in international competition. For the handful of notable swimmers who have never been members of their national team, they will continue to use "nationality," but with no flag icon -- the flag icon to be used exclusively for swimmers who have been members of their national team. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 18:27, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Invitation to discussion

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Edits to medal tables

Hi. I noticed what appears to be a copy/paste error in an edit to a medal table from a few months back. I checked a few other edits and didn't see any other inadvertent misclassifications, but just wanted to let you know in case you wanted to review any of your work from back then. All the best, ^Bongo_matic 15:36, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

New medal icons for infobox medal tables

Hey. Have you seen the new icons for gold, silver and bronze medals in the infobox medal tables? See, e.g., Dara Torres and Nicole Haislett. Eliminating the color blocks with "Gold," "Silver" and "Bronze" text, and replacing them with the circular icons, is more space-efficient, and should help reduce line-wrapping and the need for artificial abbreviations of place names and event descriptions within the medal tables. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 20:36, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes, I saw it earlier today. I'm a fan. It's a cleaner look and I like the fact it saves space. Philipmj24 (talk) 22:58, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

How do you like the new "national_team" optional parameter in Infobox swimmer? That seems to have ended the running Missy Franklin citizenship argument, as well as several other similar edit wars over dual citizenship vs. nationality vs. sporting nationality vs. legal residence arguments. At the end of the day, for infobox purposes, all we care about is what country an athlete competed for. Everything else is mind-numbing detail about where they were born, what citizenship their parents had, dual nationality, etc., all of which can go in the text, if someone wants to find sources and explain it.

As part of this effort, I've also been eliminating the duplicate flag icons and duplicate links for swimming (sport) and country in the infobox medals table, since they should already be linked in main body of the infobox. All 660 U.S. and all 255 Australian Olympic swimmers are already done, and I'm about 60% of the way through the 217 Canadian Olympic swimmers now. After that, I'll convert the 260+ British Olympic swimmers to the new format. Along the way, I'm also updating the infobox template to current parameter names, etc. Time-consuming, but we are imposing a new measure of uniform formatting. Once I'm done with the Brits, I'm going to try to recruit some help from Ianblair, Sillyfolkboy and others to finish off the remaining 2600 of 4000 usages of Infobox swimmer. Part of this effort should be to identify non-notables, and send them to AfD for notability/deletion discussion. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 23:18, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Dirtlawyer, you work, as usual, is much appreciated and invaluable. I wish my participation on wiki was up to par, but I've unfortunately been busy accommodating to a new city and job. Hopefully I can get back to the swing of things soon. As for the "national_team" optional parameter, I think it's a much welcomed addition. I wish it wouldn't have come to that, but I think that will help squash any citizenship/nationality debate. Philipmj24 (talk) 00:21, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Well, it's not just the Missy Franklin and similar citizenship debates. Using the national team parameter also makes the justification for using one flag icon in athlete infoboxes a lot more obvious, too, which has been a running battle for the last five or six years. When an athlete is a national team member, he or she clearly represents his or her country in international competition, and the case for flag icon usage is very strong. The flip side of that, when we have a notable swimmer who never competed in the Olympics or other international events, say a notable college swimmer, or channel swimmer, or national champion, then we should use the "nationality" parameter and no flag icon. Among American swimmers, I don't think are more than 2 or 3 dozen notable swimmers who fall in this latter group. When I'm done cleaning up the Canadian Olympic swimmers, I'm going to revisit the instructions and other template documentation for Infobox swimmer, and provide and example Infobox completed with all of the usual options in use. You, me and Ianblair probably ought to adopt a WikiProject Swimming policy on flag icon use, too. That way when anyone questions about infobox formatting or flag use, we can just link to the infobox instructions, example infobox, and flag policy. I've already re-written the infobox instructions to deal with the "Missy Franklin" problem -- I don't care if you were born in Canada and your mother is her majesty the fucking Queen, if you swim for the United States, you get an American flag in your infobox. How's that for a policy? LOL Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 00:59, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Kevin Steel

P, is this guy notable: Kevin Steel? If not, should we keep him for awhile longer anyway? It looks like he may be on the cusp of becoming a national team regular with some international medalist potential . . . . Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 23:24, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

He was on the roster for the 2013 World Champs, making it the semis in the 50 breast, but isn't on the 2015 roster. If it were up to me, I would delete his article because he hasn't (respectfully) achieved much on the international stage. Yes, he did make the 2013 team, but the 50 breast isn't a highly regarded event. Outside the collegiate realm, he isn't widely notable. Philipmj24 (talk) 00:21, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Well, Steel probably does not satisfy the general notability guidelines per WP:GNG, or the Olympic athlete notability guideline per WP:NOLYMPICS, and you and I are effectively the specific notability guideline committee for swimmers. LOL Do you want to keep him and see if Steel does something more, or whack him now? There are another dozen or so like him buried in the college swimmer categories, kinda sitting on the edge with some international experience, but with no Olympic experience and no international medals. Anyone who swam in the Olympics gets a pass per NOLYMPICS; IMO, anyone who won a medal in the FINA world championships, Pan Am Games, Commonwealth Games, or Pan Pacs should get a pass, too. So, I'm looking at non-Olympian, non-medalist, college swimmers for possible AfDs. There are a handful of college swimmers who may be notable otherwise, but certainly not more than 25 or 30 total. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 00:42, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

I guess there is no harm for at least waiting until the Olympic trials. He may surprise us. I actually contemplated deleting my own article Austin Surhoff. In 2013 however, he won a silver medal at Universiade and he's an Olympic Trials finalist. Still, it's borderline notable. If anyone were ever to put him up for deletion, I would probably not fight it. Philipmj24 (talk) 22:42, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Newbie

When you get a chance can you invite this guy to join WikiProject Swimming: User talk:Vlmh? I had to revert several of his edits to the Dara Torres article because he was inadvertently breaking pipelinks to the Olympic swimming events, and I left a message on his talk page for him. Clearly, not the friendliest introduction to Wikipedia, but he apparently has an interest in swimming, so a friendlier follow-up would be appropriate -- and we could use some new blood. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 02:56, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

2015 Pan Am Games, infobox updates, etc.

Hey, Philip. I saw that you were updating swimmer articles for the 2015 Pan Am Games from an IP address (at least I assume that was you). Please don't forget to update the infoboxes for Pan Am swimmers who were not Olympics participants -- we still have a lot of non-Olympians (and non-Americans) whose infobox needs to be updated to include the "national_team" parameter and various formatting changes for Template:Infobox swimmer, including eliminating redundant links and flags. Hope everything is going well with the new-ish job at SSA. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 13:50, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

AfD for Palauan swimmer

The following swimming-related article has been proposed for deletion:

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The participation of knowledgeable editors is requested. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 02:47, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

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Given in recognition of your many contributions to competitive swimming articles, including your efforts in the creation and improvement of those about Olympic swimmers. Thank you for your outstanding work over many years. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 18:53, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

Philip, this small recognition is long overdue for everything you have done to improve the coverage of competition swimming on Wikipedia. Your work is the foundation of much of our coverage of Olympic and FINA championship swimming. Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 18:53, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Dirtlawyer, I appreciate the recognition. Even though my work vastly dwarfs what you have done, I'm glad to be doing my part. Hopefully I have many other years to come. Philipmj24 (talk) 19:45, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas, Philip

And may your holidays be merry and bright . . . . Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 05:53, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, Happy Holidays to you too! Philipmj24 (talk) 21:47, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

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Invitation to the African Destubathon

Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 53 African countries, so should be enjoyable! So it would be a good chance to win something for improving stubs on African sportspeople, including footballers, athletes, Olympians and Paralympians etc, particularly female ones, but also male. Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance (think Regions of countries etc). If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing a few expanded articles on African Paralympians, Olympians and committees etc, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. Thanks. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:14, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Philipmj24. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

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Editor of the Week seeking nominations (and a new facilitator)

The Editor of the Week initiative has been recognizing editors since 2013 for their hard work and dedication. Editing Wikipedia can be disheartening and tedious at times; the weekly Editor of the Week award lets its recipients know that their positive behaviour and collaborative spirit is appreciated. The response from the honorees has been enthusiastic and thankful.

The list of nominees is running short, and so new nominations are needed for consideration. Have you come across someone in your editing circle who deserves a pat on the back for improving article prose regularly, making it easier to understand? Or perhaps someone has stepped in to mediate a contentious dispute, and did an excellent job. Do you know someone who hasn't received many accolades and is deserving of greater renown? Is there an editor who does lots of little tasks well, such as cleaning up citations?

Please help us thank editors who display sustained patterns of excellence, working tirelessly in the background out of the spotlight, by submitting your nomination for Editor of the Week today!

In addition, the WikiProject is seeking a new facilitator/coordinator to handle the logistics of the award. Please contact L235 if you are interested in helping with the logistics of running the award in any capacity. Remove your name from here to unsubscribe from further EotW-related messages. Thanks, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:19, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom 2017 election voter message

Hello, Philipmj24. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2017 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of United States at the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships

The article United States at the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No reason this needs an article, previous championships do not have a list for countries that participated and relevant material is already included 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. JayJay^{What did I do?} 03:26, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:2013 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships logo.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:2013 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships logo.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. — trlkly 03:05, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Jessica Hardy

Jessica Hardy has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 01:07, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Ryan Lochte

Ryan Lochte has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 21:35, 18 March 2024 (UTC)