User talk:Zodiiak

See my edit summary

Kobe Bryant is only 42 KB of readable prose. See WP:SIZE and WP:SPLITTING.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 02:24, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks -- How does that compare to the other articles I mentioned? My point is there seems to be alot of fluff that can be removed to make it a more potent article. Zodiiak (talk) 04:37, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Template:Infobox NBAretired

Hey, thanks for the heads up. First, just to let you know, the template history didn't record a null edit I made to explain in the edit summary that I'd looked at Charles Oakley--where the error was first reported--and saw no problem caused by the revised coding (clearly I need to learn how to do a null edit properly!) I subsequently looked at several other articles with the template and observed no problem (this is before your recent reversion). Second, two questions:

(1) Did you, as Chris suggested, purge your cache and reload Michael Jordan to see if the problem persisted? (2) If you did and it did, I wonder if this is an issue that only appears with certain browsers. I'm running Safari on a Mac; just wondering what you're using.

Best, Dan.—DCGeist (talk) 01:50, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi, Dan. I just reverted the edit and cleared my cache. Unfortunately, the issue is still occuring for me. I'm running the latest Windows Explorer. Argh, really strange issue. Zodiiak (talk) 01:59, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_National_Basketball_Association#Template:NBA_Awards

Please sincerely comment. :D -- [[SRE.K.A.L.|L.A.K.ERS]]_{call me Keith} 05:19, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Using 'subst' in warning templates

Thank you for helping fight vandalism by reverting and warning users when necessary. Please remember to use 'subst' in the templated warnings (e.g. {{subst:uw-vandalism2|Article}} ). -- Alexf^(talk) 18:36, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Got it, thanks! Zodiiak (talk) 04:08, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Phoney "Records"

Do you not understand that the section on LeBron James and having numerous youngest milestones is not wikipediaworthy or even noteworthy outside of wikipedia. Look up an ESPN Sports Almanac and see the page that shows youngest player to certain milestones. There isn't one. Why not take it the extra step and start putting other non records up on wikipedia, like Most points scored on a specific game or a specific month. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Smartestmanonearth (talk • contribs) 04:08, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Who decides what wikipedia or note worthy is? As I recall, that article was specifically created to house fancruft. NBA articles on Wikipedia are littered with this type of material -- why so much focus on one? Zodiiak (talk) 14:34, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of SLAM Magazine's Top 50 Players of All-Time (NBA)

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Disputed non-free use rationale for File:Barkley 1988 SI Cover.jpg

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Hey, thanks for the message on my talk page, and for the IFD link. Having read the discussion, I still think the image fails to meet WP:NFCC#8, and it looks like the context of the image use has changed since the discussion. With that said, I think a FFD discussion is more appropriate than a semi-speedy tag, so I will remove the dispute tag, and will start a deletion discussion. --Mosmof (talk) 19:39, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

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Discussion at WikiProject New Jersey

Hi, Zodiiak, User:Nightscream and I had a disagreement over certain parts of NJ municipality articles; because the discussion could potentially affect hundreds of articles, we decided to bring the discussion to WikiProject New Jersey. I would value your input in the discussion, which you can find here. Thanks, A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 15:14, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject New Jersey Newsletter (November 2009)

The WikiProject New Jersey Newsletter
Volume II - Issue 1 12 November 2009
Project News	Article Alerts
Education Task Force - The conversion of the former WikiProject Education is New Jersey has been completed. New Jersey education-related articles are now supported by the Education task force. The project banner has been updated to fully support the task force with independent importance ratings. No More Comments - A proposal at the Village Pump has resulted in the deprecation of comments subpages. These were usually found at Talk:Article title/Comments and contained little more than assessment notes. These pages were not widely watched, and are often a hidden location for vandalism and BLP violations. WPNJ has 104 articles that used these pages. A complete list of them, along with their contents, can be viewed at Wikipedia:WikiProject New Jersey/Deprecation of comments. It is up to the members of WPNJ to decide what to do with this information.	The following articles may be in need of attention: Featured Article candidates: none currently Good Article nominees: U.S. Route 30 in New Jersey Hudson County Courthouse
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Dwyane Wade

I notice that this article is vandalized frequently, considerably more than most NBA-related articles that are not under some level of protection. Articles that I would consider of similar type include Kobe Bryant and LeBron James, both of which I believe are semi-protected. Perhaps we should request semi-protection?--Hoops gza (talk) 17:32, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of OssaTron

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WikiProject New Jersey Newsletter (January 2010)

The WikiProject New Jersey Newsletter
Volume II - Issue 2 25 January 2010
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New Statistics Table There has been an upgrade to the WP 1.0 bot that updates our project's summary table. The new table lists all page classes including Portal-class, Redirect-class, and Disambig-class. We now have a better picture of the scope of the WikiProject and the pages that we cover. New York Times to charge for access The New York Times is an invaluable resource for properly referencing articles, but especially due to its extensive archives and coverage of New Jersey issues. The announcement that metered content will be started in 2011 has the potential to make article sourcing much more difficult. It also causes a need to update linked sources in articles before all of the NYT links go dead. Any link can be archived on demand by using WebCite. We can help avoid dead links by archiving any article sources from the NYT.	The following articles may be in need of attention: Featured Article/List candidates: List of Governors of New Jersey (FLC) Good Article nominees: U.S. Route 30 in New Jersey
All BLP, All the Time	New WPNJ members
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You are now a Reviewer

Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, is currently undergoing a two-month trial scheduled to end 15 August 2010.

Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under pending changes. Pending changes is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial. The list of articles with pending changes awaiting review is located at Special:OldReviewedPages.

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Thanks for the update! Zodiiak (talk) 15:13, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Juwan Howard/archive2

As a reviewer at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Michael Jordan, I thought you might consider commenting at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Juwan Howard/archive2.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 01:32, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll take a look. Zodiiak (talk) 02:54, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, Zodiiak! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

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A barnstar for you!

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