Talk:Trent Daavettila

Examples of birthplace on featured hockey players.
Here are some examples. Wayne Gretzky, Martin Brodeur, Joe Sakic, Paul Statsny. I do believe it also shows the standard on the player page format page. -DJSasso (talk) 16:10, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
 * WikiProject Ice Hockey/Player pages format makes no mention of birthplace link formatting. Regarding your examples, I find no evidence that said formatting was scrutinized at FAC, so why would you have us defer to some default when my way does not break the only explicitly stated rule? I used "Howell, Michigan" instead of "Howell, Michigan" for simplicity and because no one is coming to hockey player pages looking for state-level links. (Or if I'm mistakes about that last point, let's change Daniel Sedin's birthplace to "Örnsköldsvik, Västernorrland County, Sweden".)  Two Hearted River  ( paddle /  fish ) 16:30, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Well because we attempt to have articles all conform to the same standards. Featured Articles being the best we have to offer is what we aim to match. You can look over almost all of the hockey articles out there (of course there are ones that don't conform but that is usually because they haven't been caught.) As for Sedin, there was a specific discussion at the hockey project to not use sub-national distinctions for players not from north america and to only use countries. -16:39, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree that consistency is a worthwhile goal. I disagree that the first articles to pass the FA posts automatically set the standard. If there have been discussions about US birthplace link formatting, please point me to them. If there haven't, I'd be happy to participate in one. Then we can update the infobox instructions to avoid these misunderstandings.  Two Hearted River  ( paddle /  fish ) 16:52, 1 January 2012 (UTC)