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Laing
Hi. I too find the Laing situation puzzling. I actually bumped into your off-wiki inquiries about it. I think your most recent solution of taking him off the template completely is definitely not the way to go. He's on the roster in some capacity, as i don't see any transactions indicating movement (IR or reassignment). I also wouldn't use the Caps site roster page as the authoritative source in the matter: I routinely update the league roster templates and the Caps is routinely lacking on updates and injuries. Here's the CBA if your are interested: http://www.nhl.com/nhlhq/cba/index.html ccwaters (talk) 18:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Washington Capitals roster
I've restored Poti as an alternate captain, as that's what his status currently is (see List of current NHL captains and alternate captains article). We can always change it, when necessary. At Wikipedia, we based the letters on the curernt situation, not on the whole season. GoodDay (talk) 15:49, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Wouldn't ya know it. No sooner do I add an A to Tom Poti, Captain Chris Clark returns to the Caps lineup. GoodDay (talk) 18:05, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Concorde page follow up
Hey thanks for taking the time to explain your examples. I'm from Atlanta, however when reading the Concorde wiki the discussion on Cleveland's notability was bothersome to me. I included the Rochester one to mitigate the claims made by the Cleveland discussion. Those planes went to many airports, and if it was notable to have Cleveland's "plan" then it should have been notable to have Rochester's experience as well.

Thanks for the writing critiques.Evilarry (talk) 23:34, 11 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Just noiced your typo corrections on the section I'd just corrected some syntax and flow on. Isn't it amazing what selective eyes we have? The previous para I ran my spell checker over but not the one you looked at (all extra time) as I did it as an afterthought anyway. I think I'll start doing the spell check as a matter of course when I do edits in a text editor.  My immediate thought when I saw your edit was it was me who put them there! Thanks for your eyes on the job – and the watch list!   Trev M   ~   03:16, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Strasburg
Hey, thanks for catching my mistake in deleting all too much stuff from the Strasburg article. 018 (talk) 19:12, 1 July 2010 (UTC)


 * No worries. Somebody else restored it, actually, and I tended to agree with you that a good portion of it needed to be deleted. In particular, I was concerned that if the start-by-start chronology were left in there people would try to turn it into an ongoing thing. Wikipedia is not, and should not be, a stats database. There are lots of other sites that are more effective and well-established for that purpose. But I also agree with the other folks that the records Strasburg set in his first few starts were worthy of mention, as was the SI cover in only his second week in the majors. So I split the difference and left in those details whilst pairing it down otherwise. Hopefully this sets an example such that other people won't start trying to make it an ongoing game-by-game summary, but then, that's what the talk pages and undo function are for! 1995hoo (talk) 19:12, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

E Street Band: Soozie Tyrell and Charlie Giordano
I guess my changes needed a bit more explaining. Throughout out the tour and unlike with previous tours when Springsteen announced the members of the band he has started to introduce both as actual members of the E Street Band. Normally he starts with the E Street Horns, then E Street choir and then onto the E Street Band, which alot of the time starts off with Roy Bittan announced first and ending with Van Zandt or Tallent. In the past both Tyrell and Giordano would be announced separtly because they were seen as backing musicians or replacement now they are announced as members.Jason1978 (talk) 06:40, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

Indians or Natives?
Your change to the article on the Redskins name controversy should have been made only after some discussion, given that on WP "Native American" is the widely used identifier. For example, the title American Indians in the United States re-directs to Native Americans in the United States. The larger topic under which the Redskins article falls is Native American mascot controversy, which is the terminology used in most of the scholarly works and other sources I used as citations in that article. I do not think there is universal agreement, and the NMAI reference is not sufficient, since that organization sometimes uses "Native" or "Indigenous" as well. FriendlyFred (talk) 13:07, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

It is clear that you are a Washington fan and in that case shouldn't be editing users posts on such pages. By trying to censor the truth about the word Redskin, you make wikipedia a less true and more hostile place. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Al.dobyns (talk • contribs) 17:18, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Material placed on my user page by Al.dobyns
The following material was incorrectly placed on my user page by Al.dobyns and I've moved it here because it doesn't belong on a user page. 1995hoo (talk) 18:14, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

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MLS uses both "draw" and "tie"
From the document you supplied (http://pressbox.mlssoccer.com/content/competition-rules-and-regulations)
 * "When two or more teams are tied in the standings on points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), the following tiebreakers will be used in the sequence below, until one team ranks ahead of the other(s):"

In the current year in review, they used "D" rather than "T" for at least one team. I don't know what they did for the other 18. Your blanket statement, Europeans say 'draw,' but MLS management says 'tie', is incorrect. However, so is changing the current wording of "tie". Be careful in your assumptions. Walter Görlitz (talk) 15:35, 16 December 2013 (UTC)


 * You're correct that in that sentence they used "draw"; elsewhere in the document they used "tie," which leads me to suspect that the particular instance you cite is due to the awkward wording that results from using "tie(d)" three times in succession to refer to different things. Setting that aside, though, you're reading too much into my edit summary, which I phrased the way I did primarily because of the limited space available in an edit summary. The box simply doesn't afford enough space for a better explanation. I thought about saying something on the talk page for that article but didn't really think it was worth the trouble unless it becomes a disputed issue. Frankly, I think in the particular context of that section of that particular Wikipedia article the word "tie" is probably the better word to use precisely because it's a discussion of how MLS rules diverged from FIFA's rules in the early years, and the use of the word "tie" helps underscore that point precisely because it's not the term FIFA and most Europeans use to refer to a game ending with both teams scoring the same number of goals. 1995hoo (talk) 15:55, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

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