User talk:Bobster687

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Your edit to Wii
I reverted your edit. The reason the Xbox 360 is listed with the number of titles is because of its limited backwards compatibility (which is gimped because you have to download patches for all those games). This is not needed on the Wii page because ALL GameCube games are backwards compatible with the Wii. TJ Spyke 05:22, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Tulane Trivia, Myth, and Lore
The section "Tulane Trivia, Myth, and Lore" is almost completely unencyclopedic. (See What Wikipedia is not for what does and does not belong in an encyclopedia) and it sorely lacks citations (See Attribution for guidelines). If there are good sources for any of this, please add references immediately. Otherwise I'll have to start removing it from the article. --Dystopos 16:17, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
 * The Green Wave Ambassador's guide would be a passable (but not the best) source for those myths that have a basis in fact. Please note that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a collection of folklore. Perhaps another website would be a better place to document unverifiable tales. --Dystopos 16:21, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

New Orleans, Louisiana
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Contact
I going to United States the next month, I would like speak with a american person before going. If you can speak with me contact me by Mail. I'm Spanish, I prefer that you speak in spanish ^^ Franbas 16:08, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
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your GA nomination of New Orleans, Louisiana
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Wikipedia meetup in New Orleans
(This is being cross-posted to everyone listed in Category:Wikipedians from Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Category:Wikipedians in New Orleans, Louisiana)

Infrogmation and I are organizating a Wikipedia meetup in New Orleans on Saturday, August 23. Everyone is invited. Raul654 (talk) 18:40, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Hey y'all!
We're going to be having our first Mississippi meetup next month, and I would love it if you'd like to come out! A few of us will be staying overnight, so if you feel up to it, we could have a meet and greet that night and then breakfast the next morning and talk about Wikipedia and everyone's areas of expertise. Let's show 'em how it's done Southern-style! Mike H. Fierce! 21:44, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

New Orleans Shell Shockers
Hey, sorry for undoing all the stuff you did to the Shockers page - I wasn't just being mean, because the information and updates you provided are excellent - it's just that I have been working on the pages for all 60-plus PDL teams for the past 18 months, fine tuning a standard template, trying to make sure that each team's page has as much info as possible, and under standard headings to that there is a consistent look and consistent content on each page, and I would really like to maintain that! Please continue to contribute info to the Shockers page, because the more detail we get from locals the better, but please don't delete redlink to players (it helps with ensuring that player bios are uo-to-date if I can see what links to where), and please don't change the category ordering :) Thanks! --JonBroxton (talk) 11:21, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, I absolutely understand that Wikipedia is a continually-improving and expanding resource, and different opinions are always welcome. I can see that you're spending a LOT of time updating all the articles this morning, which is great, so I'm not going to complain. Now I think about it, I actually think you're right in moving the list of former players. However, I'm going to put the cities where stadiums are located back in the list of former stadia. I find having them there enormously helpful, and I'm sure a lot of other readers will too, as it gives a more detailed history of the team's movements over the years. Plus it also provides some geographic specificity which non-locals might not be aware of. I think between us we are going to make these articles great! :D --JonBroxton (talk) 22:57, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Re: stadiums - good idea, I'll do that too. --JonBroxton (talk) 23:10, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

So it looks like we finished - good job! Are you going to go back and apply your new standardization to the teams no longer in the league? I've been working on the articles for teams which played but have now folded, and have finished all the way back to 2001 I think. BTW, are you a Shockers fan? Do you get to many games? --JonBroxton (talk) 00:18, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Haha, yeah it's a big job, but worthwhile. And, yes, I have a favorite team - San Fernando Valley Quakes. I haven't missed a home game in 3 years, have travelled to the playoffs twice with them, and am now considered part of th "backroom team" - I write the game day programme, edit the website, and do various publicity/media relations things for them. I love it! --JonBroxton (talk) 00:39, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Marchout.jpg
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Table of United States Metropolitan Statistical Areas
Where did you get your data for your changes to the Table of United States Metropolitan Statistical Areas? Yours aye, Buaidh (talk) 01:11, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I got them from the US Census Bureau's update to its 2008 estimates, after they accepted various challenges by cities. Accepted Challenges to Vintage 2008 Population Estimates --Bobster687 (talk) 01:09, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

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File:TulaneGreenWave.png and the Non-free content policy and guideline
Replacing a free image with a non-free image which as you did here is a violation of the non-free content policy: WP:NFCC. Using a non-free image in that context at all is a violation of the non-free content guideline: WP:NFCC point 14, as I indicated in my edit summaries when I removed such uses of the file. Pursuing a slew of such policy violations without a talk page comment or edit summary is at the very least inconsiderate.

If you have any questions or concerns about the policy, feel free to let me know, but please refrain from reverting to using non-free versions of the logo in articles about the team seasons. VernoWhitney (talk) 03:57, 24 November 2012 (UTC)


 * I honestly didn't read the article you referenced and unfortunately assumed it was removed because the logo's use rationale wasn't listed for that individual article. That's entirely my mistake; I wasn't "pursuing a slew of...policy violations," but rather forgot to indicate the other changes made that I thought rectified the problem.


 * However, I disagree that #14 applies in the first place. A football season article does not represent an instance of a perennial event but rather an individual team, and in fact each is named accordingly, ending with the words "football team" to signify they are about the group of players, coaches, and staff for that season, and not about that year's NCAA football season.


 * The logo in question is an official logo, and there is no free equivalent of it. The "free version that has the same effect" (File:Tulane Green Wave Wordmark.jpg) is in reality still a trademarked logo of the university, and using just those words (especially in any font and color combination that resembles the trademarked logo) immediately changes its status to restricted and non-free, just like the T wave logo used before (see http://tulane.edu/news/style/logos/index.cfm).  While Wikipedia's guidelines suggest plain typeface constitutes a free logo, it fails to take into account the actual words used, which in this case are in fact trademarked and not free for use, as per Tulane's expressly stated guidelines.  As there is no conceivable way to conjure an image that would represent Tulane football, athletics, or any individual teams without it being considered a "non-free logo," we are left with no free alternative and brought to the conclusion that a non-free logo may indeed be used for Tulane athletics articles.  Additionally, as both logos are non-free, the T wave should be used, as it is (1) much more commonly used by the University's athletics department and (2) maintains the quality intended by the University without being unnecessarily high resolution, a pivotal requirement of non-free media usage on Wikipedia that is absolutely not met by the wordmark version. Bobster687 (talk) 07:36, 25 November 2012 (UTC)


 * With regards to whether that point applies or not, you can see the conversation leading up to its addition at Wikipedia talk:Non-free content/Archive 56 which specifically brings up team and season articles. There's also a more recent discussion here involving some different editors which came to the same consensus. To suggest that the article is about the group of players, coaches and staff rather than the season as a whole seems disingenuous given that, for example, 2011 Tulane Green Wave football team contains one sentence about the coach/interim coach, nothing about the players or other stagg and the majority of the space within the article is consumed by standings and scores. The title of an article is not always a completely accurate guide to its content. Now I'm sure the wording of that point in the guideline can be clarified if that's a sticking point, but the principle and supporting policy points remain the same.


 * Now the non-free content policy requires a free equivalent "that would serve the same encyclopedic purpose", which in this case is to identify the team--which the wordmark does as well as the image logo. When determining whether an image is considered free or non-free we are only looking at it's copyright status, not trademark. WP:LOGO touches on this, but thanks to the editorial and non-profit nature of Wikipedia we generally get to ignore trademark concerns. That's just the way it works out, so in the absence of a policy/guideline change, trademark restrictions and Tulane's expressly stated guidelines don't change our standard practice for dealing with images. VernoWhitney (talk) 18:29, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Georgia Tech–Tulane football rivalry


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AfD head's up: CFB rivalry articles
Bob, I'm eyeing these two Tulane college football rivalry article for a trip to AfD. What is needed to preclude that is significant coverage of these series as rivalries in multiple, independent, reliable sources per WP:NRIVRALRY and WP:GNG. As a practical matter that means in-depth coverage as a rivalry in newspaper articles, where the history and significance of the series to the schools and teams is discussed in a meaningful way. In my own estimation, that means a lot than more than old-timey references to "renewing a gridiron rivalry," and one or two-sentence references to a "rivalry." That means real coverage. It also means independent sources -- not yearbooks, school newspapers, game programs, or university, team, conference or NCAA websites. Do you think you can find in-depth coverage? If so, I will give you the time and space to work on these articles. . . . Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 19:45, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

American Athletic Conf Attendance
Bobster687; Thanks for updating the American Conference Attendance, on the NCAA Attendance Site, they still have the old number for Nippert Stadium and Louisiana Superdome Capacity for Tulane which is why no% for those two, if you want you can update those % whenever you have time, I can handle the rest (not an math expert) thanks again, until NCAA updates Capacity Bearcats fan 10-9-2015 03:37 UTC

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You need to provide a source that displays the exact hex codes, not words that are displayed in the colors. That is was Dirtlawyer1 was saying when he reverted your edit. It seems that you are not able to find a source that states the exact hex codes for Tulane. If that's the case, then you should probably start talking on the module's talk page because your edits will just be reverted by others.🎄 Corkythe hornetfan  🎄 18:24, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi there
I try to research old southern football. As you're interested in Tulane, I hope you won't mind a short list of names which could use Tulane eyes: Cheers. Cake (talk) 15:16, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Brother Brown
 * Nollie Felts
 * Harry P. Gamble
 * Jack Holland
 * Milton Levy
 * Pete Mailhes
 * Johnny Menville
 * Lloyd Roberts
 * Don Zimmerman

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