User talk:Coulraphobic123

Response: How to Make County Maps
Glad to read you're interested in making maps. This has been an unofficial task of mine, and it initially started with just Arizona, but has moved onto other places. Also, I am no longer the only one doing these type of maps. User:Arkyan has went ahead and developed a script that reads U.S. Census geographical data and automatically generates map files. (read more at that bot page. By making the process automated, he has been able to make SVG maps for all counties in four or five states by now. The only downside to that is that the maps are based on data from the 2000 Census, and so don't reflect the most current boundaries of cities that have expanded in the past 7 years. This is fine for all of the maps for which the cities haven't grown, but areas which are expanding rapidly won't have the most current map data. This is why I have mainly stuck to larger urban areas that haven grown noticeably in the past near-decade.

Going back to your original question, though, to actually make the maps, I use data like the PDF files you found, and from there, I usually take a screenshot of the map, and then import that into Inkscape, which is a free SVG image-drawing program. The work is tedious, and Inkscape takes some getting used to, but the results are great and are usually the most up-to-date. If you're not willing to do that much work just for some boring grey maps, then I suggest just waiting until the ArkyBot gets to South Dakota maps, and it will be done for you, but if you would like to do it before then, or you wanted to make sure the most accurate reflections of the city borders are shown, then just download Inkscape and get tracing!

Good luck, and I hope that helped. Ixnayonthetimmay 00:33, 26 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I left a reply to the question on my talk page. ɑʀкʏɑɴ 14:54, 27 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you both for the help, I really appreciate it! :)  Coulraphobic123 17:44, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Just letting you know I finished generating maps for South Dakota and I'm in the process of uploading them. I'll have my bot start on putting them into the articles probably tomorrow :) ɑʀкʏɑɴ 21:24, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

List of United States cities by population
Hi. I reverted your edits because there's no need for icons in the list. It's a featured list, so changes like the one you made should be discussed on the talk page first. Thanks.  APK  that's not my name  03:59, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

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Interlinking players
Hi. You might already be aware of this, but for future reference, when a new (active) player makes his way onto one of the career leaderboards, could you please check to make sure that the player has a link on his personal article page that directs to the leaderboard?Hoops gza (talk) 11:10, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

- Whoops, got it! I know I had gone through the turnovers leaders, but I must've missed Chauncey on the assists (?) either way, thanks the reminder!

No prob. By the way, if you want another thing to improve on the lists, you can make the players sortable by last name by entering their names in code like I've started on the scorers list.Hoops gza (talk) 15:32, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

- Okay I see...what you mean. I was unsure what that syntax was for but now it makes much better sense, thanks again! (I'm obviously fairly new to this, not quite up to par w/ wiki-lingo haha).

Sure thing, I'll help you out by posting the code on the #1 player on each list for easier copy and paste editing.Hoops gza (talk) 15:49, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Dashes
I usually just copy and paste the long dash, which is this: – I don't know what the normal key is to type it. Also, when you post comments, you should sign them with your signature. You do this by clicking "Sign your posts on talk pages" after you've finished typing out what you want to post. This is an option that appears below your post whenever you post, you just have to click on the link and it signs your user name for you.Hoops gza (talk) 04:54, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

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 * Thank you both for the advice. It's much appreciated.  I'll get to work learning and practicing :-) Coulraphobic123 15:50, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

I forgot that this is the most common method of posting a long dash: &mdash;

You will have to look at this page's edit history to see the code that I posted. But I typically just copy and paste the long dash to avoid unnecessary code. Both methods will give the desired result.Hoops gza (talk) 07:27, 11 December 2010 (UTC)


 * I see you went through the scoring page and started adding in the middle-length dashes for each season as well as using the new syntax for seasons...think you could edit it that way for the other stats pages I typically edit? I'm thinking of experimentally editing the seasons played for each player from instead of season-to-season, but go year-to-year (So for Kareem's seasons, instead of – and –, switch it to 1969–1975 and 1975–1989).  The links would still connect to the correct seasons, but this would lessen the clutter that all the dashes have.  What do you (and anyone else) think of this?  If you think I should do this, how would that change the "nbay" syntax? Coulraphobic123 (talk) 15:45, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, I posted on the NBA Wiki Project discussion board about all of the above and have since edited the leading scorers page in conjunction with the above pattern. I also posted something about the steals/blocks/turnovers pages.  Tell me what you think! Coulraphobic123 (talk) 20:10, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

I don't like that idea because it leaves certain things open to a lack of clarity. For instance, Elgin Baylor played only a few games in his last season before retiring, and they were all at the beginning of the season, so he was retired before the following calendar year began, yet this way of wording the years suggests that he played into the following year. It is better to have the full seasons listed.Hoops gza (talk) 03:47, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Your steals/blocks/turnovers clarification, on the other hand, adds clarity to the picture, so that is an improvement.Hoops gza (talk) 03:51, 15 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Also, note on Elgin Baylor's stats, that his career ends at 1971 since he only played the first few games of the 1971-72 season, and if you click on the link, it takes you to that season.

Yes, but how will you know with other players in similiar situations? I was just providing a famous example. It's misleading to not post the whole season. This especially becomes a problem with players who were traded during the season.Hoops gza (talk) 04:03, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
 * How will you know with other players in similar situations? Research the years. Actually, it is misleading to show the entire season. A casual reader will think that he retired in 1972, not 1971.— Chris! c / t 04:11, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

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 * Just so you know, I am doing the players seasonal stats for the 2010-11 Chicago Bulls season.User:PDTantisocial does the rest. Buster Seven   Talk  13:04, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

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You did the first 6 Hawks season game logs? It'd be pretty awesome to have a game log for every team season, that would take a long-ass time though. I did one for the 1995–96 Chicago Bulls season. PDTantisocial (talk) 17:43, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes I did...it was the first six-ish Hawks seasons. It has just the scores though.  I'd have to try to find more info to put in the leading scorer, rebounder, etc.  Plus, some of the NBA teams' seasons don't even have pages on here yet.  For now, I'm starting to work on the career post-season statistical leaders pages. Coulraphobic123 (talk) 20:56, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

List of National Basketball Association career turnovers leaders
I have boldly made 2 changes. First, I change the link of Magic Johnson. I feel that it is simply easier to do that since Magic Johnson is his common name. Second, I think that there is no reason to split the parenthesis in cases where the year ranges aren't continuous. I went ahead and done them because they are straight forward and uncontroversial. Feel free to discuss here if you want. Cheers.— Chris! c / t 05:26, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I strongly disagree on both of these...much more so with the latter than the former. The reason I split the non-continuous seasons up is because they are inactive during those seasons, which means they didn't play during those seasons, which means there were no stats...so to say that Magic played for the Lakers from 1979-1995...it makes it look like he played for 16 straight years...but he didn't...and if he did, then his stats would be much higher.  I figure since the statistics rely solely on games played (like also even if you ARE on a team and are injured and don't play, then the games you don't play in aren't included in their career stats in games played and it doesn't affect their averages)...then it actually makes MORE sense to not include the non-contiguous years because it shows they were flat out inactive and, technically, not really part of the "team" (although some may be under contract, there were no games played during these time spans shouldn't be included when recording career stats).
 * As for the Magic Johnson thing, although I did make the turnovers page from scratch, when I started maintaining these pages two years ago, all other statistic pages he's on, he was recorded as Earvin "Magic" Johnson, and actually today, this is how people are usually referring to him (if you notice on TV when he's working games they always introduce him as such and some, I think Michael Wilbon, even refers to him as just Earvin). His Wikipedia page, too, has Earvin "Magic" Johnson listed above his picture and that's how the article is introduced (also, if you just type in Earvin Johnson in the search box, it takes you right to Magic's page).  I know he's known as Magic to most people...but I figure since this is a "professional" list, it should be written in full.  If you look on other pages, you will fine Wayne "Tree" Rollins, Glenn "Doc" Rivers, and Tyrone "Muggsy" Bogues.  I think I'm going to add in Mookie Blaylock's first name, too.  Granted, Clyde Drexler is not going to be written as Clyde "The Glyde" Drexler because no one referred to him as just "The Glyde Drexler" unlike Magic Johnson or Tree Rollins.  I appreciate your enthusiasm in keeping up-to-date on these pages and have noted your suggestions...but I'm going to revert the changes. Coulraphobic123 (talk) 05:39, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
 * For the first change, I just think that it makes more sense to use their common name following to the existing Wikipedia naming convention. Maybe this needs some more discussion since this is very inconsistent throughout Wikipedia's NBA articles. As for the second change, I think you misunderstood what I am trying to do. I am just trying to remove the extra parenthesis used when the year ranges aren't continuous. So, for example, it changes from:  to   The player's inactive years are still shown. An extra parenthesis is not only unnecessary, but it could confuse readers that the two year ranges are somehow absolutely unrelated to each other—  Chris! c / t 20:23, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay, yes I did misunderstand the parentheses thing...and I agree with you...so I'll go through and edit those. As for the Magic Johnson thing, I think more discussion would be beneficial, but for now I'm going to keep it as is along with Nate "Tiny" Archibald, Eric "Sleepy" Floyd, etc.

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Regarding this message, you should avoid using terms like "editor-in-chief" especially when talking to newcomers as it gives an impression that you are "owning" the article.— Chris! c / t 02:24, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Ahhh, okay thank you...I do need to read up more on rules like that. Is there a way we can partially protect that 3-point page?  I requested it once on the protection page and didn't hear anything back and I know it will continue to see edits as Ray Allen gets closer to Reggie Miller's record.  It just sucks when they only add on his makes and not his attempts or percentage change (when necessary).  But thanks again for the info on owning an article.  Coulraphobic123 (talk) 02:31, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Admin usually won't protect an article unless there is severe vandalism or edit war.— Chris! c / t 02:46, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

List improvement
I have a suggestion, on lists such as steals, blocks and turnovers it's a bit confusing to list full career games for players who started their respective careers before these statistics were officially recorded. The per game averages listed do not match up with their career totals in the statistic and games played. It would be for the better if we changed the number of career games for these players to the number of games played while the statistic was officially recorded.Hoops gza (talk) 14:11, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Please do not revert the name changes I've made, they are there to disambiguate in most cases. If someone else reverts them, please let me know.Hoops gza (talk) 14:33, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

I thought that you would like to make the changes in games played since you are the main editor of those lists.Hoops gza (talk) 21:26, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

All right, sounds good...I'll get to work on that later tonight...as always, input/criticism is welcome. Coulraphobic123 (talk) 00:21, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Template talk:Infobox NBA biography
I add option 5 to the D-League assignment part in response to your comment. Can you take a look and see what you think?— Chris! c / t 00:00, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

List of National Basketball Association career steals leaders
Wrt your revert, please see Manual of Style/Lead section, which suggests that ''if the page is a list, do not introduce the list as "This is a list of X" or "This list of Xs...". A clearer and more informative introduction to the list is better than verbatim repetition of the title.''

Generic titles such as list titles should not be repeated verbatim in the first place, and where they naturally lend themselves to verbatim repetition in the lead, they still shouldn't be bolded since they are generic titles constructed by Wikipedians, not proper names of the topic.

As to your other revert, what exactly speaks against proper prose? --213.196.214.78 (talk) 23:35, 23 April 2012 (UTC)


 * To answer your latter, I kept it in line with similar formatting on all other NBA regular season stats leaders pages that I regularly maintain. But the bolding thing I understand and will go through and edit those individually.  Thank you!  Coulraphobic123 (talk) 01:49, 24 April 2012 (UTC)


 * No, mate, thank you. Honestly, you're a rather rare exception of an editor who immediately gets it. Best regards, --213.196.219.20 (talk) 10:39, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

New US City population chart
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Lists of National Basketball Association career playoff leaders
Hello. I'm from Russian Wikipedia and I have a question to you as you are the only author of NBA-related lists. It is very easy to find out lists of 250 players on BasketballReference.com. However, I want to use shorter lists. I've already found short lists of carrier leaders (30 players) on nba.com (link), but I could not find short lists of play-off leaders. I think these lists should be somewhere I could not believe that main NBA site doesn't have play-off statistics at all. I was able to find out only this link with 2095 players (link). Recently, I found out short lists of 25 players on espn.go.com (link), but these are carrier leader as well. I will really appreciate if you could help me and give some links (preferably on nba.com) with play-off leaders lists, or give me the name of person who could help with this question. Thank you! SWAT-76 05:00, 27 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Hello SWAT...is your goal to translate the current pages for playoff leaders to Russian for Russian Wiki? If so, then what is the matter with using the lists on basketballreference that list the top 250?  I guess I don't understand what the difference is between using as your source a list of the top 250, the top 100, or the top 20.  I mean if you plan to whittle the list down to only the top 15 for playoff career leaders, then I guess I'm not sure why you would want to use a shorter list as your source.  I know on basketballreference you can also conduct your own custom searches for statistics (like you can do a search for all players who have scored more than 1,000 points in their playoff careers, for example).  I'll do some searching around, but for now I'm just unsure what you mean by wanting to find shorter lists for sources?  Thanks!  Coulraphobic123 (talk) 19:15, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Hello again. The reason why I need these links is that I want to write featured lists for first two lines of Template:NBA statistical leaders. In Russian Wikipedia we have very strong criteria for such a lists. I mean if the reliable source has a list of 250 that means our list should contains 250 as well (not 25, or 50). 20 lists of 250 players is a very huge effort and don't forget that about third of players are still in so it would be very difficult to maintain these lists up to date. That why I want to find out reliable sources for short lists. For example, recently, I've written a ruwiki List of National Basketball Association players with 1000 games played, that contains 107 names while there are 250 names in the source (link) and I could not find a reliable source for 107 players yet. You said, that it is possible to choose lists on BasketballReference.com somehow. Could you please explain me how to do this on the example above (List of National Basketball Association players with 1000 games played). Thank you! SWAT-76 19:52, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Hello again! Sorry! So with the answer? Thank you! SWAT-76 19:35, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Hey sorry man, I was out of town for a few days. Try the following link.  You can enter in certain parameters (like list players who have accumulated 15,000+ points and 5,000+ rebounds) and you'll come out with this:  link. Coulraphobic123 (talk) 18:30, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much! SWAT-76 09:45, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

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 * Thank you very much for the accolade! Coulraphobic123 (talk) 05:14, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Map
Thanks for pointing out the error in my map. I've now uploaded a new version. Alexius Horatius  13:16, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

List of National Basketball Association career minutes played leaders
I see you keep the other NBA career lists up to date. Any chance you could keep List of National Basketball Association career minutes played leaders up to date?--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 15:05, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Okay, sure! Coulraphobic123 (talk) 00:03, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

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List of National Basketball Association career free throw scoring leaders
Hello Coulraphobic. Somewhere along the line the stats got out of sequence with the source https://www.basketball-reference.com/leaders/ft_career.html As best as I can figure the following should be added:

...Since you seem to be the main editor of this page, I thought you might like to make the changes, as it is beyond my technical skills. Thank you for your good work on these pages. Cheers. Grahamboat (talk) 20:37, 2 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the suggestion, I appreciate you making the suggestion instead of just redoing the page like others would have. The thing is that this list is just for NBA leaders in free throws, but the list you're looking at from basketball reference is for NBA and ABA combined.  For the NBA statistical leaders categories, we do not take into account their ABA statistics...just when they were in the NBA.  So the basketball-reference list that page references is the middle column in the link you provided...that's why the names in your chart are missing.  Hope this makes sense and thanks again for showing interest in the NBA stats pages!  Coulraphobic123 (talk) 19:25, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

Combined Statistical Areas
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 * I had originally planned to when the data was in an easier format. I've just been copying and pasting the chart HTML into word and then manually updating the populations from an Excel spreadsheet. I am currently working another project at the time, so I may not get around to it for awhile. If you'd like to, then go ahead! :) Coulraphobic123 (talk) 23:55, 8 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Also, The CSA information on the MSA and μSA charts may have to be updated depending on how the new CSAs are being delineated. Coulraphobic123 (talk) 23:56, 8 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Turns out citypopulation.de has scraped the CSA data. I'll update the table tomorrow (Alaska Time), and cross-check the MSA and μSA charts. Dralwik&#124;Have a Chat 01:11, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

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