User talk:Dirtlawyer1/Archives/2012/April

A barnstar for you!
Thank you, sir. I look forward to continuing to work with you productively in the future. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 09:42, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

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Dwayne Schintzius
It looks like we were editing the late Big Dwayne's article at the same time and I may have inadvertently undone some of your edits. Sorry about that... and about Dwayne. Kinda hits me when a guy who played ball while I was at UF passes away like that... Zeng8r (talk) 23:57, 15 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Dwayne clearly had some demons, but this is a very sad ending, especially after the cancer treatment and bone marrow transplant appeared to be successful. Way too young to be checking out.  The really aggressive chemo and radiotherapy cancer treatments can be worse than the immediate effects of the disease itself, and I'm sure he was taking some sort of immuno-suppressant that left him even more vulnerable to infection.  Sad.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 00:00, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

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College Baseball Coaches Links
What makes the page I linked to "inappropriate"? I'd be happy to go back and remove my edits (placing the links in a See Also section) if there's a solid argument for doing that. Thanks, Kithira (talk) 13:16, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, I've taken care of it. Kithira  (talk) 00:28, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Please accept my apologies, Kithira. I just noticed your day-old message when you left the follow-up; I was not intentionally ignoring you.  "Inappropriate" was a poor choice of words; "awkward" would have been better and more accurate.  When readers click on a generic link like "head coach," they do not expect to be led to a specific subcategory of "head coach."  IMHO, they expect a description of what a "head coach" is and does, not a list of individual coaches for a particular sport.  Nit-picky?  Sure, it is.  I've worked a lot of "list of" articles into the sports team and player bio articles on which I work, and inevitably, they work better in a "see also" section where the reader can see the full name of the linked article (not a masked piped link) and can understand where the link is taking them.  In this particular case, you may find that more readers will jump to the list of Division I baseball coaches when they can see what the linked article actually is, rather than thinking it's just a generic link to "head coach."  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 00:39, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
 * No worries! And I agree with your reasoning, thanks!  Kithira  (talk) 11:31, 30 April 2012 (UTC)