User talk:Giants2008/Archive 13

FLC question
Hi Giants2008, I am sorry to bother you but I have addressed the issue both you and The Rambling Man had, and I was wondering if you could see if the nominated FLC is ok in your point of view, as I will have some free time this weekend to adress the neccesery issues more than regular week day. Thank you in advance and sorry for the inconvenience. – HonorTheKing (talk) 04:08, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Dick Gordon
Thanks again, Giants2008. I see that the hook is now in the queue for 5pm (Minneapolis time) today. My one disappointment is that the hook is so truncated as to be a bit boring. My interest in the subject, and the subject's notability, derives from the subject's durability and duration in his chosen field. 78 years filing stories, 75 of those for pay, even when in the army. If I'd known the hook was to be reduced to a snippet about something he did as a college freshman, I'd have constructed my alt hooks in a much different way. Live and learn. When User:Gordgus and I build it into FA status, returning the subject to the main page again, we'll make sure our introduction tightly relates the reasons for our fascination with the subject. Don't mean to make this sound like a downer. I'm very appreciative of your help with the process. I may call on you again, if that's okay. BusterD (talk) 12:45, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Nice folks over at DYK have fixed it to my liking and it's about to go live. Thanks again. BusterD (talk) 22:02, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Talkback
undefined — Bill william compton Talk   14:47, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Nadia Ali FLC
Hey there, you commented on the Nadia Ali FLC a while back. I've addressed and all the concerns and was wondering if you could give your opinion for a support or oppose? Thanks so much! Hassan514 (talk) 13:44, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I understand that. Yes, it's just a bit worrying because it's been quite a while now. How much longer with the nomination generally take? Hassan514 (talk) 22:52, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, I'm sure it's even more important for you. People like me are generally concerned with one or two lists so we don't have to deal with too much but you guys have to maintain the whole process. Got updated to FL today so I'm quite glad especially because this was my first attempt. Thanks again for your help! Hassan514 (talk) 04:36, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Featured list candidates/List of Florida Marlins team records/archive1
Can you rc your comments at Featured list candidates/List of Florida Marlins team records/archive1? Thanks, Albacore (talk) 14:57, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Responses. Albacore (talk) 13:25, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

2010–11 Temple Owls men's basketball team
Would you mind copyediting this article? You opposed it on the grounds of an unencyclopedic tone, yet I don't see how to rewrite the prose withou it being boring. ~ EDDY  ( talk / contribs ) ~ 15:47, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Featured list candidates/Philadelphia Phillies all-time roster (N–O)/archive1
The above FLC needs a revisit. Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 00:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

List of athletes from Montana FLC
Thanks for the thorough review. I've started working on the issues and will work through them all to the end. I'll be removing problem entries to the talk page for future work. Pumpkin Sky  talk  00:30, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I've worked all your comments. I will continue to work on finding improvements on my own and gladly fix anything else you may find. Please revisit this when you can. Pumpkin Sky   talk  00:58, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
 * FYI...Bill Wilkinson's link on your user page goes to a disamb page. Pumpkin Sky   talk  02:08, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
 * It was disambiguated after I created it. The links (there are two of them) are fixed now. Thanks for finding that.  Giants2008  ( 27 and counting ) 15:18, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Fixed the latest. Pumpkin Sky   talk  21:47, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

A quick look perhaps?
The Writer 2.0 and I have been working on improving Heidi Game. Could you please give it a once over and see if you think it is ready for us to start the review process?--Wehwalt (talk) 13:43, 23 August 2011 (UTC)


 * The article currently resides at FAC. As you've commented on the article and given us advice, your comments at FAC would be welcome.--Wehwalt (talk) 17:05, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Featured list candidates/List of 1956 Winter Olympics medal winners/archive1
Hey, Giants, this one's getting a little long in the tooth, so would you mind swinging back by? Thanks. Courcelles 03:25, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for leaving feedback over at my FLC
Crystal Clear x3 02:16, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of List of golfers (A–R)


The article List of golfers (A–R) has been proposed for deletion. The proposed-deletion notice added to the article should explain why.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Tewapack (talk) 21:26, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of List of golfers (S–Z)


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Featured list candidates/2002 Asian Games medal table/archive1
Hi, I've responded to all your comments at this FLC. undefined — Bill william compton  Talk   12:49, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Liverpool F.C. FAC
Hey Giants, just to let you know that I've responded to all your comments at the FAC, Cheers NapHit (talk) 14:18, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Jose Perez
You mentioned at Articles for deletion/Jose Perez (American football) that you'd consider switching to keep if another article about Perez could be found. Several more have been identified. Cbl62 (talk) 19:00, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

WP:Featured article candidates/USS Constellation vs La Vengeance/archive1
Thanks for your review. Did we answer your questions? - Dank (push to talk) 15:45, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

WikiCup 2011 July newsletter
The finals are upon us; we're down to the last few. One of the eight remaining contestants will be this year's WikiCup champion! 150 was the score needed to progress to the final; just under double the 76 required to reach round 4, and more than triple the 41 required to reach round 3. Our eight finalists are:


 * , Pool A's winner. Casliber has the highest total score in the competition, with 1528, the bulk of which is made up of 8 featured articles. He has the highest number of total featured articles (8, 1 of which was eligible for double points) and total did you knows (72) of any finalist. Casliber writes mostly on biology, including ornithology, botany and mycology.
 * , Pool B's winner and the highest scorer this round. PresN is the only finalist who has scored featured topic points, and he has gathered an impressive 330, but most of his points come from his 4 featured articles, one of which scored double. PresN writes mostly on video games and the Hugo Awards.
 * , Pool A's runner-up. Hurricanehink's points are mostly from his 30 good articles, more than any other finalist, and he is also the only finalist to score good topic points. Hurricanehink, as his name suggests, writes mostly on meteorology.
 * , Pool B's runner-up. Wizardman has completed 86 good article reviews, more than any other finalist, but most of his points come from his 2 featured articles. Wizardman writes mostly on American sport, especially baseball.
 * , the "fastest loser" (Pool A). Miyagawa has written 3 featured lists, one of which was awarded double points, more than any other finalist, but he was awarded points mostly for his 68 did you knows. Miyagawa writes on a variety of topics, including dogs, military history and sport.
 * , the second "fastest loser" (Pool B). Most of Resolute's points come from his 9 good articles. He writes mostly on Canadian topics, including ice hockey.
 * , who was joint third "fastest loser" (Pool A). Most of Evan's points come from his 10 good articles, and he writes mostly on meteorology.
 * , who was joint third "fastest loser" (Pool B). Most of Phil's points come from his 9 good articles, 4 of which (more than any other finalist) were eligible for double points. He writes mostly on aeronautics.

We say goodbye to our seven other semi-finalists,, , , , , and. Everyone still in the competition at this stage has done fantastically well, and contributed greatly to Wikipedia. We're on the home straight now, and we will know our winner in two months.

In other news, preparations for next year's competition have begun with a brainstorming thread. Please, feel free to drop by and share any thoughts you have about how the competition should work next year. Sign ups are not yet open, but will be opened in due course. Watch this space. Further, there has been a discussion about the rule whereby those in the WikiCup must delcare their participation when nominating articles at featured article candidates. This has resulted in a bot being created by new featured article delegate. The bot will leave a message on FAC pages if the nominator is a participant in the WikiCup.

A reminder of the rules: any points scored after August 29 may be claimed for the final round, and please remember to update submission pages promptly. If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 00:00, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

List of Major League Baseball players from Australia
I reckon I've addressed the comments you made about this FLC Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Major League Baseball players from Australia/archive1, and was hoping you could let me know what your thoughts are now. Thanks,  Afaber012  (talk) 10:51, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

IBM Award FLC
Hey, I noticed earlier today you redacted two of your comments in the FLC as resolved, but left the one about the general source as unresolved (it as of now is the only unresolved comment on the FLC). Was my explanation as to its verity sufficient, or would you rather I replaced it with something else? Two of the websites I could use are this one or that one. Note that there already is a book as a general reference as well; each of the websites I listed (in addition to the one that's already there) confirms the information in the book. Thanks for reviewing it, and I hope that I can address your concerns within the next day or two before the 20 days expires.  Purpleback pack  89  ≈≈≈≈  01:42, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
 * FYI, I've replaced the reference you wanted me to, so that should resolve your concerns.  Purpleback pack  89  ≈≈≈≈  20:05, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Spurious 0 removed  Purpleback pack  89  ≈≈≈≈  16:57, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Featured list candidates/300 save club/archive1
Sorry for the nudge, but I believe I've responded to all your comments, please stop by when you get the chance! Thanks! Staxringold talkcontribs 17:21, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

2011 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final DYK nom
Thank you for reviewing my DYK nom. I believe I've addressed your concern and I've responded to your comment. Please take a look and let me know if there's more that needs to be done. Thanks again! --SkotyWATC 04:18, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Hey, thanks for finishing the review. I've addressed the concern you raised about the similar wording.  --SkotyWATC 03:55, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Featured list candidates/James Nesbitt filmography/archive1
Hi. Thanks for your comments at the above FLC. I've now addressed your comments, hopefully to your satisfaction! Bradley0110 (talk) 18:59, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Oh, dash it all...
Hey dude. Just a quick hello and "keep up the good work" and nice to see you embracing the most esoteric of MOS issues, that of the hyphen/en-/em- dash issue! Love it. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:29, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

DYK for John Danowski
Materialscientist (talk) 08:02, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Featured list candidates/List of centuries in women's Test cricket/archive1
Hey, I've responded to your comment on sourcing to EB, could you take a look? cheers. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  12:45, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel
Hi Giants,

Thanks for reviewing Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel! I have addressed the concerns you raised and have responded to your comments at TFLS here. Please let me know if you have any more concerns about this or any other list I have submitted to TFLS.

Happy editing,

Neelix (talk) 08:33, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

A request for advice and or assistance
Hello fellow Giants fan. I began editing relatively recently (within the last year) and have made several contributions to New York Giants related pages including the creation of the pages Big Blue Wrecking Crew, Cowboys-Giants Rivalry and Giants-Redskins rivalry. I recently tried to add our recent victory over the Eagles to the notable moments on the Eagles-Giants rivalry page and came at odds with a certain administrative user. We argued over what is a notable moment. Since then he has been following me to each new page I create and being somewhat critical. I would humbly ask if you would be so kind as to look at my most recent edits and created pages, specifically List of New York Giants opponents and tell me what your thoughts are. I understand criticism but I feel his edits are of a more negative purpose. Bigblue535658 (talk) 00:00, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

I got into Wikipedia to contribute my extensive knowledge of the New York Giants. The interaction portion of it I haven't really bothered with because so I am new at it. When I checked out the page regarding the deletion of the other page I left it to get a sense of how they worked by looking at other such pages so I saw your comments on the proposed deletion of the Tulsa Talons Roster page. Seeing your name was Giants2008 I figured I would check out your page and having seen your extensive credentials I thought you were some one that had football knowledge, an understanding of the formatting of sports pages, and the experience to have a good opinion on the subject. But what I do want is for fair and positive suggestions. Bigblue535658 (talk) 1:05, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

If you do not wish to look that's fine, please feel free to look at my other pages and give insight.Bigblue535658 (talk) 1:09, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

WikiCup 2011 September newsletter
We are on this year's home straight, with less than a month to go until the winner of the 2011 WikiCup will be decided. The fight for first place is currently being contested by, and , all of whom have over 200 points. This round has already seen multiple featured articles (1991 Atlantic hurricane season from Hurricanehink and Northrop YF-23 from Sp33dyphil) and a double-scoring featured list (Miyagawa's 1948 Summer Olympics medal table). The scores will likely increase far further before the end of the round on October 31 as everyone ups their pace. There is not much more to say- thoughts about next year's competition are welcome on the WikiCup talk page or the scoring talk page, and signups will open once a few things have been sorted out.

If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 12:36, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Featured list candidates/K-Ci & JoJo discography/archive1
Hello there Giants2008,

I noticed you're one of the FLC directors so maybe you can answer these two questions of mine. Currently K-Ci & JoJo discography has been up for FLC for 20 days but no one has supported / opposed it yet. My questions are (1) do some FLC's take this long and (2) is there anything I can do to have users comment on it? I appreciate it. —Michael Jester (talk) 05:45, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Talkback
♛♚★Vaibhav Jain★♚♛ Talk Email 12:38, 13 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Another message for you. :) ♛♚★Vaibhav Jain★♚♛  Talk Email 05:23, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

Featured list candidates/Jennifer Lopez discography/archive1
You left comments before the FL was restarted. Mind looking over it again to see if there are any more issues? — Status  &#x7B;talkcontribs 10:55, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Addressed — Status  &#x7B;talkcontribs 02:56, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Source query
Hey. Of curiosity, would you consider this a reliable source for FAC purposes? I know that SABR biography are generally on a case by case basis dependant on the author, and from the looks of it the author seems to be fairly well-regarded, though I'm not finding a huge amount on him. He's written on a lot of players that fit into my project, so if his articles are good to go then that would be awesome, but if not then better I know now. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 02:31, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'll try and limit the use in that case; I generally just use the SABR refs for personal life info that's tough to find in other articles anyway so that shouldn't be a problem. Wizardman  Operation Big Bear 19:34, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Real Madrid seasons
Thank you for promoting List of Real Madrid C.F. seasons as a FL. Anyway, I worked a lot at that list and I want to use that to my Curriculum Vitae. Is there any possibility to receive something to attest that I created and took to FL that article? I want to work as a journalist so that would help me a lot to get a job. Thanks!  AdrianRO   talk 19:55, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

WikiCup 2011 October newsletter
The 2011 WikiCup is now over, and our new champion is, who joins the exclusive club of the previous winners: (2007),  (2008),  (2009) and  (2010). The final standings were as follows:



Prizes for first, second, third and fourth will be awarded, as will prizes for all those who reached the final eight. Every participant who scored in the competition will receive a ribbon of participation. In addition to the prizes based on placement, the following special prizes will be awarded based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, the prize is awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round.


 * The Featured Article Award:, for his performance in round 2. matched the score, but Casliber won the tiebreaker.
 * The Good Article Award:, for his performance in round 4.
 * The Featured List Award:, for his performance in round 4. matched the score, but Miyagawa won the tiebreaker.
 * The Recognised Topic Award (for good and featured topics):, for his performance in round 3.
 * The Did You Know Award:, for his performance in round 1.
 * The In the News Award:, for his performance in round 1.
 * The Reviewer Award (for good article reviews):, for his performance in round 3.

No prize was awarded for featured pictures, sounds or portals, as none were claimed throughout the competition. The awards will be handed out over the next few days. Congratulations to all our participants, and especially our winners; we've all had fun, and Wikipedia has benefitted massively from our content work.

Preparation for next year's WikiCup is ongoing. Interested parties are invited to sign up and participate in our straw polls. It's been a pleasure to work with you all this year, and, whoever's taking part in and running the competition in 2012, we hope to see you all in January! J Milburn and The ed17 00:39, 1 November 2011 (UTC)