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He's at it again
User:Beast from da East is back to his old habit of removing practice squad and offseason teams from infoboxes. It's starting to get disruptive. RF23 (talk) 20:15, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Chill, he's done it at one article as far as I can tell. Saying that he's "fucking up the infobox" probably doesn't help the situation.-- Giants 27  ( Contribs  |  WP:CFL ) 20:23, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

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College Football Project request
Hello! You are listed as an active member of the College Football Project! We have a large number of unreferenced biographies of living persons, but it works out to be just two or three articles per active participant. I've divided up the articles that need help and put them in a table on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football/Unreferenced BLPs. Please assist the project by researching and sourcing the articles that have been "assigned" (so to speak) to you.--Paul McDonald (talk) 02:54, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Great idea, I'll make sure to research those pair of article tomorrow. Shouldn't be too difficult to find sources for the info. Cheers,-- Giants 27  ( Contribs  |  WP:CFL ) 03:04, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

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infobox NFLactive revert
This revert undoes significant code cleanup for the sake of what appears to be one trivial visual bug. I've now fixed that bug; in future, it is more productive to drop people friendly notes over such things than simply to hit the undo button and expect the (very) few people who work in templatespace to have to go around begging people to make uncontroversial code cleanup changes. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 08:38, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I certainly should've dropped you a note, but I simply forgot. However, I noticed a few different presentational changes which would have to be discussed about at WP:NFL. While most of it may have been general code cleanup something in there must've changed the way the infobox itself looked. Cheers,-- Giants 27  ( Contribs  |  WP:CFL ) 18:28, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my userpage.  Eagles   24/7  (C)  03:12, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Joe Mather
Joe Mather appeared as a pitcher in tonight's game. While I agree with you that one pitching appearance in extreme circumstances does not mean that we should call him a pitcher in the article, please assume good faith. Calling it "vandalism" was not appropriate, as per Avoid the word "vandal". Kansan (talk) 03:12, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Look at what I removed, I didn't call that vandalism the editors said "Miserable New York Mets" and "he gave up a run" which is vandalism. Cheers,-- Giants 27  ( Contribs  |  WP:CFL ) 03:20, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

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TomCat4680
You probably noticed that he removed the message you just left on his talk page, unfortunately that probably means hes going to continue.--Yankees10 02:26, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Juice Williams
University of Illinois Football page claims he's been signed to a contract. http://twitter.com/IlliniFootball/status/12794222452

I'm also reading that most of the players added to the Bears' wikipedia roster aren't being offered contracts until tomorrow.
 * Twitter's not considered a reliable source however this site is considered one and lists Juice Williams as being invited on a tryout basis. Cheers,-- Giants 27  ( Contribs  |  WP:CFL ) 02:30, 25 April 2010 (UTC)


 * You were right about Juice, but this article by Brad Biggs for the Tribune and Chicago Breaking Sports suggests that no one will be offered contracts until tomorrow and that only Barnes & Mayberry are locks. http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2010/04/bears-set-to-sign-two-local-free-agent-products.html


 * The additions of Barnes and Mayberry are questionable, but the others are certainly incorrectly included.


 * Thanks for that, I'll be on the lookout. However, since there are conflicting reports we'll have to wait till tomorrow when we should know for sure who's signed and who's not. Cheers,-- Giants 27  ( Contribs  |  WP:CFL ) 02:43, 25 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Sure. I wasn't trying to be a dick either, and I realize the Williams call was my mistake. It just seems like there are some rather arbitrary changes made to the roster pages--and a fiercely exclusive group of people who edit them (See Jamar Williams' resigning earlier this week)--and I'm more comfortable bringing it up to someone like yourself rather than continuing to try to edit it.  Something needs to change...


 * Feel free to edit the roster templates at any time just make sure you have the url reference in the edit summary and also say something like "QB Juice Williams signed". And don't forget to update the date and count when you add or remove a player. Cheers,-- Giants 27  ( Contribs  |  WP:CFL ) 13:20, 25 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the advice.

NFLDraftBible
With this, what's the difference between the gray text and the black text?  Eagles   24/7  (C)  04:17, 25 April 2010 (UTC) Nevermind, I figured it out.  Eagles   24/7  (C)  05:52, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Fiani
Hey Giants, after our debates on the likes of Devin Frischknecht, Ju-Ju Clayton, and the other one (Must not be notable cause I can't remember his name :p). I was wondering if you could take a look at this, It's a small school but he is the starter Qb and partially looks to me to pass WP:ATH, I was wondering if I should even ask my time expanding it for article space.-- SKATER  Speak. 16:49, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Feel free to keep it up to date but unless more sources are available then I'm assuming there are he's non-notable at the moment. However, if he gets significant non-local coverage or wins a major D1-AA (I know it's not called that anymore but I don't remember what it is now ;)) then moving the article out of userspace would be fine IMO. What's your reasoning for him partially passing WP:ATH since that could change my opinion on it?-- Giants 27  ( Contribs  |  WP:CFL ) 18:31, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * That he's played at the highest amateur level, assuming College football counts -shrug- I still wouldn't feel comfortable moving it in it's current condition.-- SKATER  Speak. 16:15, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Waived? (Lions roster)
What does waived mean? Do they belong under Releases or under Free Agents? I read Waivers (American football) and couldn't figure it out. TomCat4680 (talk) 21:00, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Waived is the same as being released except you go through waivers and other teams can claim you and add you to their team. You're a free agent the whole way unless a team claims you. So they belong under "Free Agent".-- Giants 27  ( Contribs  |  WP:CFL ) 21:02, 26 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Okay thanks. So is that RFA or UFA? TomCat4680 (talk) 21:08, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * They're unrestricted but they're obviously not still on the roster.-- Giants 27  ( Contribs  |  WP:CFL ) 21:25, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

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