User talk:Jared/archive3

Intros to Olympic articles
Jared,

Thanks for your response at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Sports_Olympics. I agree that there doesn't need to be a lot of debate, I just figured I'd start a conversation so I have something to cite in my edit summaries when I'm making lots of changes. I figure I'll put something like this in my edit summaries:


 * convert to a more detailed version per Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Sports_Olympics

If you'd like to help, feel free! I'm probably going to start at the 2010 Winter Olympics and work my way backwards in time, so if you wanted to start at 1924 Winter Olympics and meet somewhere in the middle, that would be great. I'll probably just keep working until it's done (and I'll double check that all of the summer Olympics are in the same format).

Thanks again for your comments, and have a good day! E WS23 | (Leave me a message!) 01:01, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Good job on the Winter Olympics. Looks like we met somewhere around 1952. Glancing at the summer articles, it looks like a good 30% of those need to be changed as well. Feel free to browse through those and do the same changes. E WS23 | (Leave me a message!) 01:25, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, great working with you too. I updated the thread at the WikiProject talk page, and I don't anticipate anyone will have any problem with it. Thanks again for all your help, and feel free to message me at any time. E WS23 | (Leave me a message!) 01:51, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

medal images
Hi, most people at Template talk:MedalTop seemed to like the new images. You may wish to comment there. Cheers, —Ruud 20:50, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Ladies vs women
In this case the "Wikipedia community" simply decided the wrong thing. It seems to me obvious that in all cases the right thing is to use the official terminology for each sport in the Olympic programme. The official rules of figure skating are that "ladies" is the correct name of the event, and that is what it was officially called at the Games. Maybe you should have consulted someone from the figure skating community before you arbitrarily decided to attach the wrong terminology to our sport? I wasn't even aware that there was any ongoing discussion on the issue before someone started messing with the figure skating article, and I still haven't been able to find a pointer to the page recording *where* it was discussed. Dr.frog 21:18, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Image:Med_1.png
Bonjour Jared, I created fr:Image:Med_1.png icon at this size so I don't have bigger version. Sorry. Aoineko 05:14, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Sockpuppet template
Hello Jared. I have blocked him for a short time for vandalizing one of your pages. However if he's being checked for sockpuppets anyways it isn't necessary for him to have a sockpuppet template on his page. It's a good idea to keep evidence of his sockpuppets though. Until then I can not force him to keep that tag on his page. -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 23:23, 5 March 2006 (UTC)


 * The list of people to be checked is pretty large. Keep checking the page to see if they are done. -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 23:37, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Wintermetal's antics.
Hi Jared, I don't know if you have seen my latest comments here. I hope I wasn't too rude. I see Wintermetal was blocked for vandalism which is good. I do hope his antics be reigned in somewhat because I do fear these tiresome discussions with him will eventually drive good contributors away from the Olympics pages. I decided to check out the pages after following the Turin games with the hopes of making usefull contributions (I'm an Olympics buff of sorts and I'd be most interested of filling in some blanks and adding medals tables to pages that don't have them yet) but it's hard to get around to doing it right now. Anyways, thanks for all your hard work on the Olympics conventions pages and other Olympics related stuff and keep up the good work.--Kalsermar 01:14, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Psst
Check out this page. Pass it along. Nudge nudge. -- evrik 16:41, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: Medal Counts
Hey Jared, thanks for letting me know. I can't believe after a concensus was reached that certain individuals would still have the nerve to go ahead and throw up those ridiculous top-8 tables again! Speaking of people who cannot listen, what happened to User:medalstats? --Caponer 00:56, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Talk pages
Much better. You don't blank content and copy-paste it over to somewhere else; you make a redirect instead. -- Cyde  Weys  00:57, 7 March 2006 (UTC)