User talk:Jevansen/Archive 1

Can you add Brian Lara Images
Please, can you or your contacts put a picture/s of this great man that does not violate copyright issues? Brian Lara Wikipedia page requires pictures of him -- a portrait image and some cricketing images. Thanks 130.194.5.130 00:41, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Regarding your edit to Brendan Taylor:
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Ishant Sharma
The general Wikipedia guideline is that appearing for a full national team is notable, but not appearing for a youth national team. Thanks, NawlinWiki 12:14, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Mushtaq Mohammad
What is your source of 17-78 for his first century ? Almost all the references have it as 17-82. He scored it on the fourth day of the match, so I suspect your source used the starting date of the match instead of the one on which he scored his 100. Tintin (talk) 15:32, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Good work
Just wanted to drop a thank you note for the many cricket articles that you started ... Tintin 08:54, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Harvinder Singh
Hi just wondered why you've reversed my small addition to the Harvinder Singh page twice today without telling my why. talk Fri Apr 13 13:18:40 CEST 2007

Articles for deletion/Phillip Hughes (cricketer)
Are you aware of this? I have seen a lot of your articles, I am suprised how small this article is you are usually more comprehensive. That you have put so little in this article makes me think there is little to say?Garrie 04:15, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

You're right, there is very little to say about the guy at this stage hence it being a stub. I've seen alot of articles on here about non first class cricketers who have represented their country at under 19 level. I reckon there would be atleast 30 of them, not saying that they should be there but I merely felt that a precedent had been sent. Now this guy has captained his country - http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/australia/engine/current/match/288202.html so if any of these players are notable than he would be one I feel. Cheers Crickettragic

12345ak contribs
In your contributions (Special:Contributions/crickettragic) it looks like you are reverting all of contributions. What's up? --Iamunknown 23:57, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for violating the three-revert rule. Please be more careful to discuss controversial changes or seek dispute resolution rather than engaging in an edit war. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest the block by adding the text below.

Revert-warring in a very big way. 12-hour block to prevent disruption & article is now fully protected. Your edit-warring friend is also getting the same - Alison ☺ 00:56, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm not an admin, but I spotted 12345ak's post on ANI. The whole situation is rather confusing. The one thing that seemed clear to me, though, is that neither of you communicated with one another. Is that a fair assessment? --Iamunknown 01:18, 23 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I am guilty of not explaining to the guy why I was deleting the material sure, but that was only because he was well aware. If and when I get unblocked I am not sure whether I am even going to start posting here again, that is how peeved off I am about how this has been handled. Firstly you need to look at the material he kept adding, clearly unacceptable and with a link to a hate site. When I started removing this material I was flooded with harassing messages on my talk page which I deleted. When I got up this morning I see that this person has reversed my last 30 edits to various articles. Please take a look at them yourself and you will see that my edits were genuine. I then posted a complaint to WikipediaCricket and asked the more experienced members how best to deal with this. I then found that over the next hour this person was editing this post and reversing the names. The harassment then contiued with the user posting the reversed complaint in the place which you found it. --Crickettragic 01:28, 23 April 2007 (UTC)


 * The diffs are indeed everywhere. :-D  I am inclined to think, based upon 12345ak's previous edits, that he or she moved the link to the bottom (which was originally added by an anonymous user, see ) which is, although the link is to a hate site, proper formatting.
 * I assumed after seeing the diffs that it was a failure to communicate. I also noticed (no hard feelings) that you haven't used your user talk page very much .  That might be a good thing to do when your block expires or when you get unblocked.  (Also about that, see Requests_for_arbitration/Betacommand/Proposed_decision; bad things happen when people don't communicate.)  :-)
 * I'll leave a note at Alison's talk page on your and 12345ak's behalf. --Iamunknown 01:36, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Crickettragic, Are you still blocked? I can't see any autoblocks active. Post a msg here to advise. &mdash;Moondyne 04:15, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Not seeing one either. That IP address is coming up as unblocked - Alison ☺ 04:17, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

BlockID was #474372 - see here - Alison ☺ 04:19, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Everything seems ok now, don't know what was going on. Anyway thanks for the unblock, glad we got that sorted. Hope I didn't come across as rude, I was just very frustrated that is all. Cheers &mdash;Crickettragic 04:19, 23 April 2007 (UTC)


 * That was wierd, but glad that its fixed. FYI, the guy and his sockpuppets have been indefblocked.  I can only reiterate what Alison said: If you start to get drawn into an edit war, it's vital that you keep communicating.  Remember Three-revert rule.   &mdash;Moondyne 04:24, 23 April 2007 (UTC)


 * (ec) Glad it's all sorted out now. And I do feel bad about blocking you. Given the stress that guy was putting you under, what you did was understandable. I should have researched in more depth & was unaware of the ANI reporting. Glad you're back again now. BTW - I'll keep a watch on your user and talk page for a while just in case that guy comes back to harrass you. Thanks to Iamunknown and Moondyne for getting involved :) - Alison ☺ 04:27, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikistalking / personal threats via Cambridge Univ
Just to let you know that the long-term vandal who made those personal threats against you and who has been causing all that mayhem has been identified by college authorities and appropriate disciplinary action will be taken. Nobody should have to put up with that sort of abuse. Sorry it took so long but just letting you know that you weren't forgotten! - A l is o n  ☺ 11:47, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Alison, I really appreciate your efforts in dealing with this issue Crickettragic 21:46, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Wow, Alison, that's really cool. Thanks for sorting everything out, and thanks to you, Crickettragic, for still being resilient even after the mixup and willing to contribute to Wikipedia! :-) --Iamunknown 21:59, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Tim Clarke
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Fraser Watts
Thanks for clearing up Watts' nationality. I'd put him in Category:Scotland cricketers (as opposed to the separate Category:Scottish cricketers) because I thought he was actually English on account of his birthplace, but Scottish is definitely right. Loganberry (Talk) 00:13, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

One day records
That's an attractive list, well done. It's hard to find stats for domestic one day records outside cricket archive. Why not drop a message on Will's 'the corridor' blog? [] He actually works for Cricinfo so if you tell him the stats there are out of date he might get something done about it. Nick mallory 03:25, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Maninder Singh
Sorry about that, I went to the front page of cricinfo and didn't see anything. Thanks for your workBlnguyen (bananabucket) 02:50, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Cricinfo
If you create any more cricket articles can I PLEASE ask you not to quote Cricinfo as a source. It is completely unreliable. The case of Derek Taylor which you recently created says it all. Use CricketArchive instead as an internet source. Better still for modern players is Playfair. --BlackJack | talk page 20:14, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

I like your style.
I like your style and your words quiver with a poetry not usually seen on Wikipedia. Perhaps we can collaborate on my Picnic Monsters article.JJAshfiel 15:46, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Selwood
Done --Steve (Stephen)talk 23:04, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Good work
Great work on the Namibian national cricket captains article. A source for Duane Viljoen's full name, who you had billed in the article you authored as D Viljoen, as per Cricket Archive, can be found here. Hope this helps you out, as it serves as a fascinating resource for the country's cricketing history. Bobo. 20:38, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

List of VFL/AFL records
I just wanted to say great work on the page; i added a list and i will be updating it at the end of each round. If you have any ideas of what else could be added to the page i would be glad to help. Perdy80 03:30, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

AFL Biography articles
Hey, i'm an Aussie who's currently on the new pages patrol and noticed a couple of articles you've been adding regarding AFL players (or VFL depending on how long you've been following the game. To make sure these articles are tagged to the correct project, can you please consider placing on each articles talk page as it's created. Thanks in advance, Thewinchester (talk) 06:43, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Your recent report to WP:AIV
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'A' cricket teams
Apologies for taking so long to respond; lots of off-wiki things going on at the moment. Anyway, you may be disappointed to hear that yes, I did do the tour-by-tour stats the hard way, trawling through every relevant match on CricketArchive! Loganberry (Talk) 03:56, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Great work
Noticed you been doing of work on Adelaide cricket/football teams. Good stuff :-) Muzzamo 02:26, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Frank Watson (cricketer)
Since I was the one who originally requested the article, I felt that I should thank you for writing it. Nice work. :) JH (talk page) 20:55, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Infobox problems
I have replied to the Help desk but thought i would reply here as well. Right, i have now fixed the problem. Someone had moved the page and cleaned up the template without amending the documentation. The correct documentation can be found at Template:Infobox cricket tournament main/doc and the template is called Template:Infobox cricket tournament main now. Put simply, all the parameters were renamed and so none of the old parameters would have worked. By the By, you should be using Template:Infobox cricket tournament anyway as it is for a specific event if i am not mistaken. I have now used that on World Cricket Classic. Hope that helps. Woodym555 17:01, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Reverts
Please explain your recent edits. Thanks.  'Cheers, Lights (♣ • ♦) '' 02:48, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for explaining. If you are going to revert again, please include your reason in the edit summary.  'Cheers, Lights (♣ • ♦) '' 02:55, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Uhhh
You might like to look at. The tagging editor did not warn you. (My opinion is that this is clear cut, and the article should never have been nom'ed for Speedy) Phgao 06:54, 13 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I just nominated it because there is very little information and the information does not assert the significance of the player in question. --&Mu;79_&Scaron;p&euro;&ccedil;&iacute;&aacute;&int;&iacute;&scaron;&dagger; tell me about it 06:56, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

I stated in the introduction which club he played for and in which league he played for. How does that not assert the significance of the player when the notablilty guidelines for sportsmen clearly state that a person is notable if they played in a professional league? Crickettragic 07:01, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Well, I think you have the upper hand in this argument. I guess an admin will have to decide ultimately. I still stand my groud although policy has your back. --&Mu;79_&Scaron;p&euro;&ccedil;&iacute;&aacute;&int;&iacute;&scaron;&dagger; tell me about it 07:05, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I believe that when you tag speedies you must inform the original creator as it allows concerns to be aired. Phgao 07:09, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I see you're at it again :) Phgao 12:16, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks so much for sending me article that mentions Steve Knight article
I was just about to log off and go to sleep, but you made my Knight (LOL). --Hokeman 04:17, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Dwayne Leverock
Not sure if you're aware of this or not, but you can limit the amount of columns, or use different headings, using the new infobox. I'm not sure what the point is in having a Tests column for a player who has never played Tests. Why not use his ICC Trophy stats instead? Andrew nixon 12:51, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

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List of cricketers banned for match fixing - DRV result
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Speedy deletion of Gokul Inder Dev
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AFL Player Templates
Sorry, I'm looking at improving the AFL template to be more presentable and complete with information (ala soccer, basketball templates). There was some information in the previous template that was rather useless (ie debut stadium, and debut information) since it overlapped with other points. Changing the current player info to meet this template I'm editing shouldn't be too hard (as far as transferring information goes).

I've re-done the Jim Adamson info box as an example - took 5 secs to transfer the information.

Boomtish (talk) 09:50, 12 December 2007 (UTC)


 * To be honest, I think the whole process of WikiProject AFL is/will be a pain to continually edit. But really, I'd like to think we're trying to make all AFL-related articles the best as possible, and I strongly believe this is one step in that direction (particularly looking at soccer, american basketball etc articles, which are miles ahead at the moment). We're still in relatively early stages as far as player articles are concerned, so better now than never, I suppose.Boomtish (talk) 10:00, 12 December 2007 (UTC)


 * No problem. Thanks for the advice.

Cheers Boomtish (talk) 10:16, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

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Cricket award

 * You wouldn't be our recently departed PM would you? :)  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 08:41, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

David Kernahan
Thanks for the tip about the red link to David Kernahan from the AFL families page. Have created the page now and will expand on it soon. Jonesy (talk) 09:45, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Wayne Carey
Is he dead yet Scoop? I've also heard a rumour that Elvis is alive, perhaps you could get your sources to check it out for me? Cheers Crickettragic (talk) 11:45, 5 February 2008 (UTC)


 * ah hahahaha Classic! I have tried to ask the same question of Timeshift (albeit not even close to half as funny) with immediate deletes - see his talk page history. Also this might be of interest: User talk:ROxBo - some other bits of this conversation are on User:Sarah's page. Keep up the good work!! ROxBo (talk) 12:39, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Honestly, it's best to avoid his talk page. Problems with him should be directed to admins, avoid all direct contact. But be careful which admins you approach. Duggy 1138 (talk) 13:39, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Ruwin Peiris
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Proposed move for Charlie Perry
Hi, I'm proposing to move Charlie Perry to Charlie Perry (Australian rules footballer), as I'm about to create Charlie Perry (English footballer). Just thought I'd let you know in case you had any objections. I promise to fix any links. Cheers. --Jameboy (talk) 16:15, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Champion of the Colony
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Quick editing
Are you using a bot process to add all those stub tags to articles? &mdash; Werdna talk 06:41, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Right, 4 edits/min is slow enough to be manual. I'm just trying out a little monitor bot for looking for people running unapproved bots, and you seemed to be fast enough to trip it, good work :-P. Take care, &mdash; Werdna talk 06:47, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

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Peter May
Hi. I came across a move from Peter May to Peter May (cricketer) via my watchlist and I see you have altered a few articles that refer to Peter May to reflect this move. I think the move is out of order and have raised an issue about it on WT:CRIC. If it is reversed, as I have recommended, it will mean your edits being reversed also. Please see the topic on WT:CRIC. All the best. --BlackJack | talk page 20:01, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Help with bulk changes
I noticed you've been changing a few titles from Senior to, Sr. etc. Have you considered getting WP:AWB which is very useful to make lots of repetitive changes. Keep up the good work. The-Pope (talk) 23:56, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Roy Cazaly/Laurie Nash Career Highlights
Hi there. I copied and pasted the AFL templete from Cazaly and Nash and was in the middle of replacing Cazaly's career highlights with Nash's when I got an edit conflict. My internet connection is never good which leads me to save more often the ordinary editor. --Roisterer (talk) 07:30, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

No worries, I figured something like that had happened. Crickettragic (talk) 07:32, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

62.219.228.172
Attention,

I added at the IP's talk page that it is a school's shared IP address. We try very much to minimize the vandalism from this address, and we would be glad if you would consider that it's a school and not block the address, for there are people who want to edit it. IASA ?representitive? (talk) 13:52, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Aussie Rules Team Template
Thanks for the good work. There is such an effort being currently made to retrospectively embellish AL/VFL history (such as, for example a St Kilda best and fairest player in 1923 being represented as having won the "Trevor Barker Medal" and, as well, statements to the effect that the "Trevor Barker Medal" has been awarded annually since 1914) that, it seems, soon there will be no people who understand the differences between a 19th man, and then later a 19th man and a 20th man and an "interchange player". Thank you so much for using your expertise so that it is made abundantly clear that, as they say, "that was then and this is now". Best to you. Lindsay658 (talk) 23:15, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Season infobox
A great innovation! Lindsay658 (talk) 05:26, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

In response to your question about whether I think that anything should be added to your design of the "Season Infobox", I delayed my answer so that I could have another look at what you've done this morning — and, also, have time to reflect upon what might be important for the skimming reader to know at a glance about the entire season.

(1) In relation to the sort of summary that your infobox presents, and in relation to a relevant piece of information that is missing, I do not think that any reference should be made to the manner in which the premiership was decided (ARGUS System, Page-McIntyre, etc.); simply because, in my view, it is information that is of far too great a complexity for those who would have no desire to look further down the page.

(2) I suggest that you amend the label "Premiers" so that it reads "Premiership Team".

I suggest this because embedded within the title "Premiership Team" is the fact that, in those days, the team so designated may or may not have played in what is now known as a "Grand Final"; and the designation "Premiers" (on its own)might lead the naive reader to imagine that there was a compulsory "Grand Final".

(3) Given (2), in my view, your designation "Minor premiers" is fine, and should not be changed.

(4) It seems that the only relevant (i.e., of some significant importance) information that is missing is the length of the pre-finals season. (Although I have no information presently at my fingertips, I recall that there was at least one season when an unusual number of games were played; and this would certainly draw attention to that fact.)

Given that you already have a heading "Champion of the Season" — and, I suppose, if you go back earlier in time it would then read "Champion of the Colony" — it would seem important (for your formatting) that this new label is no longer than "Champion of the Season", currently your longest label. So, I suggest that:
 * (a) you insert this new category immediately below the "Clubs" category;
 * (b) that of you call it "Home-and-Away Season"; and
 * (c) [having thought about it for some time], that the entry in that category would read, for example, the unambiguous "18 rounds" — rather than, that is, the sometimes confusing "18 matches", or "18 games", or just "18".

I hope that helps your valuable work. In haste, Lindsay658 (talk) 00:03, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I think that it looks really good; and, what's more, it gives a brief snapshot of the most important features of the specific season in question. BTW, I have accumulated some more information that supports the "Champion of the Colony/Season"; once I have some time, and once I get the last bit that I require, I will adjust the article.Lindsay658 (talk) 23:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Image:Bill Twomey Senior.jpg
An image you uploaded Image:Bill Twomey Senior.jpg has an incorrect public domain claim. The artist who drew this poster is William Ellis Green and he is still alive so this image does not qualify by criteria C. Duffbeerforme (talk) 07:16, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

FA Review Brian Close
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could you please do me a favor?
Hello,

I am a master student at the Institute of Technology Management, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Currently I am wrapping up my master thesis titled “Can Wikipedia be used for knowledge service?” In order to validate the knowledge evolution maps of identified users in Wikipedia, I need your help. I have generated a knowledge evolution map to denote your knowledge activities in Wikipedia according to your inputs including the creation and modification of contents in Wikipedia, and I need you to validate whether the generated knowledge evolution map matches the knowledge that you perceive you own it. Could you please do me a favor?


 * 1) 	I will send you a URL link to a webpage on which your knowledge evolution map displays. Please assign the topic (concept) in the map to a certain cluster on the map according to the relationship between the topic and clusters in your cognition, or you can assign it to ‘none of above’ if there is no suitable cluster.
 * 2) 	I will also send a questionnaire to you. The questions are related to my research topic, and I need your viewpoints about these questions.

The deadline of my thesis defense is set by the end of June, 2008. There is no much time left for me to wrap up the thesis. If you can help me, please reply this message. I will send you the URL link of the first part once I receive your response. The completion of my thesis heavily relies much on your generous help.

Sincerely

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Cricketing footballers
You amaze me: I don't know where you keep finding these blokes. What I thought was only ever going to be a fairly concise list is becoming massive. Great work!. Moondyne 13:42, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the comment - As you say Corinthian F.C. were most definitely an amateur club, albeit a very prominent one. My only reason for including them in the list was to show for whom they played at club level, as it looked a bit odd only referring to England. There are many more who played for Corinthian and played county cricket, but I don't propose to include them. If we do, it would lower the bar and admit any county cricketer who had a Sunday morning kick-around for an amateur football club. I have tweaked the intro to try to clarify this.

In the Victorian era, there were many amateur footballers who played for England and also played some cricket at a first-class level. A few who come to mind are Anthony Hossack, Charles Chenery, Cuthbert Ottaway and John Brockbank - should they be included? Cheers. Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 05:02, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for completing the references - I started them yesterday but "life" got in the way. I was planning to finish it this morning but you've saved me a task. Cheers! Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 05:04, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

UAE category
It appears to be an error on my part. I was maintenance deleting "Category:United Arab Emirates cricketers" and other ones that had Emirates instead of Emirati. Somehow they were still transcluding in the old cat that I was deleting, and I must not have seen the mistake. Thanks for notifying me. You can undo my edit.  bibliomaniac 1  5  19:26, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Article Rating
Hello, thank you for rating my article about Adalbert Deşu. Could you rate my new article about Ladislau Raffinsky, another romanian football player who played at 1930 FIFA World Cup and 1938 FIFA World Cup ? Thanks. --Razvanflorian (talk) 20:12, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Playfair Cricket Annual
Hi, just wondering where you got the information about there being two different back covers to the 1948 edition, as there is no source cited in the article?Wisd e n17 20:31, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, yes, sorry about that, was being a bit dense when looking at the page history! Wisd e n17 02:38, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Your edit
Thanks for |this edit. I hadn't noticed! - Richard Cavell (talk) 22:58, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Hugh Gavin information
I am interesetd in the source of Hugh Gavin's DOB and games record. Is it AFL official stats or from the AFL website stats? The club he played with, Essendon, has his games record as 108.

There is also some discrepency in the Champion of Colony winners with 2 listed for 1902. As hugh Gavin didn't play in 1903 he clearly did not win it in that year as listed on the website. Do you know the source of the winners listed

--Apreston1 (talk) 10:06, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Footballer/cricketer list
Hi, just to let you know I've removed Stan Nichols from the List of English cricket and football players because Joyce's book doesn't mention him playing in the Football League for anyone. Although his article says he was with QPR in his youth, QPR only joined the FL in 1920, so either he never played first-team football at all, or only in the Southern League. Also removed Wolves (no first-team appearances) and Gillingham (non-league at the time) from Cyril Poole, and added some teams to Henry White. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 08:48, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

University Footballers
Thanks for noticing! I'll get onto those redlinks as soon as possible. Terlob (talk) 03:08, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Player infoboxes
Hi, thanks for the message.

To answer your question, no, I don't know how to make the representative reference hideable or optional according to relevance. It's one issue I myself had with the infobox, so I don't have a big problem with it's temporary removal until we can figure out a better way of referencing. Cheers Boomtish (talk) 12:08, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Miller
Great stuff Thanks --Dweller (talk) 13:03, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Port Adelaide Football Club
I notice that you are recategorising historic Port Adelaide Players from Port Adelaide Football Club to Port Magpies. As our Port Adelaide Football Club article states, the club started in 1870 while the Port Magpies started in 1997, which means that placing players like Bob Quinn (Australian footballer) in Port Magpies is contradictory as Quinn had retired 50 years prior to the creation of the Port Magpies. --Roisterer (talk) 03:27, 25 September 2008 (UTC)


 * In the past I have found pre-1896 players (for, say St Kilda) categorised as St Kilda Football Club along with the VFL/AFL St Kilda players so theoretically we could just have one category for the two groups. Otherwise, what you have suggested would be a good compromise. --Roisterer (talk) 12:46, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

BrianBeahr
Allow me some time to look over his edits. -- Longhair\talk 00:43, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

He appears to be a new editor of sorts, overly keen, and trying to do his best. It's really a content issue you've got here, not an editor behaving badly. I can drop him a note to his talk page if you like to let him know of the discussion taking place at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject AFL. In the interests of assuming good faith to a new editor, he's not breaking any rules as such. Feel free to provide me with any diffs that may indicate he's acting otherwise. I'm still looking over his contributions btw. Cheers. -- Longhair\talk 00:51, 12 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm beginning to see the disruption to articles that you describe. I agree, there's been no improvement made to the article on the St Kilda Football Club, or really any other for that matter. I'll keep an eye on him to see where our efforts to bring him to communicate lead us. -- Longhair\talk 01:06, 12 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Btw, he appears to have ceased editing for now, about 30 minutes ago. Let me know if he resurfaces with his usual behaviours. Cheers. -- Longhair\talk 01:08, 12 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Back editing now. Could you perhaps incorporate his new changes to the existing template then mark his duplicate for deletion if it's deemed it isn't useful? That I think will will solve the template duplication issue. As for him not responding to hardly any messages at all, well, that's another matter :) Disruptive editing is worth a read over for some remedies. -- Longhair\talk 01:24, 12 October 2008 (UTC)


 * There's still quite a lot of articles than make use of Infobox_VFL_Premiership_Season. Take a look at what's currently linking to it. Those articles will require a revert or cleanup before the template can be deleted. -- Longhair\talk 01:47, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

There is no such thing as a wooden spoon in the AFL/VFL. There is no prize or award for finishing last - it is a blatantly factually incorrect. —Preceding unsigned comment added by BrianBeahr (talk • contribs)

You had already seen and had been looking at the St Kilda football Club article without making any changes to it yourself before I added the correct name of the Premiership season, the count of Minor Premierships and the team of each years leading goalkicker and brownlow medallist to the existsing infobox that is being used for more recent seasons.

You only edited the article on st kilda to annoy me and to add a space a dot or a color box here and there after i had added relevent and more factually correct information to each article (usng the infobox that is being used for more recent seasons).

are longhair, crickettragic and the pope the same person. —Preceding unsigned comment added by BrianBeahr (talk • contribs)


 * I am Longhair and Longhair only, and your assumptions of good faith are again slipping... -- Longhair\talk 07:45, 12 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I've blocked BrianBeahr for edit warring at the St Kilda article, and also raised the matter at WP:AWNB for some other eyes on the matter. -- Longhair\talk 08:41, 12 October 2008 (UTC)


 * If he's proving himself familiar with both CSD and 3RR templates, then the least he can do is read his own talk page and respond to any outstanding issues raised there. It's unfortunate he chose the edit warring path, but that's life, and he was blocked accordingly for his choices. He'll be back in a day or so, hopefully with better intentions and efforts with his interactions. -- Longhair\talk 08:47, 12 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I've done my 3 reverts there also, but I consider it the undoing of vandalism actually, when every single editor alongside him disagrees with his changes. The article is back to the norm. -- Longhair\talk 08:51, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

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DYK for Bob McLean (footballer)

 * Well done. I saw this from the link on AK Davidson.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to choose Australia's next top model ) 02:07, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Cricketer cats
Thanks for putting the South African categories in for me - complete forgot! –MDCollins (talk) 14:25, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Massie
I've straightened that out now. I forgot to copy full details of that reference when I deleted the original wording. I've also taken the opportunity to expand the lead a little to reflect hsi full range of activities. The ADB also notes that he was selected for Australian Cricket and Rugby sides, and uniquely turned both down, which is probably worth a mention. David Underdown (talk) 15:20, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Joel Selwood FA nomination
Hey there,

As a regular contributor to Australian rules football articles, you're invited to wander down and express your opinion toward this article's current FA nomination here. If successful, it will be our first AFL-related article to gain FA status. Cheers! Boomtish (talk) 06:32, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Infobox
Hi,

Yeah, I'm aware of that - there's an error in the code somewhere that I haven't been able to trace yet.&mdash;MDCollins 22:23, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed the spurious blank line (well it fixed itself while I was doing something else!)&mdash;MDCollins 02:35, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Sindh cricket team
I'm certain you know more about this than me - I was simply following CricketArchive, which uses "Sind" right up to the present day - but when you edited the article, was it deliberate to leave some examples of the team name as "Sind" whilst changing others to "Sindh", or simply an oversight? Loganberry (Talk) 00:37, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

List of English cricket and football players renaming?
Never considered it... Where an English context is specified, as it is here, I think of football as meaning "association football", so (to me) there's no ambiguity. But if others saw it differently, I wouldn't oppose a rename. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 11:18, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:NSW Waratahs rugby union footballers
Category:NSW Waratahs rugby union footballers, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:13, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Keith Miller
Hi. Do you have RS for that fact? Thanks! --Dweller (talk) 19:45, 22 November 2008 (UTC)