User talk:Ksy92003/Archive-Feb2008

Linking to all-time rosters from player bios
Ksy, I'm not sure if you saw the discussions here and here, but it looks like consensus is against linking to the all-time rosters from the player articles. I've been removing them as I find them, but I noticed today that you're including the links with the new articles you create. Let me know if you have any questions. Cheers, Caknuck (talk) 08:44, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Brian Boyle (ice hockey)
My argument is not that it isn't notable that he has scored three goals in his first four NHL games. My argument is that it is not necessary to add the final scores of the games, the dates, the goaltenders (other than that the first was against Brodeur, a sure-HOFer), etc. Skudrafan1 (talk) 20:18, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, I understand that. So early in a player's career, there's only so much that can be said about his first four games.  Ksy92003  (talk)  20:54, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Image:Gretzkystatue.jpg listed for deletion
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Hector Lopez
Since I just saw this a few hours ago, I have not gotten around to thanking everybody. However, your hard work was definitely a big part of the success of the article. Thanks, --TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 21:32, 11 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, congratulations and thanks for all your work. I wasn't sure how active you were, so didn't leave one of these, but it's fully deserved ;) All the best, EyeSerene TALK 09:58, 13 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I found something interesting about Hector Lopez while searching for a picture. I am not sure if this is him.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 22:16, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

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Re: John Morris (MLB outfielder)
The funny thing is, I was going to say 'sorry for tagging John Morris (MLB outfielder), I didn't know you were about to create the page' - and I recieved a new message from you )what a coincidence. - well its actually my fault. (Hopefully I didn't cause any problems). -  Milk's   Favorite   Cookie  00:51, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Hopefully no one thought that. Just curious: did you like it when the Anaheim Angels moved to LA and became: Los Angeles Angeles of Anaheim? -  Milk's   Favorite   Cookie  01:05, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * And you won't believe where I live (cough). I'm just happy the curse ended for me back in '04 :). It seems like you guys just lose unnoticed every time in the beginning of the playoffs against us. -  Milk's   Favorite   Cookie  01:28, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Listing moved teams in infoboxes
I've been semi-following your baseball discussion on this. What do you think about what I did at Steve McNair? The only reason I'm wary of the notations in NFL infoboxes because that leaves the possibility of two notations - one for this and another possibly for offseason/practice squad guys.► Chris Nelson Holla! 19:04, 18 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, for baseball, it doesn't look like we're gonna go through with the notations for different scenarios (DL for season, minors, et cetera); it seems like that's a dead discussion. Assuming that, there isn't a conflict with more than one notation for baseball infoboxes.  I understand why you wouldn't want to have two separate notations for different.. things (I hate using that word) because that could get confusing.  Looking at what you did with McNair's infobox, I think that's a great substitute for notation.  I don't like having something like "Houston Oilers/Tennessee Oilers/Tennessee Titans" with an incredibly long pipelink.  That just looks terrible and if I saw it, I'd want to try to remove it onsight if I knew how to improve it.


 * Since the situation in the NFL (practice squad/offseason notation) is different than MLB (no practice squad/offseason notation), we shouldn't expect them to be exactly similar. The way you have McNair's infobox, with the three separate team names split up by black slashes instead of  blue  ones, which I think looks much better.  I like your substitute for notation, and is a good idea for players who have been on practice squads or offseason rosters only.  It's not something that's necessary for MLB infoboxes because we don't have any other sort of notation already, so no risk of multiple notations there.   Ksy92003  ( talk ) 19:45, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Re:Possible sock puppet
Thankyou for bringing this to my attention. I will keep my eye on it, and if it makes any suspicious edits that are similar to the ones the other IP made, I wil, swing into action ;-) . Let me know if you notice anything. Happy editing,  Lra drama 12:04, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Los Angeles Lakers
I reverted your edit because I think the Current depth chart should be on the article. May you please tell me why you deleted the depth chart? Annoyomous24 (talk) 17:53, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Jeff Robinson

 * Yeah, nice job on this article! I added a quick note about a game I actually remember reading the boxscore for (yes, I'm that old).  Just two days after his nine-pitch strike-out-the-side game (which I don't remember), he was pitching in relief in a game that seemed destined for extra innings.  Picture big Lee Smith pitching the top of the ninth and he gets the first two guys out.  With two out and the bases empty, Pittsburgh decided not to waste a pinch-hitter and sent Robinson up with the intention of him getting blown away by Smith.  Instead, Robinson turns on a pitch and jacks it into the seats to win the game!!!  Back then, you rarely saw a relief pitcher come to the plate - let alone get a hit - let alone hit a home run - let alone hit a home run in a tie game - let alone hit a home run in a tie game off of one of the greatest relievers of all time!  I'd like to see a list of those occurences...  —Wknight94 (talk) 22:44, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Wow, thanks. Yeah, it's a hell of a lot of work on an article like what I did to Robinson's, especially when doing it all in one edit.  It's a major pain.  But it's worth it.  Usually I'll only expand an article that much if I'm going to try to get a DYK.  Fortunately, I've not yet had a DYK hook denied, so I'm 5/5.. although I collaborated with  on one of them, two perhaps.  But either way, I'm doing pretty good at writing DYK hooks.  The only downside is it takes a while to do them, and for the type of articles that I edit, it's sometimes hard to find an interesting fact,
 * As for what he did to Smith, I don't think I'd lose any money in saying that I bet that's not gonna happen again in a nine-inning game. That's rather impressive.  I'd bet that since they moved to the four-man rotation it has happened maybe once in a blue moon.   Ksy92003  ( talk ) 00:12, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I've been working on a particular DYK for a couple weeks now. I'm too easily distracted to rack them up like some of the experts here.  We've had a few great content writers run off lately so we really need to make up for the losses as much as possible.  Keep it up!
 * One funny thing about the Robinson game is that he actually knocked himself out of the game by hitting the HR! He was only sent up to hit because the game was tied and they presumably wanted him to pitch the bottom of the 9th, 10th, 11th, etc.  When he hit the HR in the top half of the 9th, they took him out and used their closer for the bottom half!  Not too often that a relief pitcher's last action in a game is swinging a bat.
 * One thing about the Robinson article, what do you think about using the original source, Retrosheet.org, as the source here? Baseball-reference mirrors Retrosheet's data since Retrosheet is a not-for-profit and has a license similar to GFDL, but I think it would be nice to throw Retrosheet some traffic directly since they are the ones who actually gather all that individual data.  That's all they do and they do it for free.  Just a thought.  —Wknight94 (talk) 03:20, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Stu/Stew Cliburn
I an a native of the Rochester, NY area where Stu Cliburn is the pitching coach for the Rochester Red Wings. His name is always printed as "Stu Cliburn." Here's the Rochester Red Wings official site:

http://www.redwingsbaseball.com/meettheteam/CliburnStu.php

Additionally, most of his baseball cards list him as "Stu Cliburn"

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bpv/images/b/ba/StuCliburn.jpg

I have never seen it spelled "Stew" before. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kgeorge22 (talk • contribs) 01:05, 25 February 2008 (UTC)