User talk:Mark Staffieri

Sun/Miracle Pages
Thanks for the complement! I actually get all the Sun/Miracle schedule information from the Sun media guide. Now I'm not sure if you are asking so you can do WNBA season pages or NBA season pages (or maybe even another league), but if you do not have a media guide (which I'm sure you do not), you can simply change the url year on the NBA or WNBA schedule pages.

For example, for NBA this is default for last October: http://www.nba.com/schedules/2007_2008_game_schedule/October.html#scheds

That can easily be changed to: http://www.nba.com/schedules/2000_2001_game_schedule/October.html#scheds

And as long as those years are still in the websites' database, they will show you the page and you can take information from that.

Hope this helps! Nickv1025 (talk) 19:21, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Stub-rating for Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man
I'm asking if you would consider changing the rating on this article. I think it's as complete as it's going to get, as I've listed every appearance AVM Man made in comics (unless Mark Waid and Co. are planning on bringning him into 52). If I'm reading the ratings correctly, this article could rate a B-class--good for the casual reader. Please let me know what you think. Konczewski 18:03, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the kind response. Konczewski 20:51, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Nice work!
Looks like you've made quite a dent in the unassessed Comics Project articles! Well done! --GentlemanGhost 01:52, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Request for third party assistance
Sure, glad to help. Please give me till Monday, so I have time to look things over carefully. --Tenebrae 17:56, 15 June 2007 (UTC)


 * OK. I've taken a sampling of User:Maple Leaf's Comics Project Talk-page boxes with importance ratings. Let me say first that I had no links to any of the allegedly insulting or inflammatory comments that User:Richard75 may have been leaving; I think it goes without saying that any such comments are not to be tolerated. We can criticize actions &mdash; hopefully in a constructive, positive and polite way &mdash; but we don't make it personal and we don't name-call. That just creates anger, which leads to flame wars, which just gets unnecessarily unpleasant.


 * That said: I do see where Maple Leaf provides a service. While he or she adds the box to articles as new as two days old, he or she has also added them to such pages as Talk:Dormammu and Talk:Wolfpack (Marvel Comics), which had sat boxless since 2005 and late 2006, respectively.


 * What I think might help is for Maple Leaf to add a brief explanation &mdash; maybe three or four sentences, using language from WikiProject Comics/Article Classification &mdash; each time he or she adds a box. There's even a built-in link phrased "Please explain the rating here" that appears in each box. That would make it easier for others to add their own thoughts, and create a community consensus for either keeping that initial springboard or changing it.


 * Without seeing any of the back-and-forth between Maple Leaf and Richard75, I don't know if there are other issues involved. I hope some of these observations have helped; I'm flattered at your both asking me, and let's keep our fingers crossed that I haven't made things worse! Happy Wiki'ing, -- Tenebrae 01:33, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Gold Maple Leaf
Thanks. An amazing item. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 18:06, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Mark Twain
Couldn't see why the Freemasonry cat had been added, until I did a little digging. Twain was indeed a Freemason, and we didn't have him on the List of Freemasons, to which I have now added him. Good catch! MSJapan 21:28, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

1935 Detroit Tigers season
Hi Maple Leaf. Thanks for the positive comment in the talk page of the 1935 Detroit Tigers season. I put a lot of work into it, and it's nice to have the feedback. I also have in process pages for all three of the other Detroit Tigers World Series championship seasons: 1968 Detroit Tigers season, 1945 Detroit Tigers season, and 1984 Detroit Tigers season. Cbl62 —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 06:09, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

In Remembrance...
--nat Alo! Salut! Sunt eu, un haiduc?!?! 00:17, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Hockey...
Thank you Maple Leaf. I love that you have put a tedious task in front of you with these articles, the least I can do is relieve you a bit of the work by filling in some tables. Keep up the good work yourself  Soxrock Talk/Edits 17:31, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Re: Template:NHLTeamSeason
Personally, I've never had much use for +/-, but it is a statistic that the NHL loves. I added the syntax necessary to allow the +/- leader to appear in the infobox. Feel free to add it as you desire. Regards, Resolute 00:14, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Rollback
Hey Maple, I just wanted to let you know that I granted you the rollback ability. Please remember to only use it for reverting vandalism or reverting yourself. For more information on rollback, see New admin school/Rollback and Rollback feature. Keep up the good work and if you have any questions feel free to ask. Also, if you do not want the rollback ability, just let me know and I'll remove it. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk ♦ contribs)  21:37, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Request for Barnstar granted!
Have fun with your barnstars! Don't spend them all at once! --Yooden &#9774;

Re:Barnstar
Sure. With all of the work you have done, you deserve it.
 * Not a problem. :)   jj137   (talk)  03:10, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

WP:MOSCAP
Hey fellow Canadian, I just

wanted to drop a note about WP:MOSCAP. should be  because transaction in this context is neither the first word of the heading nor a common noun. —LOL (talk) 21:37, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Re:Soxrock
Yeah, I'm not really sure why. I imagine it had something to do with this place, because he still contributed there after he was gone from here.  jj137  ( talk )  02:39, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Re:2008 Saskatchewan Roughriders Season
No problem. The biggest thing with this update is the page is inevitably going to become weighty with all the transactions. Especially, considering that each week during the season, there will likely be a minimum of 4 transactions each game, with the Reserve List players being shuffled.

Page views
Hey, Maple Leaf. The page view data comes from a counter created by a user named Henrik. It can be found at http://stats.grok.se/ For example, it shows that your 1996-97 Red Womgs article was viewed 383 times in June: http://stats.grok.se/en/200806/1996%E2%80%9397_Detroit_Red_Wings_season  It's a useful tool to determine how many people are paying attention to what you edit. Cbl62 (talk) 21:51, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar!

 * Not a problem, glad I could give it to you.   jj137   ( talk )  02:03, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Re: 2001 Milwaukee Brewers
Actually, you were working on it first, and I thought you were done, so it's my fault. I was just doing some cleanup, which you accidentally overwrote. If you want to use my format for any future work you do on stats, here's what I'm doing:

1) Standardizing the headers of the sections, so that they make sense when it's seen in the outline. "Batting" and "Pitching" are second-level headers, then each stat grouping is a third-level heading. That's why I add a position to the top batter table -- that way, people know why those batters are in the top table. If you want to see a blank stat table using my formatting, look at the 1884 Kansas City Cowboys season. You fill in more stats than I do, which is fine.

2) Grouping the pitchers more logically. Starting pitchers are those who pitched all (or nearly all) as a starter, relief pitchers are those who pitched all (or nearly all) in relief, and other pitchers are everyone else. I see you're using baseball-reference for the stats, just like I am, so it's fairly easy to see who those are.

3) Checking for links that are obviously not headed to the right page. I try to make sure, for instance, that the names of Hispanic players are properly accented so they don't have to go through redirects. This usually means copying their names directly from their pages.

Hope this helps! -Dewelar (talk) 23:59, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the barnstar. I really appreciate it. Ji m bö V1 00:39, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Grambling
Looks like everything got sorted out? It appears the nominator had no clue what he was doing. ;) Good work on the article and it's certainly notable as it was ER's last season. --Geologik (talk) 21:31, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!
... for the note you left on my talk page. I really appreciate it. -- Ja Ga  talk 18:01, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

CFB Navboxes
Thanks for doing the work on the college football navboxes. However, you're missing a couple things. Take a look at the changes made on the Cal Bears box. Topgun530 (talk) 23:18, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

College football seasons
Hey, MapleLeaf. Nice work on the season pages. May I suggest that you use the college football schedule templates in use by the college football project in the name of standardization across the board? These are the ones I'm referring to: Template:CFB Schedule Start, Template:CFB Schedule Entry, and Template:CFB Schedule End. Strikehold (talk) 21:03, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I noticed the work you've done creating football seasons for the Pittsburgh Panthers football. I was going to ask you to use the standardized schedule templates but someone else already has. Thanks for the help. Panthers season pages are on my to-do list. JohnnyPolo24 (talk) 12:20, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Tennessee
I edited your 1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team page. Please note the changes for future reference when creating more season pages. Good work otherwise. Topgun530 (talk) 19:40, 28 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Check out some of the ones I have done. For example, 1961 Kansas State Wildcats football team.  Go forward in years of that page.Topgun530 (talk) 20:49, 28 January 2009 (UTC)


 * No problem. Thanks for the kind words. Happy editing.  Topgun530 (talk) 22:01, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank You
Thank you for the Barnstar, I appreciate it! Mtndrums (talk) 18:20, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Navboxes
Please take into consideration the following before you continue to create to new navboxes for college football teams. The name of the navbox has to be the EXACT same as the text written on the create page. When you create the new navbox, the "|name=_____" HAS to be EXACTLY the same as the name of the navbox. Make sense? Otherwise when you're at the page, and you click to edit the navbox, it will come up with a blank page. If you're confused, look at the recent edit I made to the Air Force Falcons navbox. Topgun530 (talk) 20:19, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

New NCAA College Hoops pages
Hi - I noticed you recently created pages for the 1951-52 and 57-58 college basketball seasons - thanks for taking the initiative. I wanted to let you know that I have been updating some things on them to make them fit with the format and convention of already established season articles (A good completed example here). Here are some of the things I have done to try and make it consistent: I did some other minor stuff and adapted a few headings, but that's the jist. Again, thanks for starting the pages. Rikster2 (talk) 18:28, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Changed the naming convention to fit other years. Starting 1956-57, there were two NCAA Divisions: College (now called div. II) and University (now called Div I).  So I moved the 57-58 page to 1957–58 NCAA University Division men's basketball season.
 * Conference regular-season & tournament winners, and POYs are done in a table - I created this for 57-58 and will do the same for 51-52
 * Took out NAIA info - it's an NCAA page so NAIA would need to be a different entry

Connecticut Huskies Basketball 2008-09 NCAA Champions template
I edited the template to include the right Tina Charles.Sphilbrick (talk) 21:27, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

info box problem
Your NCAATeamSeason infobox is automatically calling the team the men's basketball team - I haven't figured out how to fix it, but you have many examples.--Sphilbrick (talk) 21:11, 21 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Solution - add |sex=women. I've fixed some, will search for others to fix.Sphilbrick (talk) 01:54, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the Barnstar - it's my first one and I'm honored. Thanks for all your contributions. Sphilbrick (talk) 15:30, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Tulane
I started making the Tulane roster 2009–10 Tulane Green Wave women's basketball team a sortable list, but it looks like the Arizona State roster. I didn't look further, not sure what the best way to fix it is, so I'm letting you know. I'll come back and cleanup up the sorting after you decide the next steps.-- SPhilbrick  T  01:39, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Re:Category entries in italics
The articles in italics are redirects. When it comes to categories that involve individual team seasons, it makes more sense to put the category on the redirect, rather than on the destination page. That's all there is to it. Happy editing. PS: I've got a question for you too. You've been putting in a lot of work creating season pages. Any reason you are putting your own hand-formatted wikitable in rather than using the CFB Schedule Start template demonstrated in the style guide? If it's about having the team colors on there, I don't see any reason why we couldn't put a color formatting option into the template title bar. DeFaultRyan 19:25, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Sortable roster
I spent more time than I care to admit creating a macro to make rosters sortable. Most of this is noncontroversial, but I didn't like how hard it was to make heights sortable, then it hit me if they we metric, it would be cleaner. So I convert to metric so it will sort, then display it using markup so both the metric and English appear. I guarantee someone will decide they don't want metric even showing, so I wanted to give you a heads up, in case you felt that way.

On other minor issue - I wanted to convert English to metric, save several decimal places but only show two. I didn't figure out how to do that, so I rounded to two decimal places. I note that 5 feet even converts to 1.52 meters, which translates back to 4 foot 12! Will check with help desk to see if they have any thoughts.-- SPhilbrick  T  01:26, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Team roster templates
You created some team templates. I just modified the ones relating to UConn, removing wikimarkup around players not likely to be notable. I did this for two reasons - one is that I do not like red links (despite their purpose) and second, the existence of red links is being used as an argument to delete templates. While I think that argument is flawed, removing the red links helps reduce the chance of fights over template deletion. Let me know if you want to discuss it further.-- SPhilbrick  T  13:18, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

decades seasons
Hey Maple Leaf, I like the idea I'm seeing of merging some individual year team seasons into decade articles until they can be broken up into individual articles. I've some thoughts: Double Blue (talk) 04:11, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * You do not need to move the articles all around to make the redirects just create the articles you want to be redirects with
 * Is there a standard you are using for your article name creation? I haven't looked carefully but it does appear to be of the form  like Toronto Argonauts football, 1970–1979. Why did you include the word "football" in there? I might have thought Toronto Argonauts seasons (1970–1979) to more closely match the 1970 Toronto Argonauts season title or, as per Naming conventions (numbers and dates), Toronto Argonauts (1970–1979). I don't understand the need for "football".


 * Thanks. I think that avoiding duplication is a good idea. I was just saying that you don't have to move the articles to create the redirect. You can make the redirect directly by creating the article with the line  at the top. Cheers!  Double Blue  (talk) 16:37, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

WikiBirthday
I saw from here that it's been exactly three years since you joined the project. Happy WikiBirthday! Keep up the good work, r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 05:17, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Baseball Seasons
Hey there, I've been working on standardizing the rosters for all the baseball season pages and I noticed you are still adding some of them. A couple of things.. We don't use flags on the rosters anymore.. that was decided by consensus at WP:Baseball awhile ago, and the rosters should be sorted alphabetically rather than by uniform number.. that makes it more consistent from the pre-number eras. I've updated all the roster up through 1987 and I keep having to fix the ones with the flags so it would be great if you could switch over to this style so I don't have to duplicate any of what you are doing. Thanks for the help. Spanneraol (talk) 19:56, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Hansmeyer
You created the Stacy Hansmeyer page, including the stats. I've been adding a "standard" stat page in many cases, cf Sue Bird. Same color and format, but slightly more info. Any problem if I replace yours with my version? (probably won't get to it right away, just put it on my to-do list).-- SPhilbrick  T  14:41, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Nice work on the Big Ten women's basketball season articles for 2009-10
Thanks for all your hard work on all of the articles for each of the Big Ten women's basketball teams for the upcoming seasons. I stumbled across one of them, and it didn't take me too long to notice the good start you've created for each of them still months before the season begins. Thanks so much for your dedication and effort!

TFCforever (talk) 04:25, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Women's Basketball Coaches Association
FYI, I created a new article Women's Basketball Coaches Association, so I've been updating the references to either use that link or WBCA, whichever is more appropriate. I know you add references to the WBCA, so thought I'd let you know.-- SPhilbrick  T  13:59, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

National ice hockey teams naming convention
Hi there.

You recently (well, October 10th) moved the Finland women's national ice hockey team to another name.

Please note that the naming convention for national ice hockey teams is: Nation name men's/women's national ice hockey team.

Cheers

LarRan (talk) 12:34, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar
Thanks so much for the barnstar, it's much appreciated. I don't do this work for the recognition, but it doesn't make it any less sweet, haha. Anthony Hit me up... 14:45, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

O, Canada
Thank you for the barnstar. I think that's the first I've received. Congratulations on Canada's victory over the US men (the better team won) and also the women's gold, and also on the most gold medals of any nation in a Winter Olympics. Go, Canada! Eagle4000 (talk) 01:50, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Re: Barnstar
Thanks! I'll also add my congratulations to the Canadian hockey teams. --Spyder_Monkey (Talk) 21:23, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Women's hockey articles
Thanks very much for the barnstar. Its nice to see that these articles are attracting alot of development in the last year. Dont forget if you start any new ones to post them on WP:DYK. They make really good reads and attract a good deal of attention. Well done on the articles your working on. Ottawa4ever (talk) 21:21, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

UConn wbb page
Just in case you are trying to update the team pages with WNBA draft results, I will do the UConn page, maybe Sunday. Obviously, you can if you want, but you are doing so much, I'll take care of that if you want to skip it.-- SPhilbrick  T  15:13, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination for Canadian women's ice hockey history
Hello! Your submission of Canadian women's ice hockey history at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Mikenorton (talk) 22:26, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for 1958 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
The DYK project (nominate) 08:03, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Katey Stone
Thanks from me and the wiki Victuallers (talk) 00:03, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Doris Parkes
Materialscientist (talk) 00:02, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

You are now a Reviewer
Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, will be commencing a a two-month trial at approximately 23:00, 2010 June 15 (UTC).

Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under flagged protection. Flagged protection is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial.

When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.

If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Courcelles (talk) 17:49, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Season pages
Last year, you created season pages for a number of teams. Just in case you were planning to do that this year, wanted you to know I've already started 2010–11 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team. It still needs work, which I will do over the next few weeks, but didn't want you to work on one and then find it already existed.

BTW, it's a fair amount of work - I have no idea how you managed to do all those pages last year.-- SPhilbrick  T  14:24, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Team seasons
I see you like to work on team season articles. I have beefed up 1997 Michigan Wolverines football team. It could use some feedback at Peer review/1997 Michigan Wolverines football team/archive1‎. Also, I had trouble finding game details for the Little Brown Jug game. I hope to take this to WP:FAC so if you get a chance this is one of the more important articles that you might be able to help out.

Also, since you like to work on team season articles, I have found a quick way to beef up articles is to go through the NCAA, Conference and team record books. I recently added statistical accomplishments to 1990-present Michigan Wolverines football team articles and a bunch of Oklahoma Sooner football team articles this way. You might find that interesting to work on several years of one team at a time while theumbing through the record books for that teams name.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 14:59, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

DYK Wendy Barlow
Commented on your DYK nom at Template_talk:Did_you_know Wikilinked to rules. More content is needed (about 200 more prose characters) are needed to make it into DYK. Reviews of her playing? College newspaper articles? Interviews as a pro? May I suggest rewriting the lead paragraph a bit - "was" is a bit gloomy. Try "is a former." -Lexein (talk) 22:48, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Wendy Barlow
The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

1973 Buffalo Bills season
Thanks for your editorial contributions. You may want to post this on your user page somewhere. --TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 22:06, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

History of women's ice hockey in the United States
The WP:LEAD should be a summary of the entire article. Try to include at least a one sentence summary of each level 2 section. You also need an Infobox. Also, each paragraph should have at least one inline citations. That should give you a lot of room for improvement just fixing up those issues.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:15, 9 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much for the advice. This provides a lot of clarification. I am still working on the research aspect of things but this puts me in the right direction. Have a great day. Maple Leaf (talk) 17:19, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Black history and ice hockey
Gatoclass (talk) 12:02, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Boston Blades CWHL
Hello Maple Leaf, thank you so much for your contribution on the page of Boston Blades. Last week-end, I saw this team in Montreal for 2 games with Montreal Stars. I will working on Women's hockey in English Wikipedia. Enjoy --Geneviève (talk) 20:43, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Thank for your support (merci beaucoup pour la belle étoile), I took 15 photos of 2 matches. But my little compact camera is poor quality and the photos are not very good. I would like to put one on the Wikipage page of Montreal Stars. Yes I am go to meet some players after match. But I have no autographs because Saturday I discussed with Julie Chu of the next training camp of the USA national team, and Sunday I discussed with Caroline Ouellette and Emmanuelle Blais. Mabye next games in January ( but I will see Annie Guay for my project User:Genevieve2/sandbox01 to a future Wiki page ). I appreciate your kindness. Yes we can become friends. You can help me in Women's articles to complete informations. All the best for the New Year 2011 --Geneviève (talk) 21:50, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Re: Barnstar
Hey, thanks man. :) Kante4 (talk) 21:26, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Online Ambassadors
Hey, I saw your edits at DYK and clicked over to your user page and was impressed. Have you considering applying to become a Online Ambassadors? It is a great way to help college students become more familiar with Wikipedia, and make them good long term contributers! Sadads (talk) 19:31, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

a special knight for the Women Ice Hockey
for  Maple Leaf
 * for your kindness, your availability to help and your work. --Geneviève (talk) 12:57, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

1974–75 Buffalo Sabres season
I thought I would let you know that this one got over the hump. --TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:50, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

please add your profile to the Online Ambassadors mentors page
Hi Maple Leaf!

If you're still interested in being a mentor this term, please add your profile to Online Ambassadors/Mentors. If you have any questions about the ambassador role or what you're interested in doing as an Online Ambassador (whether mentoring, pitching in in other ways, or something else), please let me know.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 17:43, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Sorry about the trouble; tables are terrible.  I added a slot for you; you can just add your preferred image and a short bio, and how many (X) mentees you want, and you'll be all set.  Let me know if you have any more trouble.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 19:08, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Don't forget to switch out the example image, or remove it altogether.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 20:02, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Thank you!
Its nice to know someone notices what I do as I plug away in my little world. :) Canada Hky (talk) 23:13, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Article Help
Hi there, the article that I have been trying to improve is Telecommunication Policy in the United States. I have added multiple sources so if you could take the no sources banner down that would be great thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Penandpad (talk • contribs) 18:07, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Make sure that you are checking in on your students work for WP:USPP/C/11/PTE
Hey, just a happy reminder to make sure that you are regularly checking in on your mentees work for JMU'S Technical editing class, Sadads (talk) 11:13, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Switzerland women's ice hockey league
Thank you for your comment. I would like to explain why I prefer the title Switzerland women's ice hockey league over Women's ice hockey in Switzerland. The latter one imply that the page is an overview of women's hockey in this country. This would mean a complete history of the subject (what was the 1st club?, a list of swiss female players in the men's league, the performances of swiss teams in EWCC, etc...), the actual situation, the national association's main objectives in the near future and I don't know whatelse. The page I have been working on is mainly about the league. I do mention other competitions because I haven't enough developed them to give them a page of their own (I'm against micro pages) and I have nowhere else to put them. --Tiouic (talk) 16:00, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Fair use rationales
Hi Maple Leaf, I saw you used a non-free logo over at 2009–10 St. Francis Xavier X-Women women's ice hockey season. Just to let you know that when you do that, you need to include a fair use rationale for the new use on the existing page. I went ahead and did it for you, and trouble or questions, let me know!--Crossmr (talk) 13:49, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Knicks task force welcome
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Looking for somewhere to start? Here is a few suggestions.
 * You can check out topics on the main page.
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If you have any comments, suggestions, or would like to talk about the project in general, feel free to leave a message on the talk page. NYCRuss  ☎  15:47, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Chuck Finley and Kansas City A's moving
In the 1967 KC A's article, I saw you edited in how Finley was trying to relocate the team. The trouble is, some of what you wrote was wrong. I'm WP:AGF that the mistakes are due to the source you were using aka that book on Finley. News stories written at the time, and available via Google news archive have different facts. The mistakes are small, the name of Seattle's Mayor and that a phone conversation, not a visit took place on Aug 1st 1961.

What I did was make the corrections, and replaced some of the Finley book references with news articles from 1967. I'm just letting you know what I did and why. Feel free to write back to me here if you have any comments, I'll keep a lookout for any. Cheers!- William 16:16, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Online Ambassador, Spring 2012
Hi, Maple Leaf! As you may know, the Wikipedia Education Program has instilled a new set of standards that courses must meet to officially join the program for the semester. As you can see, one of the requirements is that at least one ambassador or professor is a Wikipedian, as this should give students more access to helpful information about contributing to Wikipedia and creating good content. You are listed on the Online Ambassador page; are you still interested in remaining active this semester? Some of these classes will have to remove themselves from the program should they fail to meet these standards, but we would like to ensure that new students are receiving proper support during the editing process. Please let me know if you are still interested in mentoring these students this semester and/or visit the Online Ambassador talk page to select a course that still needs an Online Ambassador. Thank you! JMathewson (WMF) (talk) 20:09, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Laura Hurd Award
Thanks for changing the link. I didn't know that article existed because it's not linked from Norwich University. Might I suggest adding a link there? Powers T 18:03, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
 * It should be linked somewhere in Norwich University. =)  Take a look at some other colleges for examples.  Powers T 22:39, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Online Ambassador Inquiry
Hello Maple Leaf. I'm the instructor for a section of students at Ball State University in Indiana USA who are beginning a collaborative research project on Wikipedia for our Introduction to Digital Literacies class. I've been teaching with WP since Spring 2011; from my user page you can see a few example projects highlighted. We are currently in need of an online ambassador to advise five class groups on selecting topics and putting articles together: this means there will be five topics for an ambassador to assist with. Might you be interested in helping us? You can see the project timeline in my user area project subpage . I have gone through the appropriate channels and application documents with the Wikimedia folks in charge of education programs, but have not heard back in nearly two weeks (I've emailed Jamie Mathewson twice). But time is getting short and we must begin—thus I'm taking the liberty of contacting potential ambassadors directly. Thanks for your consideration and good luck with your projects! –Webster Newbold (talk) 15:57, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassadors update
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You may have heard a reference to a transition the education program is going through. This is the last term that the Wikimedia Foundation will directly run the U.S. and Canada programs; beginning in June, a proposed thematic organization is likely to take over organizing the program. You can read more about the proposal here.

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After that, you can sign on to support courses. The list of courses will be at Special:Courses. (By default, this lists "Current" courses, but you can change the Status filter to "Planned" to see courses for this term that haven't reached their listed start date yet.)

As this is the first term we have used the extension, we know there will be some bugs, and we know the feature set is not as rich as it could be. (A big wave of improvements is already in the pipeline. And if you know MediaWiki and could help with code review, we'd love to have your help!) Please reach out to me (Sage Ross) with any complaints, bug reports, and feature suggestions. The basic features of the extension are documented at Course pages, and you can see a tutorial for setting up and using them here.

In the past, the Education Program has had a pretty fragmented set of communication channels. We're trying to fix that. These are the recommended places to discuss and stay up-to-date on the education program:
 * Communication and keeping up to date
 * 1) The education noticeboard has become the main on-wiki location for discussion of the Education Program. You can post there about broad education program issues as well as issues with individual courses.
 * 2) The Ambassadors Announce email list is a very low-traffic announcements list of important information all Ambassadors need to be aware of. We encourage all Ambassadors (and other interested Wikipedians) to subscribe to the list; follow the instructions on the link to add your email address.
 * 3) If you use IRC regularly, or need to try to reach someone immediately, the  IRC channel is the place to find me and fellow Ambassadors.

We now have an online training for Ambassadors, which is intended to be both an orientation about the Wikipedia Ambassador role for newcomers and the manual for how to do the role. (There are parallel trainings for students and for educators as well.)
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Please go through the training if you feel like you need a refresher on how a typical class is supposed to go and where the Ambassadors fit in, or if you want to review and help improve it. If there's something you'd like to see added, or other suggestions you have for it, feel free to edit the training and/or leave feedback. A primer on setting up and using course pages is included in the educators' training.

The Resources page of the training is the main place for Ambassador-related resources. If there's something you think is important as a resource that's not on there, please add it.

Finally, whether or not you work with any classes this term, I encourage you to post entries to the Trophy Case whenever you see excellent work from students or if you have great examples from past semesters. And, as always, let students (and other editors!) know when they do things well; a little WikiLove goes a long way!

--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 20:52, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Proposal to start a women's basketball task force
I'm very interested in improving coverage of women's basketball. I thought briefly about forming a Wikiproject, but while researching, realized that a task force would be ideal. There are two major advantages of a task force over a Wikiproject. First is that the task force can leave some of the bureaucracy to the parent Wikiproject. Second, and possibly more important, is that a task force can have more than one parent Wikiproject. While WikiProject Basketball is an obvious parent, so is WikiProject Women's sport, and the task force may be able to draw from both.

According to this process for starting a task force, the first thing to do is gather consensus, so I am sending this to some editors who have been active in editing relevant articles. If there is sufficient interest, I'll take a first stab at filling out the task force template and creating a draft task force page.

At this point, all I need is an answer to two questions:
 * 1) I would (or would not) be interested in being part of a task force to improve the coverage of women's basketball
 * 2) I think a different approach would be better (followed by alternative).-- SPhilbrick  (Talk)  14:12, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
 * WikiProject Basketball/Women's basketball has been created. I haven't yet added it to the Wikiproject pages, but will do that, however, I wanted to let you know it exists, and has some suggested tasks. SPhilbrick  (Talk)  19:22, 10 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Welcome!!!! and thanks for joining.-- SPhilbrick (Talk)  23:40, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Ice Hockey/League assessment
As an active member of the WikiProject Ice Hockey, you should be aware that there has been a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ice Hockey/League assessment concerning how NHOCKEY will be interpreted. Dolovis (talk) 14:31, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Olympians
Hi Maple Leaf, I have a partially complete list of people, primarily Olympians, who you may want to have a look at. Thanks for creating Tanja Eisenschmid. Best, Mat  ty. 007 21:28, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

MLB teams going entire season without being shut out
If you get a moment, please could you have a look at this reference you added and let me know what the book says? I'm wondering if the same reference could be used to fix the lead section of 1932 New York Yankees season, as I'd like to change "They are the only major-league team ever to go an entire season without being shut out." to something like "They became the first major-league team ever to go an entire season without being shut out, an accomplishment later matched by the 2000 Cincinnati Reds" However I don't want to simply copy in a reference without knowing what the reference actually says, and I don't own that book. Cheers. --Jameboy (talk) 16:15, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

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DYK for Grace Harrison
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We need you at the Sam Jacks article
Hi Mark! Hope you're still around wiki. Recently at the Sam Jacks article, content which you added in 2009 was removed by an editor who felt it did not belong because it wasn't sourced. It mentioned that Jacks was instrumental in developing the NOPHA, Northern Ontario Playground Hockey Association. I'm going to do a revert and put it back and add "citation needed" instead because this removal was needless considering there is a better option. I'm here to ask if you can remember where you found this information so it can be cited in the article. I think it's important to keep it there for a number of different reasons including chronological development, history and heritage, and the fact that this development was probably critical in the development of the sport of ringette which Jacks created, as well as female ice hockey and brown in the Canadian province of Ontario. Thanks in advance :) CheckersBoard (talk) 18:20, 18 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Nevermind, found the source, all fixed :) CheckersBoard (talk) 06:13, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

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