User talk:Masonpatriot/Archive 1

Your summary
Or rather, lack of it. Had you stated when you edited Leicester Lightning something like its name changed from Lemmings to Lightning in (whatever) year, it wouldn't have been reverted. Sometimes when on vandal patrol we get into these situations, but usually no harm is done because they are reverted by the original contributor -- and explained -- as happened in this case. Cheers. Moriori 21:09, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

In hindsight, I was a little harsh, I suppose. My fault for forgetting to throw a summary line in there. Consider this my 'mea culpa.' Thanks. Masonpatriot
 * No probs. As an aside, I was unaware that so many UK universities and colleges took part in an American football competition, and found that article interesting also. Cheers. Moriori 22:18, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Big East Conference
You may like to keep an eye on the above. User:Zoe is continually removing the gallery without discussion on the talk page. Regards. --84.64.33.15 08:44, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

I'm aware. Thanks for the note, and hopefully User:Zoe's pigheadedness abates sometime in the near future. -- User:Masonpatriot

Member List
Hey there...just wanted to tell you I think the reformated members list looks great. Good job, looks much better than the simple list that was there. --ScottyBoy900Q 05:32, 5 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I appreciate the feedback. I hope others like it too!  --Masonpatriot

GMU
Since it looks like you may be one, perhaps you'd like to add this to your user page:

Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: George Mason University Hiberniantears 13:29, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

ECAC Hockey League
I like the gallery you made for the page, nice work. However, Colgate needs a new image grabbed (which I have no idea how to do) as they have changed from being the Red Raiders to just the Raiders. Cornell Rockey 22:17, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Deist wikipedian
I noticed you are on the category of "Deist wikipedians". That template has been deleted, but here is what you can put on your userpage:

-- Freemarket 10:08, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia_talk:Censorship
A watered-down version of the proposed policy against censorship is now open for voting. Will you kindly review the policy and make your opinions known? Thank you very much. Loom91 12:26, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Mid-major discussion
You might find the current revision of this page interesting...

Mid-major

I had no idea the WAC was a major conference, but the MWC was a mid-major. I've tried reasoning with this fellow here, but have since given up and moved all the non-BCS conferences that met his asinine, undeterminable definitions into the "Major" category, only to have him move several (but not other comparable conferences), including the MWC, back to mid-major. He's also received numerous notes and warnings for his editorial antics and at times, vandalism. Not to mention he's very poor at picking up on sarcasm ;)

Maybe it's time for an admin to act? CollegeSportsGuy 07:58, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

My sincere apologies
I did word that last message poorly, my tone towards you was undeserved, and I apologize for it. I appreciate you being more civil in your response than I was. Sincerely, CollegeSportsGuy 18:53, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

2004 National Invitation Tournament
Regarding the reasoning given for your revision to my edit in said article...

"While the Milwaukee usage is correct CURRENTLY, at the time, the team was commonly referred to as UW-Milwaukee... there pages refer to schools as they were called at the time (i.e.Texas Western/UTEP)"

...I'm afraid you are mistaken. Milwaukee started using only Milwaukee (or the abbreviation UWM) to refer to all their athletics teams around 1999. This included not only all team uniforms stating ONLY "MILWAUKEE" on them, but also all media guide references, press releases, etc. The school remained UW-Milwaukee, but its teams would now be known as the Milwaukee or UWM Panthers for all athletics references. Also, your comparison to a school that changed its institution's name shows a lack of understanding of this issue, as UWM did not change their school name, but only decided to drop the state university part of the name for athletics purposes, ala Charlotte, Chattanooga, etc. Those schools also did NOT change their names, yet even past references to their teams are now changed in most articles to reflect this. But please don't take my word for it, see for yourself. As previously stated, this "re-branding" by Milwaukee was done athletic department-wide, sometime around 1999, to coincide with the release of the university's new athletics logo, which minimized the words "University of Wisconsin" from the logo as much as possible. As long as the WP standard of using a school's unique, chosen athletics brand is applied to other school's in the same position as Milwaukee (Charlotte, Chattanooga, etc. etc. etc.) then all athletics references from at least after the year this change occurred should stand. I appreciate your understanding in this matter, and would be happy to further elaborate or point to specific sources if you need more assistance. Sincerely, CollegeSportsGuy 18:03, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Horizon League member logo
The Wright State logo you recently switched to here was of a lesser quality, so I reverted back to the better-looking one that's also ok to use (as far as I can tell). CollegeSportsGuy 20:16, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

List of Major League Baseball batting champions
Hey. There's no need to get quite so testy with your edit summaries like this. Instead, if it's going to take three or four days to get things like that in order, you might want to consider building in a sandbox page in your user area first. Create a User:Masonpatriot/List of Major League Baseball batting champions page and get it all up and going where no prying eyes will bother you. When it's all ready, copy it out into the public area. Feel free to let me know if you need any assistance. —Wknight94 (talk) 17:36, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
 * No mending necessary. I just wanted to let you know about the concept of making sandbox pages since I've seen valid articles get deleted entirely because they were added to the public area too soon.  Temporary user pages are easy to use and they save confusion and testiness!  :)  —Wknight94 (talk) 18:03, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

End box
Hi. Me again. First thing, I see you've been doing a great job adding succession boxes to baseball player articles! Just a quick note that any start box is supposed to have a corresponding end box after the succession box. They become the opening and closing for the succession HTML table. Let me know if you have any questions. Sorry to bug you again! :) —Wknight94 (talk) 19:47, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

College Football
Hello, I noticed that you have edited a College football related article. You may be interested to know that there is a college football WikiProject which you can join if you like. We would love to have you! At the College football WikiProject I do not know of anyone who has any interest in the BCAFL, you could add that dimension to our project.
 * Already signed up on the project page. Happy to be on board!! Masonpatriot 19:54, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

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Cornell
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Big South Conference
You tagged Big South Conference for wikification. Do you have any particular reasons why? I think it seems pretty wikified, but I'm wondering what you think needs work. Thanks, Metros232 18:25, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

College Basketball
Hope you think about joining - you've contributed to college basketball articles in the past, and we'd enjoy your help! -- Nomader Talk 21:08, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Patriot Fans Category and Userbox
I saw that you had made some edits to the George Mason Patriots article and thought you might like to know about a new userbox for Patriots fans,. Adding this wserbox to your userpage will automatically enroll you in the Category:Wikipedian George Mason Patriots fans. - cgilbert(talk 18:43, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Association of Members' Advocates/Requests/February 2007/Jskivington
Hi! Jskivington has requested assistance with the Surrey Stingers article. In particular the nomination for deletion put up by User:Simondrake. I'm looking into the case. If there's anything you'd like to tell me, you can contact me on my talk page or by email. Regards SilkTork 21:55, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

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Rospars
I saw you edited the Joe Rospars page. I was in SG with him, just curious if you were as well, and if we know each other. I can only think of two or three other fellow Sox fans I knew. Hiberniantears 14:48, 23 March 2007 (UTC) (aka GD)
 * By chance, were you also on the student court? Hiberniantears 14:32, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

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Seeking community input re standardizing baseball roster pages
Hi ... I'm leaving you this note because you recently made edits to one of the Major League Baseball roster pages. I've made a proposal for standardizing the format, structure and content of these pages here and would appreciate your input so that we may reach a consensus. Thanks. --Sanfranman59 05:44, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Re: User:Bigjimdawson
Glad to help. If you see vandalism and disruption this flagrant, please don't hesitate to seek WP:AIV. ˉˉanetode╦╩ 03:16, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

template: Colleges and universities in Rhode Island
No one had any problem leaving out CCRI for a year either. Please see the talkpage.--Loodog 02:25, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Saul Rogovin
Please stop edit warring. As indicated, by simply combining all paragraphs in every section into cumbersome large paragraphs, you reduce readability. It also makes the article less like an encylopaedia. If you wish to discuss further, please do so on the Rogovin talk page, rather than by reverting and edit warring. Thanks. --Epeefleche 14:15, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Ages to Infobox
when you add the age of a player to infoboxes can you please use {birth date and age|1922|10|27}

thanks, and sorry for not putting my name, for some reason I always forget--Yankees10 01:48, 18 June 2007 (UTC)Yankees10

CVAC / Conference Carolinas
While I agree that moving the CVAC page would be best, someone has already put up a Conference Carolinas page. And yes, the conference does still show as the CVAC, however that appears to be due to lackadaisical marketing rather than a lack of name change.

As per this conference press release, the name changed as of June 1st.

Added in edit, I forgot to sign: -Colslax 22:06, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Blocking
Hi, we have talked before, and I would like to know if you know how to get someone blocked from editing--Yankees10 17:53, 24 June 2007 (UTC)Yankees10

Thanks--Yankees10 18:04, 24 June 2007 (UTC)Yankees10

Colors
I dont know if you care about this but, Can you go to Reggie Jacksons and Jeff Nelson (baseball player) talk pages and vote for what colors they should have in there infoboxes, thanks--Yankees10 23:13, 24 June 2007 (UTC)Yankees10

Succession box glitches
I have noticed some succession box glitches with succession boxes at Baseball players such as Sandy Koufax. Please check any other boxes you may have edited.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 16:38, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Your warning to Wikisgmu
I noticed an IP removed this warning, and was about to revert it in, but had a bit problem finding what the vandalism to George Mason University should be. None of the users contributions to this article has been reverted as far I can see. This revertion by Hiberniantears is of something added here:. Are you sure you are looking at the right diff? Greswik 19:56, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I originally put the warning there when the user changed the college motto to "College for Dummies". Hiberniantears reverted the vandalism, but I noticed that there was no warning given, so I added one.  Like you, i was just reverting the page blanking. - Masonpatriot 20:19, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, you see, that motto was changed by an IP. It's added here: . Greswik 20:26, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Oops! You're right.  Sorry that I missed that! - Masonpatriot 21:33, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Reggie Jackson
Can you please go to Reggie jacksons talk page and vote for either A's or Yankees colors in the infobox--Yankees10 17:33, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

World Series championship templates
I was looking at one of the templates you created, Template:1977 New York Yankees, and I noticed that you list 20 players on that team. baseball-reference.com lists 38 players from that team. Is there a standard for inclusion/omission from these templates? Thanks. --rogerd 13:19, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * My sense from what I've done and other from the Baseball Wikiproject that have worked on the template have been to only put players that either played in that particular World Series or played a major part in the season but for whatever reasons didn't play in the World Series. For example, I put Rawly Eastwick on the 1976 Reds template because although he didn't play in the WS, he played a big part in the season an likely didn't play due to the fact that the Reds had a relatively easy 4-game sweep of the Yanks.  If you feel that certain players are omitted, please add them, but I wouldn't be in favor of putting all of the players who played that whole year on the template because adding players who were traded away, released, or September call-ups to the template would be kind of an information overload.  Hope this helps answer your question. - Masonpatriot 15:25, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, I was thinking of adding Fran Healy. He was a backup catcher who was on the team the whole season, played in 26 games, and got a ring, but I am having a hard time finding his uniform number.  baseball-reference.com doesn't seem to have uniform numbers, do you know of a source for historical uniform numbers of lesser known players? --rogerd 03:04, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Excellent Work on the Nav Boxes
I noticed you've pretty much covered all the World Series champions from the first half of the century in creating Nav Boxes. These are very helpful, and I know from having done it for 1935 and 1945 how much work it is. Great job! Cbl62 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cbl62 (talk • contribs) 03:44, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I appreciate the feedback and I'm glad that you can make use of the navboxes. - Masonpatriot 04:31, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Template:Syracuse Orange 2002-03 NCAA champions
Thanks for your participation in the discussion for Template:Syracuse Orange 2002-03 NCAA champions. I agree with your compromise, and, actually, the only players listed in that championship template are scholarship players. I excluded all of the walk-ons, well, because I don't find them notable. Chengwes 21:09, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Template query
I noticed you created Template:1989 Michigan basketball. What was your source? I added a couple of players who were on the roster. --TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 22:29, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

NCAA champion templates
Nice work with the templates. Just out of curiosity, is there a book/website that lists all of these rosters for easy reference? Zagalejo ^ ^  ^  19:37, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Duquesne Dukes
Hey, I wanted to thank you for your excellent work on the Duquesne Dukes men's basketball article. The roster addition looks great, and I'm impressed that you tackled recreating the year-by-year record. Alekjds talk 03:30, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I appreciate the feedback. I'm hoping to do the same for a number of the team-specific college basketball articles. - Masonpatriot 21:17, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Viewing Infoboxes...
Side by side

Is there a way to put in two info boxes side-x-side? Not necessarily in an article, but maybe in a sandbox to compare how they look easily? WikiDon 22:52, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Missed that one
Sorry about missing the vandalism that you had to fix. —Wknight94 (talk) 19:17, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
 * It almost slipped by me as well! All that matters is that someone caught it. - Masonpatriot 19:19, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Lee Smith
I'm curious, but was it your intention to remove the NL succession box here at Lee Smith (baseball)? I understand what you did with the AL succession box, but I wasn't sure if you mistakenly removed the NL box. Thanks, Nishkid64 (talk) 20:55, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry, didn't mean to delete it. I will replace it with a reformatted one when I swing through the National League saves champions today. - Masonpatriot 19:49, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Just Thought i'd tell you
I just thought i'd tell you that I added your name to a list of Wikipedians I Respect at my user page, and if you would like to delete your name you can--Yankees10 23:27, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Excellent Work
Thanks for the work on the Super Bowl champion templates. WAVY 10 Fan 19:18, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Template:Super Bowl XXVI
From what I gathered at Databasefootball.com, the following players played for the Redskins during the 1991 NFL season: John Brandes, Travis Curtis, Terry Hoage, Jimmie Johnson, Joe Johnson, Markus Koch, Ed Simmons, Ralph Tamm, and Clarence Vaughn. But I dont know if any of them played in the Super Bowl or the numbers they had. Is there a site or something your using? Also, I could not find any info on Ed Williams, are you sure he was on the team? Great templates, I will also check the other Redskins Super Bowl templates to see if there are any other players missing. Jwalte04 (talk) 05:13, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Super Bowl XXV/Eric Moore
I wanted to let you know that you mistakenly placed Template:Super Bowl XXV on Eric Moore (American football) and this is not the same Eric Moore that was on the team. The Eric Moore that article is for was 10 years old at the time. So please make sure the articles are for the correct players before you add them. Thanks.► Chris Nelson Holla! 06:01, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Help
Looking for help on this article [] CubanoDios (talk) 18:44, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Klecko
He still earned a ring though, as did all the players. Injured reserve players are still members of the team and should definitely be on these templates. Having just two of the templates there when Klecko has three rings is misleading and confusing.► Chris Nelson Holla! 00:31, 21 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Well there's a big difference between a minor leaguer that saw minimal action in the bigs and wasn't on the postseason roster, and a player like Klecko that was an active roster player until going on IR. Not to mention, he did have a number, just like everyone else on IR, so that's not an issue. At the very least, there should be a section before the main roster on the template that says "Reserve lists." What if a star player, a Peyton Manning, tore his ACL in the AFC championship and his team advanced? He'd be on IR for the Super Bowl, but he'd be on the sideline, he'd get a ring and he'd be a Super Bowl champion.► Chris Nelson Holla! 04:52, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Al Wistert
I noticed you did a lot of work on the Super Bowl Championship templates. I have a current WP:GAC in the queue for Al Wistert. I had asked at WP:MLB about getting pre-Super Bowl era championship templates for his page. What do you think?


 * What sources did you use for the Super Bowl Rosters?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:LOTD) 21:42, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Northwest Conference
I see you added a table of member teams from the Northwest Conference with school enrollment size. I was wondering where you got the numbers for school size, and whether you are counting undergrad or undergrad and graduate students combined. I think renaming the column to undergrad only would be better becuase undergrad students participate in sports, and as far as I know, grad students do not. Also, according to the Willamette wikipedia page, it has 1810 undergrads, and 659 grad students. I would be in favor of not combining these numbers and just using the 1810 who are eligable to participate. I will change the category to undergrad and cite the numbers if you are all right with this.--DerRichter (talk) 09:09, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Super Bowl XVIII
What is your roster source for Super Bowl XVIII? I am working on Ed Muransky who played 16 games for the Raiders that year.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 23:35, 3 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I think we should have a standard policy naming injured reserve, practice squad, midseason trades and cuts at the bottom of these templates since you have an official source for such information. This affects two articles Ed Muransky Super Bowl XVIII and Rod Payne Super Bowl XXXV.  However, it seems there is a problem with your source for XXXV. These are essentially your templates.  I realize that there is a much higher redlink percentage for these asterisk type players, but I think they should be officially noted if the info is available.  Could you add such info to your templates across the board?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 17:20, 4 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I think it would be consistend with WP to say X source says these players were officially affiliated with the team during the regular season or playoffs and were not on the Super Bowl game day roster. Pre-season cuts are not included in such a list.  I think this should be handled on a sport by sport basis.  Baseball September callups are a different animal.  On WP, we should not be making WP:OR decisions on which players from an official list are important enough.  I think we should say these players are footnotes at the bottom.  They did not play in the Super Bowl, but were affiliated with the team.  I think all footnotes should be added for consistency with WP policy.  It is not for any wikipedian to decide who is important.  We are researchers for a tertiary resource.  You do not have a source that says Phil Simms was more important than the other players not on the gameday roster.  Your source lists him as a footnote just like the rest.  You are not being true to your source.  Your lengthy response is appreciated as this needs to be fleshed out.  NFL roster limits have always had odd numbers for the reason that player must vote on controversial stuff I assume.  I imagine playoff shares are such an issue.  I don't think they just give away money.  The practice squad players must have a non-trivial role, IMO.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 18:13, 4 December 2007 (UTC)


 * By the way. At one point World Series rosters needed cleaning up because they were going by composite box scores which only show players who appeared in games and not the 25 man roster. In some World Series many 5th starters or middle relievers never appeared in the series and were never included.  1983 Baltimore Orioles' Dennis Martinez comes to mind.  Do you know if this has been straightened out?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 18:13, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Proposed changes to cbb link
I'd like your feedback on my proposal at Template Talk:cbb link. Hoof Hearted (talk) 14:30, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

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