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WikiProject College football January 2008 Newsletter
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Al Wistert GA
Al Wistert, which is an article that I requested you make navbox championship templates for has progressed to good article status. Thanks for helping. Feel free to come by and either edit or make comments. You may want to post this somewhere: --TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 16:16, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Green Bay Packers Wikiproject!
Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 07:45, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Small College Coaches
Hey, I really appreciate your work on the small college coaches, specifically Dave Clawson and the Fordham navbox! If you'd like to coordinate on small college football programs, please let me know!--Paul McDonald (talk) 16:40, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Cornell Coaches template
Pop's first name was added because the template includes multiple Warners (Pop and brother Bill). I thought it important to differentiate between the two Warners. Do you disagree? Cornell2010 (talk) 15:28, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Baseball HOF templates
Nice work! :) And thanks for categorizing them so I won't have to do it later. :) --WoohookittyWoohoo! 06:37, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

HOF Templates
you know how you made the baseball hall of fame templates, do plan on doing the same for the pro football hall of fame--Yankees10 17:05, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually, I'm working on them right now! --Masonpatriot (talk) 17:06, 3 February 2008 (UTC)


 * alright, thanks--Yankees10 17:08, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject College football February 2008 Newsletter
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Template:Super Bowl XLII
The template which i linked in the heading; you reverted my edit on that template. I have no problems with the format that you put the other templates in, but i just thought that my change made it more aesthetically appealing. Plus not everyone of those coaches is exactly notable. I know Wikipedia is not about aesthetics, but just wanted to mention it. The Little Corporal (talk) 03:12, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject College football March 2008 Newsletter
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Invite
Jccort (talk) 03:39, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

NCAA Tournament bids
I noticed you did some editing on the NCAA tournament bids article. I was hoping you might be able to contribute some in this article. NCAA Women's Division I Tournament Bids By School--Josh (talk) 01:50, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

template:2008 Kansas Basketball
Stop removing the names of roster players from the template. Just because some of the players were walk-ons or didn't play significant minutes does not mean that their names should not or would not be included on a template. Wikipedia is about providing the best and most information possible, not ignoring or trying to remove information about the players who won't be NBA players. The team is part of history, all the players should be recognized. Demoares (talk) 07:02, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Since your concern rests in some players not meeting the notability requirements you should have stated that immediately instead of just undoing the edits and leaving the original navbox, which contained individuals who also would not meet notability standards. I have removed those players who do not have a page from the navbox. Demoares (talk) 05:31, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Stanley Cup Champion templates
I've noticed that you have begun making templates for the teams that win the Stanley Cup. As a member of WP:HOCKEY, I would have to suggest that it's not really the best thing to get into. We've had several discussions about whether to keep those or not, and the consensus has been to not keep them for hockey. The reason being that they clutter the page, and for multiple winners it just looks terrible. A prime example that is always cited in this case is Henri Richard, a member of the Montreal Canadiens. Richard won the Cup 11 times in his career. Having 11 templates like that would just ruin the page. Any comments you have regarding that would be welcome at the project page, WT:HOCKEY. Kaiser matias (talk) 00:38, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * And thank you for being civil enough to participate in the discussion. So many users that get involved in situations like this just cause problems instead of trying to find a solution. A heads up though, while I'm personally torn between trying to limit navigation boxes on pages and providing information, the general consensus has been to keep things like this off the majority of pages. But we shall see what happens. Kaiser matias (talk) 01:33, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Lou Gehrig
Hi MasonP, I see you've added to the Infobox that Gehrig was elected to the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee. I don't believe that's correct. According to the HOF article, the Veterans Committee wasn't formed until 1953. It is true that Gehrig was elected to the HOF in 1939 and the 5-yr period was waived, but as I recall from various books on the subject, he was voted by the sportswriters.

Also, the cited reference does not say he was elected by the Veterans Committee.

At the moment, I'm just checking my Watchlist on my Blackberry while waiting for a tow truck (long story), so I can't really look into this further at the moment, but I figured the best course would be to bring this to your attention in the meantime.  JGHowes talk  -  20:19, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thx for the quick reply. I'll delve into my Lou Gehrig books tonite, especially Robinson's Lou Gehrig, Iron Horse in his time which should shed some light on it. JGHowes talk  -  20:39, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject College football May 2008 Newsletter
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Disambiguation
Just something I noticed you doing once or twice and realized you might be unaware of the proper way to disambiguate. When it comes to disambiguating names, its policy to always use the middle name before you use brackets such as (baseball). Anyways just thought I would let you know since I noticed you moving things from the middle name version to the bracket version. Brackets are a last resort if you cannot disambiguate any other way. -Djsasso (talk) 14:25, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Roberto Clemente
This edit summary was misleading, do not remove the nationality field from an infobox unless its already mentioned in the lead. -  Ca ri bb e a  n ~ H. Q.  20:29, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah, nevermind, I just noticed that. -  Ca ri bb e a  n ~ H. Q.  20:50, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject College football June 2008 Newsletter
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Thanks for your response at the Pump, but please post where it will count
I appreciated your response to my post at Village pump (miscellaneous) but I guess I didn't make myself clear there. I'm hoping editors will post at the Obama talk page in order to get a broad consensus there. Would you mind reposting the comment on that talk page? Sorry for the trouble, and thanks for contributing. Noroton (talk) 17:57, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, you weren't the only one -- and that alerted me to the fact that I should have written it differently. I'm just grateful for any response. I'll even take votes that go against my own view! Much appreciated.Noroton (talk) 20:46, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

P. J. Brown
Hi MasonP, are you sure that P. J. Brown has the proper spacing? Since December, WP:NCP has said, "Generally, use the most common format of a name", and it no longer mentions spaces after punctuation. —LOL (talk) 15:57, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I've noticed those inconsistencies. I'm surprised that nobody's been bold enough to make all the changes according to NCP. You're the second person to move the article back to "P. J. Brown" since I moved it to "P.J. Brown" on June 4, so I don't want to be very fussy about it. —LOL (talk) 16:17, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Rollback
Done! You should be all set with rollback. Let me know if it is not working, in the event the settings did not take. If you have not yet, take a few minutes to read up on rollback at Rollback feature. It's not rocket science, but worth a quick look. I saw no red flags in your contributions... if you're willing to brave the politics of the current RfA process, you'd probably have good use for the administrator tools as well. We probably knew each other at Mason, so I could even vouch for you. Have fun with the new tools! Hiberniantears (talk) 05:00, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

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Re: Andrews
No hard feelings. I didn't even notice you were the editor; if I did I would have gone a bit easier on ya. ;) But I have to cleanup a lot of punctuation-, capitalization-, and spelling-challenged (otherwise good) edits from IPs on a daily basis, so I do get annoyed. But again, it wasn't meant in a mean-spirited way, just kind of me grumbling as I drag in my mop and bucket. :D  Pats 1  T / C  00:37, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject College football July 2008 Newsletter
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Cornell Law
That whole section about the "consistently outranking Columbia/NYU Law" is preposterous to say the least. To the best of my knowledge it has occurred once in the past decade or so. Also, the statistics it cited were from the July 2005 bar exam. Hardly breaking news. Check out http://www.ilrg.com/rankings/law/ if you would like some updated statistics. I see you have a JD and went to Cornell. I don't know that Wikipedia needs that kind of revisionist history. Rms869 (talk) 06:52, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

I adjusted my error. Before you want to start throwing around assumption of good faith, I know that I'm allowed to call people out for conflicts of interest, which you clearly have. Rms869 (talk) 15:47, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Nearly every edit I've made on this site, save for one or two, has been adjusting punctuation or spelling errors. Is it necessary for me to put a summary for that? Just out of curiosity. Rms869 (talk) 16:51, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Baseball Newsletter
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'Virginia Commonwealth University', not 'Virginia Commonwealth'
Regarding Template:Colonial_Athletic_Association, VCU has requested: "When referring to the Rams, please use VCU. Virginia Commonwealth University is acceptable when using other institutions full names. Please do not use Va. Commonwealth or Virginia Commonwealth." Opertinicy (talk) 01:01, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject College football August 2008 Newsletter
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WikiProject College football September 2008 Newsletter
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Re: Category: Oklahoma City NBA players
I reverted your edits and restored the category because, since they're on the team's roster, that officially makes them players for that team (if it doesn't, what does?)-Should any of them get traded or released before playing a single game for OKC (highly unlikely), you can remove that category from the page. Tom Danson (talk) 17:10, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

HoF managers navbox
I added a few names to the navbox, based on whether their substantial managing accomplishments are mentioned on their HoF plaque; they were generally elected before specific provisions for electing managers were formally established in 1953. MisfitToys (talk) 20:44, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

October Baseball WikiProject Newsletter
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WikiProject College football October 2008 Newsletter
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Why Would You Add a Template to a Player That is Obviously Not the Same Person?
Why would you include a template for the KC Chiefs Superbowl appearance to the article Bill_Walsh_(American_football_player), when it should be obvious that it is not the same Bill Walsh? Stevenmitchell (talk) 15:28, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Policy/Guideline on Navboxes?
I noticed that you've added several navboxes to John McGraw, an article near and dear to me. There seems to be quite a few of them on this particular article. Is there any policy or guideline on how many navboxes constitute too many navboxes? S. D. D.J.Jameson 19:20, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject College football December 2008 Newsletter
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YOB instead of DOB. Check instructions
Hi. Concerning this edit of your I would like to inform you that for article pages we use Category:Year of birth missing instead of Category:Date of birth unknown. The latter should be used only in Talk Pages. Please read the instructions given in the categories pages. Thanks, Magioladitis (talk) 09:13, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Joe Gordon
Gordon has been elected to the Hall of Fame but will not be a member until he is inducted in the summer. This is comparable to Obama being elected president in November, but he won't actually be president until he is sworn in. Gordon should not be added to the Template:Baseball Hall of Fame second basemen until he is a full member. This whole issue was hashed out on Wikipedia when Cal Ripken and Kirby Puckett were voted in. If you go to the official Hall of Fame website, they make it quite clear that someone is not a member of the Hall until induction. 24.106.223.2 (talk) 18:35, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject College football January 2009 Newsletter
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Naismith Player of the Year
As you add the template, you might want to remove the successor/predecessor links in the articles (the women, at least, have it). (John User:Jwy talk) 21:23, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

WP:3RR
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution.  Grsz 11 -- Review  04:41, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject College football February 2009 Newsletter
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Super Bowl Template addition
You recently undid a change to the Super Bowl 43 template. I feel that the change may be valuable to the template. I've added a note to the template's talk page to discuss. Please share your opinion there. Thanks.--Deejayk (talk) 00:12, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Template: Baltimore Orioles owners
The Jerold Hoffberger entry is still loaded with inaccuracies and needs to be fixed. Hoffberger and his National Brewing Co. didn't become the Orioles' largest shareholder until 1965. Clarence Miles held total control of the team in its first two years. He was replaced by James Keelty Jr. as president and Joseph Iglehart as chairman of the board. Lee MacPhail later succeeded Keelty. Iglehart actually held the largest stake in the franchise before his departure in 1965. All of these facts are detailed in The Baseball Business by James Edward Miller. Read more about this book here, and here.

Even though Hoffberger was the greatest franchise owner in the history of professional sports, mentioning one person's name multiple times in a template is redundant and visually awkward.The Ink Daddy! (talk) 00:04, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

2009 NIT
At first I was against the overlinking, but I later read the following sentence in WP:MOSLINK: "Link only the first occurrence of an item. A link that had last appeared much earlier in the article may be repeated, but generally not in the same section. (Table entries are an exception to this; each row of a table should be able to stand on its own.)" The bracket is technically a table, so the overlinking should be okay in this sense. What do you think? BlueAg09 (Talk) 01:13, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

NAIA and NCAA DII Men's Basketball
Hey, I noticed you were the creator of the NCAA DII tournament pages. Keep up the good work! I am trying to get pages for the NAIA tournaments. I'm generally done with 1938-1959, and 2000-present. Any ideas for me? I'd like to do some table with teams by berth add something more information than just a bracket. But it is pretty time consuming. At this point I have a basic frame for all 1960s lined up. If you have any suggestions, tips or tricks to make it easier, let me know. The sources and everything should all be on there. I'm trying to make it consistent all throughout the years. Also I add a portal link for your discussion tabs. (WikiProject College basketball|class=start|importance=mid) And if you could kindly, or maybe I will if you don't mind me adding it to the DII pages, a like the the respective year in the See also section. like 1959 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament thanks again! Moonraker0022 (talk) 21:00, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

96
The box is called 1996 World Series champions, not roster. Each of the players added have 1996 World Series rings (Example: Dwight Gooden and Pat Kelly), and while maybe not on the World Series roster, they nonetheless played a factor on the 1996 team. Beast from da East (talk) 18:36, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Each member of a specific World Series champion deserves credit for his part and not all of them are September Call-ups, Dwight Gooden had the greatest moment for the Yankees during 1996, Pat Kelly had been with the team since 1991, Ricky Bones arrived via trade, Jorge Posada, who was on the original template, was a call-up and wore 55 not 20, but all received rings and are part of the 1996 World Series champions. Beast from da East (talk) 20:22, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't think they should be treated different, but the Yankees are my favorite team and the only team I really care about, I'm all for Cesar Crespo of the Sox, Ricky Bones of the Yankees and any other small time player for any team getting the recognition they rightly deserve because they were on the team.Beast from da East (talk) 20:41, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * The fact is they are all considered World Series Champions, everyone from Derek Jeter and John Wetteland to Ricky Bones and Matt Howard are considered a part of the 1996 World Series Champions. How much time they played doesn't matter, the fact that they played for the team during the 1996 season is all that matters and is why both men have World Series rings.Beast from da East (talk) 16:08, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I already told you that each navbox should be the same, I just did the Yankees one because they are my favorite team, but I will do a few others in the near future.Beast from da East (talk) 21:21, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Look, I really don't understand your stupid methods, They Are Champions, It Doesn't Matter How Many Games They Played They Will Alway Be Considered Champions. Look at Jared Lorenzen of the Super Bowl Champion, he didn't play in the playoffs, but is he a Super Bowl Champion? Yes he is. So can you stupidly reverting the teamplates when those players are clearly champions with rings to prove it.Beast from da East (talk) 23:41, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
 * How many games they played doesnt matter they were part of a World Series chamionship team. Let me ask you this do you have any proof that they weren't part of the team? Maybe you should look at a player's transactions to see if they were indeed still part of the team. And if you happened to get traded (Ex: Garciaparra) then they are clearly not on that team of in the organization. At least Bones was still in the organization and could have been called up if he was needed. I still don't understand what in God's name you are trying to do, these men are clearly champions and who are you to denie men like Ricky Bones or Jim Mecir their rightful spot on the World Series Champions.Beast from da East (talk) 23:19, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
 * If you happen to view the 2000 World Series Champion New York Yankees photo, Roberto Kelly, Chris Turner and Allen Watson are all in that World Series photo, but according to you they aren't worthy enough to be included, but the New York Yankees team clearly recognizes these players as part of their World Series Champion roster. Why because dispite their lack of playing time, they were part of the 2000 New York Yankees.Beast from da East (talk) 10:49, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Are blind or just plain stupid? The New York Yankees themselves clearly count these players as a part of their World Series Championship team, I don't understand why you can't just let it go, what are you getting paid for your edits? I trust the New York Yankees alot more then I trust a Boston Red Sox fan who clearly has no idea what a champion is. Kelly, Watson, etc., etc. are all champions, just let it go.Beast from da East (talk) 19:05, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Forget the Call-Ups and Bones, what about players who clearly had an impact on the team such as 1996's Dwight Gooden, who had the defining moment in the 1996 season with his no-hitter?Beast from da East (talk) 23:03, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Luis Castillo
Hi ... I didn't understand the reason for your last edit to Luis Castillo (baseball).--Ethelh (talk) 22:48, 18 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Tx. That was the explanation on you edit, but in fact you delinked stolen bases ... I thought the link was appropriate as was.  Tx.--Ethelh (talk) 02:48, 19 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Tx.--Ethelh (talk) 18:37, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Request
Please dont combine the years in the MLB player infoboxes. For example it was agreed to at WP:baseball that it should be like this: Not --Yankees10 22:23, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Los Angeles Dodgers (1978, 1981–1983)
 * Texas Rangers (1983–1985)
 * Philadelphia Phillies (1985–1986)
 * Oakland Athletics (1986–1992)
 * Toronto Blue Jays (1993–1994)
 * Oakland Athletics (1995)
 * Los Angeles Dodgers (1978, 1981–1983)
 * Texas Rangers (1983–1985)
 * Philadelphia Phillies (1985–1986)
 * Oakland Athletics (1986–1992, 1995)
 * Toronto Blue Jays (1993–1994)


 * Im having a hard time finding it since theres like 12 pages of stuff, but Ill leave you the link when I find it.--Yankees10 23:39, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Leading the league in wins; Deletion of material
Hi ... can you please give us some guidance as to your thoughts on the issue discussed at ?

In short, I input a sentence that pitcher x was leading the league in wins. That is mentioned in more than one article, and in fact the focus of at least one -- as reflected by its title.

A fellow editor believes the sentence should be deleted now. I am happy with it being deleted when out of date, but believe that deletion is not mandated now. Analagous to our having stats in infoboxes, that turn sour with time (and are replaced, in time). Many thanks.--Ethelh (talk) 01:47, 12 June 2009 (UTC).--Ethelh (talk) 00:32, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Milwaukee Brewers categories
I understand your point, but even if I accept that my title can cause as much confusion as yours did, I'm not sure that trading confusions is the solution. Perhaps there's a compromise? "Milwaukee Brewers (American Association) players" isn't an option, because there were of course two teams with that name. If that's not an option, and neither my name nor yours can accurately describe the team without potentially confusing somebody, what other options do you see? SixFourThree (talk) 18:53, 23 June 2009 (UTC)SixFourThree
 * Looking at your examples, there is only one San Diego Padres minor league club with a category, and |no Baltimore Orioles category] under that name (did I mess up the search? No sign of one on Babe Ruth's page). What's different about the Milwaukee Brewers is that there were several distinct minor league franchises which used that name, and players have already been misclassified as a result of this confusion.  So how do we separate the pages so Connie Mack and Eddie Mathews don't end up getting lumped together in the same list?  SixFourThree (talk) 16:24, 25 June 2009 (UTC)SixFourThree
 * I think I might do that, not because I'm trying to be difficult but because I think there's got to be a better solution than lumping in players from different eras and organizations in one cat. Thanks!  SixFourThree (talk) 16:39, 25 June 2009 (UTC)SixFourThree

Stats in Infobox
Because according to the Template:Infobox MLB player it is for the players most important stats. And for Pie Traynor, home runs is not one of them.--Yankees10 18:04, 25 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Fine. My personal reason for not having these statistics is that I think it should be the players most important stats in this order: batting average, hits or home runs depending on which was more, RBI, and then stolen bases if they had a lot in there career. And in the case for Pie Traynor he was not known for home runs or stolen bases and did not finish with a high total in either category, therefore there inclusion is not necessary. Thats just my opinion.--Yankees10 18:25, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Changed opinion
You are undoubtedly watching the Navbox deletion page, but I wanted to note that I've changed my opinion - I agree that current roster nav boxes aren't appropriate.-- SPhilbrick  T  16:52, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Hola!
Hi, there! I noticed you do a lot of university article-editing. You should consider joining us over at WP:UNI! Anyway, take care! --King of the Arverni (talk) 14:32, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Well done, with all the template cleanup. I just noticed that discussion now, but I would've voted delete per WP:NAV, as well. Cheers! --King of the Arverni (talk) 14:11, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Steroids
UM You mean NPOV as in Written by a Red Sox Fan?

As a Yankee Fan I think I was pretty damn fair, including numerous sources. TWO OF THEM FROM BOSTON EG The Boston Herald, & Boston Globe. I also went on to say any wins or records that may have been obtained by the Red Sox, with Players whom MAY have used PED's DO NOT deserve to have an asterisk added to them, see article talk page unless you deleted that as well. I would say I have been very fair considering. YOU on the other hand, the Deleting an entire section on Possible Steroid use by certain Red Sox players, by a Red Sox fan is about as far from neutral as you get.--Subman758 (talk) 18:59, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Please note that I did not bring up rooting interests (and I challenge you to find any edit in my entire editing history which shows such a tendency), and coming at me like that shows a lack of WP:AGF. I was actually responsing to concerns brought forward on WP:BASEBALL (by a non-Red Sox fan who didn't think the section was appropriate, and I agreed).  Bring the discussion there if you wish to address it with a broader audience.  Thanks. - Masonpatriot (talk) 19:17, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

WP:Hornbook -- a new WP:Law task force for the J.D. curriculum
Andrew Gradman talk/WP:Hornbook 20:43, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Section Writing
I've been thinking about your new section on my discussion page and I thought in some ways it is correct, but I honestly enjoy editing and updating the stats as it is being done even if it takes me 30 or 40 edits to do it. It would be much less work to do it all at once (for example, at the end of the day), but I still enjoy updating at the time a strikeout or home run is recorded. I just wanted to tell you my opinion.
 * Sorry! I didn't read your directions! Jonathansuh (talk) 03:37, 2 August 2009 (UTC) c Jonathansuh (talk) 03:35, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Article Editing Conflict
Hi I've seen you undo my edits on the List of Major League Baseball leaders in career wins and I thought of a way to peacefully settle this conflict. I will leave it to you to edit the all-time wins list and the all-time saves list, and you leave me to edit the usual articles i do like the all time homer list, all time hits list, and all time strikeouts list. I think this should help until other problems arise. What do you think? Thanks. Jonathansuh (talk) 04:20, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I understand where you're coming from, but keep in mind that neither of us WP:OWN any article on WP. While I don't have any plans to work on other lists for the time being, please see the discussion at WP:BASEBALL where some other editors agreed with the points I addressed with you in our previous conversation (while noting that policing it would be very time-consuming).  So no, I don't plan on editing other stat lists for the time being, but that may change or someone else may come along.  The most important issue is making a better and more coherant encyclopedia, not our editing preferences.  Thanks. - Masonpatriot (talk) 05:09, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Council of Independent Colleges
Thanks for the cite; I'm simply surprised that its existence is never mentioned on campus, as I never heard of it during my four years there. Nyttend backup (talk) 15:33, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

I need your help --Σύμμαχος (talk) 00:31, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Sports TFDs
I imagine an effort to pare down sports templates is an extensive one. However, if you want to be consistent about redundant templates, in addition to athletic team and coaches templates, templates such as retired numbers templates should be removed. You may want to consider nominating templates such as Template:Wolverines Football Retired Numbers, which I modeled off of another similar template. There is probably a bunch of these and there should probably be a group TFD.--76.193.20.156 (talk) 13:58, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

You Need to Start Checking Your Work
Regarding this edit:
 * 1) DEFAULTSORT is set to PAGENAME by default per WP:DEFAULTSORT. Ergo, adding  to the University of Rochester article is unnecessary.
 * 2) While "Goerge → George" may be correct, you changed "Goergen → Georgen", which is patently not how Robert B. Goergen spells his name.
 * -- DanielPenfield (talk) 14:17, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the mess-up, as it was an honest mistake through WP:AWB. Thanks for fixing it.  On another note, if you have any future issues to discuss with me, please do so by talking TO me and not AT at me.  You could accomplish the same result with a more civil tone.  Pointing fingers and referring to good faith edits as "damage" in your edit summaries helps no one and infers that I am engaged in vandalism.  Thanks. - Masonpatriot (talk) 17:02, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Your edit of Syracuse University
Your good faith edit to Syracuse University as seen here mistakenly corrected Brethen to Brethren. In this case Brethen is a name and is correctly rendered, see here. WP:AWB is not infallible and is often caught out by foreign language terms and proper nouns. You need to take a little time to question AWB's wisdom in each edit. Please put things right and take more care in future. Gaius Cornelius (talk) 15:45, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia
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Top Strike Out Pitchers
I really don't know how to use WP. I think this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_100_Major_League_Baseball_strikeout_pitchers should add another section. Most strikeouts is not the perfect barometer for the best strikeout pitcher. In my opinion K/9, K/BB, and K per 27 atbats would be a better indicator of true strikeout dominance.

Single Season Dominance. http://mlb.mlb.com/stats/historical/leaders.jsp?c_id=mlb&baseballScope=mlb&statType=2&sortByStat=K9&timeFrame=3&timeSubFrame2=4

Lifetime http://mlb.mlb.com/stats/historical/leaders.jsp?c_id=mlb&baseballScope=mlb&statType=2&sortByStat=K9&timeFrame=3&timeSubFrame2=0

Best strikeout pitchers with control Single season http://mlb.mlb.com/stats/historical/leaders.jsp?c_id=mlb&baseballScope=mlb&statType=2&sortByStat=K%2FBB&timeFrame=3&timeSubFrame2=4

Lifetime http://mlb.mlb.com/stats/historical/leaders.jsp?c_id=mlb&baseballScope=mlb&statType=2&sortByStat=K%2FBB&timeFrame=3&timeSubFrame2=0

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Adding Citations to Agnes Scott Wiki
Hi, I noticed that you updated the ASC wiki several times recently and was wondering if you had time and inclination to help me get started with editing this entry. There is a lack of references in several places. I have a relative that attends the school, so I have an interest in the subject matter.

This is my first attempt to do anything in wikipedia, so I don't even know where the bathroom is yet. I thought I might try making one example citation to get started. If I got the hang of it, I would continue to add the missing citations until the problems were cleared up.

Example I have the book, A Full and Rich Measure - 100 Years of Educating Women at Agnes Scott College, 1889-1989. On page 6 is this sentence, "In 1907, the Southern Association awarded full accreditation, and the eighteen-year-old school in Decatur became the first accredited college or university in Georgia." This could be the citation for the middle paragraph of the ASC History section. (The middle paragraph should be rewritten slightly to more fully coincide with this reference.)

Question I like the way the Reference section is done in the Jane Austen wiki. Would it be ok to change the Agnes Scott Reference section along those lines? i.e. Citation No/Book Name, copyright, etc/Page No.

Concern I hesitate because I read in one of the Wikipedia getting-started pages that footnotes should be added in the style of the existing article. But this existing ASC article is deficient in that regard. So, is it ok to change the style?

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Stolen base list
Hi. I've seen you editing the List of Major League Baseball leaders in career stolen bases. This is kind of weird because there also is a List of Major League Baseball players with 300 stolen bases. Which one should we go by? Isn't there something that lets us make 2 articles into 1? What do you think? Jonathansuh (talk) 21:55, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I redirected the article you referenced to the more comprehensive list. A standard length is preferable to an arbitrary statistical milestone.  Please note that the more comprehensive list is updated at the start of play and should not be updated in real time.  Thanks.  - Masonpatriot (talk) 00:42, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

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List of Major League Baseball leaders in career ERA
Hi I saw that you renamed and greatly expanded the List of Major League Baseball leaders in career ERA. I do not mean to offend you, but I want to ask that when the 2010 baseball season comes, stats are updated as games go, not after each day. The only reason I ask you this favor is because I created this article, now I'm not saying I own this article but I was the creator and I'd like to keep it the way it's been running. Thanks. Jonathansuh (talk) 22:27, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, you just said that you don't own the page, but this very much sounds like a WP:OWN issue. It's hard to say what will be the course of action six or so months from now, but real-time updating of articles is not a preferable method of producing stable lists for WP (as we've discussed before).  Also, discussions on WP:Baseball have shown that other editors are of the same opinion.  Once you create an article, list or whatnot, it belongs to the project with no conditions.  I'm happy to discuss this issue more when spring rolls around. - Masonpatriot (talk) 16:08, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, I agree with you on this article. It's very hard to edit a pitcher's ERA real-time. Jonathansuh (talk) 23:52, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Bill Dickey
Hi, nice work on the baseball items I've come across. Just did a edit sweep on the Bill Dickey article (Hall of Fame mention to stand-alone second graph, created sections for the page, etc.) and removed a paragraph (See discussion page). Would you mind taking a look at it for accuracy etc. Thanks. Another item, I've noticed quite a few Hall of Fame pages have no photos, even as major as Ford and Paige--maybe a group of baseball editors can list the pages without photos in one place to be worked on. Thanks again, Randy Kryn (talk) 11:04, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

TFD
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Tony Taylor
I think that the 2,007 hits should be there but not the stolen bases. 234 stolen bases over a 19 year career is not notable. Stolen bases should be in the infobox only if they were known for stolen bases in their career and have a high total.--Yankees10 21:50, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. Like I said, I put it back in because it was in your propviosu edit.  I'm fine with hits taking it's place though.  I know we both do a lot of work on similar areas, and that you do a lot of good work on the infoboxes, so I don't want to just needlessly butt heads.  Just want to be on the same page, that's all.  I think sometimes the navboxes (not necessarily your edits) only use stats to portray players in the most positive light possible, where that should be the role and is pushing a POV.  So keeping with Triple Cornw stats (as decided at WP:Baseball) and maybe one or two other notable stats avoids that issue.  Thanks. - Masonpatriot (talk) 21:56, 5 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Ok so should I add the hits and remove the stolen bases.--Yankees10 22:01, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I already removed the stolen bases, feel free to re-add the hits at your leisure. - Masonpatriot (talk) 15:29, 6 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Ok, thanks.--Yankees10 16:15, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Template:2009 New York Yankees
I don't know if I agree that they had to be on the postseason roster. Nady and Wang weren't left off by choice, as were players like Edwar, Albaladejo, and others. Nady and Wang were honored in the parade specifically, while others who were left off by choice weren't at the parade. I think that counts for something. --Muboshgu (talk) 04:42, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
 * That's a pretty subjective standard, anybody can be honored at a parade and each team woul probably do their "parade" differently. If you go back to the discussion we had about these issues at WP:Baseball consensus was in the direction of limiting navboxes to players that were on the post-season roster.  A number of editors wanted to limit it further to just the WS roster, though I am not supportive of going that far. The discussion at WP:Baseball that I referenced can be found here.  Thanks and let me know if you have other thoughts or suggestions. - Masonpatriot (talk) 05:13, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

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Big Jim Gaffney
Hello Masonpatriot -- I am working on a bio of James E. Gaffney as part of a book project on the 1914 Braves. I would greatly appreciate it if you could provide with the sources where you found put about his parents and wife, please. Thank you. Rory1262 (talk) 19:47, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi and thanks for the message. I checked out the page you were referring to, and I was not the editor who included the information about Gaffney's family.  I merely created the page with rudimentary info about his ownership of the Braves franchise.  Please check out the editing history and see which editor added that info.  Thanks. - Masonpatriot (talk) 16:36, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

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all-time saves leaders
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Pittsburgh Pirates owners
Hi there.

We seem to have a bit of an issue. According to email correspondence from the Benswanger family, he was never an owner. He ran the club and the front of the house after the death of Dreyfuss in '32, Florence Dreyfuss inherited and owned the franchise until the sale in '46. MLB seems to have that wrong. It is from a trusted email address and contains relevant, accurate information. What to do? Keegan (talk) 08:24, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
 * From this:
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Infobox National Invitation Tournament
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Interested in creating an article?
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College sports coaching record tables
Masonpatriot, I noticed some of your recent edits to add head coaching record tables for college basketball coaches, e.g. Edward J. Hickox. A few items:


 * Team fight names should appear in the subheadings.
 * Individual basketball seasons should be expressed in the form of 1940–41, not 1940–1941.
 * Also endashes, not hyphens, should be used to punctuate records and tied conference finishes. See Phog Allen for good example the preferred formatting.

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NCAA D-II tournament infobox
Mason, I noticed you created a new template for NCAA Division II basketball tournaments. Not bad, but I noticed one change that needs to be made.

Unlike the D-I and D-III tournaments, in which four teams advance to the final site, the D-II tournaments for both men and women have eight teams reaching the finals site. The NCAA doesn't even use "Final Four" to describe the semifinals—but does use (and has trademarked) "Elite Eight" to describe its D-II final rounds.

My suggestion:
 * Keep the "Champions" and "Runner-Up" fields the same.
 * Replace "Final Four" in the "Semifinalists" field with "Elite Eight".
 * Add a "Quarterfinalists" field (listing all four), including a tag indicating Elite Eight counts.

Think this is OK? — Dale Arnett (talk) 17:04, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

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my uncle bill virga was a utility player for the sf seals between 48'-50' he is 88yrs old now, he is unsure of his shirt # either 16 or 25 unfortunate for him he left baseball to serve in the war apparently, herb caen wrote about him in his column

do you know where or have links i can research?

thank you ~ Me925 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Me925 (talk • contribs) 19:06, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

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Isn't it customary to suppress the categories on pages like User:Masonpatriot/Working page 2? It's showing up on several categories.

Normally it is done by adding a front colon like this in markup  which renders as Category:Lists of schools in Connecticut, and disables the function. However, any sorting key then has to be punted in favor of proper display, which is maybe why you (intentionally?) broke the category markup on another subpage of yours... ...so you probably already know all of this :)

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Hello again. I now see that user Kaovf added the leading colons on your other user subpage here and then you later removed them while also removing a bracket from each here. I am going to assume this is the way you prefer and I am now going do the same at User:Masonpatriot/Working page 2. All the best and have a great day! DB1729 (talk) 21:13, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

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