User talk:Matt91486/Archive 1

This page archives from November 2003 to June 2007.

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Minnesota meetup
A meetup of Wikipedians in Minnesota is proposed: please stop by the discussion page if interested. Jonathunder 22:38, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Reminder: Meetup October 29, one o'clock, Mall of America. Jonathunder 16:18, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject World Leaders by year
Thanks for your message about the project. I am going to be putting some effort into the project now and together I think we can safely say the project is active again. Therefore I have removed the project from the inactive category.

I agree coordinating could be useful to make what is a huge task easier. I have created a basic template to put on the talk pages - Template:WikiProject Leaders by year - any improvements you can make would be welcome. If we start gradually putting this template on pages as we edit that page we may get more people actively joining the project. At the moment I am picking easy states from the To do list and then completing those for all years.

Any suggestions you have on how we can coordinate better would be welcome. Davewild 16:37, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Battle of Sangarará, was selected for DYK!
Thanks for your contributions!  Nish kid 64  16:14, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Augustin Cochin (historian), was selected for DYK!
Thanks for your contributions!  Nish kid 64  14:57, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

MN KB State (St. Anthony)
You recently wrote that St. Anthony had only been to state three times in its history. I was wondering if you could provide verification of this statement. I know the historical results only list them as having gone to state 3 times, but a.) those are only the Top 6 finishes, and b.) the State meet has been going on since 1979, and we have very little historical information. If you have any information to add, please let me know! Lmeister 17:45, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

In my experience, newspapers (except for maybe the Morrison County Record) are not very good sources when it comes to knowledge bowl. Take for example what happened last year when Staples-Motley qualified for state. The Brainerd Daily Dispatch (or Disgrace, as you will) said it was the first time SM had qualified for state. However, a simple archive search for "staples knowledge bowl state" revealed that they had last gone to state in 1999, a trip that was not billed as their first. What can you say? Nobody cares about KB. I don't know how old or successful the program at St. Anthony is, but it's certainly a very real possibility that you qualified previously. Best bet is to check with an adviser or something. Or email Sue DeNio if you dare.

The fact that the Brainerd paper should hardly be regarded as a publication is not my reason for discounting newspapers as a credible source. But do you believe that the Star Tribune cares enough about KB to keep records of whose been to state how many times, etc.? Your coach is a much more credible source. I guess I'm just somewhat in shock that you had never qualified before, then won two AA titles in three trips. Is it a relatively new program? Or did it just not experience any success in the past? Lmeister 21:36, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Vale, well thanks for clearing that up for me. I can't imagine what it would have been like to have practiced for KB, much less to have had a coach who actually signed us up for tournaments. Lmeister 23:09, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Dan Monson
Hey, I just wanted to let you know I failed Dan Monson for Good Article status primarily because there are no references. See WP:VERIFY and WP:CITE. I left a few notes the talk page. Good luck improving it for resubmission. - Mattingly23 00:05, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

AIV
Thanks for your recent report at WP:AIV. I haven't blocked just yet, but I've given them a warning and will try to keep an eye on their future activity. Feel free to make any new reports or leave a note at my talk page if problems persist. :) You can find more general information on combating vandalism at Recent changes patrol. Cheers! – Luna Santin  (talk) 23:32, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

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 06:00, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Nice work
Excellent job on the TU basketball article. A much needed addition. -steventity 19:29, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
 * And the Mayor's Cup article. Wow. -steventity 19:32, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Coach articles
You'll notice on some of them I've taken the time to add infoboxes, at least to give it some sort of start. My basic reasoning has been to create the articles just to keep the coaching navboxes (most of which I've created) from being tagged for deletion, with the plan being to go through and expand the articles later. --fuzzy510 07:35, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Category:Duquesne Dukes men's basketball coaches
Howdy! I don't quite undertand the use of {DEFAULTSORT} in this context. I have never seen it used on a category page before. I have been monitoring DEFAULTSORT usage here and thought this usage was interesting. Signed, Confused. (Ref: Template:DEFAULTSORT). Schmiteye 06:25, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reply. I don't think I have ever created a category before.  If I find out anything interesting, I will let you know. Happy Trails! Schmiteye 01:11, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Microstates project
The Southern Europe project has as its express goal providing coverage of all the states of the region, including Macedonia, Slovania, Malta and Cyprus. Actually, it was pretty much created as a "catch-all" to cover all the states of the area, so that content relating to them had some entity interested in them. I also know that several of the extant projects may in time become inactive, and I hope that this project will be a place where the content relating to those states can be maintained in the event those specific projects collapse. However, I personally have no objections to the separate microstates project, other than a slight reservation that there may be comparatively less similarity between for instance Malta and Lichtenstein as microstates specifically than between all the states of a particular region. But I have no objection to supporting the project, and actually am about to sign onto it. John Carter 15:48, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

I have always had an interest in microstates and the hobby of micronations. Hopefully i can be of help to this project. Crested Penguin 00:28, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Gopher basketball
No problem!  was wondering if you happened to have sources handy for some of the scandal related stuff. Working on it! Unfortunately, there are no shortage of sources for this one... Gopher backer 01:50, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

European Microstates
Dear Matt, I would firstly like to apologise for my lack of a speedy reply. I was caught up in other matters, and forgot about your message. I like your proposal, and you are talking sense. I am happy to go ahead with what ever you have planned, and I think that European Microstates wikiproject, as well as wikiproject Malta should be successes because of the importance of their focal subjects and scopes. Please send me a message detailing the specifics of your Wikiproject, and I will be delighted to send you my ideas about the Maltese project. Hoping for your reply,  &mdash;A • D  Torque 10:40, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

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Maltese Wikiproject
Check it out! It'd be great if you could add your name. I've tagged over 130 articles with the Wikiproject Malta Template, just to spruik some interest. I'm going to try and find some more members, and work out some more functions of a wikiproject. I'll alert some people now who have said that they are interested. Thanks, Anonymous Dissident  Utter 01:09, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, L.J. Cooke, was selected for DYK!
Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 (talk) 20:27, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

NBA all-time rosters
Hello Matt91486! I see that you have started working on NBA all-time rosters and I want to help. Could you please check my sandbox and tell me whether you like my version. I provided more info than just the names because one can always find the names in specific categories (i.e. Category:Miami Heat players).-- Crzycheetah 20:49, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Jeremy Stenberg
I saw your request for an article, the trouble is, i cannot figure out who this is. Do you have any information on this so that an article can be created? //Tecmobowl 04:20, 1 June 2007 (UTC)


 * No question the guy not having his own website is problematic, the least he could do is start a blog or something :-). That is kind of what I have seen although, you did provide those two links which i had not seen.  It's certainly enough to start a stub article on. // Tecmobowl 05:37, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

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An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Cumul des mandats, was selected for DYK!
Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 (talk) 23:04, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

GSSE
Hi, I've seen you've done a lot of excellent work on the Games of the Small States of Europe. I was thinking of creating an infobox to insert in each event, with the basic information. Something along the lines of this one for Olympic games. My problem is that although I have considerable experience editing articles I have little experience with template creation. Are you any better? Cheers StephP 21:11, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi and thanks for getting back. If you can clone the Olympics template, that would be great. I was contemplating on the fields to be included and came up with the following:


 * Logo
 * Caption
 * Host Country
 * Nations Participating
 * Athletes participating
 * Events
 * Officially opened by
 * Opening ceremony
 * Closing ceremony
 * Official Website


 * The Olympics had something about the anthem too, but I thought that might not be a feature of every GSSE held. StephP 00:28, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Infobox
Hi, Matt. I see, above, that you've already drafted up the sections you want for the template. It's practically a clone of the Infobox Olympic games (excluding the torch and oaths). I don't see why you cannot copy the Olympics template and make the needed adjustments for the GSSE. If you wish (since you're not that comfortable with template coding), I can make a test infobox for you too check and see if it can become "official".  Parutakupiu  talk 02:09, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Don't mind that complicated coding formula. It looks that complex because it has to account for the fact that the Olympics were not celebrated three times (1916, 1940, 1944), but were continuously numbered as if they had been; besides, from 1994, the Winter Olympics stopped being celebrated in the same year as the Summer event and were moved two years later.
 * This doesn't happen with the GSSE, they've been always celebrated every two years since 1985, so the coding will be different and much simpler ;)  Parutakupiu  talk 17:36, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:PD-Old regime Iraq
Template:PD-Old regime Iraq has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — Jeff G. (talk&#124;contribs) 14:19, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

V Foundation
The article as it was when I deleted it was essentially a press release, it had no sources, no objectivity, and read like an advertisement. You're more than welcome to either make a redirect, or an actual article, as long as it fits wiki standards better than the one I deleted. :) (As for no reason: I think I thought the first text in the article would come through into the deletion summary, which would have been the templates of nn-bio, nn-advert, etc, but apparently not) --Golbez 21:17, 25 June 2007 (UTC)