User talk:MusiCitizen/Archive 1

User talk:MusiCitizen – 2004 Archive

March
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Again, welcome! Chris Roy 00:33, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Details
In requested articles: sport, I'm not sure so much detail is needed in adding descriptive notes after the names. (It looks like you made a start on this.) If someone's planning to write an article they may likely choose a name with which they're already familiar; maybe simply noting the particular sport would be sufficient, to clear up confusion on common names. MisfitToys 00:05, Apr 11, 2004 (UTC)
 * You're right. Thanks. MusiCitizen 11:16, Apr 12, 2004 (UTC)
 * It was just a thought; the page has about 700 names right now (I tend to think anything over 1000 would get unwieldy here), and adding comments/descriptions would at least double the page length. (Besides, the descriptions are just as well added to new bio pages as to the request page; it's the same work twice.) And of course there are cases like Agganis, who starred in 2 sports (he's in the College FB Hall of Fame). MisfitToys
 * It's okey. Thanks again. MusiCitizen 12:42, Apr 15, 2004 (UTC)

Hi
Thanks for doing all that work on the baseball pages. I have a few pieces of advice to make your work even more productive and useful to our community. First, study the changes I made to Tony Armas and Chico Carrasquel. For images, please use the following syntax . Also, sudy Manual of Style (biographies) closely. There are certain standards we try to use for formatting articles that are biographies.

Lastly, please do not place external links in the middle of an article. Instead, create an internal link, even if it links to nothing. Someday someone will come along and make that new article.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask, sincerely Kingturtle 03:35, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
 * Dear Kingturtle:
 * First at all, I would like to thank for your help in cleaning up my collaborations. Right now, Chico & Armas looks better after you did it.
 * In addition, you advised me that I should get some Wiki standards. It's right. I started editing Wikipedia on March 30, 2004 (Wallace Davenport), so I'm a wiki-one-month-old almost, but I'm still learning and working in it.
 * Basically, I am a reader, not a writer, and my main language is Spanish. Due to this, I know that sometimes my english looks some strange, but no problem. If necessary (a friend hand always is necessary) "someday someone will come along and make that new article", according your own words.
 * At this point, I'm sorry about disturbing some people that used intimidating advices about my collaborations. I know that some of the pages I've worked need a help. If you know anything about these subjects, please lend a hand. These are generally things I just don't know enough about to edit in english. If you can fix one up, please mention it on my talk page. I can remember that the baseball philosopher Yogi Berra said "The game's isn't over until it's over." The wiki articles neither. I try to do the best I can. Reading your note is like having a conversation with a friend.


 * Thanks for your fast and polite response. MusiCitizen 12:42, Apr 15, 2004 (UTC)


 * Wow! You're doing fantastic work. Rick Ferrell looks sensantional. Keep up the awesome work. Kingturtle 19:23, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hi!,
You might want to take a look at some of the revisions I've done on a few of your pages; I've just gone over those for Wes Ferrell, Minnie Minoso, Dave Concepcion, Ed Delahanty and a few others, and you might get some ideas for linking from what I've revised. (I don't know enough about image framing to fix the one for Ferrell.) You can look through my editing history for changes I've made to other baseball pages. In particular, please note that you should try to use the following links, instead of the ones you've used before: batting average instead of (AVG) home run instead of (HR) run batted in instead of (RBI)

Note that HR will lead to the page for Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), and RBI will lead to a page for various things with those initials. (AVG won't lead to anything.)

Your contributions to baseball pages are very welcome; but I know you'd rather have your links go the places you want them to go. Welcome! MisfitToys 23:12, Apr 17, 2004 (UTC)

Accented characters:
The only one I've seen problems with is that &yacute; on Recent Deaths, and I see you've just been changing a bunch of (eg) ás to &aacutes. If you're doing that to avoid the nastiness you suffered on Deaths, then it's probably not necessary. And it's easier to edit articles with ís rather than with &iacutes. FWIW, –Hajor 22:59, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

May – None

Img
Hi - you need to say where your photographs come from - ie which book, so we can see if they are in the public domain or not. Thanks. Secretlondon 07:57, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * I'm also really worried that you have add GFDL to images that are clearly under commercial copyright. This sort of behaviour puts the project at risk. Secretlondon 08:35, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Question
I mentioned this on RadicalBender's page as well a little while ago - Are all these categories (one for each year's All-Star team) really necessary? It seems to me that most major league players could probably do quite well with just one or two categories organized by position; even a category for each team seems awkward to me. Optimally, as an alternative, there would be a page for each year's All-Star Game, linked to the players' pages. It's just that I can see the categories getting to be too much. (Some players would have 15 to 20 categories for All-Star teams, another few for teams, potentially others for awards, plus those for positions.) MisfitToys 03:36, Jul 23, 2004 (UTC)

Question
Hi, I have a question about the picture you used in Ed Delahanty. It says that the copyright is unknown, but he only lived until 1903, so isn't it in the public domain? I just wanted to make sure before I changed the copyright notice. Thanks. Mattingly23 14:28, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, my problem was taken care of by another individual on Wikipedia. Thank you though. MC

Interested in starting a baseball wikiproject?
I looked at some of the wikiprojects and I think it would be a good idea to have a baseball wikiproject to keep baseball player's bio's & other baseball pages consistent. Having something like an 'infobox' (like WikiProject_snooker) for standard biographical info would be a good way to keep standard things in the same place. So far I've talked to Indrian about this and he was interested in doing it (see his talk page). I was wondering what other baseball contributors thought about the idea. It would also be a good way to agree to what categories there should be, what baseball articles need to be worked on, images that are needed, etc. Please reply as to whether you would be interested in working on this with us. Thanks! - Mattingly23 00:43, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

p.s. I've also sent this message to Matty_j, please tell other wikipedians you think would be interested and get their repsonses as to whether or not they would want to do this.

2004 in Sports
I've proposed to tidy up the year in sports pages to make them a quick overview of the year in sports - I floated the idea on the Village Pump and got no complaints - only one positive though. This would mean I'd be shifting the extra colour that some of the sports have into their own pages - such as 2004 in baseball and 2004 in cricket. What do you think of this? Average Earthman 22:05, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Ruben Gomez
How you doing? I noticed that "User D6" had deleted some of the categories that you had posted. I put them back after making some minor edits in the format. I'm really impressed with your knowledge in baseball, your resume is great. Tell me how or why did you become so interested in the sport? As you may have realized my specialty are Puerto Rican historical figures. At least if I need information in regard to baseball I'll know who to ask. User:Marine 69-71
 * You tell me to take a look at my talk page. I looked but I didn't find anything wiht you on it.  What am I supposed to look at? User:marine 69-71
 * O.K., I found it, Gracias Amigo. I'll be counting on you, in regard to Baseball in the future. User:Marine 69-71

October - None

November 10
You have Aurelio Monteagudo born the same year he died. RickK 00:50, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)

Questions
Hey there -- you and I spoke long ago when you first arrived here. At least, that's what I recall. Anyway, I've noticed your name around, and I've realized you've done a lot of good work here (though mostly solitary, it seems -- judging from your talk page, at least!). I'm considering nominating you for a position as an administrator. Before I do, though, I want to chat with you. First of all, would you like to be an admin? Do you think you would use those powers, or at least that they might be useful to you? Second of all, do you think you know wikipedia policy well enough to be an admin? If you don't, but you'd be willing to learn about it, I suggest reading the Administrator's reading list. Finally, I would ask if you've ever been in a dispute, but the talk page's emptiness suggests you haven't. If I nominated you, the lack of disputes would be both good and bad -- people would like that you don't get into fights, but they'd probably also wonder about your ability to handle disputes if they haven't seen you in one. Have you ever been in a dispute about an article you were working on that you feel was handled well by you? That would be a good one to mention in a nomination. Sorry for the long note, but I thought you should be rewarded for all your hard work. Let me know what you think about all this -- I won't proceed without chatting with you. :-) Jwrosenzweig 04:11, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Mike Greenwell
Re the Mike Greenwell text from Baseball Library: Indeed, you can't do that. I've posted the copyvio notice; feel free to write something new on the temp page, starting with the raw factual info. You shouldn't have too much trouble; you've written enough bio articles by now. Or I might have time tomorrow.MisfitToys 00:07, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started the Free the Rambot Articles Project which has the goals of getting users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to... using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) version 1.0 and 2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to the GFDL (which every contribution made to Wikipedia is licensed under), but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles (See the Multi-licensing Guide for more information). Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. So far over 90% of people who have responded have done this.
 * 1) ...all U.S. state, county, and city articles...
 * 2) ...all articles...


 * Nutshell: Wikipedia articles can be shared with any other GFDL project but open/free projects using the incompatible Creative Commons Licenses (e.g. WikiTravel) can't use our stuff and we can't use theirs. It is important to us that other free projects can use our stuff.  So we use their licenses too.

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the   template (or    for public domain) into their user page, but there are other templates for other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:


 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace   with   . If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know at my talk page what you think. It's important to know, even if you choose to do anything so I don't keep asking. -- Ram-Man 16:24, Dec 2, 2004 (UTC)

Image copyright
Hi, could you please add the source and copyright status tags to the player pictures you uploaded? Specifically, Image:MLB-Bucky Harris.jpg, Image:MLB-Mel Ott.jpg, Image:MLB-Rube Waddell.jpg and Image:MLB VE Damaso.JPEG. Thanks, Magnus Manske 15:02, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

Rod Kanehl
If you get some time, could you create an article for Rod Kanehl? he recently passed away. cheers, Kingturtle 19:59, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Could you look at the comment I left on the Rod Kanehl article and perhaps update? Thanks.  --Kelly Martin 05:23, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Another request
Have you considered doing a biography for a former umpire? just a thought. if you're interested. Kingturtle 17:47, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Happy New Year
Happy New Year to you, too! :-) Chris Roy 19:17, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Wishing You The Best
My dear friend Thanks for the message, I haven't forgotten you, anyone that shares a passion for baseball and reading like I do can't be all that bad (smile). I would like to wish you and your loved ones a Happy New Year, I hope that this year brings you happiness and lots of joy. Your friend, Tony the Marine