User talk:Penale52/Archive 2

RFA
I noticed you were interested in submitting your request for adminship. You might want to request an editor review first. Cheers,  Dloh  cierekim  20:50, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
 * edit count looks reasonable. Cheers,  Dloh  cierekim  20:53, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you Adam Penale (talk) 21:11, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Quick editor review
Before entering the lion's den, you might want to review User:Dlohcierekim/On RfA and User:Dlohcierekim/questions.

What admin related areas have you had experience? I see two AFD edits in which you wrote, "completely pointless?" You need to consider how you bring that in line with a policy-based reason to delete?

I see many deleted articles in your deleted contribs. I assume you tagged them for speedy deletion, which is good. I did not see edit summaries, which is not so good. I also did not see user talk notifications for CSD tagging.

I see an interest in WP:AIV, but I see no recent contributions there.

I see article building. This is valued by the community.

You might want to hold off for now, and/or seek a more detailed editor review. Sorry for the brevity, but there was not much time. Cheers,  Dloh  cierekim  21:19, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

General user info via Soxred93's tools.,  Dloh  cierekim  21:20, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

You are probably a net positive, but it's hard to be sure with relatively little work in policy- and admin-ish areas. Look through a handful of successful RFAs and a handful of non-successful ones and you'll see where you are likely to get opposes. Work on those areas then either drop your name in the hat or put out the word you'd like a nominator. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  21:29, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

1924 Dayton Triangles season
You created this obscure article literally one hour before I was going to do so. You created it at 01:11 Feb 16 while I was working on the 1924 Cleveland Bulldogs season. I removed the Triangle's season from my list of articles to create at 01:52 Feb 16 after I saw it was already started. I'm just wondering what led you to make that article right then? Coincidence? A witch doctor? ESP? Useight (talk) 21:59, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
 * If you don't mind, I'll go ahead and add a couple of things that are missing. It's pretty good, though. I'll just add the league standings and their weekly schedule. I've been pumping through these articles at a pretty fast pace, having created 371 of them now. So I've got a pattern that I follow, which makes it easier. It's been a pretty sizeable project. Thanks for your help. Useight (talk) 23:47, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅. Useight (talk) 23:53, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Your RfA
Hello WWEYANKS52, your RfA currently only has one support, with four comments in opposition. I think it's a safe bet that this RfA is not going to pass. Would you like to withdraw, and consider applying for an admin coach?  iMatthew //  talk  //  23:13, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Your rfa is now at 7/4/5 but most of the complaints are that you haven't answered questions 4-10, so I suggest that you answer those if you want to pass. Cheers and happy editing!-- Giants27  T  C  00:15, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, answer them, but don't be in any rush. Take your time, but not that much of it.  iMatthew //  talk  //  00:20, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Thorough review
I was asked to give you a review by Dlohcierekim. I guess I'm known for being pretty thorough in my reviewing, but note that I am also quite frank and I tell it like it is. I don't know what I'm going to find in my review, but whatever it is, it may sound curt or blunt. Nothing will even approach incivility or personal attacks, but it may or may not be all smiles and laughter. If you would not like to receive such a review, in which I will literally look at hundreds of your edits across various parts of Wikipedia, please let me know here. Otherwise, I will perform the review in a few hours. Useight (talk) 00:03, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay, here we go. First thing I noticed was the length of your userpage. It is far too long. I believe this is the first time a userpage has made me glad I have this mouse. It lets me scroll though 10,000 lines in 7 seconds. Usually its awesome scrolling is reserved for pages such as WT:RFA, but your userpage is also excessively long. I recommend breaking it into subpage(s) or maybe collabsable tables that hide by default. If you decide to leave the list of pages as it is, I would recommend moving those userboxes to the top. Speaking of page length, your User:WWEYANKS52/userboxing is also really long. Perhaps put the userboxes into a table instead of a column and perhaps tables, or hidden tables, or a different subpage, would be good for that list of MLB players. I am glad to see that Barry Bonds is on your list of players you'd ban from the Hall of Fame. Perhaps put the pictures on a separate subpage as well. Okay, now for your contributions. I'll start with the Wikipedia namespace. Regarding this, it is generally better to strike your comments than remove them when they are in such a place, some places, such as your talkpage, removal is fine, but in most places striking is preferred. But, as per this, you already know most of that]. Personally, I have no idea as to the correct answer to Q6 of your RFA. I do not deal with images, never have and never will. I, personally, probably would have responded with something to that effect. I've seen you do this with a bunch of edits, but a good example is this one. Always end your sentences with proper punctuation. Correct capitalization and spelling are also critical. Edit summaries are also extraordinarily important. Probably about a third of your edits to the Wikipedia namespace do not have edit summaries. This is a small detail, but a very important one, as it allows other editors to quickly see what you are doing and/or why you are doing it. However, when you do use the summaries, you do a good job accurately describing your change(s). An edit like this one should probably be tagged as minor. As should this and this. Looking at your work at XFD, I found this commnet, which wasn't all that helpful, pretty much adding nothing to the discussion. This one was equally on par with the previous comment. Three now. Another not really helpful XFD comment, but this one was better than the others. For future reference, it is much better if you include some policy citation as to why you believe the item should be kept/deleted. This was one of your better XFD comments. Found several other edits that should have been marked as minor, please read Help:Minor edit for information on which types of edits are considered minor. Okay, that was my assessment of all 148 of your edits to the projectspace. Further review to follow. Useight (talk) 17:47, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Mainspace review: First off, only 8 of your last 2000 edits to the mainspace are tagged as minor. Taking a sample of those edits, there must be hundreds of edits that should have been marked as minor. Again, please read Help:Minor edit. Also, you only added an edit summary to about about 50 of your last 500 mainspace edits. This is very important to rectify. I recommend you check the option under "My Preferences" that reminds you to enter an edit summary. Or simply remember to always add an edit summary. Your work is good, but there some technicalities like these that you should work on. Useight (talk) 03:27, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Your RfA
I just closed your RfA as unsuccessful. Consensus was not reached. I imagine if you address the concerns of the opposition (specifically that you work in administrative areas to gain experience and understandings of policy) you will fair better next time.

You are a valued member of this community, and I hope you continue to work hard on the Wikipedia project. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me on my talk page or via email. Sincerely, Kingturtle (talk) 21:16, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Statistics for your RfA
 , I am sorry to tell you that your request for adminship failed to achieve consensus to promote, with ( 13 / 38 / 8 ).

Please don't let this get you down - many of our best administrators have failed an RfA at some point. Best of luck acquiring the tools in the future (if you intend to run again), or otherwise, good luck around the encyclopaedia.

&mdash; neuro  (talk)  16:31, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry this is so late, I got bogged down doing some other stuff. Thanks, &mdash; neuro  (talk)  16:31, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Notability of Art Ehlers
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Request
Can you create the Bob Carpenter (baseball) article--Yankees10 16:43, 7 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks--Yankees10 18:31, 7 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Do you create football player articles? If so you might want to check out WikiProject National Football League/Articles to create, theres a bunch of football players articles that have not been created.--Yankees10 18:35, 7 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Cool, feel free to check it out and create some if you'd like.--Yankees10 18:37, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Baseball references
What references do you use to create your baseball pages? I'm interested in starting and/or expanding articles on up-and-coming West Coast players and possibly filling in information on the playing careers of coaches and/or executives. See Bruce Hines, Rick Adair, and Lee Pelekoudas for examples of my work. Any help would be useful. KuyaBriBri Talk 14:03, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

John Madden (baseball)
Just a friendly note on John Madden (baseball). I declined the speedy because AAA is a claim of importance. A number of wikipedia editors also feel it's a claim of meeting WP:ATHLETE; certainly enough feel that way that this would need to be AfD, not prod, if you think it needs to go. HTH.-- Fabrictramp |  talk to me  18:52, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Another request
Can you create the Hank Arft article.--Yankees10 23:15, 20 March 2009 (UTC)


 * He was a baseball player, by the way.--Yankees10 23:15, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks--Yankees10 16:43, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Can you make the Jerry Bell (baseball) article?--Yankees10 16:27, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks.--Yankees10 18:00, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Frank Fletcher (baseball)
A tag has been placed on Frank Fletcher (baseball) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. Laurent (talk) 20:13, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Notability of Frank Fletcher
Hi, I've added a comment to the talk page of Frank Fletcher. Also please don't delete the Speedy Deletion tags from articles you've created. By adding an "hang on" tag, you can already be sure that your article won't be speedy deleted. Laurent (talk) 20:35, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

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AfD nomination of Frank Fletcher (baseball)
I have nominated Frank Fletcher (baseball), an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Articles for deletion/Frank Fletcher (baseball). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Laurent (talk) 17:14, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

I tried to add a little bit more info. Just wondering, where in baseball-reference does it say he was a pinch-hitter? Zagalejo^^^ 07:41, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Request
Can you create the Steve Trapilo article, he was a football player--Yankees10 15:49, 11 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks--Yankees10 16:08, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Montreal Expos GA review
Hi, unfortunately, I have chosen to fail the Good Article nomination for the Montreal Expos article for reasons I have listed here. This article remains in need of considerable amount of work before it could be considered a good article. Cheers, Resolute 06:14, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Featured list candidates/List of San Francisco Giants managers/archive1
Per WP:FLC instructions, FLCs should not be nominated by editors unless 1) they are the primary contributor (which you are not), or 2) The primary contributor has agreed for the list to be nominated by you. I have contacted User:Rlendog, about this FLC, but please remember in the future. Thank you. Dabomb87 (talk) 14:21, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Canada–Gabon relations
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Three Requests
Do you mind creating three former USC and NFL football players articles? If you are interested they are Jeff Bregel, Erik Affholter, and Kevin L. Williams (wide receiver). Heres the Pro football references pages: Jeff Bregel pages, Erik Affholters page, Kevin L. Williams page--Yankees10 16:09, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

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Dates
Hi, I noticed that you have been linking some dates at Don Robertson (baseball) recently. This practice is now deprecated. Please see WP:LINKING and WP:MOSNUM. Furthermore, there is an temporary Arbcom injunction on mass linking/delinking of chronological elements, although there is no suggestion from me that you are in breach whatsoever. I'm happy to respond to any inquiries you may have about the matter. Thank you for your attention. Ohconfucius (talk) 04:47, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Canada–Togo relations
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