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2009 WS
It's coming. I didn't forget you, I'm just inordinately busy. That's what holiday weekends are for. KV5 ( Talk  •  Phils ) 16:09, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

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Featured list candidates/IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship/archive1
Your concerns have been addressed.-- Will C  21:50, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Admin question
Hey. I was wondering what your view was on protecting Danys Baez. I was going to do it myself, but I've already reverted out several WP:CRYSTAL violations in reference to his impending deal with the Phillies. I don't know what "the rules" say about me being the protecting admin in that case. KV5 ( Talk  •  Phils ) 22:01, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
 * That's what I figured, which is why I didn't do it. Even the Phillies site says it's not official. Thanks. KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 22:13, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, I knew that; they are all just subdomains using a single engine that's generated by Sun Microsystems. The teams maintain their subdomains individually to publish press releases and such. KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 22:29, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
 * As long as it's linked (which it is), I think that article is short enough that people can click in and click back without any issue. As to completeness: Color needs a key, and I think that there should be a bluish shade for the NL so it doesn't look like we're showing favoritism to one league. Do you want me to copy-edit the lead before you nom it? I think more images would be great too; I'm sure that there are more team images of winners with presidents and such, and I know there's an image in the 2009 WS article of the Yankees' on-field celebration after Game 6 this year. In the "appearances by franchise" table, the "AL/NL" doesn't need to be small, but it does need a footnote explaining the league switch (there is one, with a ref, in one of my FLs somewhere). KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 22:44, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Copyedit of the lead done; noticed that a lot of the footnotes in the table are spaced. No spaces! No spaces! Haha... KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 23:16, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

World Series winners
Hi, and happy new year. Let me explain my reversions, because I don't think there's any inherent conflict in aims. (1) The reason my colors were so subdued was an attempt to appease KV5 (Killer Vogel) who wanted no color at all (partly, I think, through a misreading of Accessibility). Originally I'd used the color scheme I've used for World Series and Major League Baseball, based on the traditional red for American League and blue for NL, with variations for the expansion teams (bgcolor=pink or lightblue for the original 16; ffbbdd or aaccff for the expansion teams). But see Talk:List of World Series winners for Killer's objections. (2) Those pictures cover up the table on my browser, so they had to be adjusted somehow. I was able to re-expand them somewhat in an uncompleted edit: see what this code does for you. —— Shakescene (talk) 00:51, 2 January 2010 (UTC)






 * Now I've seen your exchange with Killer, let me say that I had also proposed your preferred solution, especially when the National League column went all the way back to 1876 with other challengers (like the AA). The added advantage is that one could see and sort the record of (say) the Phillies or a single-league manager like Connie Mack in one column that included both winning and losing years. The difficulty seemed to be how to highlight the winners in a way that satisfied the WP:Manual of Style (which is far more important to Killer since he wants to make this a WP:Featured List, than to me, who's spent far too much time on Talk:MOS) and Accessibility to different systems and pairs of eyes, which is important to me. Talk:List of World Series champions shows one suggested approach of mine, which was not completely successful and was not accepted by the other editors. —— Shakescene (talk) 01:11, 2 January 2010 (UTC)


 * I've replied to your latest on my own talk page. (I don't mind where to exchange thoughts so long as it's on a single page.) —— Shakescene (talk) 01:29, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

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Elisha Cuthbert
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Featured list candidates/List of Australian Open Men's Singles champions/archive1
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Re:2009 World Series
Isn't this a bit soon? Have they even got their rings yet?

Anyways just a few thing I noticed from scanning the article.
 * The logo is probably not going to be allowed
 * A lot of still in the lead seems a little trivial
 * In the "Route to the series" section, might be worth mentioning the fact the Yankees had a new Stadium.
 * Not sure you really more than one image per game.
 * I see a few paragraphs with no refs.
 * refs #4, 96, 104 and 105 not dated.

Might give this I proper look when I have the time. BUC (talk) 18:59, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Talkback
Dabomb87 (talk) 18:13, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

.400
Don't be silly, no need to apologise. If there's one thing I can bring to MLB lists, it's a complete lack of background knowledge and understanding of the nuances of the various systems and statistics which are commonplace "where you come from"....! The Rambling Man (talk) 23:05, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Well I'm just here to help. If sometimes it appears I'm being difficult, then just tell me to piss off...!  The Rambling Man (talk) 23:08, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

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Featured sound promotion
You may have wished to choose a better title for the nomination. –blurpeace (talk) 22:21, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Your FS nom
The source you used for your FS nom has a bit of distortion when Bush speaks, maybe from compression or gain levels too high. I found another source that sounds a bit better. Maybe you'd like to clean that one up?  Jujutacular  T · C 01:06, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Yea, I hear that pop at 1:20ish. Sure, I'll take a shot at removing it.  Jujutacular  T · C 01:21, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, I worked for a while, but I couldn't get it quite like I wanted it. The right solution will probably involve a low or band pass filter. I haven't worked too much with audio restoration, but the trick is figuring out over what frequency range the noise is, then filtering that out. I may try some more in the coming week.  Jujutacular  T · C 03:12, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Sorry
Not using my usual computer and it must have been an accident. Didn't know I had - must have just clicked on the rollback link accidentally, sorry. And thanks for your help :)  Aaroncrick  ( talk )   07:46, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Back in form :)  Aaroncrick  ( talk )   07:55, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Good luck with the FAC.  Aaroncrick  ( talk )   08:02, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

I'm done looking at managers for a while
It's done. Next topic swing is underway. KV5 ( Talk  •  Phils ) 14:26, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Just popping in here, what might the next topic swing be? I may or may not help as I want to develop some NFL lists, but there's a possibility. Mm40 (talk) 16:44, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Looks like the managers and the first-round draft picks are the next on tap. The linked article above is at FLC already. As an aside, Stax, if the FTC doesn't pass, do you want to take the AL pennant winners and I'll take the NL? I'm going to merge the pennant winners list from the NLCS into the NL list from whatever years to make a complete list if we absolutely have to do this, but I think the expectation of creating an article for each trophy is unreasonable. KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 16:54, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I definitely think the NL pennant winners belong together regardless of if they're in this FT, but yeah that sounds fine. Staxringold talkcontribs 17:01, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree with you there. FWIW, I reviewed your DYK hook; you could return the favor on the MLB managers list if you like. :-D KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 18:20, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * My man! Good work. My review first. KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 17:43, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Emergency addition time
Well, I did it as fast as I could, and the merge and nomination of the List of NL pennant winners is complete. Here's the nom. Cheers! KV5 ( Talk  •  Phils ) 00:43, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I did leave a note on the FTC page, and I'll give a shout at any of the FL regulars there. I'm gonna try and get as many reviews as soon as possible so maybe that can get cleared in the 10-day minimum (doubtful, but possible if there's sufficient consensus). KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 01:14, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

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Featured list candidates/List of IIHF World Under-20 Championship players for Canada/archive1
Hi, can you revisit this FLC when you get the chance? Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 22:56, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Featured list candidates/List of forty-plus point games by Kobe Bryant/archive1
Hi. This FLC on which you have commented has been restarted because the consensus was unclear. Can you revisit to make sure your comments have been addressed, and if possible, make a declaration of Support, Oppose or Neutral? Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 16:38, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

OOPs
Thanks for the tip-off.... I'll look back and see what I did wrong. Victuallers (talk) 17:28, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Hold on thar
You will find many records books that list the AA, at least, as a "major league". Chopping this info out is not something 2 editors should do on their own. You should take this to the project page and get a broader spectrum of opinions on the matter. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 22:12, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

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Hook promotions
Hello Staxringold. I wanted to reassure you that your hook was in the process of being promoted to the preparation area. It may take a few minutes from the time a hook is moved from the suggestions page and promoted to the preparation areas. Reasons for this include formatting, moving multiple hooks to establish balance, slight copy edits to the hooks, etc. If you ever have a concerns such as this, please feel free to ping me. Kindly Calmer   Waters  20:23, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Featured picture
Stax, obviously you know more about this than I do. I feel that this image that I just cropped from a larger PD source has great potential as a featured picture. Unfortunately, I know nothing about the FP process, and I don't know which imperfections in the picture would need to be corrected. I was hoping you might be able to offer me a little direction or guidance. I have Photoshop CS4 at work and CS at home, so I have the tools. I'm just not sure how to go forward from here. Since you've been involved with a lot of FPCs, I figured you might be able to offer me some guidance. Thanks. KV5 ( Talk  •  Phils ) 17:30, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * A couple of questions are when and where it was taken. It says 1911. That's possible, though not definitive. Alex was with the Phillies 1911-17, and the uniform did not change much during that stretch. Home uniforms and caps were white, road uniforms and caps were gray, both with a red P on the cap, with the road shirt featuring a red P all those years and the home all but one. And Okkonen's book doesn't indicate anything about the sweater. So we kinda have to go by the photo source. As to where, it looks a little like Baker Bowl's bleachers, but not quite. Assuming it's a National League park, the other 7 possibilities are: Boston (no), Brooklyn (maybe), Chicago (no), Cincinnati (no), New York (no), Pittsburgh (no), St. Louis (no). Oddly enough, it also looks a little like Cleveland. Then there's the fact he's holding a bat, which is an unusual pose for a pitcher. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 19:59, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * The sourcing info comes from the Library of Congress source. Speaking of which, all that info should be at this crop. Staxringold talkcontribs 20:33, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I think he's got it as PD-self at present, and I suspect that's not correct, even if it's his altered version of it. But I don't know for sure. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 22:38, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

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I think I've outdone myself this time...
Looks like we might have a "featured list of the day" on the Main Page! Dabomb87 just promoted the list of NL pennant winners, which is (still) in the queue for DYK. Fun. KV5 ( Talk  •  Phils ) 23:39, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

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List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Boxer Rebellion
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Featured list candidates/List of Major League Baseball managers/archive1
Hi Stax, can you revisit the above FLC? Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 01:33, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

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Dabomb87 (talk) 03:57, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Accident
Hi! You just removed my DYK nom in accident. Since it's the nominator's responsibility not to remove noms, though, I just rolled you back and you will have to nominate the baseball list again. Thanks, Geschichte (talk) 22:53, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * No problem, I know it was in accident! Happy editing, Geschichte (talk) 22:58, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Dodgers FLC
See my comment at WT:FLC. Sorry for any confusion and frustration I may have caused you. The inconsistencies in closures you cited stem from procedural issues (my inability to close those two because of my involvement as a reviewer in those FLCs). Dabomb87 (talk) 02:27, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah I know, but as a director there's not much I can do (I try to review several a week myself), short of actively recruiting reviewers (which I simply don't have time to do) or putting nomination limits (which I don't want to do). Sigh. Thanks anyway for your understanding and your contributions to FLC. Dabomb87 (talk) 03:00, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

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Featured list candidates/List of Iowa State Cyclones head football coaches/archive1
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