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Actually
Hertz did indeed play in the Major Leagues. So this is not quite right. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_University_of_Miami_alumni&diff=939303528&oldid=939237765

--2604:2000:E010:1100:749F:8117:EF4D:6476 (talk) 00:07, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Don't just throw players in at the end of an alphabetical, formatted list without citation. TheGables (talk) 17:33, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

University of Coral Gables aka UCG
Hi TheGables. There are various references to "The University of Coral Gables" in football media and posts after the defeat by FIU. This wasn't vandalism, it is a fact and documented online. You are in violation of wikipedia terms by falsely reporting this as such. Here are some examples of UCG being used:

https://www.thescore.com/ncaaf/news/1888025

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/fius-win-over-miami-took-all-known-history-and-left-it-upturned/2019/11/24/54fb139e-0d7d-11ea-8397-a955cd542d00_story.html

https://www.gatorcountry.com/swampgas/threads/collegiate-baseball-newspaper-top-40.460718/

https://www.stateoftheu.com/2019/11/20/20972866/miami-hurricanes-fiu-panthers-football-fan-argument-more


 * That's ridiculous, of course. It is not the name of the university. It is what one player on an opposing team labeled it. Your edits are vandalism, and they were correctly reverted by me and others. TheGables (talk) 14:24, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

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 * Just fixed this link. TheGables (talk) 17:00, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Fixing redirects
Please stop fixing redirects, per WP:NOTBROKEN. Thanks. Magnolia677 (talk) 12:50, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Ok. Was fixing some renamed entities, but I will stop. Thanks. TheGables (talk) 17:19, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

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 * Fixed. TheGables (talk) 07:01, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

Miami Hurricanes football
Since you seem interested in editing this page and recently started expanding the history, I have a recommendation. I almost fully reverted your edits to the program history section but I didn't want to revert all of your hard work. I did remove excessive usage of the "main" and "see also" templates. We don't need the season article for each season listed. That's what the purpose of the seasons article is. Another thing that is unnecessary is not only do we not need a section for each coach and we don't need a header talking about the process of that coach being hired, which is why I removed that was well. Anyways, for my actual recommendation, I recommend following the example set with Alabama's football page. Detailed history in it's own separate article with just a brief recap the program history in the main football page article. Your edits are great and on a shorter page I wouldn't say anything, but the article was already pretty long and had excessive headers before you started your work, and now it's even longer and there's an excessive amount of headers.-- Rockchalk 717 05:56, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your input on it. Yes, the article is lengthy almost exclusively because it has not broken out a separate history page as the Alabama page you reference has done. That's a logical next step but further increases the complexity of reading it, including (by the way) another "main" section, which is probably why it's not been tackled to date. The organization by coach, at least in modern times (since the 1980s), seems the most sensible way to divide up eras. It makes more sense than, say, by decades, and all that should ultimately be transferred onto a new history page. The page was an absolute mess before I got engaged with it, filled with just about every problem imaginable in its formatting, writing/grammar, facts, references, and organization. It was, as I recall, tagged as too long to read even then, but I focused my edits on improving the content that existed, not on reducing it. Thanks for your input on it. I'll try to get around to addressing continued improvement on it, including breaking out a separate history page and maybe even trimming that a bit, and leaving a more abbreviated history on the main Miami Hurricanes football page at some point soon. TheGables (talk) 14:34, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Awesome. I definitely appreciate you being so receptive to the feedback.-- Rockchalk 717 23:24, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
 * And in regards to the Dwayne Johnson photo, I was trying to find a way to make it fit in near the "Notable in other fields section" but struggled to find a good way to do it. But he should for sure have a photo included despite his success occurring off the football field since he's one of the most popular and bankable actors in Hollywood.-- Rockchalk 717 23:27, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Once I develop the more detailed page on the program's history, we should have expanded space to include it and other photos there. I think the Pro Football Hall of Fame photos are useful because it's basically the pinnacle accomplishment in the sport and part of that section that is focused on the program's success in developing players who go on to NFL careers. Will try to let you know when I get started on that and get your thoughts on photos we should include and where. TheGables (talk) 17:54, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

University of Miami Patti and Allan Herbert Business School
Hi, TheGables! I'm an employee at the Miami Herbert Business School, and since last year I've been making requests to update the school's page, leading to a lot of improvements and corrections. I saw that you've been pretty active on the page but wasn't sure if you'd seen my past requests on the Talk page there. Some of the edits that you made to the page had re-added content that I'd previously discussed with editors. I've been planning to make a new request to ask about editing some of those details, and wanted to give you a heads up, and ask that we discuss if you wanted to change anything. MT for University of Miami (talk) 20:25, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

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Sort keys: Asterisks and lists
Hi. Just dropping a note to let you know I reverted several of your category edits. I have left an edit summary on each revert, linking to the relevant guideline. To quote the applicable section of WP:SORTKEY:

"The main article/s of a category, if existent, should get sorted with a space as key so that it/they appear(s) at the very top of the category. Example: Those articles are typically homonymous or at least synonymous to their category. Furthermore, other general articles that are highly relevant to the category should be sorted with an asterisk as key so that they also appear at the top of a category but beneath the main article/s. Example:   Those articles are typically called "History of example", "Types of example", "List of example" or similar."

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Hello again. Seems there is still some misunderstanding about the above. Can you please engage in a discussion before making any more category changes? Maybe if we start one at Wikipedia talk:Categorization and get input from other editors, it would help? -- DB 1729 talk 11:19, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

Coral Gables Preparatory Academy
Hi! Thanks for improving the Template:Coral Gables, Florida template! As a note: Coral Gables Preparatory Academy is a public school operated by Miami-Dade County Public Schools. The profile is here WhisperToMe (talk) 20:08, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

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