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Template:Infobox basketball biography
Tony, can you provide several examples of articles for current college basketball players which use Template:Infobox basketball biography? In addition to three or four well-developed examples for current college basketball players, I am also interested in having a look-see at several well-developed examples for historical college basketball players -- that never played pro ball -- which also use this infobox template. Your help in identifying several good examples would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 23:14, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
 * , do you mean never played pro basketball or never played in the NBA? The best example of college basketball players never pro ball might be Rob Pelinka who went to Law School after his college career ended. However, he uses Infobox person. For current players, the best examples are listed as having declared for the 2015 NBA draft. Other good ones that I edit are Caris LeVert and Fred VanVleet.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 02:23, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Tony, ideally, I'm looking for "pure" college guys who never played pro of any kind. I'd like to compare these to the formatting for uses of Infobox college football player and Infobox NCAA athlete.  Also, do you still use Infobox NCAA athlete on any of the articles you maintain?  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 09:40, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
 * , again a good example is Pelinka. I use Infobox NCAA athlete in that one for information purposes.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 18:11, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

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The second round one has all wrapped up, and round three has now begun! Congratulations to the 34 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our second round. Leading the way overall was in Group B with a total of 777 points for a variety of contributions including Good Articles on Corona Borealis and Microscopium - both of which received the maximum bonus. Special credit must be given to a number of high importance articles improved during the second round.
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Today's featured article/May 21, 2015
Hi Tony, User:Ryoga Godai, and User talk:Adabow. A summary of a Featured Article you guys nominated at WP:FAC will appear on the Main Page soon. I had to squeeze the summary down to around 1200 characters; was there anything I left out you'd like to see put back in? I'd appreciate it if you could check the article one more time before its day on the Main Page. - Dank (push to talk) 03:40, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I had scheduled this for 21 May, but a strong claim to this date has been made by a very recent FA promotion, so I am shifting Here We Go Again to a date later in the month. Sorry about that. Brianboulton (talk) 08:08, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
 * please see WT:TFA.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 13:53, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

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Hi Tony,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Chicago Grant Park night pano.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on June 9, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-06-09. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:59, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
 * , I am quite satisfied with the caption.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 02:49, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

you need to Apologize ASAP !
I didn't make any "unconstructive edits", clerly you didn't follow the versionsat Jahlil Okafor. you are a rude person. what i did is to restore a valdalism by other user (restoring the picture he cut out) Tomtom (talk) 05:23, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

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U.S. Olympic track team navboxes
Good morning, Tony. Given the relatively large number of links in U.S. Olympic track and field navboxes such as Template:Footer USA Track & Field 2012 Summer Olympics, might it not be better if they were split by gender? The track athlete navboxes have over twice as many links as the comparable navboxes for U.S. Olympic swimming teams (2012, 134 track vs. 59 swimming). I might also suggest that you remove the red links for the U.S. Olympic Trials from the boxes for the older Olympic teams, unless and until someone creates those articles. Please consider. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 12:21, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
 * , there is a whole project for the Olympics at WP:OLYMPICS. I think they should decide whether the templates are split. Ping me if you start a conversation over there.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 15:06, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Tony, it's a relatively inactive WikiProject, but I'm happy to move this discussion to the WP:Olympics talk page. It's not a big deal, but the navbox size has reached the point of becoming rather large -- with an obvious and logical split available.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:14, 31 May 2015 (UTC)