User talk:Yo918

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Medicine Hat notable residents
Hi Yo918, thanks for taking the time to drop a note, and expressing interest in WP guidelines, instead of engaging in an edit war which new users often do. You have every right to be proud of your brother's accomplishments. Like you, I'm quite proud of a former hockey teammate whose played in the NHL and recently represented Canada at the Spengler Cup. I am going to provide three reasons why I deleted the entry, none of which are intended to be personal or to offend. First, the Greg Morrison article you wikilinked in your edit was an article about a different person of the same name who is a writer/composer, not a former pro baseball player. Since the wikilinked article was about a different person, your brother's notability could not be verified by the wikilinked article. Second, please review WP:BASEBALL/N. As a former pro baseball player, did Greg ever play a game in the MLB? If so, the information you provided didn't advise that he did. What it did do is advise that he was within organization of two MLB clubs. Third, not knowing if he played a game in the MLB, a verifiable reference wasn't included per criteria #5 at WP:BASEBALL/N. If a verifiable reference can be provided per a published secondary source material which is reliable, intellectually independent, and independent of the subject (as described in criteria #5), then that may be sufficient to list him as a notable resident. If you could provide some references, I'll review to see if they attest his baseball notability. In the meantime, is there any other criteria under WP:BASEBALL/N that may render him notable according to WP standards? As for the others listed in the Notable residents section, I wasn't watching this article when all or most were added, so others on the list may very well not be notable at all, or less notable compared to other notables. At this moment, I don't have the time to audit the notability of those listed within the whole section of the article, but I may do so in the future. Hwy43 (talk) 06:53, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I have researched Greg Morrison and his achievements that you provided. In my opinion, his achievements in the Pioneer League make him notable on Wikipedia among minor leaguers, so long as his notability is referenced with reliable sources. Therefore, I have revised the Medicine Hat Blue Jays (MHBJ) article, providing references to support the content about him there. I then re-added him as a notable resident on the Medicine Hat article, summarizing his reasons for notability per the content about him on the MHBJ article, and provided the same supporting references. In my opinion, this now meets the criteria under WP:BASEBALL/N, but that is only my interpretation of WP:BASEBALL/N. We'll ultimately see if others disagree.
 * Regarding discussions between users, you are communicating correctly. There are two ways to typically engage in a discussion between users. One is to start a new section on a user's discussion page, as you did here, and then both users talk to continue the discussion back and forth at this location. The other is for the user receiving the message to respond on the messenger's discussion page, just as I did here, with both users continuing to respond to each other on their respective discussion pages like we are doing now. Note that when you replied to my reply, it was unnecessary to start a new section. Simply editing the section you previously created and typing your second communication below the first is sufficient. An exception being that if you were to contact me to initiate a discussion on a different topic, typically a new section should be started.  You can place a : (colon) before your second communication to indent it to differentiate it from the first. Also, you are correct that the four marks is sufficient. Wikipedia reads this as a code to automatically place your user information as a signature and timestamp it.
 * Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 05:26, 14 January 2011 (UTC)