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The DYK project (nominate) 00:02, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
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The DYK project (nominate) 16:03, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Muboshgu I was checking to see if it possible to have my page reinstated? Is there anything I can do? It seems there is some grey area and I might be reconsidered. Thank you, Dave Holt Baseball Player 68.58.223.98 (talk) 02:49, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
I want to apologize for an offhand remark I made in the AfD Wil Cardin discussion. I was getting the impression that you were only proposing republican pages for deletion, and being a Democrat myself, was getting a bit irritated. I've been trying to quit caffiene and it hasn't helped, lol. I just don't like to see bias on Wikipedia, and even if that is what you are doing (I'm still not clear on that because I can't find any Democrats that you have nominated)...even if that is what you are doing, my remark was uncalled-for. I go out of my way to be very polite, and I got a bit snippy without even coming to you first, and that simply wasn't fair. Can we be friends? --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 01:05, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
hi I work at the Gerald Ford Presidential Library and Museum, and we are uploading materials to Wikimedia Commons. We have a number of documents that might be of interest to you - they are located at Wikimedia, Category:Documents at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum. If you are interested in writing articles/stubs, I may be able to provide you with pictures from our archives as well. We have a limited number of artifacts, also at Wikimedia, Category:Artifacts at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum. Let me know if I can help in any way, and please feel free to pass the word about these docs; I'd love to see some content generated around them....thanks! Bdcousineau (talk) 20:23, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello again, I see that SNIyer12 was recently banned. It's too bad because he occasional made good maintenance on articles, but I certainly understand the decision given his history of repeated disruptive edits and disregard for consensus. It didn't seem like he was learning. I'm contacting you because I want to nominate a page he created for deletion. It's Celtics–Knicks_rivalry. I know you and I share the opinion that these "rivalry" pages are ballooning out of control and I believe SNIyer12 was a big reason for that. It has three paltry references that deal more with a general New York - Boston city sports rivalry. It was created in 2010 but there have been recent IP edits and additions to the Knicks' page that I believe may be originating from SNIyer12 (I see he was also recently accused of sockpuppetry). Please let me know how you would recommend going about doing this or, if you want, feel free to do it yourself. Thanks very much.TempDog123 (talk) 21:08, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
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Graeme Bartlett (talk) 08:26, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
I saw your X said something stupid AfD requests.[1][2] You might want to check out Wikipedians who are not a Wikipedian DRV and its MfD. Pretty much the same thing as US presidential politics, only within Wikipedia. As for the politically motivated articles, I've been working on concept idea on how to address this in the future. If you look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Romney Democrat, you will note that it was deleted after the election ended. The Romney Democrat article was created 00:48, 4 November 2012,[3] two days before the US Presidential election. By 06:53, 4 November 2012, the AfD had enough input to get an idea of where the outcome was headed. What do you think about having a Template:TempDelete (similar to Template:TempUndelete used at DRV) where an admin could have replace the contents of the Romney Democrat article just after 06:53, 4 November 2012 indicating that the page was now being discussed at AfD. That would have blanked the contents of the article during the two days before the US Presidential election, but left the Romney Democrat article content history available. Then, after the US Presidential election ended on 6 November 2012, anyone coud remove the Template:TempDelete and make the Romney Democrat contents of the article visiable once again. Making the article temporarily hidden from view just before the election would prevent Wikipedia from being used for political purposes yet still maintain the content accessible in article namespace. Template:TempDelete could be applied to any election worldwide where appropriate. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 13:07, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
I think the speedy delete G7 would work since you are the only one that added substantial content.--Yankees10 22:25, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
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Looking through your talk page archives, I see two queries similar to the one I'm about to make, but since the most recent one was almost three months ago, I thought I'd inquire anyway. Would you be interested in running for adminship? You are overqualified, in my opinion, and TommyBoy's RfA showed that content contributors such as yourself can pass, so I thought I'd ask. I would definitely be willing to nominate you, but I'm sure those with a little more prestige around here than I would as well. I just think that you would be an asset to the project as an admin. Thanks--Go Phightins! 20:17, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
It is under way. There are a few minor things to fix, nothing too big. --Jprg1966 (talk) 15:12, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
Why are you creating new articles for everyone that gets added to the 40 man roster? Surely these guys would be better positioned on the minor league player pages until they get called up? Most of these articles have such little info in them that they are primed for merging anyway. Spanneraol (talk) 18:20, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
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The DYK project (nominate) 16:03, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for letting me know of your removal of my addition to the Controversies section of Paul Krugman's personal biography. A previous editor was not so considerate. I am not really sure why this piece was removed but will accept your judgement based on your experience on biographies on Wikipedia (I'll read up on that). I believed the section was appropriate for inclusion particularly about someone as polarizing as Krugman and I thought this provided some balance to what seems to be mostly (but not entirely) a politically correct biography. There were some other comments that were similar in the bio (such as Barro and Prescott's in "Economics and policy recommendations.") and I don't see these as too much different from those remarks. Anyone of Krugman's stature talking about Milton Friedman, one of the most important economists of our time, in an article that received considerable attention seems to deserve the reference, at least in my opinion. The comments were made, not by me but by a protégé of Friedman's, who Krugman said was one of the most important monetarists of our time (Anna Schwartz). And she did so in paper published in the annals of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Hey Muboshgu, thanks for holding down the fort on Michael Young's page until the trade is finalized. I believe this and this assert that the trade is finalized, but wanted to check with you before I changed it on the article. Go Phightins! 20:18, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
I saw your Baseball Mtn. project and wanted to let you know that I plan on improving Pat Gillick; I didn't want to add myself to the table, but if you want to, go ahead. I can't promise a GA, but after getting one, I at least know what's expected for one. Thanks--Go Phightins! 18:30, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
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Given that you recently edited the page, you might find this article about recent vandalism on the Towers article interesting. It looks to me like it had been taken care of before you got there, but I still thought it might be amusing to you. AutomaticStrikeout (T • C) 19:37, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
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If you could email me at jalexanderwikimedia.org when you have a chance. You were nominated for a t-shirt and I'd like to get it sent your way :). Jalexander--WMF 22:23, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
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I know it's a bit late, but I noticed you hadn't been given credit for this yet. Could I ask you to return the favour with the ITN article I nominated on December 16, since I haven't been given recognition for that yet? Cheers! —Bloom6132 (talk) 14:56, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
Well, it's been nearly a year since the first nom, but I think all the issues you had with this article have been corrected. Care to take another look? Yworo (talk) 18:05, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
Hey. Would you be able to review Bob Lemon at GAN? Since it's part of User:Wizardman/Operation Big Bear, I wouldn't feel right giving it the review, and since he was a Yankee for a time it should hold interest for you. Wizardman 15:41, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
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If you have the time and inclination, might you add your voice at Talk:Andy Barr (American politician)? Apparently, a couple of relatively new editors don't think my time expanding his article was well spent since he hasn't taken office yet. Should have taken your advice and nominated for GA, I suppose. Now I'll need to show consensus for the present article length to keep from failing the "stable" criterion. *sigh* Such is the life of a WikiDragon, I suppose. Acdixon (talk · contribs) 23:48, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
Do you have any thoughts on the Yankees roster template? There is a user who wants to give Youkilis a number based on a tweet from a beat writer. I'm against it, but I don't want to get too deep in an edit war, obviously. Your opinion tends to be a solid one. Kjscotte34 (talk) 13:58, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
First, thank you for the addition to the African-American Civil Rights Movement template. I keep a watch over the template to make sure it doesn't list "lesser personages and organizations", which it sometimes does. --- Secondly, I see you like the baseball pages. I spent lots of time moving a player's hall of fame reference up to the lede's of articles, or close enough to make a difference. I noticed that many HOF'ers pages don't mention that fact until near the bottom of the page! I haven't done all of them by a long way, maybe on your travels along the trail of pages you can check on that. Thanks. As for the Yankees, have you read book "The Year That Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs"? An amazing work showing that Ruth remains one of the most underrated bb players in history. Good to meet you. Randy Kryn 12:15 4-1-'13
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Casliber (talk · contribs) 16:03, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Sorry, seems the above page was never created. It's there now! J Milburn (talk) 10:26, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
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Before I promote this nomination, can you add the QPQ please? --George Ho (talk) 03:33, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
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Are the DYK's seen on Portal:Baseball actual real live DYK's that appeared on the main page or are they simply interesting facts that were scraped together independent of the main DYK process?
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On behalf of WP:CHICAGO, I would like to thank you for your editorial contributions to Jim Thome, which has recently become a GA. --TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 01:11, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
Me and User:Wehwalt are planning to work on those two key articles to featured status as soon as some of our other projects are finished, which might be as early as next month. Considering those two subjects are probably the most core and toughest biographies to tackle in baseball and considering your Yankees interest, we can use your help. I presume you might have some of the same sources I have in those two biographies. Let me know. Thanks Secret account 03:32, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
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I left a couple file-related questions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Baseball but I haven't gotten an answer yet. Might you know what the answers are? AutomaticStrikeout (T • C) 21:25, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
![]() | On25 January 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ian McKeever (mountaineer), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that mountaineer Ian McKeever climbed the 26 peaks of the island of Ireland in 98 hours? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ian McKeever (mountaineer). You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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Hello, thanks for your review for Template:Did you know nominations/Carlos López Estrada, I didn't know that another editor replaced some information, would you be kind enough to review it again?. Thanks. Jaespinoza (talk) 18:52, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
As a gay New Yorker I find WaltCip's comparison of Koch with a drunken killer offensive, but Koch doesn't seem to have had a boyfriend either. μηδείς (talk) 23:24, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi Muboshgu. There's no need to delete the page at Jorge Alfaro in order for you to write an article on him - simply go to the page, edit as normal, remove the redirect code and add your text. Since the page has a fairly extensive history, deleting it without a good reason isn't appropriate. Yunshui 雲水 13:57, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
![]() | On7 February 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Tony Cingrani, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that professional baseball player Tony Cingrani did not expect his college team to invite him back for his senior season after he struggled as a junior? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tony Cingrani. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Nyttend (talk · contribs) 00:02, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
![]() | On9 February 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mo Cowan, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the appointment of Mo Cowan (pictured) to the U.S. Senate marks the first time two African Americans served concurrently? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mo Cowan. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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![]() | On10 February 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Elizabeth Colbert-Busch, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that Elizabeth Colbert-Busch, the sister of Stephen Colbert, is running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Elizabeth Colbert-Busch. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Lord Roem ~ (talk) 00:05, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
If that was changed through consensus, then why do all the players you mentioned, Nady, Wang, Pena, Guzman, Albaladejo, and Ramirez have 2009 WS Champ on their pages? — Preceding unsigned comment added by WikiHogan654 (talk • contribs) 17:06, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
Based on your recent AfD nominations, I would like to offer you some that could also be deleted as well:]
Resignation of Sarah Palin Resignation of Shirley Sherrod — Preceding unsigned comment added by Draconiator (talk • contribs) 21:03, 11 February 2013 (UTC)