User talk:Dale Arnett

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List of Major League Baseball managers

Regarding your changes to the above article: Herzog has not yet been inducted, and your additions create potential for this article to be unstable. It is currently in the middle of a featured list candidacy, so I would ask that you please refrain from making changes of a potentially unstable nature until that time has passed or the induction ceremonies are complete. Thanks. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 01:14, 1 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Okie dokie. Revert away. However, note that the individual team descriptions need to carefully distinguish between election and induction. For example, the Cardinals have had 13 managers elected to the Hall, but only 12 will have been inducted until the 2010 ceremonies. The problem is that individuals are elected several months before actual induction. It's a known fact that Whitey Herzog will enter the Hall on July 25, 2010 (barring any earth-shattering Pete Rose-style revelations). — Dale Arnett (talk) 01:20, 1 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- As far as I'm aware, I did check those; if you see any mistakes, please feel free to correct them. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 01:22, 1 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - No mistakes—just an issue of definition. I did find an interesting thing when I looked into the Baseball-reference.com manager lists for each team. Herzog is listed as a Hall of Famer by that site even though he hasn't yet been inducted. The main discrepancy that creates in our article is that the statement that "two Hall of Famers" have managed the Royals is accurate right now, but the underlying reference (the Baseball-reference.com list) includes Herzog as a third Hall member, which he won't be until July 25. — Dale Arnett (talk) 01:38, 1 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Line-ups in the Six Nations articles?

When did we decide that this was a good idea? I think this ought to be discussed somewhere first, before making such a large-scale addition, especially since adding the line-ups for each game will make the article HUGE! – Pee Jay 23:13, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Team lineups removed. The one question I have on this: If it's such a bad idea to have them in a 6N season article, then shouldn't lineups be removed from all articles on each year's June and November Tests? Now that I've thought of it, that's something that really needs to be hashed out on WP RU. — Dale Arnett (talk) 00:36, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I wasn't going to remove them, as I actually quite like the idea, but I do think it should be discussed. Tbh, I haven't been following rugby articles as much as I used to, mostly because of the Ireland flags issue, so I dunno what the situation is with the June and November Test articles. Basically, my major concern is with the eventual size of the article, since we have 15 matches to do line-ups for, but if the June and November Test articles look OK with the line-ups included, then I don't see why we shouldn't on the Six Nations articles. Nevertheless, we'd better discuss it with the Project. – Pee Jay 00:54, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GA reassessment of Tennessee Volunteers women's basketball

I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. You are being notified as you have made a number of contributions to the article. I have found a number of concerns which you can see at Talk:Tennessee Volunteers women's basketball/GA1. I have immediately de-listed the article as the referencing is so poor. When these issues are fixed the article can be re-nominated at WP:GAN. If you disagree with the reassessment please contest this at WP:GAR. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 21:04, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Olympic terminology

The term "title" was used since the start of the Olympics. If you insist on changing it to "gold", do so for all days. --Nitsansh (talk) 21:18, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. I prefer "gold", but I don't think it's worth changing now. — Dale Arnett (talk) 21:23, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tie break in rugby union European nations cup

According to my calculation, either Portugal or Romania could get level with Russia on 23 points. Does Russia hold the tie-break advantage against both?--Nitsansh (talk) 21:18, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Russia hold all the tiebreakers. Russia have swept Portugal and have a win and draw with Romania. —Dale Arnett (talk)

OK, I wasn't sure the tie-break is head-to-head. So now it's only the race between Romania and Portugal for 3rd place that remains unsettled...--Nitsansh (talk) 00:23, 28 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I THOUGHT that was the situation. I looked further, and apparently the IRB's official site doesn't say that Russia are in. In fact, this story specifically states that Russia needed a win to secure their berth in this round. It may be that head-to-head results aren't used in a tiebreaker in the qualifying procvess. I'll remove Russia as a qualified team in the current events portal, and you can handle the other articles. — Dale Arnett (talk) 02:37, 28 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, it turned out I was right all along. The IRB was just slow in updating its own site; it posted Russia's qualification later that day (28 February). The tiebreakers were exactly as I said. All relevant articles, including the current events portal, now correctly list Russia as in. — Dale Arnett (talk) 19:00, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Page move

Fixed Thank you for posting on my talk. I have fixed this error. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:29, 28 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

2009–10 Kentucky Wildcats women's basketball team on T:TDYK

I'm not going to approve it for DYK myself, since I've been working on related article topics recently. However, FYI, it is at 5x expansion, but the "orphan" tag at the top of the article is a problem. See what you can do about de-orphaning the article and then remove the "orphan" template. Once that's done, it should be good for DYK. cmadler (talk) 14:04, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Now de-orphaned. I count 7 incoming links, with one more to be added once the postseason bids come in. Potential for a few more because several 2009–10 SEC women's team articles don't have opposing team links added. — Dale Arnett (talk) 18:50, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

for updating the WBB tournament pages. Just didn't want you to think it went unnoticed. --SPhilbrick T 12:09, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Conference Standings on 2009–10 NCAA Division I men's basketball season

Dale- Wanted to get your opinion/expertise on something. I get time out errors every time I update CBB season page and have seen others comment taht this happens to them as well. I suspect it may be that the page has gotten too complex with all of the links, templates, etc. Should we cut back the standings or eliminate them? I made an offer to create season pages for each conference after the Final Four, we could house the standings there and just link the season pages from the conference table. What do you think? Rikster2 (talk) 02:22, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm getting the same errors you've been getting. I think you may be on to something with respect to the complexity of the page. You have a good idea when it comes to housing standings on the conference season pages, but it's not enough. I think a couple of other sections could be split off into their own pages—(1) coaching changes and (2) conference champions and honors. Matter of fact, (2) could be an alternate place to put all of the conference standings in a single place, along with housing each conference's standings on its own page. — Dale Arnett (talk) 02:38, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm having trouble just getting the old version to load, so I can't see how it was set up, but have you tried including the conference standings via transclusion? I think that might solve your problem. cmadler (talk) 11:54, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for 2009–10 Kentucky Wildcats women's basketball team

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Happy Dale Arnett's Day!

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Discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jargon of The Rush Limbaugh Show (4th nomination)

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jargon of The Rush Limbaugh Show (4th nomination). patsw (talk) 03:34, 7 April 2010 (UTC) (Using {{Please see}}) I saw you edited this page and have a high edit count. patsw (talk) 03:34, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

College Football Project request

Hello! You are listed as an active member of the College Football Project! We have a large number of unreferenced biographies of living persons, but it works out to be just two or three articles per active participant. I've divided up the articles that need help and put them in a table on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football/Unreferenced BLPs. Please assist the project by researching and sourcing the articles that have been "assigned" (so to speak) to you.--Paul McDonald (talk) 02:45, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Atletico Madrid

I think they are guaranteed a spot in the Europa League because Sevilla qualified for Europe. Kingjeff (talk) 17:56, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, no. The loser of the Copa del Rey final only gets a Europa League place if the winner qualifies for the Champions League. If the winner qualifies for the Europa League through its league position, the cup winner's place does NOT pass to the defeated finalist, but instead goes to the highest-placed team not already qualified for Europe. What this means:
- If Sevilla wins the Copa del Rey, Atlético would get the cup winner's place only if Sevilla maintain their current fourth-place position and qualify for the Champions League.
- If Sevilla finishes fifth, Atlético could not earn the extra Europa League place through La Liga because they can't improve on their ninth-place position.

Hope this helps... — Dale Arnett (talk) 18:20, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation

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J654567 (talk) 21:51, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

participation in teh top flight

u need to add one to all those in 2010/11 season not just exeter, otherwise it doens't add up does it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.144.124.248 (talk) 22:02, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

For the improvement to the Kamie Ethridge DYK hook.--SPhilbrick T 20:49, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Least I could do. :) — Dale Arnett (talk) 02:18, 6 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Problem with an administrator

Dale, I am having a problem with an administrator, User:Pats1, who is under the impression that project-wide formatting and standards do not apply to WP:NFL, and seems to be engaged in enforcing his own formatting preferences and possible violations of WP:OWN. I would be grateful if you would watch Fred Taylor (American football) and User talk:Pats1. I am tired of having perfectly valid edits reverted because the admin in question did not make them himself. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 (talk)

Said and done. :) — Dale Arnett (talk) 17:29, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

June 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Southeastern Conference, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. --APShinobi^{My Contribs} 01:48, 11 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that, I restored your edit. I was quickly going through recent changes and reverting vandalism and your edit with "KFC Yum!" made my anti-vandal tools throw a fit. I read over it again and realized it was not a vandalization. My mistake, restored your edit. --APShinobi^{My Contribs} 01:53, 11 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Important!!! -- Please pay attention

Dear Mr Arnett,

I am contacting you because you are an admin and involved in various sporting related articles, particularly rugby.

I believe such information was not previously available on the internet; I spent considerable time and effort as part of the collaborative wiki in writing up these league tables and leagues from RFU yearbooks.

User:Noq politely asked user:ohnoitsjamie for these articles to be undeleted but he was refused

Ohnoitsjamie has also unilaterally decided to ban me from Wikipedia. This means that I am forced to create new accounts in order to speak to you.

In my very humble opinion, these articles were deleted as part of a concerted, petty, vindictive campaign of intimidation against me.

Could you therefore please review such articles and undelete (unvandalise) them where you consider necessary?

Please note that this message may be vandalised from your talk page. If it is I apologise -- people deserve to know the truth about this vandalism.

Thank you for your attention - your considered attention would be most welcome. Vice Admiral Drake (talk) 20:29, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you could do as user:Noq requests and undelete them and then move them to his user spage that would be useful for the Wikipedia project. Thx. Vice Admiral Drake (talk) 18:02, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The templates were deleted per G5. Creations by a banned or blocked user(s); the above user was blocked for attacks and edit warring, and now repeatedly creates socks and moans about it. Please contact me if you have further questions. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 21:31, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm glad ohnoitsjamie (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has posted here Mr Arnett because I can expose him here much better than when my complaints are censored from his own talk page or other noticeboards. He is hiding behind "G5 bla bla bla" is just an excuse. While I understand that admins might want powers to delete crap that was patent nonsense, blatant vandalism, self promotion, etc, these were legitmate articles legitimately created. He could have done the honourable thing and used his discretion (funny how that link is red btw) but for once recognised good quality work. But no, he chose the dishonourable, petty, vindictive way out which is why I made the reasonable, civil request above.

If ohnoitsjamie (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) can come up with a better excuse than "G5 bla bla bla" and explain in detail why those deletions were for the good of Wikipedia (as opposed to just satisfying his petty ego), then people might start listening to him. Unfortunately, I don't think they can.

If you could therefore do as user:Noq requests (now there's a man with a million more honour than some admins I could name), I'm sure Wikipedians of the future would be extremely happy with you. Drake no walky planky (talk) 18:15, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I thought I might offer my input here: While it may seem nonsensical to have an article deleted for no apparently because of something called G5, this is in fact a part of Wikipedia's policies. G5 says that we don't allow banned/blocked users to contribute, and since you are evading your block to continually try to recreate these articles, you are then violating the policy on sock puppetry. The articles were originally deleted after a discussion, whose result was a decision to delete. I hope this may help you better understand what is going on. Bramble claw x 18:35, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I thank Brambleclawx for his input, but Dale, I'm afraid he's basically missing wrong. OK, there was a decision to delete the perfectly adequate article Hill, Back, Dallaglio at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hill, Back, Dallaglio (actually I think the voting was some stacking of votes and other votes were simply misguided but I'll deal with that later -- it's not important that right now). But the articles on the Courage League Division Ones? There was no discussion there. ohnoitsjamie (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) took it upon himself to vandalise those articles, and he still has not tried to explain why, hiding behind bureaucracy. Although the policy is no doubt well intentioned, it does permit in circumstances like this, admins to act basically as bullies to satisfy their own egos. He has not used his discretion. The articles were clearly legitimate had anyone else other than me created them. Indeed as I noted to user:Noq, before I was censored, the French language Wikipedia already has such articles. Yet when they were created in the English language Wikipedia -- these is the English leagues remember, they are vandalised by one of their own admins, who happens to know bugger all about rugby (Canada are easily the worst of the former dominions at rugby, having a record of P4 L4 v NZ, P6 L6 v Aus, P2 L2 v SA, P6 L6 v Eng) and is sticking his nose in where he's not welcome.

Therefore I ask you again to please kindly comply with user:Noq's reasonable request and undelete theese articles. Thx. Ohyesitssirfrancis (talk) 21:31, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Userfy request

Dale, could you do me a favor? I'd like the code from these deleted templates put in my userspace, if that's possible:

These were deleted (navboxes with redlinks) while I was inactive for an extended period of time. I'd like to fill them out with links, without having to reinvent the wheel... Thanks in advance. Strikehold (talk) 22:40, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Input needed

at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of NCAA Division I men's basketball players with 13 or more blocks in a game. Thanks! Jrcla2 (talk) 14:08, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't done the NAIA maps for years, Just NCAA D-I, D-II. I'm hardly on wiki except for the conference bids that we do and updating the maps every year. Fresno St. Alum (talk) 11:29, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

2010 U.S. Women's Open

I did understand why you listed the U.S. Women's Open qualifiers the way you did. You did it because that's how it has been done on the articles for the Men's U.S. Open. However, I did not believe that replicating a bad article design was a good idea. The format used in the Men's U.S. Open articles is merely copied from the way the USGA displays the qualifiers in their publication. And, while, it may work there, I don't believe it is a format that is easy to understand in the very different context of Wikipedia. Sometimes just copying the way things have always been done is not the best way. I hope you understand. --Crunch (talk) 11:49, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

2010 FIBA World Championship rosters

Some guys on their keep editing the names of Greek clubs to the incorrect Greek language form. I have fixed it several times and the keep changing it back and the one guy is getting aggressive about it. They are not adding the English names of the clubs, but the Greek ones. But the clubs officially use the names in English everywhere in the world outside of Greece. For an English website they definitely use the English names, which are the official ones of the club. Like Olympiacos, not Olympiakos. Can you discuss this with those people that keep changing it and explain it to them?74.194.176.82 (talk) 14:27, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tommy Amaker GA

Thanks for helping to get this article started

This user helped promote Tommy Amaker to good article status.

--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 07:29, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

UConn Huskies vs. Connecticut Huskies

Check out Category talk:UConn Huskies and Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 July 17#University of Connecticut athletics categories. Not sure where you'd stand on this.--Mike Selinker (talk) 05:30, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Basketball squad template

Hi there. I just read your message at Template talk:Football squad player. Unfortunately I was on wikibreak at the time, but I was wondering if you were still interested in adapting it for basketball articles? I've coded a prototype, which has an optional |basketball parameter. An example of it in use can be found here (columns are optional, all I did was cut and paste from Watford F.C.)

I notice that WP:BASKETBALL has its own roster template. But at Olympiakos B.C. the football one is still used for roster changes, so it might be worthwhile to do this. Let me know if you still think it would be worthwhile, and if so I'll ask an admin to make the amendment. Regards, --WFC (talk) 00:12, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note to you

I just found out you were from Kentucky, I'll I gotta say is, Wildcats Suck and GO VOLS --Nascarking (talk) 04:08, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Darts

There is a proposal for a Wikiproject on darts, so why don't you join the proposal or discuss a Wikiproject for darts. Just click here and sign the proposal or discuss it. Mr.Kennedy1 (talk) 17:52, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Piped links

Hi, as per WP:PIPE I have reverted your change to perfect round. It is generally unnecessary to bypass redirects, so there is no problem having the links the Nike Tour. Regards, _wjemather ^bigissue 22:24, 1 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nice work on the FIBA Hall of Fame article

Hey - just wanted to say "nice job" on the changes you made to this entry. I looked at it this morning after the 2010 inductee release went out. It was a mess and is much clearer now. Keep up the good work! Rikster2 (talk) 01:09, 21 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Dale Arnett's Day!

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For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian,
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Peace,
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00:21, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Portal: Current events/Sports way too big!!!

Hi Dale

I know this has been discussed in the past but with no conclusions. I feel that now we have grown a real monster. The August article ended with 371KB! It takes ages to load and difficult to edit such enormous files! It's nice that people like to contribute more and more news and results, but I think we should find a way to filter the items with a net of bigger holes, if you see what I mean...--Nitsansh (talk) 22:19, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have to agree. I know one thing that was discussed was creating a subportal for North American (US/Canada) sports; maybe it's time to revisit that idea. Also, August is always a busy month because it's the start of Champions League and Europa League qualifiers, not to mention other major soccer competitions. This year, the Youth Olympics sent it up another notch. I think it also might be a good idea to create subportals for specific sports, especially soccer and basketball. — Dale Arnett (talk) 23:39, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I checked August 2009 article. It was only 165KB, less than half of this year. There must be more than just the youth Olympics to make such a huge difference.--Nitsansh (talk) 15:49, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Also checked July. 266K in 2010 vs 145K in 2009. Last year the difference between Jul and Aug was 20K, this year over 100K!--Nitsansh (talk) 15:59, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- What do you consider a reasonable size for a month's article? --Nitsansh (talk) 15:31, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think there are just months who are bigger (like Aug 2010) and some who are a lot smaller like mentioned above. In the Summer months there is more traffic in most sports, so more is added of course. Don´t know if there is a need to split... Kante4 (talk) 21:52, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That doesn't explain how the pages have doubled in size from the same months last year. The number of events worthy of reporting on these pages didn't grow that much. For example: I don't recall all the junior basketball championships in Europe (there are 6 of them!) even mentioned in previous years. --Nitsansh (talk) 22:09, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I just found out that August 2010 in sports ranks in 4th place on the Long pages list. Two more articles this year (March and July) made the top 30. I definitely won't like these articles to become regular features on this list....--Nitsansh (talk) 20:24, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

2010 FIBA World Championship squads

Thanks for that catch on the New Zealand Breakers...I knew they were in the Australian league, but completely spaced out when I was counting the flags! Bds69 (talk) 16:53, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Chase for the Cup question

Aren't there ten Chase races?

The 2009, 2008, and 2007 articles don't seem to list results for all ten. 2009 lists seven, 2008 lists six, etc. Enigma^msg 18:27, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

FIBA

Hey, thanks for fixing 2010 FIBA World Championship for Women squads. I took the infos from FIBA.com site and surely made some misstakes. ;) Kante4 (talk) 21:59, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Edward Gal

Hi, I just gave your hook the go-ahead at DYK. Please note that footnote 8 of the article doesn't lead to the page you cite; perhaps you could fix that. Best, Yoninah (talk) 17:08, 4 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'll give it a look. FYI, that item was actually in the article before I ever got to it. Up to now, I took it on good faith. — Dale Arnett (talk) 17:10, 4 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Edward Gal

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Nomination of NCAA Division I men's basketball coaches wins list for deletion

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2009 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans

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--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 21:56, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

SI's MLB all-decade team

Thanks for the great "catch" (excuse the pun), re the starting rotation in the online cite. When I was doing the draft of the article (in or about Jan. 2010), I had based it on the December 28, 2009, print issue of Sports Illustrated, which only had a starting pitcher, relief pitcher, and closer. It did not have a starting rotation. When I finally was ready to convert the draft to an actual Wiki page ( a few months ago), I checked to see if there was an online cite and then added it as a footnote. Unfortunately, I "assumed" that SI's online page would be the same as the Dec. 28 print issue. Obviously I was wrong. Thanks again for spotting that. Eagle4000 (talk) 15:28, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merge

I've just suggested merging True Family into List of Unification Church members since the information in the first is mostly aready in the second. Please discuss if you like: Talk:List of Unification Church members#Merge in True Family. Kitfoxxe (talk) 09:08, 10 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

the extinct species of Lady Paladins, Ladybacks, and Lady Rebels

I've posted various nominations on CFD today and yesterday about no-longer-Lady teams. You created some of these categories. Weigh in if you like.--Mike Selinker (talk) 00:29, 11 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have no objections to any of the changes. You can refer to this part of my talk page if you want. — Dale Arnett (talk) 03:22, 12 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

PEDs and 500 HR club

I replied to your comment, I think your issue with my response was mostly a result of my unclear language! :) Staxringold _talk^contribs 17:03, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

2010 end of year rugby tests

Hi Dale,

Just to let you know I undid your update on the Spain/Canada match about the blood replacement as it wasn't a blood replacement. A Canadian prop got sin binned on 28th minute. On 34th minute a scrum occurs. As an experienced front row must be on the field when a scrum occurs, Canada's number 8 left the pitch to allow a replacement prop to enter. On 38th minute the sin binned prop re-enters the pitch but as no other scrum occurs until half-time, the replacement prop stays on the pitch and the number 8 stays out. At half time, the other starting prop comes off, being de facto replaced by the replacement prop, and the number 8 rejoins the pitch.

Betamarco (talk) 09:11, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Image restored. An IP user apparently misinterpreted the wording of the logo as a change to the competition name and made changes accordingly, with no explanation. — Dale Arnett (talk) 04:36, 27 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Baseball Hall of Fame websites

You have edited several articles about baseball Hall of Fame selections. Recently a robot has marked many of the references [dead link], primarily because the NBHOFM has a new website this year or last year. Many of those targets are press releases.

I don't know how many of the press releases or other pages have been republished somewhere on the new site. If not, the Internet Archive may be useful. old website, baseball Hall of Fame (NBHOFM) --P64 (talk) 23:11, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the tip. By the way, the Hall has migrated all of its bios to the new site, so those are just a matter of changing the links accordingly. — Dale Arnett (talk) 01:05, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Thought process

1. Make change 2. Read discussions on talk page 3. Wait, hold on, I could have sworn I looked at the article as I was spelling that -- tariqabjotu 03:26, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Your most recent edit to Interstate 70 in Colorado

Dale, FYI, in your most recent edit to this page, among other things, you updated the date from 2009 to 2010 for the claim "As of 2009, the Eisenhower Tunnel is the highest vehicular tunnel in the United States". The problem is that this sentence is sourced to this page [1], which was last updated in 2009. As such this citation is no longer valid, as it cannot be used to source a claim dated to 2010, being last updated in 2009. Do you have a source for 2010? or should the data be rolled back to 2009 in the article? Dave (talk) 17:11, 15 December 2010 (UTC) PS, per WP:NOTBROKEN, it is not necessary to "fix" links to redirect pages.[reply]

Roll it back. — Dale Arnett (talk) 17:12, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

51 (number)

I got confused when I read this. In your change on Sept 20, you stated that a number of leagues have retired the number 51, then say that only one league has retired the number. Please clarify. Obankston (talk) 16:57, 21 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I may have caught it already. The current version says that "a number of North American sports teams" have retired 51, and then go on to note that only teams in the NFL have done so. — Dale Arnett (talk) 17:03, 21 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

Nice catch on Jason Isringhausen. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 02:32, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

AFD

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List of foreign NBA players

I like the recent edit you made to the list. It makes the list more accurate. Though, I have a question. I wonder why you add periods to several notes. I am under the impression that incomplete sentence should not have period.—Chris!_c/t 04:44, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Baker Street

Your addition to Baker Street (song) has been reverted. Whenever adding possibly controversial statements about a living person to an article or any other Wikipedia page, please include sources. RadioFan (talk) 03:30, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If you're referring to the statement that Ravenscroft claimed to have originated the story that Holness had performed the sax solo, the BBC story about the Holness urban myth—which is already used as a reference—explicitly states that Ravenscroft made that claim. As for the report that Rafferty was still making £80K a year from the song, I cited it explicitly from an obituary in telegraph.co.uk. — Dale Arnett (talk) 04:08, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If you could make those references clearer in your edit, that would help. I didn't read that BBC story quite the way you characterized it, as a joke.--RadioFan (talk) 04:26, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Brees 400 yard game

Thanks for finishing up my work on List of NFL quarterbacks who have passed for 400 or more yards in a game. Ma^t_chups 11:58, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Black Canadian categories

Hi there, first, let me say that I am an admirer of the fine edits you regularly contribute on Wikipedia. Thank you for your time and effort here, especially on the sports articles. Anyway, my reason for writing is that I am concerned with your addition of the "Black Canadian" categories to articles, which seem to be sometimes based on something other than reliable sources. I am specifically thinking of Joel Anthony. While it may seem like he is Black, I feel that adding any categories based on ethnic, ancestral, religious or other possibly controversial fields are not helpful and should be avoided. See WP:BLPCAT for more details. Thanks and happy editing.--TM 03:09, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

David Campese

Hello Dale, it's Sergio from it.wiki. While writing the Italian article for Campese I noticed that the English one is on unsustainable state since 2007... I left an entry into the talk page and signalled the fact to the Project Rugby Union also. Definitely not an article to be left that way for a rugby player who won a World Cup and is the first-tier top try scorer. -- SERGIO aka the Black Cat 20:10, 21 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Agree completely. Campese is too important a figure in rugby history for an article in that state. — Dale Arnett (talk) 23:31, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oh -- ok; then in you I trust :-) -- SERGIO aka the Black Cat 14:48, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The main problem I see with it is that the referencing isn't clear at all—essentially no inline citations. Some of the paragraphs are also a chore to go through. It's actually improved somewhat from the last time I saw it, but it still could use a bunch of work. — Dale Arnett (talk) 18:27, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

2011 Six Nations Championship squads

While you have done a fantastic job on this page, I do not see the need for the players ages to remain 'frozen'. I understand that caps should not be updated but it just looks inaccurate for their ages to stay the same. Please consider changing this, thanks. --MSR-Liverpool (talk) 21:38, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The reason why I froze the players' ages is because this article is specific to the 2011 competition. Squad articles for major championship events in other sports also use frozen ages as of the starting date of the tournament. See, e.g., 2010 FIFA World Cup squads, 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup squads, 2006 FIFA World Cup squads, and so on, as well as 2010 FIBA World Championship squads, 2010 FIBA World Championship for Women squads, and 2009 World Baseball Classic rosters. All these squad articles freeze ages as of the starting date of the competition. — Dale Arnett (talk) 23:29, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series

You used the wrong prose for the rule change section. It needs to be in normal written form, and not in points. Thanks, and since I didn't have time to reword it I reverted. Sorry. Nascar 1996 03:13, 27 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind. I reworded it. Also, thank you for updating the Rules and Regulations page. Thanks! Nascar 1996 03:49, 27 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Quick question regarding 2010-11 Top 14 article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%9311_Top_14_season#Key Quick question, how do you create the green border in this section (signifying defensive and offensive bonus points)? It seems one is needed but I'm not sure how to create it. Thanks CalBears99 (talk) 23:19, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind, I just realized a team can't get both types of bonuses in one match in French rugby. Sorry CalBears99 (talk) 23:59, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you

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Real tennis

Now that Federer and Nadal are showing signs of burn-out, perhaps we can get them to change courts! As they enter history, they might step back a few centuries, and keep the old forms alive.Nishidani (talk) 15:26, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Final of 2010-11 Heineken Cup

Thank you very much for info. I was thinking as Leinster won the first semi-final they would be declared the "home team" but finally not. It was a mistake and sorry ;).

And well, thank you again.

Congratulations for your works in Wikipedia. -- TheSoccerFanAmericanista (talk) 19:00, 30 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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College football help

Thank you for everything you have done for pages relating to college football over the years. I have been updating college football pages for the last 3 or 4 years now and your profile comes up all the time on pages I am editing and you always make very good edits and additions. Right now I am I'm the process of creating a page for every Division I team for the 2011 season (FBS and FCS) and have noticed that you have helpped with additions/changes to categories. I very much appreciate that because I try my best but sometimes miss categories or don't start necesarry ones when creating these pages. I just wanted to say thank you for your contributions to the cause and hope you will contiune to help me as I help the wikipedia football world this summer. Thank you and hope to see your great contributions as time goes on.Bsuorangecrush (talk) 09:03, 16 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Portal comment

Thanks for adding in the reference. I meant to do it when originally adding in the note but it seems to have slipped my mind. --Kevin W./Talk•CFB uniforms/Talk 19:01, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

2011 China Floods

Hi Dale, I noticed you added the 2011 Missouri Floods to the sidebar for ongoing events - disasters section So I wondered whether you might consider doing the same for the 2011 China floods article? The article itself needs work - but it's an ongoing event so it will always need work, I've started progressing the article via it's talk page, but I'm a bit out my depth dealing with such a large subject at my limited Wikipedia experience level. So I'd value your feedback both on the article, and on what level of article (stub/start/good etc) an article needs to be before it can be added to the sidebar without people complaining about that action. EdwardLane (talk) 17:25, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

My immediate thought is that while the article needs to have a certain level of quality—definitely more than stub—the criteria for inclusion in the sidebar are more related to the magnitude of the event than the quality of the article. I didn't get any feedback, up or down, for adding either the recent Mississippi River floods or the Joplin tornado to the sidebar. The Mississippi River flood was among the largest in American history. By some measures, it was larger than the legendary 1927 flood, the most destructive in the US. As for the Joplin tornado, it caused more deaths than any US tornado in more than 60 years. — Dale Arnett (talk) 17:37, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the feedback. I'm going to upgrade the article a bit and then try adding it to the sidebar, see what happens. EdwardLane (talk) 09:00, 16 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Women Squads

Hey, the FIFA-list is at times completely different like you mentioned. They had Angerer with 40-something caps while the dfb.de has her with 92 and so on, i did not change the US, Frence and German caps/goals. What do we roll with? Kante4 (talk) 19:57, 17 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

My gut feeling is that I'd go with the individual federation's numbers IF they can be confirmed for each player. By "confirmed", I mean that all caps credited to each player are indeed against full national sides. This can easily be determined for Canada; I suspect the same would apply to the the other countries you named. I'm getting ready to work out and maybe shop a bit... I'll think it over while I'm out. :) — Dale Arnett (talk) 20:06, 17 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nikola Mirotić

Oh, I'm actually very sorry for reverting your edits. I have been trying to edit other sections of the page and must have accidentally reverted your edits. Thank you for letting me know. — (talk) 5:50, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Women's FIFA Group C standings

Dale,

You say that Sweden must win by 3 goals to win the group. Is that right?! Why?

If Sweden wins by any score they will have 9 points and the USA 6 points. Why isn't that a win for Sweden? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tumb (talk • contribs) 18:03, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Had a brain fart. :) — Dale Arnett (talk) 18:08, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

8 (number)

Cool update. Cheers, JoeSperrazza (talk) 19:45, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

P:CE/S matters... what's your say?

Hi Dale... I would like your opinion regarding the latest discussions on my talk page... in particular the last one... Thanks--Nitsansh (talk) 18:13, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

MOS & Links in tables.

Can you please point out to me where in the MOS it indicates that duplicate links can be present in tables? Since I do considerable about of work on Fraternity chapter lists and Fraternity National Convention lists, knowing that I *don't* need to go through and make sure only the first convention in Chicago gets a link to the city would be *very* useful. Also, most of my tables are sortable, so I can't always guarantee that if it is sorted on the host chapter (for example), that the first Chicago in the coding ends up as first in the sorted table...Naraht (talk) 13:29, 10 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

My reading of WP:REPEATLINK indicates that repeated links within separate cells of a single table is acceptable, though optional. It does, however, clearly frown upon repeating links within lists. — Dale Arnett (talk) 18:18, 10 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your triple DYK nomination

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List of college football coaches with a .750 winning percentage

Thanks for updating this list. Jweiss11 (talk) 06:20, 14 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sint Maarten

That was an absolutely heroic series of edits to fix Sint Maarten country code/area code change. Just when you think 'all done' there's one more that was missed... -- 80.42.236.111 (talk) 19:33, 1 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Olympiacos B.C.

Hi. Can you please make it where only registered users can edit that page and can you please put an auto review roll back on it? People keep messing with the depth chart on that page endlessly for so long now now and it's just ridiculous and absolutely impossible to keep it correct because of much trolling of that team's depth chart goes on at that page. Either that or can you just have the depth chart removed? Because it is just ridiculous how people just mess with that depth chart endlessly by over and over and over putting players at the wrong positions very blatantly and obviously on purpose.173.216.237.132 (talk) 09:52, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject College Basketball discussion

Dale, I know that you created Template:Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball, but some of us are starting to feel that those types of navboxes need some standardization and re-tooling. There's a new discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College Basketball#College basketball program navboxes - standards that might affect your Gonzaga template. I'm sure that you're not super attached to the template and would be fine with any agreed upon changes, but we always welcome opinions on these issues. Thanks. Jrcla2 (talk) 01:38, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mountain West Conference and Conference USA football alliance

Thanks for the help on Mountain West Conference and Conference USA football alliance. It is appreciated. --SportsMaster (talk) 18:11, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Coaching lists

Thanks again for keeping those coaching lists up to date. Jweiss11 (talk) 17:19, 19 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Links to university vs. team

Dale, I saw your edits to you Don Nehlen. You're 100% right about team links in the infobox. That is the standard for Infobox college coach. As for the body of an article, it's a little bit more nuanced. If you're writing "Bowling Green State University" then that should link to Bowling Green State University. If you think a link to Bowling Green Falcons football is more appropriate, then the copy should be changed accordingly. It's not good practice to write "Bowling Green State University" and have that wikilink to Bowling Green Falcons football. That's sloppy and misleading to the reader. My general practice with coaching biographies to start off with mention and a link to a given university, then then work in a link to the team article in the supporting detail. I think it's worth mentioning and linking to university articles in coaching bios because the universities are the organizations that hire and pay the coaches, and the coach's influence tends to extend to the university at large. Jweiss11 (talk) 18:24, 8 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. I figure you've already changed that part back... if you haven't, be my guest. :) — Dale Arnett (talk) 18:29, 8 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done indeed. Jweiss11 (talk) 20:53, 8 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sandusky edit

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Thanks, but

Thank You for sharing my view regarding this [2] [3]. But if you want to be thorough, you have to change all this, as I did here [4], because you left the medal table uncorrected. Howard the Duck seems good cooperative guy, but FIBA's pages are complete mess. Pantagana (talk) 15:34, 1 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Duke of Marmalade

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NBA salary cap

I think some of my edits were lost with your last major change. Not sure if it would have prevented this, but there is {{inuse}} tag that you can add to articles when you are doing major edits. I'll wait before restoring the lost changes, in case you were still working. BTW, for historical purposes, was the info on pre=2011 CBA retained in the article? Thanks for updating the article.—Bagumba (talk) 20:44, 12 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Scratch my comment, I think all is intact.—Bagumba (talk) 20:47, 12 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I know why I was confused. The article text seemed to be cut and pasted an extra time in the article. I was bold and chopped off the bottom half. Hope that was correct.—Bagumba (talk) 20:56, 12 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You got it right. :) What happened was that I messed up my cut-and-paste. When I noticed an edit conflict, I copied my edit to my Mac's clipboard. When I re-edited, incorporating your changes (I had the edit history up in a second window, so I had access to your work), I forgot to select the contents of the edit window so that my clipboard contents would replace the current version. — Dale Arnett (talk) 21:01, 12 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
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Eastern Kentucky Coal Fields

You may want to take a look at this article. If the anon editor is correct, it may need to be moved. Bms4880 (talk) 15:11, 9 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Phantom

Good job spotting the inbreeding in Phantom's pedigree. I missed that. Tigerboy1966 20:40, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

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advice requested

I'm interested in improving the presentation of the membership timelines for the various DI conferences.

I started a draft writeup at User:Sphilbrick/sandbox for latest project

I'd love to hear your feedback on whether this idea has merit, but I'm especially interested in thoughts on where I should present this. I was originally thinking the Wikiproject basketball page, but it has broader impact than just basketball. I tentatively plan to pick one location, then either write up a an RfC, or add notices to various obvious places. However, I am not sure how best to reach out to everyone who might care, so I'm looking for your advice.--SPhilbrick (Talk) 15:08, 10 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I may regret being impatient, but I went ahead and posted at Talk page of Project College football--SPhilbrick (Talk) 01:39, 11 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think your idea has a LOT of merit. And, I wouldn't lose too much sleep over posting it at the college football WP—it's just the kind of thing I believe they'd go for. :) — Dale Arnett (talk) 02:40, 11 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I'm more of a basketball fan, but I was frankly worried that the football folks might be miffed if I proposed changes at the basketball board, and since most of the changes are football driven, that seemed like a good place.--SPhilbrick (Talk) 03:09, 11 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the cleanup. I did know that The Summit League was formerly the Mid-Continent, but failed to consider that I should use the name at the time in the AE section. Good catch.

I honestly thought there would be more discussion. I'll give it a few more days (I've posted to all of the conference pages affected) then go ahead and make the changes, if there's no objection.--SPhilbrick (Talk) 17:36, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks

Thanks for the alternative WCC timeline. I think I'm going to go ahead and move the proposed timelines into the articles, as enough time for discussion has elapsed. Not all the timelines have the new conferences included, but I think it does add a lot of useful information. I was a little worried it might be too much clutter, but it doesn't seem to be a problem. I'm intrigued about the idea of backfilling, so we can see where each team came form, but I'll leave it to others to tackle that. The main open issue is whether to display the count. I was originally in favor, but agree with the editor who (presumably) thinks it looks clearer without. I plan to add a comment to each timeline, so if individual conferences choose differently, it is easy enough to change the code.--SPhilbrick (Talk) 15:43, 18 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Big West

Was wondering if you could fix the BWC timeline. The color for Hawaii says men's soccer, while previously it was for all women's sports. Also thanks for the history edits. hbdragon88 (talk) 05:40, 4 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Question about master table

I posed a question here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College Basketball/Master Table which maybe I should have asked at a more trafficked page. I'm guessing you might know.--SPhilbrick (Talk) 19:08, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Change in format of Qualified teams on tournament pages

Dale, I'm working my way through the NCAA Women's basketball tournaments, starting with 1982, adding a list of the venues, and maps. I just reached 1998.

You already had added a table of the regional locations, which I replaced using the common format now present in many men's and women's tournament pages.

When I get to the present, if I haven't run out of steam, I plan to start adding lists of Qualified teams, using the format used in 2012 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. That is, list by region, identifying whether at large or automatic and conference affiliation. I may also add maps of each qualifying team. I also plan to show the summary map identifying how many from each state, although I plan to use a different color scheme.

I'm mentioning this to you, because you added the tables of qualifiers to the 1998, and I would probably simply replace them using the 2012 format. I think this will add useful and interesting information, but I don't want to simply remove your contribution without informing you, in case you aren't a fan of the 2012 formats, and want to discuss.--SPhilbrick (Talk) 15:40, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Go for it. I'm not wedded to any particular format, and I kind of like the 2012 format. — Dale Arnett (talk) 15:57, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the response.--SPhilbrick (Talk) 16:22, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

in re: Larry Joe Inman

I'm glad that you knew there is no Lebanon High School. I was going by multiple bios and press releases that are in large part identical. All said that Inman had been coaching "...at Lebanon HS".

If you knew that one, might you also know in what fields Inman received his bachelors degree from Austin Peay and his masters from Tennessee State? I looked at even more sources without finding those tidbits, including searching both school's websites. (TSU's only reference to his getting his masters there is in the announcement of his coaching appointment.) GWFrog (talk) 23:16, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Don't know about his educational background. The only reason I knew about the high school is because I'm from Kentucky. — Dale Arnett (talk) 02:27, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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One of the recent edits you made at Major League Baseball in part reverted an edit I'd made to remove some piped links (specifically to Los Angeles Angels and to Minneapolis-St Paul). There was no reason to re-add the piped links, since the unpiped ones redirect to the same articles as the ones for which you added the pipes. (WP:NOTBROKEN) Just pointing it out, I'm not changing it back in the article (also NOTBROKEN) since if I did, it would just take up space storing the article history and not really have any effect on the result of the links. I only made the change in the first place since I was editing the same part of the article anyway, and just took advantage of an opportunity to reduce the number of characters in the source wikicode. --LarryJeff (talk) 02:15, 29 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

List of NCAA conferences

Thank you so much for helping keep that page updated! It's been hard for me to track everything that's been happening as the end of the semester approaches. Thus, I won't be making any edits for the next 2 weeks, but I trust that you will update that page as more moves are made. Thanks again! Dafoeberezin3494 (talk) 17:47, 4 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. I figure that since I'm one of the main contributors to the realignment article, I might as well update the conference page as well. :) — Dale Arnett (talk) 18:04, 4 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

City/state in Kentucky newspaper titles

I moved The Independent (Ashland) and The Times-Tribune (Corbin) back to their previous titles, without "Kentucky" inside the parens. Wikipedia appears to have only one "The Independent" in a town called Ashland, and only one "The Times Tribune" in a town called Corbin, so there's no need to disambiguate further. The Wikipedia: Article Titles policy asks us to be concise. _``` t b w i l l i e _` $1.25 _` 03:33, 17 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Help with FIBA Basketball World Cup Yugoslavia/Serbia issue

The FIBA Basketball World Cup and related articles to it keep getting falsely edited to show that Serbia won medals that were actually won by Yugoslavia. This also happens on the article page of Serbian national team. On one of the articles, Russia is also credited with the medals of the Soviet Union. If you try to fix this, someone else just edits it back. The Serbian national team article totally takes credit for medals that are not officially theirs, and you can't edit it to fix it, without it being reverted. Can you help with this? Here are the official records from FIBA --> [5] [6] [7] - the same problem exists at the Serbia and Montenegro national team article, which was even redirected, but FIBA counts it as a separate team --> [8] - and again, FIBA counts Soviet Union and Russia as separate teams, with separate medals, but in some articles Russia is getting credited with those medals, but here is how FIBA counts it ---> [9] [10] - the same problem exists at the articles of individual tournaments, where the wrong teams are listed, trying to credit medals won to countries that don't actually get credited with them, or simply placing the wrong country in the tournament competition. Can you help with this problem? Because no matter how much editing you do to fix it, the edits just get changed back, especially the ones related to the Serbian and Yugoslavian national teams.Bluesangrel (talk) 11:30, 22 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds like those pages need to be protected. The level of protection will depend on where the edits are coming from. If they're coming mainly from IP users, then it shouldn't be hard to get semi-protection (i.e., edits allowed only from registered users) approved. If registered users are involved, then it gets trickier. — Dale Arnett (talk) 16:39, 22 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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My great-grandfather, Bob Shiring, played center for the Massillon Tigers from 1903-06. He was from the Pittsburgh area and was one of four "ringers" paid to play by Massillon. He also played for the J.F. Lalus Athletic Club in Pittsburgh in 1899-1900, Homestead Library & Athletic Club in 1901, and Pittsburgh Stars/Pros in 1902. I have inherited a collection of original photos from these teams and and have collected other photos and articles. Sports Illustrated ran a story in the 2/6/12 issue called The First Super Bowl on the big game in 1906 between Canton and Massillon. I helped the writer with the story and SI gave me a photo credit for the picture postcard of the Canton team that I provided them for the article. I am working on some related projects, including with the Hall oF Fame, and would enjoy connecting with anyone interested in sharing information, asking questions, etc. Please feel free to contact me at gkficery@comcast.net. Thanks! Gregg Ficery — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gficery (talk • contribs) 14:47, 31 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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College Coaches 200 wins!

I just stopped by to say, "YOU DA MAN!" for updating the list midseason. You updated all 28 that were due for an update, right? I'll check behind you just as a courtesy checks-and-balances thing but I was really not looking forward to attacking that table - you are officially my editor hero for the month. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scrooster (talk • contribs) 22:27, 10 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks (re VanDerveer)

Dale

Thanks for the work you did at Tara VanDerveer. I'm kicking myself for not using the sortname template you replaced in the coaching tree. I recently did a coaching tree for someone else, so will have to make the change.

FWIW, I knew it wasn't done, but I was at the five day limit for DYK nomination, so proposed it. A Stanford fan offered to send me info box corrections (probably the Albany year), but I was going to wait until I was done. I'll check to see if there are any others.

There's still a question about whether she has a Big Ten Conference Championship in 1982. I have an email out to the Ohio State athletic department, but they haven't yet responded. (I think the answer is no)

Thanks, again, I think it is starting to look like a decent article.--SPhilbrick (Talk) 12:25, 15 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Editor Help

Hello, my name is Cole Swartwood and I am attending Clemson University as a freshman. In my english class we have an assignment to edit and add material to wikipedia (I have never edited Wikipedia before). My article is on the Sports in Venezuela page, and I saw that you have made many edits on the Sports in America Wikipedia page. I am using that page as a base for how i want to Sports in Venezuela page to look eventually. Due to your interest in sports, and many valuable edits in the page, I was wondering if you could help advise me on the page I am editing. It would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

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Editor Help

Hello, my name is Cole Swartwood and I am attending Clemson University as a freshman. In my english class we have an assignment to edit and add material to wikipedia (I have never edited Wikipedia before). My article is on the Sports in Venezuela page, and I saw that you have made many edits on the Sports in America Wikipedia page. I am using that page as a base for how i want to Sports in Venezuela page to look eventually. Due to your interest in sports, and many valuable edits in the page, I was wondering if you could help advise me on the page I am editing. It would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Cworld7 (talk) 14:18, 18 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nice to see someone adopting an article! The main thing when you're working on any article, especially a potentially large overview article such as the one you're doing, is to reference. If you want to see the kind of referencing that I'm talking about, see 2010–12 NCAA conference realignment—I've been one of the main editors of that article, and the reference count is now pushing 250. Another article I've intensively referenced is Courtney Vandersloot; I created that article when she was finishing her career at Gonzaga, and continued with it through her first WNBA season. Haven't done significant work on her article in about a year, however. If you know Spanish, that will be a huge plus for your particular article—although it's not a deal-breaker if you don't. (Knowing Spanish, obviously, would enable you to understand possible sources in that language, such as news articles and official league websites.) I'll be peeking around the article over the next few days. — Dale Arnett (talk) 03:04, 19 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Women's basketball

Hi Laura and Dale, I've been working to improve the coverage of women's basketball on Wikipedia. I recently decided I'd like to work on some of the general history of the sport. Despite having looked at Wikipedia for years, today was the first day I had taken a look at Women's basketball.

It looks like the perfect place include some expanded coverage of the history. I see Laura is one of the major contributor. In fact, the only contributor with over 10 edits who has edited this decade. I see Dale Arnett has also edit a fair bit, I'll copy him as well.

Obviously, I can just jump in, but I'd like to be a little structured. The article has grown organically, and this may be a good time to think about the structure. For example, the Rules and Equipment section is quite choppy. I don't like one or two sentence sections, so we ought to decide whether they could be expanded or if another format is better. I'm mulling over whether a table would make sense, with the current headings as rows, and high school/college/FIBA/WNBA as columns, although I haven't though through how the time element should be handled.

I'd like to see a timeline. A detailed timeline might deserve to be its own article, with a major milestones timeline included here. Do you know whether any other articles have adopted that concept?

The opening history paragraph begs for some paragraph breaks, but as that is one of the areas I want to expand, I think that will just happen.

I'd also like to discuss whether the overall structure makes sense. It is interesting that this article emphasizes location, with the "Around the World" section being the single largest, while Basketball has no such section at all.

I see the Basketball article has a bit of history in each of several sections, in one on women;s basketball, then has a second, expanded article History of basketball, which doesn't mention women.

We ought to discuss whether the history of women's basketball should be primarily in History of basketball, with summaries and Main article links in Basketball and Women's basketball, or something else.

Lots to think about, and I guess I ought to post something at wikiproject basketball. --SPhilbrick (Talk) 18:36, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Travel site..

Hi,

As a sometimes contributor to travel wikis, I just wanted to make sure you were aware of the launch of the travel guide under the auspices of the WMF. See meta:Travel Guide. You may also be interested in the legal action that Internet Brands has launched against volunteer contributors and wikipedians at http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/09/05/wikimedia-foundation-seeks-declaratory-relief-in-response-to-legal-threats-from-internet-brands/. The content for the new WMF site is being migrated from wikivoyage at http://en.wikivoyage.org as we speak. Of course, if you are across all this, then please forgive the interruption. Continue on! --Inas (talk) 09:16, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

International sports calendar 2012

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List of college women's basketball coaches with 600 wins

I notice that Andy Landers entry in List of college women's basketball coaches with 600 wins does not include his Roane State wins. I assume this is because that institution is a community college. Has there been any discussion about whether the NJCAA institutions should be included?--SPhilbrick (Talk) 13:39, 5 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

AFAIK, there's been no discussion. My guess is that it's because almost every statistical source I'm aware of in college sports draws a sharp distinction between two-year and four-year schools—usually by completely ignoring juco statistics. For an example in football, the College Football Data Warehouse includes NCAA, NAIA, and even NCCAA institutions, but doesn't include jucos. — Dale Arnett (talk) 14:42, 5 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, sounds reasonable. The question arose because someone cited the Georgia website which states "Stringer and Landers rank No. 1 and No. 3 in career victories among active Division I women's basketball coaches with 885 and 877 wins, respectively." I think it is a stretch to include his CC wins, but wanted to see what you thought.--SPhilbrick (Talk) 16:24, 5 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Loves Libraries Seattle

Decemmber 8 - Wikipedia Loves Libraries Seattle - You're invited

Date Saturday, December 8, 2012
Time 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Location Seattle Public Library Meeting Room 1 on Level 4, Central Library, 1000 4th Avenue, Seattle WA, 98104
Event An editathon on Seattle-related Wikipedia articles with Wikipedia tutorials and Librarian assistance on hand.
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Requesting protection for several Wikipedia pages

Hi Dale, I am requesting protection for the 2012 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team and for Notre Dame Fighting Irish football through the 2013 BCS title game, on Jan 7, 2013. I am already starting to see reverted edits by registered editors on these pages and I think to make all our lives easier it would be prudent to protect these pages, given the magnitude of two of the top teams in college football playing for the national title and the media circus that is sure to ensue. Thanks! Tedmoseby (talk) 21:44, 2 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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I received an email from the Communications Department of FIBA. In short, they recognize that some of the articles about FIBA could use some work and are looking for some help. I wrote them an email talking about some ideas in generalities, but I would love to chat with you about how the community can help. For example, should this be something for Wikiproject basketball, or should we create a specific Wikiproject FIBA? I know you have edited many of the FIBA articles, and I can peruse the contributors to identify others with interests in the area, but you may know specific names of editor I should contact. Laura Hale, for example.--SPhilbrick (Talk) 17:48, 11 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Richard Nixon talk page notice

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2010–13 NCAA conference realignment

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NWSL

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2013 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans

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Oldest public university in the United States

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2013 Kentucky Wildcats baseball team

Hi-

I noticed that you had contributed to 2012 Kentucky Wildcats baseball team. I wanted to let you know that I have now created 2013 Kentucky Wildcats baseball team. FYI --rogerd (talk) 16:04, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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DYK nomination for Russ Smith (basketball)?

I see you have done a few DYK nominations. I have updated Russ Smith (basketball) alot the past 2 days and he would be a great DYK with what he has been doing in the basketball tourneys. If we can get a picture and up date the page a little more. There is alot more that could be added about Russ if you check out the refs there is alot of weird facts on him. Maybe you could do or help do a DYK on him.Theworm777 (talk) 15:57, 31 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Luke Hancock

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Can you help?

Dale, I had a request at OTRS for inclusion of a person into the List of college men's basketball coaches with 600 wins - it looks like he should be there (but I'm no expert - wrong country anyway). I see you are a major editor of that page, can you have a look at the e-mail trail he sent (he has given permission to share it) and see if anything need doing? I would have e-mailed it to you - but I see no link - so I've put it here for you to view, Thanks. Ronhjones ^(Talk) 19:10, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Any feedback I can give to the OTRS poster? Ronhjones ^(Talk) 14:57, 28 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I've added him anyway Ronhjones ^(Talk) 21:32, 30 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

College soccer

Hey, just wanted to say thanks for the aid on the 2013 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, there's been a lot of work needed there to make it as good as possible. Quidster4040 (talk) 21:40, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Kelly Graves

Dale, on 8 Feb an IP did something odd to Kelly Graves, removing all the ref tags, and some br tags as well as some other edits.

This has left the article in a mess. I see substantial subsequent edits, so I'm not sure about reverting to an earlier version. Any thoughts?--SPhilbrick (Talk) 22:00, 6 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

What I usually do when I see something like that is to do a copy-and-paste from a version I know is good, incorporating any constructive new material from the current version. While I'll do it in the edit window, you may want to do it in a text file. — Dale Arnett (talk) 01:09, 7 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks.--SPhilbrick (Talk) 12:01, 7 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

See Talk:Kelly Graves--SPhilbrick (Talk) 18:10, 7 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimeetup Kentucky? Join us at THATCamp KY, June 1-2, 2013

Wikimeetup Kentucky - We need you!

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Tommy Amaker

I am just letting you know that as the leading editor at Harvard Crimson men's basketball in terms of edit count, I thought you might want to comment at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Tommy Amaker/archive1.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:05, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

CBB template

I added a CBB template to Pat Meiser today. I've done a few of these with no problem, but this was the first time I have one with no conference results. I thought I had to say "conference =No" in most the Start and the Entry, which I have done, but there seems to be an extra column. Any thoughts on what I have done wrong, or suggestions for a better place to ask?--SPhilbrick (Talk) 15:23, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm. Never had that situation before... I don't know how that came about. What I'd do is go into the edit history of the template, look up the creator of the template (or a major editor—I'm not well-versed on template syntax, so I generally only edit templates to add new entries to an established structure), and post your question on that person's talk page. — Dale Arnett (talk) 15:29, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Good idea, I see that the creator is still active, so have asked.--SPhilbrick (Talk) 15:50, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

ruined it (transfer)

you ruined the page, you removed Neymar without checking the article i put there which CLEARLY states he was sold for 51.3 million and the same with Falcao!!! Falcao sold for 50 million but you put it as 42 million so can you please fix you mistakes and look at articles in the future.

(1) I looked at the page history. Neymar wasn't in the list when I first added Falcao. (2) As for the Falcao transfer, I had the correct numbers in the table. The article said he sold for a minimum of 50 million EUROS. At yesterday's exchange rates, it converted to about £42.8 million. The first transfer fee is the value in pounds; the second is euros.— Dale Arnett (talk) 15:42, 1 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Great minds think...

I edited the future members of the Big Ten only to have a editing conflict, because you were in there ahead of me. :) I killed whatever minor change you made ther by separating Hopkins from Maryland & Rutgers. GWFrog (talk) 21:03, 3 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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NCAA D-II sports

I have put together a very extensive list of D-II schools with sports that compete outside of the formal D-II structure. It is very accurate with 2013-14 conference affiliations, but it is not complete. I have seen somewhere that some Pennsylvania schools have D-I wrestling and one other sport, other than hockey, and some Florida schools have sailing and possibly crew. I don't know if, where, or how to incorporate the list on current D-II pages. You can see my list here. Msjraz64 (talk) 19:58, 8 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure myself how to incorporate it. I'll need to think a little. BTW, I see one error: North Georgia may be a full member of the Peach Belt, but not in rifle. I just looked at the conference's official website—it does not sponsor that spott. — Dale Arnett (talk) 03:09, 13 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think the North Georgia Rifle was just listing the primary conference when they are possibly Independent in reality. Holy Names Men's Volleyball and maybe a couple others might fall into the same category. Either way the information is there, I thought something like this table would be easier than having notes for each individual school.Msjraz64 (talk) 04:06, 13 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I saw this as I was coming to ask you to give a look at the list I just posted after working on it, kinda hit-and miss, for a couple months: List of non-Division I Schools competing in NCAA Division I sports. GWFrog (talk) 14:51, 14 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2013 mid-year rugby test series

User:Hippo43 has nominated 2013 mid-year rugby test series for deletion. As someone who has contributed to this article, I thought you may be interested in the discusssion Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2013 mid-year rugby test series. Hamish59 (talk) 15:09, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Pssst...

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Bryan's

I have created 2013 Bob and Mike Bryan tennis season if you want to do some work on the prose in the year in detail or make a table with the prize money. I have already got the hard work done of creating the tables.HotHat (talk) 05:24, 13 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Records

I just want to thank you first and foremost for your contributions to the 2013 Bob and Mike Bryan tennis season page, however, your putting in that they have the men's doubles record is not in fact true because List of Grand Slam men's doubles champions#Most Grand Slam doubles titles (all-time) is not in-line with your edit on the article. This is because John Newcombe currently holds the all-time mark at 17, and Todd Woodbridge holds the open era record at 16, which this means the Bryans' would have to win two more slams to tie the Open Era record and three to hit-on the all-time mark. Furthermore, they need to win four more to have it all by themselves, so just give it time, which it will happen. Lets' not crown them before they do the accomplishment(s).HotHat (talk) 19:50, 14 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I just edited it to indicate that they do have the all-time record for a team, though not as individuals. Newcombe has 12 with Roche and 5 with other partners. Woodbridge has 11 with Mark Woodforde and 7 with other partners (most, if not all, with Jonas Björkman). — Dale Arnett (talk) 22:05, 14 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I just want to thank you for addressing my concerns with the respect to the aforementioned article.HotHat (talk) 13:04, 15 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Activated debates

Hi Dale. I invite you to feedback on my views in Talk:List of names in English with counterintuitive pronunciations, I'm encouraging all involved since January to do so. Adam37 (talk) 10:32, 21 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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NFLPA Game

Hello, Dale Arnett, I saw you'd recently made some constructive changes to NFLPA Game so I figured you may be receptive to a proposal I have for it. Important back story: I actually work with the NFL Players Association, and lately I've been helping to improve a number of articles here on Wikipedia. (Not directly editing articles, only making suggestions). This article is one I've been focusing on.

As the NFLPA pointed out to me, the article is very problematic: simply put, it conflates two different games with which the NFLPA has had a sponsorship history. I started a discussion at WP:NFL on how to handle the situation, and consensus was that we split the article into two. I've drafted one of those articles, and posted a request for assistance at Talk:NFLPA Game. The other article could be fashioned by reducing the current existing article, though I had originally split that task with an editor who hasn't been around for a few weeks. Would you be open to looking at my suggestions and, if they seem appropriate, go ahead and implement them? If you think you'd like to see the draft of the other article, I could probably put that together soon as well. Cheers, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 14:41, 27 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again Dale Arnett, just wanted to touch base again and see if you think this is something you might have time to help out with? If so, I'd certainly appreciate it! Cheers, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 19:33, 8 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Dale Arnett, just wanted to let you know that I've addressed your feedback about the Texas vs The Nation stub that I drafted, and posted an accounting of my changes over at Talk:NFLPA Game. Cheers, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 13:21, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again—I have updated the "Texas vs The Nation" draft following your suggestion (and agreed to by the other editor weighing in); mind taking a look now? WWB Too (Talk · COI) 13:51, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

TemplateData is here

Hey Dale Arnett

I'm sending you this because you've made quite a few edits to the template namespace in the past couple of months. If I've got this wrong, or if I haven't but you're not interested in my request, don't worry; this is the only notice I'm sending out on the subject :).

So, as you know (or should know - we sent out a centralnotice and several watchlist notices) we're planning to deploy the VisualEditor on Monday, 1 July, as the default editor. For those of us who prefer markup editing, fear not; we'll still be able to use the markup editor, which isn't going anywhere.

What's important here, though, is that the VisualEditor features an interactive template inspector; you click an icon on a template and it shows you the parameters, the contents of those fields, and human-readable parameter names, along with descriptions of what each parameter does. Personally, I find this pretty awesome, and from Monday it's going to be heavily used, since, as said, the VisualEditor will become the default.

The thing that generates the human-readable names and descriptions is a small JSON data structure, loaded through an extension called TemplateData. I'm reaching out to you in the hopes that you'd be willing and able to put some time into adding TemplateData to high-profile templates. It's pretty easy to understand (heck, if I can write it, anyone can) and you can find a guide here, along with a list of prominent templates, although I suspect we can all hazard a guess as to high-profile templates that would benefit from this. Hopefully you're willing to give it a try; the more TemplateData sections get added, the better the interface can be. If you run into any problems, drop a note on the Feedback page.

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2013 FCS Division 1 Independents

Ok, I know that Abilene Christian and Incarnate Word don't count as D1 wins for the 2013 season. However, both of the schools athletic websites clearly denote that for the 2013 football season they are classified as D1 Independents (while all other sports are part of the Southland Conference). Here is the Abilene Christian/ McMurry 2012 season opener Game Note that verifies that Abilene Christian is considered FCS D1 Independents this season, and here is the Incarnate Word schedule announcement that also states they are considered D1 for 2013. So why exactly are they not listed under the D1 Independents Template? Why, when ESPN acknowledges them as FCS Independents for 2013, are they not listed as such here at Wiki? Better yet, why were they deleted after I added them to the template? When you have all athletic sources saying they are considered D1 Independents for the year, even though they will count as a D2 win since they are transitional schools, they should be listed as such. Bigddan11 (talk) 20:11, 15 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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NFLPA Game follow-up

Hey Dale, Just wanted to touch based about the NFLPA Game article again. I've updated my Texas vs The Nation draft to include the results of past games, so I think that that stub, as well as my draft of the NFLPA Collegiate bowl draft, are both ready to roll out. Do you think you might have time to help get things moved over? (Note: I am going to ask the same of User:Arxiloxos.) Cheers, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 18:08, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This has been

Done. 17:22, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

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According to this process for starting a task force, the first thing to do is gather consensus, so I am sending this to some editors who have been active in editing relevant articles. If there is sufficient interest, I'll take a first stab at filling out the task force template and creating a draft task force page.

At this point, all I need is an answer to two questions:

I would (or would not) be interested in being part of a task force to improve the coverage of women's basketball
I think a different approach would be better (followed by alternative).--SPhilbrick (Talk) 11:55, 26 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Basketball/Women's basketball has been created. I haven't yet added it to the Wikiproject pages, but will do that, however, I wanted to let you know it exists, and has some suggested tasks.SPhilbrick (Talk) 19:22, 10 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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FA Thanks

This user helped promote Tommy Amaker to featured article status.

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Template:Kentucky Wildcats athletic director navbox

Dale- I have added Template:Kentucky Wildcats athletic director navbox, but I still have ~~2 holes~~1 hole that I can't seem to find: ~~Stanley A. Boles left the job in 1933, and I don't know who held the position until Bernie Shively came in in 1938 Also,.~~ Shively was AD until his death in 1967, but I can't seem to find out who filled the position until Harry Lancaster was named in 1969. Do you have any access to any UK Athletic Dept history that might help? I see that Chet A. Wynne was the football coach from 1934-1937, I can't find any documentation that he was also AD, but it would seem to fit. Thanks --rogerd (talk) 22:39, 26 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I found some references about Wynne, yes he was AD, and had some clashes with McVey and Rupp. --rogerd (talk) 23:03, 26 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Major professional sports leagues

I was thinking about your August 31 addition to this article summarized as "International expansion: Speculation about NFL in London increasing." There is always speculation in the media re sports leagues expanding and sports teams relocating. Since Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, I didn't think a discussion about what the NFL might do in the future, and its possible motives for doing so, fit well here. I recognize you have made a number of other good contributions, so I didn't want to just wholesale delete this one without mentioning something to you first. Barryjjoyce (talk) 02:27, 20 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The reason why I added it was that this particular section of the article deals with potential expansion of the "major leagues", not just the NFL, outside North America. Now, whether or not it belongs in WP might be another question. Speaking of which, what do you see as an appropriate outlet for that type of information? I DON'T see WikiNews as a viable outlet for it, BTW. — Dale Arnett (talk) 14:03, 20 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I trimmed some of the speculative material, while retaining the facts that the NFL has been ramping up its London presence. See what you think. Barryjjoyce (talk) 02:40, 9 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Think it'll work. I just added the NFL's official announcement that three teams would play "home" games at Wembley in 2014. The story/release openly acknowledged that all three teams are dissatisfied with their current stadiums. — Dale Arnett (talk) 03:00, 9 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Incarnate Word soccer

Yes, Dale, I know that the Southland Conference only sponsors soccer for women. I put this footnote in the List of NCAA Division I men's soccer teams: "Since the Southland Conference does not sponsor men's soccer, Central Arkansas fields its men's varsity soccer team in the Missouri Valley Conference, Oral Roberts plays in The Summit League, Houston Baptist competes in the Western Athletic Conference, and Incarnate Word will be an independent." The reason that Incarnate Word is an independent, Dale, is not because men's soccer is not a Southland Conference sport; they are an independent because no other conference invited them to come play soccer with them. Hey, what can I say? I tried to phrase the entry in the 2013 Season article accurately without offending the school or its supporters. GWFrog (talk) 04:12, 22 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oh. Now I understand why you did it that way. If you haven't already fixed it, let me go ahead and do it. — Dale Arnett (talk) 04:16, 22 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Not exactly your previous wording, but I think it's close enough. — Dale Arnett (talk) 04:20, 22 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That's cool... GWFrog (talk) 05:46, 22 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Nick Saban needs to be added to List of college football coaches with a .750 winning percentage. His record is now 165–55–1 (.749). Thanks, Jweiss11 (talk) 04:21, 17 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Just one question: Is that his on-the-field record, or his official NCAA record? He lost several wins due to NCAA sanctions. — Dale Arnett (talk) 04:26, 17 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This is official record, up-to-date. I just backed out the vacated wins from his bio article. Jweiss11 (talk) 04:43, 17 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I've got the weekly update completed except for Chris Petersen; Boise State is still playing. Since I won't save the page until after that game is over, I can add Saban at that time. — Dale Arnett (talk) 04:47, 17 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Great. Thanks. Jweiss11 (talk) 04:55, 17 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Edit on June 3rd, remove an external link: question

Hi Arnett,

you removed the new link '* Review: Canon EF-S 10-18mm F4.5-5.6 IS STM lens' from 'Canon EF-S 10–18mm lens'. Can you plese explain why?

BR Gode — Preceding unsigned comment added by GodeNehler (talk • contribs) 05:24, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I used that same article as a reference for my most recent addition. The fellow behind Northlight had quite a bit to say about the lens, and I thought it would add to the article by quoting some of his review. — Dale Arnett (talk) 01:25, 4 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Also, you seem to really be in-the-know with the conference realignment, especially as it pertains to the AAC/Big East. Your input would be greatly appreciated at Talk:Big East Conference Baseball Coach of the Year#Big East/American. Jrcla2 (talk) 23:22, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, flagicons are really not needed or? Kante4 (talk) 18:36, 5 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sort of torn between using them and not, but leaning against. Sure, a lot of the players are on club teams outside their home countries. OTOH, the more flags you have in the article, the longer it takes to load the page, especially when editing. On top of that, there's a term for it: "flagcruft". — Dale Arnett (talk) 22:03, 5 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Same here but also saying no, to be honest. So what do we do? Kante4 (talk) 20:45, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

My suggestion is to convert all of the existing squad lists into templates, similar to the current {{2014 United States FIBA Basketball World Cup team roster}}. They can then go into a category of their own. For an example of how it would work, see the following:

* Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's team rosters

* Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's team rosters

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If that's done, flagcruft becomes less of an issue, because now roster lists can be edited independently of one another, at least until the final rosters are set on August 29 (the day before the opening game). — Dale Arnett (talk) 02:04, 7 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, good idea. Would you do that? Kante4 (talk) 14:56, 7 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot. Will start to help on the squads now. ;) P.S.: Now flags are not a problem for me! Kante4 (talk) 21:49, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Dale, you may be interested to know that the French have altered their points system this season. It is now a losing bonus point for losing by 5 points or less. See Top14 and D2. This has an immediate effect on Template:2014–15 Rugby Pro D2 Table. Hamish59 (talk) 16:43, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I went to the LNR site. I can't speak French, but I've figured out enough to know where to look in the LNR regulations... and you're right. — Dale Arnett (talk) 19:19, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, thanks for the edit to the hazing article. I noticed you added some kind of "sort name" thing to some of the names. I'm still new to wikipedia and have no idea what that is. What does it do? Bali88 (talk) 18:08, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Glad you're on board! Using the "sortname" template means that entries will be sorted by last name. Using it with no parameters autogenerates a link to an article about the subject. The "nolink=1" parameter suppresses the link. — Dale Arnett (talk) 18:14, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Helpful! Although I don't fully understand the autogenerating a link thing. What does that mean? Bali88 (talk) 23:36, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If you use the "sortname" template with no extra parameters, it creates a link to the name in question. It actually generates a sort tag, which is made invisible within a table, plus a link.

For example, {{sortname|Kevin|Durant}} results in Kevin Durant. If the template is included in a table, the "Durant, Kevin" portion is invisible, and all that's seen in the table is Kevin Durant. Within a table, it will be sorted by "Durant" instead of "Kevin".
Another example: You can use the "dab" parameter if the unadorned name is a disambiguation page. {{sortname|Frank|Thomas|dab=designated hitter}} results in Frank Thomas (the link is to the article with "(designated hitter)" as part of the title).
If an article doesn't exist for the person in question, use the "nolink=1" parameter. For example, if you want to include a person named Frank Thomas in a table, but he doesn't have an article and won't likely have one, use {{sortname|Frank|Thomas|nolink=1}}.
Hope this helps... see {{Sortname}} for more details. — Dale Arnett (talk) 23:56, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Cool, thanks! I wonder why it auto-creates the link. That seems like a weird feature. Bali88 (talk) 23:59, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

My educated guess: The template was created to allow lists of personal names within tables to be sorted by family name, which is standard in the English language. — Dale Arnett (talk) 00:02, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Right, I understand that function. It just seems strange that the default creates a wikilink. Anyhoo, thanks for all your help. That article was a crazy big project and a ton of work and I think it can be a really important article. I'm super grateful for all the help! :-) Bali88 (talk) 00:35, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hmmm. Never thought about that issue. I always thought that events were listed as of the date in the location where they took place. Funny thing is that I don't know the actual policy as to timing of events to show up on "Today's current events". The Argentina-Australia match definitely finished on October 4 in Argentina, but since a rugby match runs 80 minutes, plus halftime, it finished on October 5 UTC. What affects my thinking is that in my part of the world (the States), the day of a match is considered to be that of the start time in its time zone, regardless of when it finishes. Despite this... I'm not going to quibble if you decide to split the matches. :) — Dale Arnett (talk) 06:15, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I'm not sure about the current events portal, but at WP:ITN/C it says list the date at UTC. So I went with that there, then just used the same date at the current events portal. It's not a huge biggy. - Shudde ^talk 06:25, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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It's probably not a problem, but you jumped the gun just a bit on the UTRGV Vacqueros name... " Bailey made the recommendation to the UT System's Board of Regents' Academic Affairs committee in a meeting today. The committee approved the recommendation and the full board will consider it Thursday for a final vote." The final vote to make it official is not until today, although it's probably a foregone conclusion that it will happen... GWFrog (talk) 13:07, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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There are still only six schools sanctioned by the NCAA. ([12]) Of the six added to the NCAA section in the College rugby article, Army, Brown, and Central Washington may have granted varsity standing to their teams, but they have not sought NCAA sanctioning, as Sacred Heart is apparently doing for next year... Davenport and Life are not only not sanctioned, they are not even NCAA members; both are NAIA schools... GWFrog (talk) 18:13, 8 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Talk:List of NCAA Division I men's basketball career scoring leaders

Dale, please see Talk:List of NCAA Division I men's basketball career scoring leaders#Big East footnote, as I believe you were the one who included it. Thanks. Jrcla2 (talk) 16:34, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Big East Conference and basketball

Dale - I reverted a couple of edits to Jerian Grant because the current Big East Conference is the one that holds all of the history, as has been evidenced by the media guides for it and the American Athletic Conference. I think you were on the discussion about this at List of NCAA Division I men's basketball career scoring leaders and how things were handled there. The only place the 1979-2013 distinction matters is with football. Thanks. Rikster2 (talk) 16:19, 10 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Now that I think about it, it makes sense. As an aside... I did some digging, and I found the following about how the history of the original Big East is handled:

The current Big East maintains the history of the original conference in all sports that it sponsors.
In football and rowing, the two sports that are sponsored by The American but not the current Big East, neither conference recognizes the history of the original Big East.

Thought you might want to know this. — Dale Arnett (talk) 16:25, 10 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That is interesting. Honestly, I think the only football claim was so the American could keep the Big East BCS spot (fat lot of good that does now), otherwise I think it would have been a pretty straight split. Thanks and happy editing - keep up the good work! Rikster2 (talk) 16:28, 10 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Samantha Logic

Hi Dale - you had recently listed a number of women's basketball All-Americans under "Requested articles." I wanted to let you know that I created a stub for Samantha Logic. I didn't really have time to create much more than a bare bones article, I wondered if you'd be interested in helping flesh it out? Rikster2 (talk) 14:36, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'll check it out, though it may be a while before I can get around to it... :) — Dale Arnett (talk) 04:23, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Okay, Dale, that's the required boilerplate notice. The short explanation is that I have split the original Category:Auburn Tigers swimmers into Category:Auburn Tigers men's swimmers and Category:Auburn Tigers women's swimmers, and it will not be re-populated. This parallels the gender split for the other larger NCAA swimming programs -- Auburn, Florida, Stanford, Texas, USC, and I am currently working on Georgia. I assume this is unobjectionable. If so, I will also gender-split the existing swimmer categories for Arizona, Cal, Michigan, Texas A&M and UCLA in the near future, too. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 06:48, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No objection on my end. — Dale Arnett (talk) 07:18, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Dale. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 20:27, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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I need your help at the 2015 in sports topic

Hello to you, Dale. I am Rockies77. I do not know what is going on there, but the References section is not working at all. I deleted some references from there, but the problem still persists. It could be the overuse of entering references or there could be too much information there in general. Could you help me here and, if possible, have a conversation with any Wikipedia administrators about this matter? Thank you for helping me here. You can respond to my user talk section, if you want. Rockies77 (talk) 04:30, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That is okay. I am grateful that I was not the only one who noticed this scenario. I have to admit that this topic is starting to be cumbersome, due to the amount of info in it. Rockies77 (talk) 17:56, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I got one of the Wikipedia administrators to take a look at this problem. According to her, there was too many templates (flagicons as an example) in this subject. Wikipedia's servers can handle only so much templates in one general subject. For proof, you can look at my talk page and see it for yourself. Rockies77 (talk) 04:10, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanx for getting the CCSA navbox. Once I started in on beach volleyball yesterday (now, I guess it was day before) it was one of those one edit leads to six or eight more, leads to ten or twenty more, leads to et cetera, et cetera... At one point, I knew that navbox was there & needed to be updated, but it got lost in the shuffle of a couple hundred inter-linked edits. Then, I forgot all about it when I started in the next day, so thanx again... Also, if you haven't seen it already, please give a look at List of NCAA women's beach volleyball programs & see if I left any apparent problems. GWFrog (talk) 05:32, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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SEC division names

Hey, Dale. I just reverted an edit of yours where you changed the SEC division names. The full names of the two divisions are Eastern Division and Western Division, and have been so named since 1992 (see, e.g., [14]). Casually, however, they are often referred to as the SEC East and SEC West -- shorthand -- even in the SEC's own materials. Any time we are providing a formal list of SEC member names, we probably should use the full names of the divisions. Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:31, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I did a little more looking and found that the problem is with the SEC itself. Turns out that its website isn't consistent in referring to its divisions. See the following:

The football standings use "East" and "West".
OTOH, the preview for the 2015 title game uses "Eastern" and "Western".

So, I have no objection. :) — Dale Arnett (talk) 18:05, 6 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

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you need a source on that. The section in the ACC tournament you referenced is unsourced and there are indications that the ACC does in fact recognize regular season champions (see link). I am not arguing the link I just gave is necessarily a valid source, but it trumps azero source. To be clear, I fully understand that the tournament champion is the official league champ. Rikster2 (talk) 13:40, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Also, see page 92 of the ACC media guide. The yearly summary shows both regular-season and tournament champions. Rikster2 (talk) 13:45, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey can you fix List of NCAA institutions on probation some more, there were a couple more teams that were placed on probation and i started with the details.

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Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball page

Input is needed at Talk:Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball regarding whether or not to keep or remove division championships from the team page.--SportsMaster (talk) 03:29, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

NCAA realignment

Can you can please update this page to reflect that Buffalo dropped 3 or 4 sports baseball swimming and diving and i think like track and field or something. And Barton (no idea what they are called or where they are from) is adding mens lacrosse or if we even keep track of division 2 or 3 or whatever level they are on. But if we do have all levels then Limestone is switching to South Atlantic Conference. Dw122339 (talk) 14:48, 6 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The realignment page only refers to Division I. We only include D-II and D-III schools if they compete as D-I members in a particular sport. Since men's lacrosse has a D-II national championship, we wouldn't include Barton. As for Buffalo, I'll check it out. — Dale Arnett (talk) 15:59, 6 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Generally, championship games and tournaments aren't considered "tenants" to be included in a stadium or arena tenant list in the infobox, especially instances where the game moves every year or every few years. College bowl games are the exception because a bowl game has an organization behind it that is often headquartered at the stadium or in the same city, where championship and tournament games typically aren't headquartered at or connected with a specific venue. The Rose Bowl (stadium) and the Rose Bowl Game are the best example of that since the organization that runs the game also owns the stadium. For Kroger Field, KHSAA isn't headquartered at the stadium; they will simply stage the state playoffs there, much like the Ohio High School Athletic Association using Ohio Stadium some years. Tenants typically have some sort of say in scheduling of other events and any physical changes made to a facility, whereas special events, even regularly scheduled ones, don't. The other reason is if we list every major championship game or tournament, then the tenant list for many stadiums would be far too long to be helpful. --JonRidinger (talk) 05:22, 14 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

2017–18 Drake Bulldogs men's basketball team and 2017–18 Illinois State Redbirds men's basketball team - Scottrade Center

Perhaps you could add a citation for the official name change of Scottrade Center. All articles I have seen state that it will be changed or anticipate that it will be changed, but no official date. Scottrade Center also specifically says "anticipated." Lincolning (talk) 22:01, 16 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Maybe you would like to chime in. It's whether minor league baseball categories or Notre Dame Fighting Irish Baseball players should be categorized 'Baseball players from Indiana' or whatever state the minor league players played in. You created the Notre Dame category....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 20:38, 14 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't been involved with those discussions, but in my book, "from" means either born or raised in the given location. For example, Jeff Samardzija would belong in the "Baseball players from Indiana" category because he was born and raised in the state; where he played college baseball is irrelevant (although he did play both baseball and football at Notre Dame). On the other hand, Carl Yastrzemski would not belong in said category; even though he played college baseball at Notre Dame, he was born and raised on Long Island. — Dale Arnett (talk) 00:17, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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NCAA teams moving conferences

Dale, should we just go ahead and update the membership tables, timelines, and navboxes to include the updated information or wait until Saturday? You're already doing a lot of the updating and I don't see it being a huge deal if we update the tables and navboxes, as well. Thoughts? Corkythehornetfan (ping me) 03:13, 30 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say it's time now. We're now barely over 24 hours away from the conference moves becoming official, and it looks like I wasn't the first person to update navboxes, since I notice the Horizon League men's basketball navbox includes IUPUI but not Valpo... and I didn't make that change. — Dale Arnett (talk) 03:26, 30 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good. I'll start helping you out! Corkythehornetfan (ping me) 03:38, 30 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'll catch what I can, too... Already cleaned up one mess someone else left in doing a half-fast job of making the change early,,, Did you notice that with the Summit League again getting ready to go to ten teams next year, they got raided one more time again??? GWFrog (talk) 07:07, 30 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

List of Kentucky Wildcats head baseball coaches

As someone who has edited article related to Kentucky Wildcats baseball, I thought you might want to review the new list I created, List of Kentucky Wildcats head baseball coaches, patterned after List of Clemson Tigers head baseball coaches. I wish I could get some more biographical info on some of the coaches, especially some of the recent ones like Horne and Shannon. --rogerd (talk) 02:32, 5 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm figuring you've tried Googling the more recent coaches, and if you have, I'm sure you added "baseball" or even "Kentucky baseball" to the search criteria. If not, that might be a place to start. — Dale Arnett (talk) 03:48, 5 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Oh yeah, I have searched every way I could think of. I stumbled on an article about Bill Black's family on the UK College of Education site that had some info about him and then found his obit. He was actually a player who coached the team as senior in 1942. I had enough info to put together an article. It's funny that I can't find any info about someone who coached as recently as 1978. But then again, a couple of years ago, I was trying to get articles out there for all of the former UK AD's and had a hard time finding much about Larry Ivy. It took a while, but I found enough info to put together an article. --rogerd (talk) 15:35, 5 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Micheal W. Smith

I notice you work Smithy page. Could you come and look at Luke Shen-Tien Chi. Thanks bro! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mike7682 (talk • contribs) 07:05, 27 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

What do you think of these articles?

Since you seem to have expertise for improving soccer articles any help improving these soccer articles would be appreciated.

Women's football in Japan, Women's football in Afghanistan, Women's football in China, Women's football in Ghana, Women's soccer in Canada, Women's football in the Netherlands, Women's football in Argentina Dwanyewest (talk) 11:50, 28 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

WP:NOTBROKEN

Jesus christ, Dale, I count four (now five) different editors on this talk page pointing you to WP:NOTBROKEN. When are you going to read it and get it? This is getting pretty tiresome. REEEEEbbon Salminen(talk) 05:00, 25 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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EKU coaching change

No interim listed unless said interim coaches games. So if EKU is done no need to fill out the field. Rikster2 (talk) 18:25, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Could do with some help!!

I think this Football in Panama could do with some improvement and expansion what do you think? Dwanyewest (talk) 16:34, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Since I don't know Spanish, I'm pretty limited as to how much I'd be able to help with it, seeing that a lot of the best sources on the sport in that country would be in that language. That said, I think you can get some ideas on how to proceed by looking at other "Football in..." pages. — Dale Arnett (talk) 17:58, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Season updates

Isn't it a bit early for updating the List of NCAA Division I men's soccer programs??? The 2018-19 school year does not begin until 1 July & my watch sez it's still only 6 April... It's one thing to do the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season (which I started way back in November as the 2017 season was ending), since coaching changes, et cetera have been ongoing,,, As for Mt. St. Mary's, both they and Cal Baptist (starting transition from DII) have been listed in the "Scheduled additions" section at the bottom of the page for some while... GWFrog (talk) 02:05, 7 April 2018 (UTC).[reply]

Point taken. Time for me to back out of it. — Dale Arnett (talk) 02:27, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

Hi Dale. I found that you're a big contributor to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act wiki page. Great work! My friend and I are trying give US citizens real legislation to vote on. The goal being citizens can form opinions on bills, vote on them, track their representation, and reach out to their reps. The summaries we're getting from the Library of Congress are inaccessible by design. Here's what the LoC gave us for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Can you help us make these summaries simpler for the average American? Vf-lee (talk) 19:54, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Should be able to. I'm an actual lawyer (though I'm not your lawyer!), so I can put legalese into simpler terms. Might not get to it right away, though. :) — Dale Arnett (talk) 21:58, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Unsigned highway

Dale, Regarding this edit [15], that section was intended to list a few examples for the reader to be able to understand the concept. The list was not intended to list every instance, the list would be huge and unmanageable if it did. While I think the spirit of your addition is great, my opinion would be to summarize that addition into a single bullet point, as was done with the NJ parkways bullet point above the first one you added. `Dave (talk) 14:57, 26 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. :) — Dale Arnett (talk) 18:16, 26 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Fort Wayne Mastodons

Dale, the Fort Wayne Mastodons look to be going by Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons with black and gold as the primary colors (see their website). This will be an easy fix at Module:College color/data... leaving the old name for the old articles (pre-July 2018), and 2018–future articles under Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons with the schools new colors... I've made the change at the Module with this edit. Thoughts? Corky 00:46, 21 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No "look to be" about it... they've issued a press release to that effect. — Dale Arnett (talk) 05:01, 21 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Should we go ahead and move it now and make the necessary color changes to the articles? We have 9 days until it's official, no reason not to now... Corky 18:34, 21 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Let's go for it. I've already started making other changes to some of the pages—the Summit League page is partially transitioned, for one. — Dale Arnett (talk) 18:38, 21 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've moved the articles, but I'm sure I've missed some things in the articles. I'm currently editing from my iPad due to my computer not charging. Are we going to move he navboxes to the new name or are we creating new ones? I left those as is due to not knowing (or remembering) what we've done in the past...

Also, is the main university article moving to or how is that gonna work? Corky 01:06, 22 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Last I looked, both of the new university names were redirects to the current IPFW page. IMHO, going forward, IUFW and PFW should soon have their own pages, while the IPFW page should be maintained as a history of the joint institution. — Dale Arnett (talk) 01:14, 22 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Your edits to Cliff Hagan Stadium

I see that you changed the status of CHS to closed and awaiting demolition. Let me point out that since the new stadium is still under construction, the team is using CHS still for youth camps over the summer. Wildcat Labor Day Prospect Camp @CHS --rogerd (talk) 22:04, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If you haven't already changed the page accordingly, be my guest. — Dale Arnett (talk) 22:12, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Update: Made the change myself. — Dale Arnett (talk) 22:16, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks--rogerd (talk) 22:21, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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CenturyLink Center

Should CenturyLink Center (Bossier City) be moved to simply CenturyLink Center because the arena in Omaha now has a new name? Thanks! AllisonFoley (talk) 03:27, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I wouldn't object to the move—but I'd post a move request first. Go to the shortcut "WP:RM#CM" and follow the instructions. Include links to news articles in your rationale. I know for a fact that at least two of the references cited in the page of the Omaha arena specifically deal with the recent name change. — Dale Arnett (talk) 06:02, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Sound Recordings...

I wasn't talking about pre-1923 sound recordings(which you correctly say become public domain on January 1, 2022). I was talking about sound recordings specifically published in 1923, which become public domain on January 1, 2024.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180917/17305440659/compromise-music-modernization-act-will-bring-old-sound-recordings-into-public-domain-tiptoe-towards-orphan-works-solution.shtml

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Gotcha. If you haven't fixed this already, be my guest. If you want to use my US Copyright Office reference (editing accordingly), grab it off the current version of the main 2022 page. — Dale Arnett (talk) 02:54, 15 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Mountain West Player of the Year

Yes, both the Coaches and media pick POY for the conference, but only the coaches is recognized by the league as official. This is different than the SEC, Big Ten or SoCon. In 2016 Josh Adams won the media award, Sam situation. The MW media guide doesn’t recognize him. Rikster2 (talk) 21:23, 20 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

References

Hi Dale, are you able to add your references to 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup squads? Thanks for looking into it, Boleyn (talk) 13:09, 26 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Problem is that the final version of the squad page hides all of the references away in templates. When I started adding team info, I put the full wikicoded rosters, including brief text and references. However, they later got moved into individual templates for each national squad. I had nothing to do with that particular part of the page creation. Need to think about how references can be added to the master page for all teams... — Dale Arnett (talk) 17:43, 26 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Supporters%27_Shield&curid=1123365&diff=873797883&oldid=872777731 goes against WP:NOTBROKEN. You made other edits like it this shortly before this. There's no need to. Walter Görlitz (talk) 05:18, 15 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Noticed your edit to remove the University of Pacific. Thanks for that. While University of Pacific is no longer in the Big West (in either men's or women's soccer), your edit summary was incorrect. Pacific's women's soccer team was a long time member of the Big West, but departed the conference upon moving to the WCC (somewhere around 2011/12/13 if I recall). I appreciate you updating this old nav box to reflect the current Big West teams! GauchoDude (talk) 04:31, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello Dale, when one edits elsewhere like this, always risks to leave something behind like this :D -- SERGIO aka the Black Cat 09:53, 18 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Drew McDonald

Any interest in creating an article on Drew McDonald? I think he’s from out your way. 99% sure he will be named Horizon League player of the year either today or tomorrow. I could use help creating some of the Conference POY articles this year if you have it. Thanks for the updates! Rikster2 (talk) 13:01, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Done. — Dale Arnett (talk) 09:25, 4 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You da man Rikster2 (talk) 13:14, 4 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Loyola and Saint Francis

Dale - You messaged me about Loyola–Chicago vs. Loyola (Illinois) last year (see here). I told you then that both are used (see the NCAA.com standings for example of Loyola (IL)). Loyola–Chicago might fly (and I could agree to it if that were consensus), but you can't just go change a years-old consensus without a discussion. You never took it to Wikipedia:WikiProject College Basketball as I suggested. With regard to "Saint Francis" - St. Francis Brooklyn is now a totally different WP:COMMONNAME now. The schools do not use the same name any longer so it makes no sense to use a state DAB like Miami and Loyola. Rikster2 (talk) 21:38, 5 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm... now that you reminded me... I think I can hold off. :) — Dale Arnett (talk) 21:41, 5 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

List of NCAA Division II institutions

Hey, I was just wondering about the addition of the Puerto Rican schools on the list by Santiago Claudio. I thought that the addition was 1) unsourced, and 2) questionable because of the fact that the schools that are going through the reclassifying process from to D-II from D-III and the NAIA have to go through a multi-year process. What do you think about it?-UCO2009bluejay (talk) 17:56, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I know there's a place on the NCAA website where the general public can confirm a school's membership, but I can't remember off the top of my head where it is. I seem to remember that some PR schools have indeed been D-II for years, although they compete mainly in the Caribbean; Puerto Rico has its own university sports association that also includes the USVI. — Dale Arnett (talk) 19:35, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Emancipation Proclamation was the main factor

Nearly all the slaves were freed by the time (Dec 1865) the 13th Amendment went into effect. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freed most of them--as soon as the US Army arrived in an area it ended slavery per Lincoln's proclamation. in all Em Proc freed about 3 of the 4 million slaves. Rjensen (talk) 03:15, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

OK... I'll accept that interpretation. — Dale Arnett (talk) 03:51, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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UMKC

Do you have a source verifying UMKC rebranded themselves?? I cannot find anything and their website and Twitter still list them as UMKC. Please respond with a link here on your talk page verifying this. Even their Wikipedia page is still as UMKC.--Rockchalk7 17 22:49, 3 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The athletic program's press release announcing the rebrand is here. The following day, the program issued this release announcing its all-WAC academic athletes, in which it solely used "Kansas City" instead of "UMKC", and the only reference to the nickname used "Roo" as an adjective. That said, the school is probably still in the process of migrating to its new athletic identity. — Dale Arnett (talk) 22:59, 3 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you I appreciate it. Though, the Roos part appears to be just the logo. For the time being since there’s no proof they are changing from the Kangaroos to just simply “Roos” other than the logo saying just “Roos” let’s keep everything at Kangroos. Those article just mention rebranding as “Kansas City” for athletic purposes.--Rockchalk7 17 23:38, 3 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

My mistake it says on the top of the page “Kansas City Roos”. (Facepalm)--Rockchalk7 17 00:16, 4 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No objection to "Kansas City Kangaroos" as a new page title. — Dale Arnett (talk) 06:52, 4 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ok cool. We’ll just need to keep an eye on the 2019-20 season page being created and what title is created under.--Rockchalk7 17 19:21, 4 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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UMKC/Kansas City

Six years ago, UMKC left the Summit League because the conference would not stop referring to them as "Kansas City." "We are a part of the University of Missouri... We are UMKC," the school had repeatedly declared to the conference for several years. When the league did it one more time, UMKC jumped to the WAC. Now, the school is rebranding itself as "Kansas City" and returning to the Summit. Uhhh... Hmmm... Huh... GWFrog (talk) 07:24, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Just goes to show that you can never underestimate how head-scratching any athletic program move can be. Case in point: West Virginia to the Big 12. Where they're somewhere in the neighborhood of 800 miles from their geographically closest conference counterpart (Iowa State). I have no inside knowledge on the matter... but I'm still convinced the fact that Oliver Luck (WVU's AD at the time) graduated from UT Law had at least a little to do with it. Take it from an actual lawyer (though not your lawyer)... law school ties mean a lot more than you might think. In the case of Luck, it's especially so because Texas (the state) is the linchpin of the Big 12, UT is arguably the linchpin school, and a healthy share of the state's power brokers went to UT Law. — Dale Arnett (talk) 16:30, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

When WVU made the move to the Big 12, the conference also wanted Louisville and Cincinnati, who both decided to go elsewhere. The move would have made much more sense fior WVU if all 3 had gone. GWFrog (talk) 21:34, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Point taken. Matter of fact, Cincinnati was one of a huge number of schools that raised their hands trying to get in the Big 12 when it most recently considered expansion. — Dale Arnett (talk) 00:03, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Postscript on Kansas City back to the Summit: I've read some stuff (can't remember where) indicating that another and possibly bigger reason UMKC left for the WAC is that it saw the WAC as a league more suited to the competitive level of its athletic program at the time. However, the Summit's geography now works very much in KC's favor. Five of its current members are along the I-29 corridor; Augustana will all but certainly join in the near future, especially since it has the backing of Sanford Health (the league's main power broker); and its biggest geographic outlier, Purdue Fort Wayne, is moving to the Horizon League. — Dale Arnett (talk) 20:54, 28 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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MAC Wrestling

I missed your edit on the List of NCAA Division I wrestling programs while I was being sick enough for two hospital stays. Five (5) full members + three (3) affiliates = eight (8). If one (1) of the affiliates was lost (Who? I have heard nothing to that effect.), membership would fall to seven (7), which is not less than the six (6) required for NCAA recognition. Am I missing something here, or did you goof??? GWFrog (talk) 06:08, 9 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm thinking a brain fart on my part. May have just been counting the full members and forgot about the pre-2019 affiliates. — Dale Arnett (talk) 06:54, 9 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for quality articles about sports of teams, such as 2006 Insight Bowl, Jannie du Plessis and 2011–12 Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team, for help from 2003, for "at your service", - Dale, repeating (from 10 years ago and 28 August 2010): you are an awesome Wikipedian!

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DYK Change

Hey Dale, I hope all is well with you and your family. I am just messaging you because I am curious about your change here. I know it's already passed but I am confused about your reasoning. One can be drafted into the NHL and continue to play college hockey (like Quinn Hughes). HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 10:54, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Must have misinterpreted something in the bio in question. What I saw was that he was undrafted by the USHL... and probably stopped there and didn't think about reading more of the story. In other words... probably a brain fart. — Dale Arnett (talk) 10:57, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, I was just curious. Thanks for the quick reply and stay safe! HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 11:10, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

dates

I have been using day, month, year for access dates (only) because there are people racking up edit numbers with bots that change dates to d/m/y but seem to concentrate on access dates. Some non-Americans seem to think that m/d/y is just sooo very wrong... GWFrog (talk) 11:24, 15 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It's not wrong for everything. My understanding of MOS is that either date format is fine, but when a page is mainly of interest to one English-speaking region, that region's preferred date format should be used (MDY in the US and Canada, though I understand that Anglophone Canada will use both; DMY elsewhere). Since NCAA sports are inherently US-centric, MDY is the standard for such pages. I regularly use DMY if I'm editing a page on, say, rugby union outside the US. — Dale Arnett (talk) 16:17, 15 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sabrina Ionesco

Hello, Sabrina's national team career is incomplete. She won the FIBA Americas U-16 Championship and the FIBA U-17 World Cup.

Her senior season is also incomplete. It should be mentioned that she beat Team USA and was close to winning the national championship but the NCAA canceled the men's and women's tournaments because of the COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.nbcsports.com/northwest/oregon-ducks/sabrina-ionescu-oregon-robbed-storybook-ending, https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-women/article/2020-04-15/18-best-moments-sabrina-ionescus-college-career — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.15.65.156 (talk) 13:18, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Dale arnett I write two article with wikipedia roles. Please I wrote two articles according to Wikipedia rules. 1. Draft:Arash Ghaderi 2. Draft:Hasan Rahnamaeian Please check them and accept if there is no problem. Warm regards. Omid ahmadyani (talk) 10:12, 7 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sabrina Ionescu photo

Hi, I wanted to let you know I undid a few of your edits and removed File:Sabrina Ionescu Oregon 2020.jpg from en-wiki articles since it's a likely copyright violation. The photo is still up on other wikis, but I expect it'll be deleted in the next 24 hours. Ytoyoda (talk) 20:52, 14 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

AFAIK, the photo was the only edit I made that should have been removed. I made a LOT of edits that had nothing to do with the photo, fully referenced—such as her receiving the Sullivan Award (I know that got removed), more on her impact at Oregon (such as her appearance on the university's virtual Mount Rushmore), and her bachelor's and upcoming master's degrees. Admittedly, I haven't checked yet whether my non-photo edits were killed. — Dale Arnett (talk) 23:20, 14 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sabrina Ionescu was the only one where there were edits besides the photo - this is my edit replacing the photo. All other edits were straight undos that just switched out the picture. Ytoyoda (talk) 00:00, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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hi I started a discuss on Talk:List of sports films just wonder if you want to have a word in. Fanoflionking 14:15, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey Dale, I had a camera question for you. I noticed on some of the Canon documentation that it lists the Canon 1 D X as the successor to the 1 D Mark IV AND 1 D Mark III. I'm wondering why they include 2 models. I come from a Nikon background once I went from film (Canon FTb) to digital (Nikon D80), so I haven't really kept up with the Canon nomenclature. Normally we see "7 is the successor to 6" rather than a "7 is the successor to 6 and 5".

I know camera models can be tricky, such as the Nikon D810 is a successor to the D800 and D800E - but the D800 and D800E are basically the same camera (with or without the anti-alias filter). (And IMO - the D810 is really what the D800 should have been to begin with - but I'm off on a different tangent here.) The Canon 1D Mark IV seems to be quite different than the Mark III with a completely different sensor (size etc). So after taking the long way around the barn - why do people lump the Mark III in with the Mark IV?

The reason I'm asking is that I recently picked up a Mark III just to check out Canon stuff, and started reading some Canon documentation. (also got a Sony a6000, but again, different topic). I kind of like the Mark III, and with the Mark IV being under a grand now - I was considering getting that since it seems to be a huge upgrade to the III. Since I see you've put some editing into some of the Canon stuff - I thought I'd ask you. — Ched (talk) 04:12, 21 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The reason why they include two models in the article is because both the 1D Mark IV and 1Ds Mark III were still in Canon's product catalog before the 1D X was introduced. The 1D IV was APS-H, while the 1Ds III was full-frame. Canon went away from APS-H with the 1D X; that camera is full-frame with a pixel count between that of the two models it replaced. — Dale Arnett (talk) 19:52, 21 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ahhhh - Thank you. I appreciate your time Dale. I might pick up a Mark IV used then if I can find one pretty cheap. Thanks again. — Ched (talk) 22:17, 21 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

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Sun Belt Soccer

The reason I only did a short squib on the Sun Belt discontinuing men's soccer is that they have not yet officially dropped the sport. While your comments give much clarity to the situation, they are actually as premature as my squib was. GWFrog (talk) 01:19, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

True. But given that there are only two schools in the Sun Belt men's soccer league that haven't announced their departure, and that it takes 6 schools to maintain an autobid, I think it's only a matter of time until the SB drops the sport. Admittedly, the NCAA does give a conference that drops below the required number of schools a 2-year window to find more schools before officially dropping the autobid, but that's more of a lifeline for the MAC (which will still have 5 men's soccer members after SIUE returns to MVC men's soccer) than the SB. I think it's OK to say that the SB is "likely" to drop men's soccer. — Dale Arnett (talk) 02:13, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Basketball statistical leaders

I noticed you created UConn Huskies women's basketball statistical leaders, based on the school record books.

Do you have any tools and templates to take the record book data and converted into this type of page? I'm mulling over whether I want to create such a page for a team, but it looks like a fair bit of manual work.--S Philbrick (Talk) 14:22, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, no. Creating a tool to convert data copied from the record book PDF file shouldn't be overly difficult, but I don't have the skill set for that. — Dale Arnett (talk) 16:49, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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BSB

Hi Dale, thanks for all of your work on baseball tournaments and pages, it is much appreciated! I wanted to drop one note about the names of athletic programs - Wikipedia does not simply adopt the branding of teams (or really anything else) but uses the names that most media use in accordance with WP:CommonName. I haven't checked into any like McNeese, but as the article name remains McNeese State, we shouldn't be altering the way it appears in articles such as the Southland Conference Baseball Tournament. For an example of one where the school wanted to use one name but most media (including their own conference) resisted for a long time, see Talk:Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns. In that case, the consensus was only to make the change after media outlets finally adopted the change many years later, and after several tortured discussions. Again, I don't know if McNeese is seeing anything like this (and honestly, dropping "State" is usually not an issue) but we really should have a discussion on the talk page of the main athletics article and match everything up properly. Thanks again for catching those changes, and if media have gone along with it, I'd be happy to support the change if you propose it. Billcasey905 (talk) 03:48, 20 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

As for McNeese, I'm starting to dig into the NCAA record books to find out exactly when it started using "McNeese" instead of "McNeese State". I went through several years of McNeese men's basketball stories on its official athletic site, and stopped in 2016–17 when I noticed that every thumbnail preview used just "McNeese" to refer to the team. (Said thumbnails only used "State" in conjunction with the university itself.) Either McNeese hasn't used "State" for several years, or it did an unusually good job of scrubbing "State" in the correct places from all of its stories. — Dale Arnett (talk) 04:05, 20 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Found a likely answer to this comment. It looks like the NCAA started using "McNeese" instead of "McNeese St." in the 2015–16 school year. Compare the following:
  - In men's basketball, "McNeese" was first used in the 2016–17 edition of the D-I record book (see page 73). The 2015–16 edition used "McNeese St." (see page 74).
  - Even more to the point, the NCAA has a comprehensive archive of baseball conference standings on its official site. The book for the 2015 season uses "McNeese St." (page 4), while that for the 2016 season is the first in which "McNeese" is used (also page 4). — Dale Arnett (talk) 04:22, 20 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome. The NCAA is on board and ESPN is also using just McNeese, which makes the top two going with the change. But, CBS Sports says "McNeese St." and FOX and NBC Sports have "McNeese State" on their basketball scoreboards and standings pages. This is one I'd want to dig into a little more before just making the change universal. I'd lean in favor of a change at this point, but I'm not completely there, and I think other editors who look at these sorts of things would likely feel the same. Billcasey905 (talk) 04:33, 20 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I can give you one more vote in favor of 2015–16 as the first year for "McNeese". The Southland Conference, home to McNeese since 1972, maintains an extensive archive of stories for all of its sponsored sports, with baseball here. If you select "2015" as the season (right-most field) and click "GO", you'll find that stories refer to "McNeese State". Select "2016" as the season and the reference changes to "McNeese". — Dale Arnett (talk) 04:40, 20 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

On to another school: Sam Houston (State). Here's some info on how it's been referred to by various outlets:
- In the NCAA's archived conference standings, the 2019 standings list the school as "Sam Houston St." (see Southland Conference, page 4). For the 2020 standings (which covered the 2020–21 school year due to COVID), it changed to "Sam Houston" (see Southland Conference, page 4). This would indicate to me that SHSU dropped "State" from its athletic branding starting in 2020–21.
- Further confirmation comes from the Southland Conference's football story archive. Choosing "2019" as the season produces headlines that use "SHSU"; I clicked through to one of the stories and found the school explicitly called "Sam Houston State". By contrast, choosing "2020–21" as the season (remember that the Southland moved its football conference season to spring 2021) produces headlines that consistently use "Sam Houston". Sample stories here and here.
- SHSU's current home of the Western Athletic Conference consistently calls the school "Sam Houston"; see, e.g., this 2021 football story, or the WAC's 2021 football standings. The only exceptions are stories in which the university as a whole is referred to instead of the athletic program, as in this story. — Dale Arnett (talk) 07:57, 20 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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I just wanted to thank you for your assistance on the Oregon women’s basketball page for this season (2021-22). I appreciate it. GoWarriors151718 (talk) 01:45, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No prob. :) — Dale Arnett (talk) 12:55, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have a question for you and I am sorry if you had no intention of doing this before I asked but is it okay with you if I get the first opportunity to update the game log on the Oregon page please? Thanks. GoWarriors151718 (talk) 21:55, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Go for it. — Dale Arnett (talk) 13:14, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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List of NCAA Division I men's basketball career games played leaders

What a crap shoot it is trying to keep that page maintained this year. Look at how many more players are going to be shuffled in and out of the top 25 by season's end. Yeesh! SportsGuy789 (talk) 05:51, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No kidding!! And to think that there will be three more seasons of this — the last players eligible to take advantage of the COVID waiver won't finish their college careers until 2025. Or 2026 if any of them get medical redshirts. In fact, that's part of the reason I set up a separate list consisting only of players that didn't benefit from the COVID waiver. — Dale Arnett (talk) 09:26, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Haha well we can only do what we can do. Stay diligent and update as best we can. Can you double check that Tray Hollowell, PJ Pipes, and Jarrod West didn't use their waiver? I believe they're all grad students using their pre-existing fifth year of eligibility by having received their undergrad degrees, but I'm not sure. SportsGuy789 (talk) 13:37, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The graduate transfer rule doesn't add a year of eligibility. It only applies to players who graduate with remaining athletic eligibility. However, the COVID waiver gave everyone who played in 2020–21 an extra year of eligibility, including the three players you name. The waiver eliminated that season from NCAA eligibility calculations. Normally, players only have four seasons of eligibility, and have five years to complete them. I looked at the Sports-Reference pages for those three players, and all have competed in five full seasons. As for the medical redshirt issue, here's a good rule of thumb to follow. First, a little background from the 2021–22 D-I manual. Before the COVID waiver, the only way a player could actually compete in a fifth season was via the "hardship waiver", more commonly known as the medical redshirt. (The hardship waiver rule actually covers other hardships, but the overwhelming majority of such waivers are medical-related.) Players are only eligible for a medical redshirt if they have played in no more than 30% of their team's games in a given season, including postseason play, and suffered the season-ending injury before the halfway point of the season (Bylaw 12.8.4, pp. 71–74). If a team plays in what the NCAA calls a "qualifying regular-season multiple-team event", it can play 31 regular-season games; otherwise, the limit is 29. Games actually played in conference tournaments and national postseason tournaments are included in determining the 30% total. (Bylaw 17.4, pp. 254–58) With that out of the way... anyone who has played in more than 10 (maybe 11) games in any season has not had a medical redshirt. Sports-Reference isn't consistent on labeling medical redshirt seasons; for example, Jordan Bohannon's 2019–20 season (10 games played) is marked as a redshirt season, but John Fulkerson's 2016–17 season (also 10 games played) isn't. Does this help? — Dale Arnett (talk) 16:38, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Super helpful. Very confusing too! So I was incorrect when I added Hollowell, Pipes, and West to the Leaders without COVID-19 waiver section and they should be removed (because any player who competed in 2020–21 has a blanket "waiver" of an extra year of eligibility, regardless of reason)? SportsGuy789 (talk) 17:51, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Correct, as in they should be removed. The COVID waiver applies to everyone who played in 2020–21. — Dale Arnett (talk) 17:52, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! SportsGuy789 (talk) 21:45, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

2021–22 NCAA Division I men's basketball season

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Membership timeline idea

Hello. I'm not sure if you're the person in charge of membership timelines for most or some athletic conferences in the United States. But I was thinking of an idea. As you know, there are only 6 variants of colors to represent the type of membership for that member school, from full (meaning all sports with football) to non-football (meaning all sports except football) to football associate (meaning just football only plus some additional single sports) to even associate other sports (meaning certain sports (but not all) without football) to those joining on other conferences (which come from two variants in case that member school had switched to other conferences over time).

I was thinking if there should be a bar color for a membership timeline graph to show or determine when a member school had joined that athletic conference based on the following sub-parameters:

full membership (including football) but either provisional or reclassifying (meaning the school isn't eligible yet to compete in conference-play competition or championships for certain or most sports)
full membership (excluding football) but either provisional or reclassifying (meaning the school isn't eligible yet to compete in conference-play competition or championships for certain or most sports)
full membership excluding basketball (men's or women's or both alike), as of since the beginning of the past century, many schools had joined conferences as full members mostly due to having Olympic sports (without basketball or football or both alike).

Your thoughts? jlog3000 (talk) 17:01, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not in charge of that template; I just edit existing conference templates as needed. I'm mostly neutral on your proposal, but I see one issue with your distinction on the "reclassifying" side. As you know, schools reclassifying to D-I are ineligible for D-I championships during their four-year transitions; those moving from FCS to FBS are not eligible for bowls during their two-year transitions. However, conferences vary on when said schools are eligible for their own championships. Examples:

Georgia Southern won the Sun Belt football title in its first conference season in 2014, but wasn't bowl-eligible. (It had started its FBS transition in 2013.)
In basketball, the ASUN Conference allows reclassifying members to compete in the men's and women's tournaments from day one, even though they're not eligible for NCAA or NIT bids until four years in. (The WNIT, unlike its men's counterpart, isn't run by the NCAA, so a reclassifying women's team can play there.) North Alabama and Bellarmine have competed in all ASUN men's and women's tournaments since they started their D-I transitions (respectively in 2018–19 and 2020–21), and Bellarmine's men won the 2022 ASUN tournament. (Bellarmine chose not to play any postseason events, even though it was eligible for two of them.)
By contrast, reclassifying teams in the Western Athletic Conference aren't eligible for their men's and women's basketball tournaments until their third transitional season. When California Baptist won the 2021 women's tournament (while undefeated, no less), it was the Lancers' first tournament appearance, but their third transitional season. (CBU ended up in the WNIT, where it lost to eventual champion Rice.) — Dale Arnett (talk) 17:19, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That I can understand that. Although I appreciate your honest response on not being the one responsible of the template. However, I'm curious to know who actually is, so I could share my idea. Anyways, in your thoughts or opinions. Are "provisional" and "reclassifying" the same?

P.S.: Putting tournaments aside, here's an example from before the 90s at least. Like the membership table of the Mid-American Conference: Where Central Michigan and Eastern Michigan joined said conference in the 71-72 season as a full member (or a core member or an all-sports member) for most of their sports (all being Olympic sports like baseball or track or soccer or volleyball or wrestling or swimming, etc.), their football and basketball programs hadn't yet also followed suit until a few seasons after their initial school year of joining that conference: which later CMU joined for basketball in 73-74 and for football in 75-76, while EMU joined the MAC for basketball in 74-75 and for football in 76-77. Hope this point makes sense. jlog3000 (talk) 17:38, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, it does. The conference now known as the Horizon League also has a couple of examples. Marquette, which hasn't had a football team since the early 1960s, joined that conference (then known as the Midwestern Collegiate Conference, or MCC) for Olympic sports (i.e., non-basketball) in 1988, but didn't join in either men's or women's basketball until 1989. (Before joining the MCC, Marquette's women's sports were in the women-only [and now defunct] North Star Conference.) Notre Dame, which has always been a football independent except in the 2020 COVID season when it played a full ACC schedule, is an even more complex case. It was an MCC member in Olympic sports from 1982–1986 and again from 1987–1995, but was NEVER a men's basketball member. During its first MCC tenure, and also in the 1987–88 school year, only its men's Olympic sports played in that league. Women's sports arrived from the North Star Conference in 1988. Dale Arnett (talk) 21:15, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm actually glad to hear that. Especially when you shared that example of some schools who were former core members of the Horizon at those times. Hence I want to know who is the creator of the timeline formula, so I could share and explain my key ideas in that regards. In my opinion, I believe those key factors would also help in a certain way to classify certain core or full members. jlog3000 (talk) 21:24, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, Dale, Not sure what happened here. I just did all of the men's soccer standings & realized I made a mistake on the Summit League (left off Southern Indiana). When I went to correct, instead of my new standings I got one that you created. I see my own, but when I go to edit, I get yours. ? ? ? GWFrog (talk) 05:13, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think if you clear the cache of the standings page, you should see Southern Indiana. Just add the string "?action=purge" (no quotation marks, but include the question mark) to the end of the page in your URL window. — Dale Arnett (talk) 05:17, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hoopville Warriors

Hi, thanks for the updates to The Basketball Tournament 2022. I'm not sure the note about the Hoopville Warriors that says "Known in previous TBT editions as Team 23" is correct. Looking at past tournament pages, such as 2014, there has been a "Illinois Hoopville Warriors" (or slight variation thereof) several times. Also, both teams competed in the 2015 edition. Thoughts? Thanks. Dmoore5556 (talk) 02:48, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

On second thought... will remove for the time being until I can straighten it out. — Dale Arnett (talk) 03:05, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thank you. Dmoore5556 (talk) 03:13, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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1. The "(Harmonica Solo)" cue card in the middle of Weird Al's video has a parallel with the very last cue card in the INXS video, which reads "Sax Solo", without parentheses. There's no parallel in the original Dylan film clip.

2. Both videos have a cue card that includes only question marks. The Weird Al video has it as the very last one, using three question marks; compare with Dylan's clip, in which the last cue card reads "What ? ? ?". The INXS video has a cue card about two-thirds of the way through that has only one question mark, and no other text. Dale Arnett (talk) 00:56, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, I am an editor from Nepal. I came here from the Admin Noticeboard page through the list of recently active admins. Actually, I wanted to seek some action against User:PenGear. They have been adding some biased content to the pages of Rastriya Swatantra Party and claiming it as manifesto without any external links. Their past edits have been reverted too in the past claiming as fan edits. Promoting the agenda of a party is not a thing for Wikipedia and they have been really into it when the elections are still going on in the country where the Rastriya Swatantra Party is instituted. Hoping for some action. Thank you Wiki Master World (talk) 05:18, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Instead of a discussion on the topic and calling for an arbitration or calling someone with a neutral POV you run off to get me sanctioned? You can look at discussions at User talk:Wiki Master World#Rastriya Swatantra Party and User talk:PenGear#Rastriya Swantatra Party for the reasons that I added my content. I do not think the content that I added is in any way biased and adding the policy platform of the party represents what the party is trying to do is vital information. People need to know how the party stands on issues. I do not see how I am promoting an agenda when I've not supported or opposed any of their policies in the content that I've added. I also do not see how adding contents of the manifesto of a political party violates the election code of conduct as it is the platform that they are running on. PenGear (talk) 16:29, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year

the numbers in the prose are not adding up to me, specifically this section:

"Four schools in the West Coast Conference have dominated the total awards distribution. Before 2000, Pepperdine, San Francisco and Santa Clara had earned the bulk of the awards. Since then, Gonzaga has had the overwhelming majority of selections. In the 23 seasons from 2000–01 to the present, coinciding with the Bulldogs' rise to national prominence, Gonzaga players have won the award outright 15 times and shared the award twice. Gonzaga now claims the most awards with 20 and most individual winners with 18. Santa Clara is second in awards with 12, and its nine individual winners give it a share of second place in that category with Pepperdine. The next closest school, Saint Mary's, has eight awards."

Santa Clara has 12 selections and only 2 were shared, so they should have 10 individual winners. And the Pepperdine totals do not add up. They have had 11 total winners but have shared the award twice, though in 1983 it was two Pepperdine players who won it. In either case, where does nine come from? Also, at any rate USF has 10 individual winners (Mike Farmer split it one year), so shouldn't they be tied with SCU for second in that category? Rikster2 (talk) 20:41, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Santa Clara has had three two-time winners, not two—Ken Sears, Dennis Awtrey, and Steve Nash. — Dale Arnett (talk) 20:45, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

So you are talking individual players not shared awards vs. outright? I think the paragraph is trying to communicate too many things. I am going to tweak it, feel free to change it if you want Rikster2 (talk) 20:52, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly. In my thinking, the number of awards includes shared awards, even those shared by Pepperdine players in one season. "Individual players" means players who have received the award in at least one season. — Dale Arnett (talk) 21:02, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Chicago State golf in Horizon

Hello, I saw you added that Chicago State was in Horizon League in men's and women's golf in 2022-23 but I made a search about it and did not found any source about it, I only saw that they are in Horizon League in men's and women's tennis in 2022-23. I'm not doubting you, sometimes this kind of information is hard to find, but do you have any sources about it?, or maybe you just got confused between tennis and golf?. Anyway keep up the good work you always do about everything in college!! Thanks, Luks2 5 (talk) 12:38, 11 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Had a brain fart. I think I might have backed out of that change anyway. Unless someone beat me to it. — Dale Arnett (talk) 15:42, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Help w/footnotes

Hi Dale. Can you please help me by tidying the footnotes into one cohesive footnotes section in List of NCAA Division I men's basketball players with 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds? I added the notes re: Trayce Jackson-Davis and Terry Taylor not using their extra year of eligibility, but I don't know how to condense the footnotes with the ones you created for John Konchar and Lew Alcindor. SportsGuy789 (talk) 16:22, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'll see what I can do. — Dale Arnett (talk) 15:25, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Cool man thank you. SportsGuy789 (talk) 18:03, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Done. What I did was to use the "efn" template for all the footnotes, with no group (but with the "name" parameter for the note about players who didn't use the COVID waiver), and collected them with {{notelist}}. — Dale Arnett (talk) 02:25, 30 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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West Georgia needs to be added.

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Done. Apparently, someone had tried to add UWG, but messed up the copypasta. Fixed the issues. — Dale Arnett (talk) 07:33, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Academic All-District

I have noticed that the last two years of Academic All-America All-District selections don't show much information about the districts or teams (1st or 2nd). Do you understand what is going on?-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 05:34, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your comment piqued my interest, so I went to CSC's website and found this page, which includes lists of districts for all NCAA divisions and the NAIA. While it's dated 2021–22, district boundaries don't generally change from year to year. For D-I, D-III, and NAIA, CSC uses state boundaries to determine district alignment. For D-II, the CSC districts map directly to D-II football super-regions, which use conference alignments instead of state boundaries. — Dale Arnett (talk) 06:37, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have created several more list articles. I am trying to run a bunch of similar lists through WP:FLC to get efficient points in WP:CUP. List of Football Academic All-America Team Members of the Year is the first nominee. I have updated it. Feel free to contribute what you have found to the article and have your hand in shaping this because they are all going to probably be pretty similar to how this one ends up. You could also shape things by participating in the review at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Football Academic All-America Team Members of the Year/archive1. Notice, I am trying to go with the format I found at football for all of them.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 04:42, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also, be advised of the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_College_Basketball#Template:Men's_Basketball_Academic_All-America_of_the_Year. This may also shape all the templates going forward.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 04:42, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

UTRGV and the UAC

Hello! You likely already saw the news, but in case you didn't, UTRGV is moving to the Southland Conference beginning in 2024. This also means that they will be moving their football program there from the UAC, which means that they're leaving the conference before their program even gets off the ground in 2025. I'm sort of at a loss for how to work this into the UAC article though; there are notes about it in the history section of the article, but what I wanted to ask you is, would you put them as a former member in the "Former members" section? The UAC did have them as a member on their website, and they participated in the UAC Media Day and everything, but they never actually played a game in the conference. I'm sort of at a loss on how to handle it, and you've been doing this for a while, so I wanted to hear your opinion. Thanks! Finchwidget (talk) 03:27, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

After tossing a few thoughts in my head, I think it should be included as a former member, but with a note that it was announced as a future member but never actually played a game. — Dale Arnett (talk) 03:50, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Gotcha, updated to reflect that; feel free to tweak it if you see fit. Thanks for your help! Finchwidget (talk) 19:07, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Dave Debusschere

Hi, I was looking at the Dave Debusschere page and wondering where you got the information that his jersey number was delayed due to him working for the Nets. I was looking for a primary source and couldn't come up with one. Wondering if you could give me a lead. And sorry I know you wrote this in 2005 so you probably don't remember at all. Buckwilliams81 (talk) 16:54, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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