User talk:Neonblak
EverQuest
Greetings ;)
I found your user page at Special:Whatlinkshere/User:Scepia/EverQuest, and was wondering if you'd be willing to do some editing for another wiki. I started a family of wikis - called The KnowledgePit; it's intended to (eventually) be an encyclopedic reference for anything video game-related. MMORPGs get their own nodes (EQ KnowledgePit, WoW KnowledgePit, etc); at this time, the EQ node is the only one I've really done any work maturing. I've done a little work with the others, the node for console games more than the rest, but mostly it's the EQ one, which I've written a whole bunch of extension code for; the others are really just there as placeholders currently.
Anyway, this whole long thing is basically to ask if you'd be willing to do some editing on the EQ node, since you're a player ;) any time you'd be willing to contribute would be greatly appreciated. I threw together a little database hack so that if you sign up for one, the login info will work on all of the.m
Thanks ;)
~Floppie(talk • contribs) 22:54, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm reviewing the GA and currently have it on hold, as I have some stuff for you to fix. Wizardman 17:06, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello.
I noticed that you switched the target of this redirect from William Joseph Donovan, the intelligence agent, to William Edward Donovan, the baseball player. They're both pretty famous and they're both nicknamed Wild Bill Donovan so the disambiguation around their names has been pretty bleary in the past. However, comparing these two Google searches ([1] and [2]) it seems to me that William Joseph is the more famous of the two, which is why I changed the redirect earlier today to point to his article. I then went to that page and wrote at the top
"Wild Bill Donovan" redirects here. For the baseball pitcher and manager see William Edward Donovan.
Anyway, this is a long-winded way of saying that I'm inclined to have the redirect point to William Joseph. It's pretty trivial so I doubt you particularly care. If you do have objections, let me know. Otherwise, I'll switch it back at some point in the next day or so. Canderson7 (talk) 00:12, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
- Looks good. Thanks for changing it back. Canderson7 (talk) 15:21, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Bug Holliday
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--BorgQueen (talk) 13:01, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia Commons
Since you seem to have moved some photos of umpires to Wikipedia Commons, I'll suggest here that you add the photo of John Gaffney as well. MisfitToys (talk) 23:45, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
- it appears the photo has already been moved. I moved only the Bob Ferguson photo, as I was trying to figure out how it was done, and I don't know if it was correctly moved or not.Neonblak (talk) 11:53, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Operation COOKIE MONSTER
Misc Did you know
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Fascinating story, thanks for sharing it! --Royalbroil 14:42, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid (talk) 18:24, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
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WikiProject Baseball Newsletter
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Baseball has a history unlike any other sport. It has been played in countless countries throughout the decades, and it will undoubtedly continue play for many more. On this eve, some the finest players the sport has to offer will take the field at the Yankee Stadium. Four popes spoke there, Pelé scored goals there, "The Greatest [football] Game Ever Played" was battled out there, John Philip Sousa lead a band there, George Costanza worked there; but what do all these events have in common? They fail to reach the level of greatness that the baseball that was played there did. In 1923, a man named Babe Ruth decided to build a new house, and over the years, that house was a home to some of the greatest baseball ever played. If I were to list out all of these great moments, it would be longer than the bill for the New Yankee Stadium. So I'll sum it up by saying that we can remember these great moments by adding them to this place we've gathered at for future generations to read about, to learn about, to dream about; but more importantly we can watch tonight and we can remember how baseball is unlike anything else that we will encounter in our lives. — Blackngold29 |
-- jj137 (talk) 03:14, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Re: Henry Porter
Hello. I've reverted your changes on this disambiguation page, but if you feel I'm wrong, please let me know. I'm unsure what grounds they've been changed on. 'Harry' has only become a separate name from Henry very recently and is usually the shortened form of 'Henry', therefore many people would try 'Henry Porter' when looking for 'Harry' as article titles are usually in someone's formal name. If it's something people may look for, I feel it should be there, even if it is not his full name (the article is very short and doesn't say if it is or isn't). As for the date of birth and further short description of 'Henry Porter (journalist)', I feel this is also necessary; it is useful on a disambiguation page to have the dates (especially to ensure the people are listed in the correct order) and the description of him as a fiction writer makes it clear to people who may think the person they are looking for is not listed as they do not know him as 'journalist'. Thanks Boleyn (talk) 17:20, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
- A trick that some disambig pages use to seperate like names or variations is to include a small heading above each differential, in this case a description of why Harry = Henry I feel would be necessary. I know I have never related the name Henry with Harry, and I would suspect that many people would be understandably confused for the same reason. This, of coarse, does not mean that the names are unrelated.Neonblak (talk) 18:11, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
Assistance at John McGraw
Thanks for what you've done so far, and regarding your last post at the talkpage, any assistance you can offer with regards to statboxes, et al would be great. Hell, I don't even know what "meta data" is! :) S. Dean Jameson 18:55, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
- I will do what I can, it may be sporatic, but nothing seems to move very fast on wikipedia anyways :) Neonblak (talk) 19:54, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
Invite
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Congratulations for Dan Brouthers, a Good Article
After reviewing your changes, I have listed Dan Brouthers, an article which you've significantly improved, in the list of Wikipedia's Good Articles. Congratulations! And keep up your great work improving baseball content. —Wknight94 (talk) 10:52, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
- Thank you for your assistance in getting this ready up to snuff for the upgrade to GA level, hope to work with you again on other articles of this type.Neonblak (talk) 17:22, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
WP:CHICAGO
According to my records, you have nominated at least one article (Bob Ferguson (baseball)) that includes a category at WP:CHIBOTCATS and that has been promoted to WP:FA, WP:FL or WP:GA. You are not signed up as an active member of WP:CHICAGO. If you consider yourself either an active or semi-active member of the project please sign up as such at Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago/members. Also, if you are a member, be aware of Wikipedia:Meetup/Chicago 3 and be advised that the project is now trying to keep all the project's WP:PR, WP:FAC, WP:FAR, WP:GAR, WP:GAC WP:FLC, WP:FLRC, WP:FTC, WP:FPOC, WP:FPC, and WP:AFD discussion pages in one location at the new Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago/Review page. Please help add any discussion you are aware of at this location.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 19:13, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Bill Lange
Hi there, just gave a couple of suggestions at the peer review and had a little idea - how about creating a couple of Baseball stubs for Henry Harris (baseball), Ren Kelly and California State League? Even a short descriptive stub is better than nothing. In fact Encyclopaedia Brittanica contains mostly stubs: they're all useful! I'm watching the Bill Lange peer review and article for changes. Also - any idea about the IPA pronunciation? For example I'm not sure if it sounds like "Langer" or "Lanj" or neither! Cheers. Sillyfolkboy (talk) 22:52, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the useful suggestions, I am not sure if there is too much information available for the State League since its lifespan was very short, and I could look into Harris and Ren. As far as pronunciation of Lange, I couldn't find one, but then again, I didn't look specifically for one.Neonblak (talk) 04:44, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
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Brown Stockings or Ruby Legs?
Heya Neonblak!
I need an education.
I saw your recent edit over at List of Major League Baseball triples records. I understand that the article that was being linked to calls the team Worcester Ruby Legs. I also noted and checked a few references that call them as such. Major League Baseball calls them the Brown Stockings (search for "Stovey"). Is there one name more "authoritative" over the other? I know that back in the day, team names were far more a big deal than they are today, and they could change more or less at the drop of a hat. It would seem to me that MLB would be the "proper" source, unless there is clearly something that the baseball historians know that MLB won't admit to or is purposely stearing away from.
Respond here or on my talk page ... I am genuinely curious about this. Take care! LonelyBeacon (talk) 15:31, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for asking, what I did was make the Worcester team uniform, there was an individual over a year ago re-direct the Ruby Legs to Worcester Worcesters, without much of an explanation. So, I changed it back and made all the links back to the Ruby Legs. Most of them were anyway, but quite a few were to the Worcesters, and only a couple were directed from Brown Stockings. The two most often cited sources for baseball stats, etc, on Wikipedia are Baseball-Reference and retrosheet. Here is each of them: Retrosheet and Baseball-reference. Also, the category for their players is named Worcester Ruby Legs players. I don't doubt MLB.com as a reliable reference, it is just my judgement that the preponderence of the evidence suggests Ruby Legs as the uniform name. Don't hesitate to ask me anything else or expand on this, we could take to WikiProject Baseball and see what the community thinks.Neonblak (talk) 16:24, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
- I appreciate the education. I am personally not interested in it being one vs the other, and having it as the Ruby Legs is fine by me. Having seen more than a few nineteenth century teams go be several names, I was just wondering if there was some source out there that gave some bite to one name over the other.
- If I do have any more questions, I will come knocking again. Have a great day! LonelyBeacon (talk) 01:32, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
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Red red links make me feel so fine...
Greetings WikiProject Oregon editors. It's time for another edition of the COTW. Thank you to those who helped improve Ken Kesey and the Nike, Inc. last week. This week, by request we have the Northwest Forest Plan and then a Red Link Elimination Drive. For the red links, pick any one you want from any article, the list provided is just to help make it easier. And if you get a good article started, don’t forget to nominate it for a DYK. Once again, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 20:56, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
I changed some dates in the infobox & cats which didn't agree with others in the article text - I only checked one reference, so if these variant dates reflected some disagreement in sources, then that would need to go back in. Since you seem the main contributor for this one, thought I should let you know. Dsp13 (talk) 23:01, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
- Good catch, I caught one other persondata I did the same thing to, thank you for changing it to it's correct information.Neonblak (talk) 00:46, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
Dodgers
Thanks Neonblak. There is a bot running right now which is tagging talk pages with the |dodgers=yes parameter, so hopefully all the players you were talking about get tagged. The project has only just been created, so hopefully it kicks off during the off-season ;) —Borgardetalk 04:52, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
October Baseball WP Newsletter
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Very Special COTW, act now!
Greetings WikiProject Oregon peoples. It is once again time for another edition of the COTW. Thank you to those who helped eliminate some red links the last few weeks (the NWFP received little attention). This week, we have the stub High Desert Museum and then in honor of losing airline service again, McNary Field. Once again, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 07:18, 11 October 2008 (UTC)