User talk:Killervogel5/Archive 15

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I don't understand your personal beef with me, but you are being rather hypocritical in your treatment of myself as a member, while blatantly ignoring the disruptive behavior of other members and users in the baseball AfD debacle. You are warning me for being disruptive, yet ignore the fact that Muboshgu is specifically targeting my articles for deletion, which could constitute as WP:Harrassment and WP:Wikihounding. He is also attacking me as a user, often using "written by Alex" and similar excuses as reasons for deletion. That is an attack on myself and my character.

Furthermore, I made no attack on Agent Vodello, I was merely pointing out his bias against me, which has been chronicled on Wikipedia and which has been in effect for the better part of a year.

Kindly remove yourself from our conflict until you can look at the situation through an unbiased lens, as an administrator is supposed to do, or until you are able to apply the same standards to others that you are applying to me. Thank you. Alex (talk) 17:29, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

It appears I will have to seek outside administrative assistance to deal with your uncooperative conduct. Alex (talk) 21:40, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Kindly do not "warn" me about threats when you have been threatening me, baselessly, for the past month and a half. Thanks. Alex (talk) 22:43, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

You have been threatening me with sanctions, "administrative action", and so on. Those are threats. You may call them "warnings" if you wish, but you are still threatening me with those actions. A murderer can call his murders "euthanasia," but it is still murder. Alex (talk) 00:20, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Clemson Tigers head football coaches/archive1

Hey KV5, can you revisit the above FLC to clarify if your one comment has been addressed? It appears that it has, but better safe than sorry. Cheers, Dabomb87 (talk) 21:35, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Oop. — KV5 • Talk • 02:54, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

PPL Park

And where u see vandalism? 95.24.17.238 (talk) 10:22, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Removing references is vandalism. — KV5 • Talk • 12:51, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

I returned that. 22:50, 12 November 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.14.90.183 (talk)

Cycle

I realized that after the second time — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marrow 04 (talk • contribs) 08:12, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Snipe Hansen

Casliber (talk · contribs) 16:02, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Pat Burrell

Hi, just popping in to see if you're still reviewing the GAN for Pat Burrell. You added yourself as the reviewer on 29 October 2011, but you haven't began the review yet. Sunderland06 (talk) 13:08, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I will be. Life caught up right about that time. — KV5 • Talk • 21:10, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Response to author

Hi. I tried to edit an error on "List of Major League Baseball wins champions". Bob Welch won 27 for the A's in 1990, as you acknowledge. You say I tried to edit the NL entries, although it DID originally show up in the AL side as a "template". Anyway, can't you just make the correction? Obviously, I'm doing it wrong. Thanks, Michael Scott173.16.183.229 (talk) 22:27, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Philadelphia Phillies all-time roster (A)

When you say:

...lowest earned run average (2.18) among qualifying pitchers; the only player to best Alexander in that category on this list is outfielder Mike Anderson, who made one pitching appearance in 1979, throwing one inning and allowing no runs (a 0.00 ERA).

Do you mean he is not eligible because he is an outfielder, or because he only pitched in one inning? I'm curious because I'm working on a similar list, with similar conditions, but my Mike Anderson is a pitcher. Best, Albacore (talk) 01:44, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Correct. Anderson had a 0.00 ERA in his only pitching appearance, but is not listed as a pitcher because he made less than 30% of his appearances at that position. — KV5 • Talk • 12:15, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

request for a quick interview

I'm a researcher at MIT studying the impact of Google Books digitization of the Baseball Digest on Wikipedia baseball editing. I would like to briefly interview you on the phone to ask you a few questions about how baseball editing is organized on Wikipedia, about prominent bots and your personal experiences with the digital copies of the Baseball Digest.

Let me know, I can call most times.

my webpage is http://abhishek.mit.edu

Dalek2point3 (talk) 00:06, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

You can feel free to contact me by clicking the "E-mail this user" link in the toolbox on the left-hand side of my userpage. That is the appropriate way to contact me off-wiki. Thanks. — KV5 • Talk • 01:33, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Philadelphia Phillies all-time roster

Hello KV, I just wanted to say how awesome of a job you have done with the Phillies' all-time roster. You have inspired me to try and do the same with the St. Louis Cardinals. I was wondering if there was any advice you could give me to tackle such a big task. Thanks in advance, and once again, amazing job with the articles!
—Michael Jester (talk · contribs) 05:25, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind comments! To tackle it, I would say start with the lists themselves. Do all the dirty structural table work before trying to do any of the prose. Start it in userspace (for example, User:Michael Jester/Cardinals roster (A), and so forth) and do all the players with one letter, etc. If you would like my opinion on how that particular list should be split, I would say the following: A, B, C, D, E-F, G, H, I-J, K, L, M, N-O, P-Q, R, S, T, U-V, and then either W-Z or W and Y-Z depending on how you shake it out. Technically, any list with 10+ entries is theoretically ok, but in my experience, with these lists since each entry is short and the same size, 50 players is the minimum size you should allow for any individual lists unless you can't avoid otherwise. Seek out as many good images as you can find and use them, but make sure they are free before you nominate anything for FL. Check carefully for dablinks and make sure to use rowheaders, colheaders, alt-text, and so forth. If there's any other way I can be of assistance, please let me know. — KV5 • Talk • 22:53, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice! I will make sure to follow it. I recently finished with the letter A. To be honest, it was really, really fun to do lol. I can't wait to do the other lists.
—Michael Jester (talk · contribs) 23:03, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

It is rather fun, isn't it? I always like to be the first to try to undertake projects of this magnitude, and if my work can inspire a little bit, well, that's all the better. Cheers. — KV5 • Talk • 23:07, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Union Nationalities

I'm new at editing and usually just go for grammar edits, so sorry for the error - I was copying something I had seen on other clubs' pages. Haven't both Mwanga and Le Toux declared for the United States? As far as I can tell from the article on eligibility, that's all it takes to change FIFA nationality. So shouldn't their flags be US flags if not both? It seems misleading to have them shown as other countries when, if they were capped internationally, it would be for the US. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Masterchef604 (talk • contribs) 20:55, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

No worries. I was under the impression that, if a player hasn't been capped, he is usually listed by country of birth, but I could be wrong. I do know that I've never seen a "dual citizenship" table before, so I just acted as I thought was most prudent given my (admittedly limited) understanding of the workings of WP:FOOTY. Apologies for any issue. Cheers and happy editing. — KV5 • Talk • 22:10, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

FLC question

Figured out how to get the FLCClosed template to work, and placed it at the bottom of the Phillies players FLC. That seems to be how it's supposed to be done, anyway. Good luck at FTC! Giants2008 (Talk) 01:32, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

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Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:48, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

• The "deadline" is Monday, so no big rush. However, seeing as the penultimate Phillies list was promoted this week I figured no better time than the present. Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:39, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Frohliche Weinachten und Gluckliches neues Jahr

Christbaumschmuck an einer Nordmanntanne (fotografiert in Baden-Wurttemberg, Deutschland)

Photo from Baden_Wurttemberg, Germany.PumpkinSky talk 12:43, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

Danke schön, mein Kürbis-Himmel Freund! — KV5 • Talk • 12:51, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

HEHE. I never thought of translating my wiki name on de wiki. I use PumpkinSky there too. Is there snow in PA? Only heavy frost here. What's the easiest way to type umlauts on a US keyboard? I usually use my laptop which does not have the ALT pad.PumpkinSky talk 12:57, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

See User_talk:Gerda_Arendt#Frohliche_Weinachten_und_Gluckliches_neues_Jahr, you'll get a kick out of that. PumpkinSky talk 13:23, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

No snow here. Sad. If you can set your keyboard to do umlauts with a keystroke config, I usually use Ctrl-Alt-O, A, U, etc. and then add Shift for capitals, but sadly my current computer doesn't do that. So I just use the Wiki toolbox. And as for the last link, that is a very semi-German conversation. Haha. Have a wonderful Christmas! — KV5 • Talk • 13:46, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

Yea, Gerda's Englisch is way better than my Deutsch. PumpkinSky talk 13:49, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

Been a long while since I've studied it, but given that I had five years, I can still manage a passable written conversation if I have a translator to help me through Vokabeln. — KV5 • Talk • 13:51, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

GAN Hitting for the cycle

Hi,

I've reviewed you GAN and left a few comments at Talk:Hitting for the cycle/GA1 - nothing major; it's a fine article. I've placed the article on hold for seven days. I've made a few edits that you are free to revert if they are unsatisfactory.[1]

Best wishes, MathewTownsend (talk) 19:57, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

Congradulations! Hitting for the cycle is a clear and concise article. Well done! MathewTownsend (talk) 21:02, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

Forbes Field, etc.

Someone has been engaging in an edit skirmish over the usage of the succession templates on Forbes and the other old homes of the Pitt Panthers. I wonder if you would be willing to add your thoughts on the matter? Thank you. :) ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 20:27, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

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Mein Freund, anschauen -- hier PumpkinSky talk 19:07, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Ha! Was für eine gute Ahnung! — KV5 • Talk • 19:13, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

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I did a little following up on the July 2009 discussion over the name of this 1880s NL franchise. If you're inclined to do so, let me know what you think at Talk:Worcester Worcesters _{``` W</sub> i k i <sub>W</sub> i s t a h <sub>```} 23:09, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Favour

Hey dude, happy new year. I have a favour to ask, can you revisit all the FLCs you've commented on and cap/review/support/oppose accordingly, and can you also have a look at one or two new ones and give some opinions? We're short of reviewers, but to have lists sitting at FLC since October last year is becoming a little, well, embarrassing... Anything you can do would be good. Cheers dude. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:42, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Only thing I have still open that's not one of my FLCs is the 1963 Pan American Games medal table, and I was awaiting a resolution on the forking comment by Reywas92. I'll be happy to cap the completed comments, however. As to reviewing, I will probably be pretty sparse between now and the end of February. I am performing in a benefit for pediatric autism research and rehabilitation and the musical arrangements and rehearsals are occupying a lot of my time. As we speak, I'm getting ready for a meeting in less than 2 hours. I'll try to drop in on a Saturday or Sunday morning if I can but my weeks are shot between the concert and both my jobs. Cheers and happy new year. — KV5 • Talk • 23:15, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! Also, any input at WP:TFL would be much appreciated! The Rambling Man (talk) 07:48, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

PD Template creation?

Hi KV5, User:Secret pointed out to me a while ago that Play Ball baseball cards from 1939 to 1941 are in the Public Domain for the same reason as the Bowman and Goudey cards. I noticed you seem to have created the special templates for each of those two brands; should another template be created for this new set? I could always use {PD-US-not renewed}, but I thought I should get your opinion. Thanks. Delaywaves • talk 04:39, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

If there were a large number of cards created in those three years that are available for use, then I would say go ahead and create another template. If the amount of cards is small, I wouldn't bother and just stick with "not renewed". — KV5 • Talk • 12:38, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

OK, actually, this article says that they were manufactured by Gum, Inc. which seems to have been part of Bowman, so I guess I'll just use the Bowman template. Well, thanks anyway! Delaywaves • talk 22:50, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

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Shame that most of the baseball editors are leaving and there's only a couple of us left. Just focus on article work for a while like I been doing when I have extra time on my hands. There's an Hall of Fame taskforce being created, work on some of these key articles for a while. Thanks Secret ^account 05:30, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

My time is limited and the less of it I spend in drama-land right now, the better. I just moved, my jobs are extremely stressful, and I, unfortunately, just don't have time for this place right now. — KV5 • Talk • 03:38, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

I'm in the same situation also, moving with a totally different job than what I used to have a few months back. Wikipedia:HighBeam gives me so much confidence in the project though, that I'm editing in whatever limited time I have so far. I wish you good luck in your endeavors and come back once you find the time. Thanks Secret ^account 16:34, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

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Any good reason why you moved Kula-Farallon Ridge, Pacific-Kula Ridge, Pacific-Farallon Ridge and Pacific-Antarctic Ridge articles so they had a dash insted of a hyphen? According to WP:HYPHEN, hyphenation is used in proper names, such as these named mid-ocean ridges. They are also not normally hyphenated in geological sources. So hyphens are supposed to be used not dashes. I am also curious why you didn't move the Mid-Atlantic Ridge article to Mid–Atlantic Ridge if you thought these named ridges needed dashes insted of hyphens. Volcanoguy 21:39, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Yes, there is a good reason. Your assertion that hyphens are to be used in proper names is incorrect. Regardless, this is not a proper name (the name of a person), it's an object name. Hyphens are used: to distinguish between homographs (these are not homographs); to link prefixes with their main word (the items marked with dashes are not prefixes, they are distinct elements); to link related terms in compound modifiers (these are not modifiers, they are distinct elements). Please read WP:HYPHEN carefully.

If you'll consult WP:ENDASH, you'll see that en-dashes should be used "[in] compounds when the connection might otherwise be expressed with to, versus, and, or between". The ridges, for example, span a length of space from "Pacific" to "Antarctic". Relationships joined by en-dashes are "thought of as parallel, symmetric, equal, oppositional, or at least involving separate or independent elements". The relationship in this case is oppositional (one element at each end of the ridge) and does involve separate or independent elements. Therefore, in this case, an en-dash is undoubtedly the correct punctuation. I am going to undo the incorrect moves you requested and ask that you please not request the move again without a thorough discussion in relation to the Manual of Style.

As to "Mid-Atlantic Ridge", "mid" is not an independent element; it is a modifier of the noun "Atlantic", so the hyphen is correct in this case. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. — KV5 • Talk • 11:10, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

The problem with your interpretation is that the hyphen (or endash at the moment) does not represent "to, versus, and, or between". Taking the example of the American-Antarctic Ridge, this is not a "ridge between American and Antarctic", but a ridge between the South American Plate and the Antarctic Plate. You would be correct if the name was "South American Plate-Antarctic Plate Ridge'. The whole name, including hyphen, is how the feature is known, as seen in a preponderance of sources. Mikenorton (talk) 12:28, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Google hits: American-Antarctic Ridge, Kula-Farallon Ridge, Pacific-Kula Ridge, Pacific-Farallon Ridge, Pacific-Antarctic Ridge. I doubt the hyphenated form is a mistake because it is used in reliable sources. Volcanoguy 16:50, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Dashes: American–Antarctic Ridge, Kula–Farallon Ridge, Pacific–Kula Ridge, Pacific–Farallon Ridge, Pacific–Antarctic Ridge. Still comes up as hyphens. As a result, you don't have any reliable sources to support your hypothesis for the naming of these features. And if there are reliable sources that use dashes, hyphens would be the most commonly used and would fall in WP:COMMONNAME. Volcanoguy 17:05, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

And BTW a proper name does not have to be a person's name, it can be anything. See WP:COMMONNAME for example: "Titles are often proper nouns, such as the name of the person, place or thing that is the subject of the article". And per WP:HYPHEN, "Hyphenation also occurs in bird names, such as Great Black-backed Gull, and in proper names, such as Trois-Rivières". It looks like you are the one that is misunderstanding not me. Volcanoguy 17:26, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

I understand perfectly what I am trying to say, but I can see that this will be nothing more than a pissing match, so I'm out. You two do what you want regardless of whether it's right or not. Petty crap like this is why I barely edit anymore. Forgive me for trying to follow guidelines. Peace. — KV5 • Talk • 23:31, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

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Bill Harman bio

I enjoyed your entry about Bill Harman of the Philadelphia Phillies. Mr. Harman was my Little League coach in the mid-1950s. He told me at the time that he was only one of two major league players ever to pitch in one game of a double header and catch in the other. I have no way of verifying this fact, but it might be worth some research. He was also very candid about hs career: when I asked him why he only played two seasons in the major leagues, he replied, "I wasn't very good." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.169.39.203 (talk) 17:59, 13 May 2013 (UTC)