Welcome to my talk page. Please abide by the following guidelines:
  1. Sign and date your comments by inserting ~~~~ at the end. If you do not sign, I may ignore or delete your comments.
  2. Unless you are contributing to an ongoing discussion, start a new topic.
  3. If the discussion begins here, I will make my responses to your queries on this page. Be sure to put it on your watchlist if you want to see my response immediately. (Conversely, if the discussion begins on your talk page, I will continue the conversation there unless you explicitly tell me not to.) Fragmented discussions are difficult to follow.

Welcome!

Hello, Schulte, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! , SqueakBox 01:08, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)

Good day Schulte, and thank you for your contributions and endurance of the WP:VFD process. I hope you aren't discouraged.

The beginning of the article is fine and I assume you intend that you or someone else will further develop the history and champions of the league.

The Teams section, however, looks a lot like a uninteresting list that catches the eye of many deletionists. It is often said that Wikipedia is not a collection of lists, though there are certainly some encyclopedic lists and I don't say your article is only a list. Just that it may push some voters to the delete or merge camp.

Your article notes that the teams are divided into classes and sections. A great way to increase the interest of a list is to organise it in some way and add details. So I would suggest dividing the list into the classes and sections and, perhaps, adding something like Year of Championship. e.g.:

Class AA

edit

Section 1

edit
School Team Colors Championships
Academy of Holy Angels Stars Royal, Vegas Gold 2005
Albert Lea Tigers Cherry and Blue

Class A

edit

Section 8

edit
School Team Colors Championships
Wadena-Deer Creek [1] 2001
Warroad [2] 2005

(Obviously I just made up this data and is not accurate. :-) )

Also notice that I moved the team website to the Nickname column and renamed it. I generally frown on seeing external links within the aricle itself but I see its usefulness here. It is a little prettier, though, when linked to the name rather than just being a link.

A public domain picture or two would be great too though often difficult to get.

Don't forget to check out:

Anyway, there's my 2¢ that you asked for. :-) Cheers, DoubleBlue (Talk) 22:43, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Broomball Hockey

edit

Hello DAS. Funny that I find you here. Nice work on the hockey articles. KWK 23:38, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

  • I wondered if you'd turn up. I may have a follow-up question for you in the event the high school hockey article goes south... --Schulte 01:58, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
    • The article will probably be kept. Articles are only deleted if there is a consensus to delete, and "consensus" is roughly defined as 66% majority, and for some administrators, it's even higher, like 75% or 80%. Right now, it's running 55% to keep. AиDя01DTALKEMAIL 02:20, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)
    • One more thing... you may want to make an explicit Keep vote at the discussion. Some people are kinda anal about that and may not count your defense and expansion of the article as an implicit vote. AиDя01DTALKEMAIL 02:22, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

Herb Brooks award

edit

You should consider starting a page about the herb brooks award, similar to the mr. hockey award. I see you have an interest in hockey, so i thought i might suggest it, if you have time. Anyways, just something to think about.--Geppy 07:20, 17 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

Conferences

edit

So for the new List of conferences page (Minnesota State High School League Conferences) i went and added all the schools for the conferences i could find. Do you think we should just remove the ones we dont find info for, because im not sure all of those are actual conferences. Anyways, let me know what you think.--Gephart 01:43, 7 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

  • I think they should be listed actually...a historical look back. For example, I think the Rum River will be departing after this year. So we could use a notation like: 1940-2007 (defunct) to keep track of conference that is breaking up. Keep the 1932 - present for the other type. Seem appropriate? --Schulte 02:35, 7 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Reunion

edit

Sounded to much like an advert. Reunion does what any good genealogy programs should do. I personally like the program and still use it. I believe the version history should also come out as it available on the main reunion website. Gioto 15:48, 9 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Before I start pulling things out like that, I will add it to the talk page for discussion in future. I believe this wikipedia is great stuff, only found it recently and didn't mean to step on your toes :) Gioto 16:03, 9 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Are you interested in creating articles for the other genealogy programs also? Gioto 16:06, 9 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Copper High School

edit

On 8-June, you started the nomination process for deleting this redirect, but you did not follow all the steps. I have completed the nomination and you may wish to participate in the discussion at WP:RFD. Please also see that page for instructions all how to complete a nomination. Let me know if you have questions. Thanks. -- JLaTondre 13:51, 11 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Minnesota meetup

edit

A meetup of Wikipedians in Minnesota is proposed: please stop by the discussion page if interested. Jonathunder 23:18, 3 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

Reminder: Meetup October 29, one o'clock, Mall of America. Jonathunder 13:20, 28 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

Great Jedi Purge and Order 66

edit

Best Schulte, the Great Jedi Purge is not self Order 66, Order 66 was but a part of the Great Jedi Purge. Tim Auke Kools (talk) 19:33, 14 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Minnesota Meetup

edit

Minnesota Meetup
Sunday, 2007-10-07, 1:00 p.m. (13:00)
Pracna on Main
117 Main SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Map
Please pass this on! RSVP here.

Minnesota Meetup

edit

2009
Proposed date: Saturday, October 10.
Details under discussion.
Please share this with anyone who may be interested.

edit

Hi. The article Minnesota State High School League was tagged as a copyright problem and listed for administrator review on Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2010 March 28, as it seems to duplicate content from several pages of the official site. Investigation suggests this content first entered in this edit. Archives confirm that content was published there before it arrived here ([3]), and the page gives no indication that it is licensed compatibly for inclusion here.

The "form letter" devised for such situations presumes you are a new user, but it contains many helpful links, so I will be including it below anyway. If permission cannot be verified for this material, the article will likely be restored to the last version prior to the influx of that content. Thanks. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:45, 5 April 2010 (UTC)Reply

edit

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Minnesota State High School League, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a copy from http://www.mshsl.org/mshsl/aboutmshsl.asp?page=1 (http://web.archive.org/web/20050213135252/http://www.mshsl.org/mshsl/aboutmshsl.asp?page=1), http://mshsl.org/mshsl/aboutmshsl.asp?page=2, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under allowance license, then you should do one of the following:

It may also be necessary for the text be modified to have an encyclopedic tone and to follow Wikipedia article layout. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.

If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at this temporary page. Leave a note at Talk:Minnesota State High School League saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:45, 5 April 2010 (UTC)Reply

Category:United States Hockey Hall of Fame

edit

Category:United States Hockey Hall of Fame, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. The Bushranger One ping only 23:57, 27 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom elections are now open!

edit

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:00, 23 November 2015 (UTC)Reply