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Donnell Stadium (Findlay High Schooll)

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February 2008

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Ku Klux Klan. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Gwernol 15:15, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

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May 2008

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits, such as the one you made to Scoreboard.
If you vandalize Wikipedia again, you will be blocked from editing. You removed mention of several major scoreboard manufacturers from this article for no reason. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 06:24, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

You offer absolutely, positively no proof of what you say. You need to cite references so that we can verify that you're not just making up what you say. The warning stands. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 17:36, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Given the warning above about your work on "Fair-Play," it appears to me you have some sort of connection to Fair Play Scoreboards, a competitor to S'portable and the others. This would mean you are in violation of Wikipedia's conflict of interest policies. Moreover, the information you cited in your last message to me is not publicly available, or at least you have not provided citations (as I required of you in the message above) to prove what you say. The information would seem to be available only to an "insider," someone who works for one of the companies. Your emphasis on the lack of S'portable's use in pro sports also indicates that you work for Fair Play. What you are attempting to do is a very blatant violation f Wikipedia policy and, given your previous action, grounds for blocking or permanent banning. I'm going to give you one more chance to provide independent sources to prove what you say, and you must do so in very short order, or you will be blocked. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 20:02, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Daniel, I appreciate your comments and your love of scoreboards. However, I think we are making much too much about whether or not one company is bigger than the other, but it is important that all facts presented in a Wikipedia article have independent, verifiable references cited - a lot like a research paper in school. This page tells all about what you need. We can't just go on your say-so or have everyone call up the companies - that would run against policies against original research anyway. I suggest we include all companies, and remove the section that refers to "six largest" or similar phrasing.

I was fascinated by scoreboards at your age (and earlier). My first scoreboard in my sixth-grade school had a clock face with hands, and lights beside a row of digits that indicated the score. It broke down for good that year. I moved up to a slightly-newer Naden in junior high, and a gondola-style Fair-Play in high school (installed in 1963) that was only replaced about 10 years ago. I work as a newspaper sportswriter, and I think every high school in the Birmingham area uses Daktronics. They have sponsorship deals with Coca-Cola and Pepsi, which pay Daktronics to put their logos on the boards and the schools get the boards for free. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 02:45, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Hadn't heard about Naden. Their display units are used a lot on The Price is Right, like on "Contestant's Row." Not surprised they've stopped manufacturing, though, as their technology was way behind the times. Looks like Daktronics (which makes a lot of outside displays like gasoline price boards) and Fair Play are pretty much the top companies right now. I like Daktronics myself, except for their controllers with the buttons that you have to press so hard. Haven't actually run a Fair Play in more than a decade. There are a few Electro-Mechs around here, mainly at small schools that couldn't get a Coke or Pepsi sponsorship to pay for a board; the company is located about 150 miles or so away. There's one installation locally with three Nevcos in a building that has two basketball and one wheelchair rugby court - it's a training site for Olympic and Paralympic athletes. I ran one there once, and hated the controller. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 01:35, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of MP-70

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Yeah, articles about the controllers themselves was not a good idea. They simply aren't notable by Wikipedia standards, no more than specific scoreboard models. I forget what model number the Dak controller was — the school closed, unfortunately. But it ran the garden-variety LED high school basketball/volleyball scoreboard with changeable inserts, and had a 2-line LCD readout. It was about three or four years old. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 19:38, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Scoreboard companies

No, just have a section called "Scoreboard manufacturers" and list them all in alphabetical order. People will still add and remove entries at times - such is the nature of Wikipedia. Nothing you can do about it. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 03:45, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Video boards? Don't have any experience with them. In my line of work I deal with high schools, which generally do not have video boards at their fields. The only exception I know of around here is [[Hoover High School (Alabama)], which plays its football games at Regions Paark, which installed a news video board a couple of years ago. (Don't know which company made it.) - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 21:03, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

References

This page tells it all: WP:REF. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 01:15, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

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