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Welcome

It is always good to welcome a fellow White Sox fan to Misplaced Pages, so welcome, and I hope you enjoy editing. The big template above has links to policies and other areas where you can get help, if you need it.

I reverted one edit that you made to the article Chicago White Sox, and wanted to explain why. Generally, once an item is wikilinked once in an article, it is usually not wikilinked later in the same article, as you did to Steve Stone. In addition, there are several articles about Steve Stone, but the one you wanted was Steve Stone (baseball), which can be made to look nicer by doing this: Steve Stone. Rather than delete and walk away, I though I would explain what I did. Best of luck to you! LonelyBeacon (talk) 03:50, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Stats update

Hi, and thanks for all the stats updates. Please note however that Misplaced Pages does not use ordinal suffixes ("-th") at the end of dates. WP:DATE#Dates has more info. Thanks again, Kevin Forsyth (talk) 01:26, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Re: Hey there

Hi there, yes I am indeed a big college sports fan. For my user page, I used Template:User infobox. As for creating new pages, these pages may help you:

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If you are interested in improving college football and basketball on Misplaced Pages, you can join Misplaced Pages:WikiProject College football and Misplaced Pages: WikiProject College basketball. If you have any more questions feel free to ask me on my talk page. Also, please remember to sign your posts on others' talk pages by typing ~~~~. ~Richmond96 t • c 03:19, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks!

...for keeping the article clean, and Roll Tide. Drmies (talk) 05:25, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

You bet.

Nice job on the article too, by the way.  :) --PMDrive1061 (talk) 22:29, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Tips for creating articles

Hello! It's nice to encounter a fellow Carthage student/alumnist. I encountered the article you created, 2008-09 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team, while patrolling new pages, and I thought I'd make a few minor suggestions of things you can do to improve your articles: 1. Be sure to "categorize" your articles whenever possible (I added ] to your article). 2. Since the article you wrote refers to a past season (not the current season), the information should be presented in the past tense. That is all. Keep up with the good work! --Tea with toast (talk) 18:30, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

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 Misplaced Pages 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) 02:41, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

2009–10 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team GA

Thanks for getting involved in this article

This user helped promote 2009–10 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team to good article status.

--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 07:26, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

Protection expired

Proposal to add disputed player - see Talk:Wisconsin_Badgers_football#Protection_expired_-_add.3F. Exxolon (talk) 17:10, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Chris Maragos

The article Chris Maragos has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Fails WP:NSPORTS, hasn't played in any game yet. Only becomes notable after his first NFL play.

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You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Fram (talk) 08:52, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Thank You

Thanks for your support of keeping the Jon Leuer page, which I read on his talk page. Right now, they are voting on whether to keep or delete his page. If you get a chance, it would be cool if you would let them know how you feel here: Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Jon Leuer. Thanks much! Tipsweeney (talk) 07:11, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of J.J. WATT

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A tag has been placed on J.J. WATT requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hang on}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion, or "db", tag; if no such tag exists, then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hang-on tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 03:34, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Big Ten standings

The College Football project on Misplaced Pages doesn't parse league tiebreakers when ordering teams in the standings (except, perhaps, at the end of the season for 1st-place teams). Teams are ranked by their league record first, their overall record second, and alphabetically after that. MrArticleOne (talk) 22:30, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Random Smiley Award

♠TomasBat 01:14, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of 2011 NFL Undrafted Free Agents for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article 2011 NFL Undrafted Free Agents is suitable for inclusion in Misplaced Pages according to Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/2011 NFL Undrafted Free Agents until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Neutralhomer • Talk • 07:48, 16 May 2011 (UTC) 07:48, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

You could always keep a redlinked version in your userspace, and add/remove names based on when the articles appear. That's what I'm doing for questionably notable athletes/alumni from Georgia Tech; if an article from this userpage is bluelinked, I disambiguate or move the entry to the main lists (alumni, athletes). I'm a bit behind on that at the moment, admittedly. Perhaps something along those lines would work for you? —Disavian (/_contribs) 15:02, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Good Faith Advice

Carthage44, if I may step in here, you do some good work here at Misplaced Pages. Some of the things you do are very valuable, because they involve details that other editors won't dedicate the time to putting in. Thanks for all that you do.

That being said, Misplaced Pages is a collaborative effort. When other editors ask you to stop doing something and talk about, you need to do so. As you know, edit warring just leads to editors getting blocked. Discussion is key to being productive. Glancing at the root of this problem, I personally don't mind you adding the remaining rounds of the MLB Draft. However, if consensus is against adding them, discussion must take place. Wouldn't it be better to discuss these things and show other editors the benefit of your additions, rather than just fighting over it and getting blocked?

When you return from your block, feel free to ask me any questions you have about Misplaced Pages. I'd be glad to help. I'd hate to lose you as a contributor, when the work you do is such a benefit. Take care! Dayewalker (talk) 01:10, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your assistance in taking this to WP:GA. Let's look for an even better season next year though.

This user helped promote 2010–11 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team to good article status.

--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 20:06, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

List of Wisconsin Badgers football seasons

Hello, I'm making an article on a List of Wisconsin Badgers football seasons. I was wondering if you could help contribute things to the article, such as linking the seasons and bowl games to the individual articles and such. Thanks Thomsonmg2000 (talk) 14:35, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

1963 Wisconsin Badgers football team

Hello Carthage44, I just wanted to let you know that I took a look at your recently created article 1963 Wisconsin Badgers football team-- The layout of the article makes it very clear. And have a beautiful day! Cheers, Amy Z (talk) 15:13, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Spring Training

I have restored the Spring Training game log on the Angels page as I see you have on the White Sox page . . . the anti-game log rhetoric IMO is absolutely ridiculous and I hope that you and other individual editors will support keeping these logs. I am under the persuasion that more information (as long as it is up-to-date and factually correct) is better. I have posted something on Misplaced Pages talk:BASEBALL#Spring Training Game logs, if you could back me up, it would be great. --CASportsFan (talk) 01:46, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

I thank you for keeping these logs as it is a part of the game. The 2011 White Sox and 2012 White Sox page has the Spring Training log and it was never a problem before so why now? Once the season starts the whole log will be collapsed so what is the big deal. I will back you up on the talk page. Thanks again. --Carthage44 (talk) 01:22, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Philip Humber GA

On behalf of WP:CHICAGO, I would like to thank you for editorial efforts that helped Philip Humber become a WP:GA.

This user helped promote Philip Humber to good article status.

--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 21:49, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Edit warring, again.

Notice of Edit warring noticeboard discussion

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Misplaced Pages's policy on edit warring. Thank you. -- Despayre   01:08, 20 July 2012 (UTC)