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WikiProject Deletion sorting/Sports (Just a note to myself)

For discussions prior to July 2007, please check Archive 1

WP France newsletter
The layout is there and also some content but due to lack of time during the recent past I was unable to bring it to the final 'publication suitable' form. Perhaps you could help me in giving the final touches? STTW (talk)  11:28, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
 * You could get some tips from WikiProject_India/Outreach or from WikiProject_Germany/Outreach/Newsletter/May_2007. Best of luck, STTW (talk)  19:11, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

July 12th, 2007 DYK

 * Thanks for creating this bio. How does a Tulsa/Minnesota resident end up with a copy of Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume XIII, 1901-1910, anyhow? Canuckle 21:53, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Italian soda
Italian soda is not French in any way. Heck, it doesn't even taste like it could have French culture in it, either.

Deserved

 * This can't be your first. Where are you hiding them?

Malta related article at Articles for deletion/St John's Square
Dear member of WikiProject Malta, I'd like to invite you to participate in an ongoing Article for Deletion debate about St John's Square in the capital of Malta. We'd like your input about whether the article should stay and go (and if you want to expand the stub, that would be great too!) All the best, Eliz81(talk)(contribs) 21:24, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Europe Proposal
Hi, I see you're a member of the European Microstates project. I was wondering if you would be interested in participating in a new "WikiProject:Europe"? It would cover non-EU pan European elements and more national elements where there isn't a project to cover it (e.g. there is no project for Slovenia). Microstates might also want to become a taskforce of the project to keep down overheads etc as there are just a few members. I am just trying to get an idea of numbers before I propose it but if you have comments on the idea please see the Discussion on WPEU. Thanks for your time! -  J Logan t: 08:43, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Twins
Hi Matt! I fixed both links. No problem. Cheers. MusiCitizen 18:07, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

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GSSE
Hi! I'm happy that you like my idea. I tell you that i don't speak english very well and so please forgive my mistakes. Well .. for the earlier games it's not easy to find the results and the winners, but I remember that I have found a website with the athletics (and probably swimming) winners and records. We have to look for that. Another thing.. unfortunately you have to do the most of the work .. i'm not very expert in en.wiki and I can only give you an help. But I can translate our work in it.wiki and you can do the same from it.wiki (i remember you this category it:Categoria:Giochi dei Piccoli Stati d'Europa). Contact me for everything SoloTitano or here on it.wiki —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.58.18.2 (talk) 20:43, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Minnesota Meetup
 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.  Spam delivered by Jonathunder 16:32, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Bossacucanova
When I saw the page, that's all I saw, and the most that I could see about notability was their nomination for a award. Looking again at WP:MUSIC, I erred. Apologies, I'll remove the tag and your {hangon} now. --Rodhullandemu 02:49, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Two things - could you put Bossacucanova in when you come to my talk page, it's easier to go straight to the page & fix it?--Rodhullandemu 02:56, 1 October 2007 (UTC) Thanks.

FL Main page proposal
You nominated a current WP:FLC. As such, you are the type of editor whose opinion I am soliciting. We now have over 400 featured lists and seem to be promoting in excess of 30 per month of late (41 in August and 42 in September). When Today's featured article (TFA) started (2004-02-22), they only had about 200 featured articles and were barely promoting 20 new ones per month. I think the quality of featured lists is at least as good as the quality of featured articles was when they started appearing on the main page. Thus, I am ready to open debate on a proposal to institute a List of the Day on the main page with nominations starting November 1 2007, voting starting December 1 2007 and main page appearances starting January 1 2008. For brevity, the proposal page does not discuss the details of eventual main page content, but since the work has already been done, you should consider this proposal assuming the eventual main page will resemble either an excerpted list format or an abbreviated text format. The proposal page does not debate whether starting with weekly list main page entries would be better than daily entries. However, I suspect persons in favor of weekly lists are really voicing opinions against lists on the main page since neither TFA nor Picture of the day started as weekly endeavors, to the best of my knowledge. Right now debate seems to be among support for the current selective democratic/consensus based proposal, a selective dictatorial approach like that used at WP:TFA or a non-selective first in line/calendar approach like that used at WP:POTD. See the List of the Day proposal and comment at WP:LOTDP and its talk page.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 16:22, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

About Cap d'Antibes Translation
Hello,

I could translate the article regarding Cap d'Antibes, but It's just a area of Antibes, and Cap d'Antibes is very well explain there, i thinks. So, ... ?? !!

Véronique Pagnier 18:00, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

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[[Image:Flag of France.svg|45px]] WikiProject Newsletter n°1
Bonjour and welcome to the first WikiProject France newsletter!! It should become a monthly special of our project, but until the next issue, here are some points to consider for the month:
 * In an effort to determine the active members from the inactive, all members are asked to simply sign on my special userpage.
 * I have slightly rearranged and updated the Project page, putting all the featured lists in collapsible tables. This unclutteres the page and you only have to see them if you want to. Give your feelings at the talk page.
 * I have made a Wikipedia advert for our project, Image:Qxz-ad108.gif, what do you think? Personally I feel the words need improving ...
 * There are still map problems at Template:French commune - any help at resolving them would be greatly appreciated.
 * What about starting a monthly drive? We currently have no Featured Portals (except for the Basque Portal which really isn't French any way), so how about improving Portal:France??? I don't know what's exactly wrong but the criteria can be seen at Featured portal criteria.

It doesn't seem like a lot, so I hope we will still have enough problems for nexts months issue. Salut till the next issue, Chris DHDR (17:18, 10 November 2007 (UTC)).

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[[Image:Flag of France.svg|45px]] WikiProject Newsletter n°2
It's been one high aiming month! The French WikiProject and related pages have been aiming high for Christmas - and have received an equal number of presents in return! Well, that's this issue. Au revoir et à bientôt till the next time,  Chris DHDR (18:56, 9 December 2007 (UTC)).
 * The French Portal is now a Featured Portal!!! It passed its Candidacy with 100%. Special thanks go to NYArtsnWords and all those that have made this Portal work.
 * The Newsletter has made it to a second issue. You can find its page at WikiProject France/Outreach/Newsletter and its archives at WikiProject France/Outreach/Newsletter/Archives.
 * A new page has been setup (WikiProject France/Links) to provide an index of the Projects/Portals pages (as well as helping newbees). When creating any pages in the Project/Portal namespace, please add them to the index page. This page also give WP:FRANCE members a handy watchlist.
 * As like last time, members are asked to renew their memberships at WikiProject France/Members.
 * I will be on holiday when the next issue is meant to come out so could some generous person(s) please do the next issue at WikiProject France/Outreach/Newsletter.

Fingerboard AfD
Hi, this article has rewritten, please consider revisiting the AfD discussion to see if your comments have been addressed. Benjiboi 23:45, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Re:AfD
Sure, of course :-) I made a mistake and I apologise. Thanks for your understanding! :-) Scarian Call me Pat  19:52, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the advise. Actually I usually tag articles asking for citation. But, most of the time, active authors working on those articles do not care much. Interestingly when I tagged them for AfD by twisting (but not breaking) the policy mentioning that those articles don't have enough (sometime not a single) citation, they took it really seriously. To be very honest, my intention was to improve quality of Wikipedia, not to attack some particular article or author. And, I do also agree that this is actually misuse of policy. So here goes a promise, I won't do this in future. Cheers. -- Niaz (Talk •  Contribs)  18:51, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Tri-Metro Conference Teams
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Articles for deletion/Karin Lowachee
This AFD was archived before I could reply. I agree that AFD is for deciding whether a n article should be kept, rather than a tool for improvement, but many times I have added refs as a result of seeing an article at AFD which improved it so that it was a far better article than when it was nominated. Thus it is a frequent side effect of AFD nomination. I have also tagged many articles as unreferenced. I did this to a number of articles a year ago, and reviewing them, I see many now have references. I don't know if the references resulted from someone moinitoring the list of articles tagged as unreferenced, or if it would have happened anyway. In a few puzzling cases, someone added references, but left the "unreferenced" tag. Some languish with no refs other than hyperlinks to other Wikipedia articles, such as He Shi Bi and Thermal optimum. Some had the "unreferenced" tag removed without any reference being added. I "re-tagged" the latter article. Edison (talk) 01:03, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry the talk page is so long. I have to "re-figure out" how to archive the old stuff. Edison (talk) 15:42, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

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Category:Cuban contemporary artists
Hello, ... Perhaps you would be interested in researching the other 116 articles on Cuban contemporary artists (click a few at random) created at the same time as Rubén Torres Llorca by  that have not yet been deleted? Here is the archived COI/N discussion ... Happy Editing! — 00:35, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your help
Thanks for your help so far of the Aoife Hoey (bobsleigh) article. I really appreciate it. Chris (talk) 16:46, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I will not argue with you on that though have they ever deleted an article proposed by an anonymous IP before? If that happens, then Wikipedia as a project unto itself will have lost all order. Chris (talk) 22:42, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I noticed that last week and I sent it to WP:AN/I though I got a luke warm response. Ditto with the abusive ISPs. They can only act on the ISPs when one of them has been blocked a minimum of five times. Chris (talk) 23:51, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I have exposed the links in Hoey and in another female Irish triple jumper earlier tonight. Whoever is doing it seems to be pretty focused on their deletions and almost nonsensical in their efforts. Chris (talk) 04:02, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
 * It looks as if I have ticked this user off with him coming back with the accusations on the editing though the IP evidence is beginning to prove my point. I have a strange feeling there will be repercussions on this that we have forseen. Chris (talk) 14:09, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I have also sent heads up to other users who are involved in the fight to keep Sharon Foley that we have the Dublin connection involved on this. One of them though is an administrator, so let's see how that plays out. Chris (talk) 16:33, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
 * The Aoife Hoey article (formerly Aoife Hoey (bobsleigh)) was kept. I have sent a message with an administrator involved in the Sharon Foley article about this user (or users) from Dublin, Ireland to keep an eye out for this user because we may have won this battle, but this promises to be a long fight, IMO. Chris (talk) 15:43, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
 * The same user from Dublin tried to get both the Hoey and the Foley articles through deletion review after he lost, but he was turned down. We have a real vandal on our hands, IMO. Chris (talk) 15:57, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

 * I am hitting this user with vandalism level 3 warnings on all of the Dublin, Ireland IPs as a warnings of taking no prisoners. This is going to be a long fight I fear. Chris (talk) 16:17, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
 * It turns out he has also hit on the Alex Higgins article who was an Irish snooker player in the early 1990s. The main editor of that article is aware of this as well. The Dublin user is definitely POVing and vandalism. We have three or four administrators watching several of these article to see if this user(s) stirkes again which I suspect he might. Chris (talk) 15:07, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Martiniano Ferreira Botelho
Dear Matt,

I red your message on the uppon mentionned page. I am sceptic about this article, because I searched for the titles and ISBN mentionned in the OCLC database and found nothing, please, have a look at ISBN 9729813701. I tried on Google books as well with "Martiniano Ferreira Botelho", but nothing. The only references about this person on the Internet are Wikipedia. If you can find any reliable reference about this person, please do not hesitate to let me know or add it directly in the article. Best regards. SalomonCeb (talk) 01:16, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your answer. No problem, I have myself the same reaction when someone ask for deletion of an article which is present on others WP. In this case, I studied more carefuly the only reference that was first given but I found nothing. Since the other references were given, I did same and nothing again. My last search was on Google and there, I found the only occurences were WP and blogs and websites of the article's writer. I am not a suppressionnist myself, but in this case, I do an exception. Best regards. SalomonCeb (talk) 08:30, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Jeremy Stenberg
The original article which was created last year was not very good and one could argue about how notable Stenberg is. However, the reason that the article has been speedy deleted twice due to vandalism. The version that I deleted read simply "has tourette's". Now, a conscientious admin might have checked the earlier versions to see if there was a legitimate article behind the vandalism. Apparently, I either didn't check or was underwhelmed by the non-vandalized original page. You could make a case for restoring the original page but it was pretty awful and it would be better to write a real article instead of fighting to restore the old page.

Just because the article was deleted doesn't mean you are prohibited from creating a new one as long as the new article meets Wikipedia standards and is incompliance with Wikipedia policies.

I have restored the original article to User:Matt91486/Jeremy Stenberg. Please improve it and then move it into article namespace.

Happy editing, --Richard (talk) 07:54, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Notability
I saw your question on No57s talkpage. The main reason the criteria have been deemed no good is that edirors went to Deletion review en masse citing the new criteria as the reason that their conference player should be undeleted, clogging the system, Deletion Review needed that to stop (obviously) so they undermined the criteria. I have basically given up, I hoped for a set of simple, coherent criteria by consensus, applicable to world football, believing that it would be better than Anglo-centric notability by precedent with reference to one sentence on WP:BIO, but it's been shot down. I think I'll just go back to creating articles, Wikipedia policy is obviously set in stone. (Oh and I changed my name) English peasant  21:52, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Plus as far as I'm aware, Tamworth aren't fully-professional. пﮟოьεԻ   5  7  21:54, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Stadium Lourinhã
I intructed foto, bye, 77bcr77 (talk) 16:14, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

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Thanks
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Carlos Botelho
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Articles for deletion/Toni Ann Gisondi
You voted to keep this article based in part on an award win. Just wanted to make it clear that the article was poorly worded and the actor was merely nominated for the award, in case this makes a difference to your vote. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 15:46, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

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On your contribution

 * Comment. The checkuser case Requests for checkuser/Case/SexyNupe2000 showed that the creator of the article was not related to any banned user.  150.210.176.106 (talk) 22:57, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Comprehensive long lists discussion
Hello, I noticed that you took part in the recent FLRC for List of Arsenal F.C. players and thought you might be interested in participating in a new discussion. The FLRC was closed as no consensus and it is clear the the issue of incompleteness in longer FLs is not over, so a discussion page has been started here. Please feel free to comment. -- Scorpion0422 21:20, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Re:all-time rosters
Hello, yes, you noticed it correctly. I tried to avoid linking to disamg. pages, so I didn't put the links at all. Now, I'll add the links and hope that any wrong link is fixed. Thanks for offering your help!--Crzycheetah 18:56, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

List of college men's basketball players with 2000 points and 1000 rebounds
Sorry, I didn't know that was the general procedure on such tags. Just letting you know that I did that sort of thing on every single one of those players' pages. I'm not being a jerk, but I don't exactly feel like going back and correcting all of them. If someone thinks it's a big enough deal then it will eventually get fixed. -Jrcla2 22:46, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

WP:WikiProject European Microstates
Hi, I see that you are the creater of this wikiproject I just wanted to inform you that i have tried to fix the place up a bit by fixing the coding, creating a userbox, a barnstar, an image with all the flags of the microstates, a svg map with them as red dots and other, I'd appreiciate if you could take a look and tell me what you think, thanks in advance -- Cra del  10:08, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

St. Anthony
Officially, the city is named St. Anthony: you'll not find a "village" reference from the Census, and the city website speaks of the "City of St. Anthony". As the about page notes, it's "also affectionately called "The Village" by locals". Local nicknames don't trump official names.
 * I'm not trying to push you around either :-) Nyttend (talk) 15:51, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Thierry Gilardi
Hi I just noticed your request on the France Project page. I've done a translation of the french article, with links all Ok but with the references left entirely french. As it was your baby, I haven't overwritten the article. I don't want to tread on any toes, so feel free to append, delete etc. It's here on my talk page Dickie (talk) 10:54, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

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Map Website
Hey. I have been using maps from the US Census and then I edit them in Paint. They're fair use from that website, which includes county outlines for all of the states and territories. Nothing too fancy, but I'm glad you noticed my work. Good luck with the Minnesota HS pages! Frank12 (talk) 03:38, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Template:Cite
Hey there, I was wondering if I could have the urls to your two references, I was going to convert them to cite web with an auto template filler I have. Thanks! §hep  •   ¡Talk to me!  18:55, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

 * Okay, I'll just use Cite news then. I gt a big error from that link. :) Thanks!  §hep   •   ¡Talk to me!  19:06, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

 * §hep  •   ¡Talk to me!  01:23, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Looks like OCC has a website: www.occsports.org, but I can't et it to load. Did you have any luck with it? §hep  •   ¡Talk to me!  21:51, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

 * I emailed the webmaster when I contacted you and he got everything back up and running. They have a nice history section. §hep   •   ¡Talk to me!  22:54, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

 * Last I've seen of anything was in February., , . Maybe those will help? §hep   •   ¡Talk to me!  23:06, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Left a comment on my talk page. :D §hep   •   ¡Talk to me!  23:54, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

WP:FOOTBALL bot run
I just really want to be clear on one thing. At its current state ShepBot will be adding over 340,000 articles to your project's worklist. Now that's fine by me, but that's a huge step for a project. Right now I'll just do those few categories you gave me on my talkpage. But when this is over, you guys are going to be one giant project. Of course that 340,000 is if all of those categories I gave you guys fall under your project. There's an exteremly slim chance of that, but I guess it could happen. When page 1 of those cats is double checked let me know and we'll start those as well. If you have any questions, as always feel free to drop by my page or leave me a talkback. Cheers. §hep  •   ¡Talk to me!  16:45, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I just wanted to let you know that after the tagging of all the football players you guys have 20743 (and rising) unassesed articles. I can run through that category and grab the ratings the other porjects have given that article is it has been assessed and put that information in the football template.  Here's an example of what it would do:  .  I can also auto-stub all article in Category:Football (soccer) stubs. Let me know what you think.  §hep   •   ¡Talk to me!  17:39, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
 * That's the idea. IF:, REPLACE:  I'll get on it later this weekend.  Headed to the lake for the day.  §hep   •   ¡Talk to me!  15:26, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

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RE: Ohio HS Conferences
The only page I made major edits on is North Coast League, adding history, state championships, images, etc. I have made a few minor edits on a couple other conferences. I agree the threats are crazy. Frank Anchor Talk to me  19:33, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Hey Matt
Sorry I'm just getting back to you concerning the post you sent me on the 1st. I was away on a family vacation the last ten days camping in New Hampshire. As far as the Ohio HS Conferences, I am in no rush to re-list the 27 articles I recommended for deletion. I think you are doing a great job, so personally you guys can have the summer to continue to keep the progress going. Therefore, it's probably premature for me to lay out a plan for the next AfD. Unfortunately for your sake most of the people who wanted these articles to stay and expanded of the discussion seem to have disappeared. Hopefully you'll get help from those especially interested in the subject matter and then we don't need to think about another AfD. I'll get back involved in the discussion next week when I have some free time. Goodluck! -- UWMSports (talk) 05:21, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Bobby Jackson (basketball)
No problem! It was just a missing square bracket somewhere... it jumped out at me. I felt kind of strange that it auto-signed my name after I fixed it. Glad I could help! Eclectek C  T  13:38, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Articles at Afd
Hey man, I'm just dropping by to apologize for not getting on these articles like you have. I know medical isn't an excuse with these as I've been active elsewhere. I wanted to thank you for taking all of the time you have with these articles. It's funny though, when I give Burp a deadline he takes me to WP:Etiquette; he's something else. Ah well, my apologies again and I hope to be able to flesh out an article or two myself WTTP. §hep  •   ¡Talk to me!  05:05, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

WP:FOOTY discussion
Hi Matt, not to sound annoying or anything, but I've recently started a discussion regarding the names of Brazilian clubs on wikipedia (here) and considering the scale and importance of the clubs involved and the fact that there is no formal move request, I thought it might be a good idea to inform some of the regular WP:FOOTY contributors in order to get a consensus and not just a few opinions. So if you could take a second to express your opinion, it would be appreciated, cheers. Ban Ray 22:25, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

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Notability discussions
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Deaths in 200x pages

 * Hello... there is an (admittedly fairly recent) consensus on the pages that the listings will be as inclusive as possible (sticking to the usual guidelines of verifiability and still not listing obviously n.n. folk like beloved grandmas, etc.) at the time of the deaths, and the redlinks for people with articles still not written would be removed after one month of their not having an article. It generally works as an incentive for people to actually create the articles they think should exist: i did one on Danny Moss because i thought he deserved to be on the list too, for instance. i think you should be able to find discussion on the matter on the last few months' talk pages. Best, tomasz.  08:49, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Club America
Hello there, well the Chivas-America is a long-standing rivalry, in Mexico is traditional to have this polls (yearly), last year America was the most "loved" followed by Chivas, but usually America is also the most "hated". I'm agree with you, it should not be in the article headings, perhaps in a popularity section. JC 12:30 11 Ago 2002 (PST)

Christian La Torre
Considering when I nominated the article all it said was "Peruvian Football player that was part of the U-17 team that made it to the quarterfinals of the u-17 world cup in S. Korea." It didn't need to be looked into thoroughly. Hubschrauber729 (talk) 20:28, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

2008 meetup
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Brazil–Japan relations
You removed my proposed deletion of the article Brazil–Japan relations, stating that the topic being valid is enough criteria for any article to exist. It is my opinion that the article would even meet the criteria for speedy deletion under A3, as there is nothing on the page other than links to other articles. Is there any reason the validity of a topic is enough to justify an article without content? Perhaps the article would fit better under WP:RA instead. Nick Garvey (talk) 04:12, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

'Croatian top league' reply
Yes, the Prva HNL is a professional and official league system. It is the top tier of Croatian football. The two top clubs, Dinamo Zagreb and Hajduk Split have both had history in the Champions League and UEFA Cup throughout recent years; Dinamo has qualified for the UEFA cup once again this year, meaning that the league itself (and all the teams) are officially registered with UEFA as the top professional league of Croatia. Yes it is difficult to find references for such. I have done my broad best, and hopefully this will help you. Domiy (talk) 22:33, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

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 * I did this so every Ohio league article title was uniform and similar. Ohio614 (talk) 21:49, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

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Fully Professional Leagues
I don't understand why you reverted my changes as they were all unsourced, although at least you and others have subsequently found some sources. As for bias, well strangely I actually want Wikipedia to have extensive content, although it does seem there's not enough of us, and there's plenty of people ready to say x league 'fails' ATH. Eldumpo (talk) 21:22, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your response, but surely facts such as the ones we're discussing have to be sourced for a page to have much meaning. Anyway, my edits have perhaps helped in pushing forward sources for the whole list, though I know various have been trying this for a while. I have added a soruce for Netherlands. I'm glad you're an inclusionist - I look forward to some 'keep' responses from you at AfD Eldumpo (talk) 21:39, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

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Milligan
Milligan's real name is Walter S. Milligan. He went almost exclusively by Mike. He was a guard on some of the legendary Pitt football teams from 1930-1932 under Jock Sutherland. He coached freshman at Pitt through 1939 and then took a coaching job at Florida before ending up at Tulsa. At least by 1946 he was back as an assistant at Pitt and then moved into the head coaching position from 1947-1949 (where he had two relatively successful 6-3 seasons). He later went on to become a notable line coach including at USC (1950) and Purdue (1951-?). He is much better known for his football coaching. The article should actually be moved to Mike Milligan (coach) or Walter Milligan (per WP:UCN) Walter S. "Mike" Milligan or Walter "Mike" Milligan. He was inducted into the Aliquippa Sports Hall of Fame in 1974. He certainly is notable, but the article is currently named for a relatively obscure line on his coaching resume and that should be corrected. CrazyPaco (talk) 00:58, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
 * That's fine for the move. I had no idea he had coached at Tulsa so there is no way I would have thought that was him until you brought it to my attention. It's interesting he took on basketball for a year. Thanks for contacting me about it! CrazyPaco (talk) 03:56, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Minnesota Meetup
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Thanks for your recent changes!
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Category:Georgia (country) international footballers
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Articles_for_deletion/Peter_Hudecki_(2nd_nomination)
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Pavol Hurajt
Such articles really not needed. If you don't really want to say anything, you can let it. This "Article" is a shame and don't say's really much about his carrier. Marcus Cyron (talk) 20:16, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Autoreviewer
Hi Matt91486, I just came across one of your articles at newpage patrol, and was surprised to see that an editor who has been contributing articles since 2003 hadn't already been approved as an wp:Autoreviewer. So I've taken the liberty of rectifying that.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  22:51, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Ska shrine article merged to skank (dance)--now deleted
Hi Matt91486--I see you merged my ska shrine article into the skank (dance) article. That seemed like a good idea to me, especially because I was lacking current references (although some are forthcoming), but it's now been completely deleted along with some brief additions I had made to skank (dance) by an editor named spylab. My dance references were kept but that's it. Any advice on how to save ska shrine? I've also asked editor Michig, who originally marked it for deletion before you merged it. Thanks much. --Utilizer (talk) 00:50, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the reply. And thanks again for moving the article over to the other page in the first place. Appreciate your help. --Utilizer (talk) 17:51, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

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Altered speedy deletion rationale: J.m. allain
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Kevin Jones (Basketball)
You found a number of references for this article and mentioned them in the AFD, could you please add them to the article? --RadioFan (talk) 13:18, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Template policy discussion
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Players
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Andorran parliamentary election, 2011
I was wondering if you have any further knowledge of the country to provide sourcing at the page? Then it should be set for ITN.Lihaas (talk) 18:00, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

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Re: Timberwolves
Hello Matt91486:

I'm not opposed to adding in "nationality" or "club" back into the list, and I'm open to discussion on that front. I think that the "jersey number" column didn't really add anything to the list however. As for the stats, I don't think it would be that hard to update since I would only be adding new players to the list a few times during the course of the season, and I'd be updating about 20 players stats at the end of the season. Albacore (talk) 17:48, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

 * I assume that there is not a standardization for this list since a reviewer at Featured list candidates/Minnesota Timberwolves all-time roster (A–K)/archive1 asked me to start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Basketball Association about these types of lists, which I have. As for the rebounds, I think they show the defensive value of a player, as the points show the offensive value. I previewed what the list would look like if I added both, and I can add both nationality and the club, but nothing else (on my viewing monitor I have to scroll to the right to see everything after "Reb" on the Charlotte Bobcats all-time roster list). Albacore (talk) 03:29, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

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1926 in American television
You want to tell me how one item equals a "list"? Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 22:21, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I guess I only find it an issue if I consider it a finished list, which I don't, per FINISHED. If the topic itself is intrinsically notable, then I think there should be an article on it, even if that article as such is not in particularly good shape. The early signs are that the AfD is going to agree with your perspective on it, it looks like. matt91486 (talk) 04:28, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

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Ballet (music)

Ballet as a music form progressed from simply a complement to dance, to a concrete compositional form that often had as much value as the dance that went along with it. The dance form, originating in France during the 17th century, began as a theatrical dance. It was not until the 19th century that ballet gained status as a "classical" form. In ballet, the terms 'classical' and 'romantic' are chronologically reversed from musical usage. Thus, the 19th century Classical period in ballet coincided with the 19th century Romantic era in music. Ballet music composers from the 17th–20th centuries, including the likes of Jean-Baptiste Lully, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Igor Stravinsky, and Sergei Prokofiev, were predominantly in France and Russia. Yet with the increased international notoriety seen in Tchaikovsky's and Stravinsky's lifetime, ballet music composition and ballet in general spread across the western world.

History
Until about the second half of the 19th century, the role of music in ballet was secondary, with the main emphasis on dance, while music was simply a compilation of danceable tunes. Writing "ballet music" used to be a job for musical craftsmen, rather than for masters. For example, critics of the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) mentioned his writing of ballet music as something demeaning.

From the earliest ballets up to the time of Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687), ballet music was indistinguishable from ballroom dance music. Lully created a style that was separate, wherein the music told a story. The first ballet d'action was staged in 1717. The Loves of Mars and Venus was a story told without words. The pioneer was John Weaver (1673–1760). Both Lully and Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764) wrote opéra-ballets, where the story was partly danced and partly sung, but ballet music became gradually less important.

The next big step occurred in the early years of the nineteenth century, when principal dancers changed from using hard shoes to ballet pumps. This enabled a more free-flowing style of music to be used. Marie Taglioni (1804–1884) is credited with being the first ballerina to dance en pointe in La Sylphide in 1832. It was now possible to have music that was more expressive. Gradually, dancing became more daring, with men lifting the ballerinas into the air.

Until the time of Tchaikovsky, the composer of ballets was considered to be separate from the composer of symphonies. Ballet music was an accompaniment for the solo and ensemble dances. Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake was the first ballet score to be created by a symphonic composer. Following the initiative of Tchaikovsky, ballet composers were no longer writing simple, easily danceable pieces. The focus of a ballet was no longer solely the dance; the music behind the dances began to take an equal prevalence. In the late 19th century, Marius Petipa, French ballet choreographer and dancer, worked with composers such as Cesare Pugni to create ballet masterpieces that boasted both complex dance and complex music. Petipa worked with Tchaikovsky as well, whether through collaboration with Tchaikovsky on his work The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, or indirectly through revision of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake after the composer's death.

In many cases ballets were still short scenes within operas, to enable scenery or costume changes. Perhaps the best-known example of ballet music that is part of an opera is the Dance of the Hours from Amilcare Ponchielli's opera La Gioconda (1876). There was a violent change in mood when Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring was first performed in 1913, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. The music was modernist and dissonant, and the movements were highly stylized. In 1924 George Antheil wrote Ballet Mécanique, which was actually for a film of moving objects, not for dancers, but it was pioneering in the use of jazz music. From this point dance music split into two directions: modern and jazz dance. George Gershwin attempted to bridge this gap with his ambitious score to the film Shall We Dance (1937), composing over one hour of music that spanned from the cerebral and technical to foot-stomping jazz and rumba. One scene, Hoctor's Ballet, was composed specifically for the ballerina Harriet Hoctor.

Another strand in the history of ballet music is the trend towards creative adaptations of old music. Ottorino Respighi took works by Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868) and strung them together into a ballet titled La Boutique fantasque, premiered in 1919. The audience for ballet generally prefers romantic music, hence new ballets are created from old works with new choreography. A well-known example is The Dream to the music of Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) arranged by John Lanchbery.

Ballet composers
The following are some of the major ballet composers:

 * Adolphe Adam
 * Boris Asafyev
 * Leonard Bernstein
 * Arthur Bliss
 * Nimrod Borenstein
 * Victor Bruns
 * Aaron Copland
 * Léo Delibes
 * Violeta Dinescu
 * Riccardo Drigo
 * Manuel de Falla
 * Lorenzo Ferrero
 * Alexander Glazunov
 * Reinhold Glière
 * Christoph Willibald Gluck
 * Ferde Grofé
 * Aram Khachaturian
 * Jean-Baptiste Lully
 * Darius Milhaud
 * Ludwig Minkus
 * Bruno Moretti
 * Francis Poulenc
 * Sergei Prokofiev
 * Cesare Pugni
 * Maurice Ravel
 * Erik Satie
 * Dmitri Shostakovich
 * Igor Stravinsky
 * Carlos Surinach
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
 * Nikolai Tcherepnin
 * Mark-Anthony Turnage
 * Stefano Vagnini
 * Dae-Ho Eom

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