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Up to date?
Hello, I see you have made some improvements to Citrus Bowl.

I notice the article contains this statement, "The most recent was The Rolling Stones in December 1997." Is that still up to date? There hasn't been a major concert there for at least 10 years? If that is false it should be updated. If it is true then it would be interesting if we could explain why this venue is no longer hosting major concerts. Best, Johntex\talk 00:13, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

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Paul Revere 250
I saw that you created a section on the Pepsi 400 article on the Paul Revere/Brumos Porsche 250. I have created a notice on the Pepsi 400 page that this section should be split into a new Article at Brumos Porsche 250 and a redirect to Brumos Porsche 250 made from Paul Revere 250 in keeping in line with WP:Name. I welcome your comments on the proposal talk at Talk:Pepsi_400.  Sawblade05  (talk to me undefined my wiki life) 08:25, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of List of current NASCAR races
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Thanks for your help
There were a few statistics that I couldn't quite flesh out with the Perfect season article and your edits were definitely helpful in making it more than a NFL-only article.

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Thanks
Thanks a lot for the information on the Mole!  Tigers fan1992 How you doing? 09:12, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Invite
You seem to be very active with Indy 500 topics, thought you might want to join. Hope to see you there! HoosierStateTalk 01:45, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Jim Trueman
I contested the speedy deletion and left a message to the nominator about slowing down the pace of nominating a little bit to give an author more than 2 minutes to work on an article. You should do things a little differently too. The best option is to develop an article in a user sandbox subpage before you copy it to mainspace. Here's the directions. I develop all of my articles in my sandboxes. A less popular option is to initially mark the article as inuse if you are actively editing the article, or as underconstruction if you plan to develop it over a few days. Royal broil 03:14, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Sponsors
Regarding the 2008 Indianapolis 500 article, do we really need to mention the sponsors for everything? - dcljr (talk) 19:38, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

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The Milwaukee Mile
The Milwaukee Mile map you created on the ABC Supply Company A.J. Foyt 225 page is missing the infield road course. The Milwaukee Mile has an infield road course. Fclass (talk) 17:48, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Mole Hill?
Hey; Did they say during the episode that Kelley was halfway up the mountain with the scales? Because it was fairly clear from the shot that you could see the base camp with the other team still at the gold table in the background as the first team reached Kelley. That was my reason for writing a "short way" up the path, or whatever I said. I thought I'd listened for whether they said where he was, but I didn't hear anything. Thanks TheHYPO (talk) 05:46, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

 * Fair enough. I must have missed that line. Thanks for the reply. TheHYPO (talk) 14:04, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Possible FLC
Hi Doc, hope all is well in your world. I was working with User:Royalbroil, and he mentioned the possibility of bumping up the Daytona 500 pole position winners to WP:FL status. I looked through the article, and thought it was some great work, so I (we) have been looking for the right references to go in that direction. I wanted to mention that I appreciate your work on that article, and mention that we are going to try to head in that direction. If you have any resources that would help, links or anything, we'd be happy to do the tedious work of formatting per WP:CITE and improve the rating of the article. If you'd just rather follow along, that's fine too, so you may want to put it on your watchlist. Again, thanks for all the great work you've put into the article. As always, it's great to meet another race fan. ;) — Ched :  ? 18:25, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I've been coaching Ched to understand how the process works. One thing that I brought up is that I think some of the information in the article is too far off-topic, failing WP:TRIVIA. So please watch the article's talk page and give your $0.02. I know you put a lot of effort into the article and I hate suggesting removing some of the content. Obviously I won't suggest it if I didn't think it was necessary.  Royal broil  12:21, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

2002 Indianapolis 500
Please read my answer to your comment here. --NaBUru38 (talk) 15:03, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

talk
Hey Hoctorindy. I started a discussion on a page you either created or contributed to significantly. Please see the discussion at: Talk:List of Daytona 500 pole position winners (move-rename section). thanks. ;) — Ched :  ? 05:20, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

American Championship Car winners
Is there any way to fix it, to include such stat? I had originally decided to try to include it when I had to count, by hand, where someone was located on the list, and saw that as the very definition of needing a new column. Unfortunately, lumping multiple entries together on a sortable table might be the very root of it, and I see no way to differentiate what would place one given 12-race-winner ahead of another. Year of the accomplishment of a given feat, in the famous "Foyt, Unser Sr., Mears" standard? Cordially yours from a stats freak, --Chr.K. (talk) 02:11, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

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2010 Indy Qualification
According to the radio broadcast from Barber, that story was false. Apparently they have not set anything in stone yet, so that post needs to come down. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.177.227.10 (talk) 23:18, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
 * It's official now on Indy500.com. Doctorindy (talk) 13:56, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

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DYK for Darlington Record Club
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FTG
Let's flie some RC Planes and talks about how FTG scerwed the sport.76.177.44.56 (talk) 21:18, 22 September 2013 (UTC)SmackedForum

"Orlando Sentinel microfilm" reference on A Christmas Story
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 * ten. On race day, both drivers dropped out with engine failures. Rahal won one race in 1989 at the Meadowlands. However, the Kraco team merged with Galles

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Unser/Fittipaldi
Greetings—just a friendly disagreement with this edit. Despite what Unser Jr. says in the interview, that is clear as day not a thumbs up that he gives to Fittipaldi—more like a sarcastic gesticulation. This source supports it: "... walked to the edge of the track and gave Fittipaldi a mocking gesture of congratulations" However, there is also this source which suggests that Unser Jr.'s gestures were misinterpreted. Perhaps the article could be reworded to mention both? Mac Dreamstate (talk) 21:40, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

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You may call yourself "DoctorIndy"
As for Andy Granatelli's #40 Turbine on display in the Speedway Museum being a replica built from the original blueprints (just like Rufus' #98 `63 winner in the Museum), I can only go by what Andy Granatelli told me, while he was seated next to Dennis Miller, at the `02 or `03 public drivers' meeting (I forget which year). But, if you think you know more than the guy who built both cars, I'm not going to get into a pissing contest with you: It's just Wikipedia. Discpad (talk) 20:33, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

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1973 Domino's 500 (Pocono)
No, it was not the Schaefer 500: They were the race sponsor for the first race at Pocono in 1971 (won by Mark Donohue for Roger Penske's first Champ Car win), the 1972 race was the Van Scoy Diamond Mine 500, and the 1973 race was the Domino's Pizza 500; and if my rusty memory is correct, they kept up the sponsorship for several more years, into the early 1980's. I was atthose races, too; and in fact Domino's brought a 40' mobile pizza kitchen trailer.

Incidentally, my first Indy 500 was in 1967 when Rufus piloted the #40 STP turbine; and our family seats were in Paddock Box 10, row J, seats 1, 2, 3, & 4; and in `73, Granatelli's 3 pits of Swede Savage (killed), Graham McRae, whose pit crewman Armondo Teran was killed as I watched, and eventual winner Gordon Johncock.

Even though I was just 12, the 1973 Indy 500 still resonates around The Speedway; and next year will be the 50th anniversary. This is about the best look-back I've found so far. Discpad (talk) 01:10, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

 * For the record, here is a copy of the 1973 Pocono 500 program IMAGE Doctorindy↔Talk 13:59, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
 * My memory is hazy; and I'll definitely concede that Schaefer Beer was the `73 title sponsor; but I remember Van Scoy Diamond Mines was a race sponsor after Schaefer departed; and that after that, Domino's was the sponsor, as they brought a 40' trailer outfitted as a mobile pizza parlor to feed the fans en masse.
 * Incidentally, the `73 race was (in)famous for another reason: AJ got caught cheating in post-race because (read carefully!) his fuel tank held 44 gallons! Discpad (talk) 01:56, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

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While researching Charlotte Motor Speedway, let's work to upgrade it, specifically the `99 race for the drivers involved in the lap 61 wreck involving Stan Wattles where a wheel assembly flew into the grandstand, killing 3.

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Crystal Kingdom Dizzy

Crystal Kingdom Dizzy is an adventure video game featuring the character Dizzy released in December 1992 by Codemasters. The Oliver Twins – who were heavily involved in the design and programming of previous Dizzy games – had less involvement with this one.

The game was the last title in the core Dizzy series until the release of Wonderful Dizzy in 2020.

At £9.99, this was the first full-price Dizzy game released for home computers; previous games had been released at budget prices (£2-3). This elicited some criticism, as despite the much higher tag, the game was no bigger or more complex than its much lower-priced predecessors.

The Spectrum version of the game knocked Rainbow Islands from the top of the UK sales chart, and prevented Street Fighter II from being number one. This version was voted number 70 in the Your Sinclair Readers Top 100 Games of All Time.

The Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC versions were the only core games in the series to be entirely coded for those platforms as opposed to porting over the graphic designs from the Spectrum versions as previously.

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Bois-l'Évêque

Bois-l'Évêque is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

Geography
A farming village situated some 8 mi east of Rouen at the junction of the D53 and the D43 roads.

Places of interest

 * The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the nineteenth century.
 * Remnants of the 13th-century priory de Beaulieu.
 * The nineteenth century Château de Bethel.
 * Ruins of a 13th-century chapel.

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After completing the first phase 1 (which took 14 years) it was discovered that there were mathematicians which had been missed. The project is now collecting redlinked names in two ways and there may be some duplication in the two lists.

Biographies in the MacTutor archive
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Each red link on the lists is a mathematician that may qualify for an article on the English Wikipedia.
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Welcome, from Journalist
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I was stumbling around when I came here a couple a month ago, but give it some time, you'll get used to it and everthing will be fine. Most of the editors Ive interacted with are very helpful, kind and very humourous. So, if there is anything that you need, feel free to contact me. Ill get back to you as soon as I can. When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labelled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:
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Welcome to Wikipedia!

Kevin Michael Grace is enormously entertaining, but not the least bit encyclopedic.

Uh... yes, I did mean the article... :)

Do you want to clean it up to Wikistyle, or should I? Samaritan 06:44, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

evility
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Be careful how you use it! Bucketsofg✐ 21:59, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Sovereignty
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 * "I don't know what you and your nation are doing to protect your rights, or to assert your sovereignty, but for those of us who are actually working to assert such rights, under International Law, NOT UNDER domestic law, we can't afford sloppy language that undermines our position in any way shape or form."

How large is your nation? You say you consider yourself sovereign, but if you feel as if you need the UN's "permission" or "recognition" to be able to consider yourself sovereign or a First Nation, you are already giving up your sovereignty. Rest assured, the larger nations are confident enough of the fact that they were sovereign first, and never surrendered their sovereignty, that they do not need anyone's permission to call themselves "First peoples", and do not have to pretend they are not just to avoid upsetting the occupation government. As for whether or not "First peoples" is "technically" incorrect, I still fail to see how it is so, according to the dictionary definitions of English words like "First" "peoples" or "technically". Maybe there is a better way to express what you are trying to say that is less POV. Nemultis, ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 01:49, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

In the large scale world, recognition of Sovereignty by other Nations would certainly go along ways towards improving things for our people. To that end we have already taken steps to apply to UNPO http://www.unpo.org/ -- for assistance in that regard. The size or the number of people of our nations is not important. We do exist. We have existed for thousands of years and we will continue to exist as a Sovereign Nation. We've been at this struggle for quite some time, and it doesn't help when people use incorrect terminology to describe us, and insist on describing us in a fashion that doesn't assist us with these efforts to achieve recognition.

Thanks. Somena 04:53, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Got your message
Sure, I'll learn some Hulquminum here and there. Kumtux Chinook?Skookum1 05:25, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Suggestions for more articles
Uh, not that I want to pawn work off on you, but like you said someone who doesn't know anything about a people shouldn't be writing articles about them. Which is why I stayed away from defining Cowichan beyond delineating its disambiguation page and various potential meanings and uses/articles named with it (e.g. electoral districts); I'm not sure there should even be a Cowichan people, especially after reading your account of the old divisions of the Cowichan Valley peoples; but in practical English-speaking terms all the groups you listed, including yours, are "Cowichan people", so such an article could just be a comment that this is a misnomer referring to the following groups, etc.

Any chance you might want to write up Quamichan, Lamalcha, and all the rest? At least in skeleton/stub form? When you do, remember to try and separate the cultural/ethnic article content from articles describing organizational groupings, and also the need for separate language pages (there is already a Halqemeylem page which incorporates Upriver, Downriver and Straits (not Lower STraits, of course); it may be that three articles are needed there; but certainly Somena and other Cowichan-area peoples should be listed in "See Also" or, if there is such a section, "peoples using this language" or something to that effect. Also, while I've assigned myself the task of writing the Chilcotin War and Fraser Canyon War articles, would you be at all interested in writing a Lamalcha War article?Skookum1 06:17, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

vandalism
Hi S. You asked about vandalism. On the whole, the wiki-way is to always assume good faith, which means if there is an innocent explanation for something you should accept it. Change things back, of course, if you think that is better. Sometimes, of course, the problem isn't vandalism, but Point of view. As for the vandalism box, I don't think I've seen it on any pages except user pages, which makes the "is-it-vandalism" question a little easier, since if it's your page, you get to say what is vandalism there. I hope this answers your questions. Best wishes and happy editing. Bucketsofg✐ 01:26, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Hey B,

One of the "edits" in questions was in the middle of a blogwar debate, and somebody from "No Treason" who I assume wanted to lash out at me for pointing out (in the blog debate)their admitted connection with the Cult of Scientology, changed the name of my Grandfather from Douglas Williams, to Hank Reardon as a "joke". That doesn't strike me as a POV, especially when they know it's not true. There was another edit that made reference to "The Great Pumpkin" or something... and again, none of these "edits" occured until after I had my little run in with you KKKnow who. I would be more than happy to assume good faith, if the IP of one of the people involved in the "Hank Reardon" edit, was not involved in (simultaneously -- I mean within hours) making jokes about my dead mother and so on, while "editing' in things about my family on the Somena page. And again, none of these vandalism attacks on Somena occured until after I had made the Kate McMillan stub. Much like the Rachel Marsden entry, it would seem for some reason that if you cross such individuals, they and their Amen corner are more than happy to use things like wiki vandalism to "protect" these two women. I dunno. I defer to your advice and will only keep the vandalism box in the discussion section of the Somena entry, and not on the main page. Thanks for your two bits Buckets! Somena 18:25, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Janice Switlo
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Talk:West Ham United F.C.

Semi-protected edit request on 28 April 2023
In the Glory years section, please change "West Ham also won the European Cup Winners' Cup" to "The following year, West Ham won the European Cup Winners' Cup." They won the FA Cup one year and the Cup Winners' Cup the next. 2001:BB6:47ED:FA58:A1F7:3CD8:C187:D664 (talk) 21:07, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: The context for the use of "also" is Greenwood's managment, underwhich both were won. small jars 12:58, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 5 July 2023
In the "In popular culture" section, please include that West Ham is the only mentioned sports club in the Harry Potter book series (apart from in the Danish translation, where it's replaced by Liverpool), namely in the books Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. This is due to one of Harry's friends, Dean Thomas, growing up in a non-magical setting (as in the real world) and therefore being a football supporter.

He had a poster of the West Ham team over his bed, and Harry's best friend Ron Weasley once tried to make the players in the poster move, as magical photos do in-universe. Considering this was in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which takes place in 1991/92 (being mentioned specifically in the early autumn of 1991), it is probably a poster of the West Ham team from that season or the previous one (1990/91). Rowling has said the reason West Ham is mentioned is due to it being the favourite club of one of her friends called Troy, although the source for that statement is from JK's old website and hard to find.

Since Harry Potter is the best selling book series ever and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone specifically is the third most sold recreational book, combined with that West Ham is literally the only club mentioned in the books and movies, I think it's therefore appropriate to include this, as I believe it should be seen as "Popular culture"

For more info, see:

https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/West_Ham_United_Football_Club

https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Football

https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Dating_conventions

https://www.hp-lexicon.org/thing/west-ham-united/

I'd be happy to answer any and all questions as well.

Thank you in advance. Vignotum (talk) 14:42, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
 * This might be significant for Harry Potter as a character, or West Ham United F.C. supporters but less relevant here. The sources would also have to indicate the significance of the support: frankly there are a lot of characters in media that support various football clubs but we don't mention them all because this is considered WP:CRUFT. Koncorde (talk) 19:28, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
 * There is mention of the Harry Potter connection here at West Ham United F.C. supporters#In modern culture so you could provide additional explanation in that section. Agreed with @Koncorde - it doesn't justify being added to the main page West Ham United page ColchesterSid (talk) 21:09, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't know the rules for what counts as "significant" enough for it to be included here. I come from the perspective of a Harry Potter fan, so obviously I'm going to be biased, but it is literally the only club mentioned in the best-selling book series of all time; I think it's disingenuous to call that connection "any character in media supporting any club". The reason I thought it would qualify is because of the comparison with other mentions, such as a single football question being about West Ham in a Monty Python sketch. But that is just my opinion on the matter, and I'll gladly take yours as a correct answer.
 * I'm probably just wrong on this, so are there any specific rules to what counts as "significant" or "relevant" enough to warrant it being included, or is a matter of personal opinion? Does it need significantly progress the plot forward? Is the "popular" work's popularity taken into account? Are there any other factors in it? Vignotum (talk) 19:42, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Apologies Vignotum, I didn't realise someone had added the "In Popular Culture" to the article because it has been appended to the bottom of the page. There is a policy on such mentions, you can read about it here at WP:POPCULTURE but it shouldn't be read without also considering WP:CRUFT which is how insertions are more generally viewed. I'll review the current "In Popular Culture" section as it needs to be of some significance (i.e. West Ham are a significant feature of the media such as being the Football Club at the centre of the story in Green Street) but then we are better writing about that within the section on Supporters or Hooliganism which is where it has the appropriate context. Koncorde (talk) 00:38, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I read through the linked pages, and according to those rules I'm pretty sure a passing mention such as "West Ham is the only football club referenced in JK Rowling's Harry Potter series.", which is in the supporter's page, falls short of the four questions at the end of the section titled "Good and bad popular culture references" in WP:POPCULTURE, for this specific article.
 * I can see someone, I'm guessing you, has removed most of the entries in the "In popular culture" section, which, although it's not what I initially wanted, does remove the ambiguity of whether passing references are allowed or not, which is the reason why I thought adding this reference was appropriate in the first place. So this discussion can be "closed" or whatever it's referred to in Wikipedia term. Thank you for helping me. Vignotum (talk) 11:03, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Although come to think of it, maybe it's appropriate for the section to have a link to the other references that are in the page on West Ham supporters, but not important enough for the main page? Vignotum (talk) 11:06, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Or else mention those articles in the section "See also"? Vignotum (talk) 11:08, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Regarding Pop Culture in the supporters article: as that is an article about supporters mentioning even fictional ones would be considered relevant to the subject of the article. In contrast the article about the club should be about the club and what is significant to the club itself. So for instance we have a section on Supporters and such but we don't try to capture every named fan, or indicate any instance where supporters are mentioned in media. Instead we link to the West Ham United F.C. supporters article at the top of the section and that gives more freedom to discuss such a broader topic where the inclusion criteria can be much more flexible. Really the section on the Supporters page should be called "In Film" and "In Books" or "In popular media" or similar.
 * If we wanted to we could create a page called "West Ham In popular media" and there we could list all the times the club/supporters/ground has been mentioned or featured and so on - but that would then take us to whether there are sufficient reliable sources to support such an article talking independently of those items. Koncorde (talk) 13:14, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

In popular culture (add.)
West Ham is the only "muggle sport team" mentioned in "Harry Potter." Can we put it in the section "In popular culture"?

HARRY POTTER WIKI says:- "Dean Thomas, a half-blood wizard raised in an all-Muggle household, was a fan of the club, and hung a poster of them in his dormitory at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Ron Weasley, however, couldn't understand what was exciting about a sport with only one ball where nobody flies." 159.192.178.176 (talk) 06:34, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 May 2024
Julen Lopetegui is Head Coach not manager and this should be updated in the information 2A00:23C5:C2AF:4F01:2B33:7B88:3091:32 (talk) 19:52, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. PianoDan (talk) 20:05, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

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