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"Where did Linden get the surname van der Linden? Was he born with it, and why did he get rid of it?"
Is it possible that was his families name, and the family changed it? Possibly before he was ever born?
Marcus106002:44, 20 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Yes, Nick Vander Linden was Trevor's grandfather, and he is the one who changed the family name to just "Linden" from the Dutch rendering. -J21
Anonymous Nickname Vandals
I know this is in vain, but: Could IP users please stop vandalizing/tampering with the nickname part of the infobox for Linden? Myself and others have had it revert it numerous times. Consensus would be 'Trev' and 'Captain Canuck' for nicknames. Someone seems keen on dubbing him 'The Purse', which isn't a term I've come across in 16 years of following his career. This section isn't how one or two fans or whoever refers to him in their own time. The nicknames are supposed to represent how a large number of the fanbase or observers refer to him commonly (or have in the past, as in 'Captain Canuck'). I won't bother dignifying other recent anonymous vandals by stating what they chose to call him. Check your adolescence at the door, please. Thanks.--
Keefer401:45, 6 March 2007 (UTC)reply
No Personal Info ?
I have a friend who grew up in the Kits area and used to be Linden's neighbor. We were wondering as to Trevor's martial status but it doesn't seem to be available here, unlike most other Canuck biographies available. I suppose it could be someone related trying to preserve some degree of privacy ...
I suggest pulling the GA and go to FAC. I'm going to fiddle, a bit, with article, and I think it will pass FAC. Thoughts? Maxim(talk)00:34, 6 May 2008 (UTC)reply
While I would love to do it, and think that the article even has a chance, it doesn't pass my own views on how the article is. There just isn't enough information in the sections, nor enough to describe how much of a role Linden plays to Vancouver and the Canucks. Like other Canuck fans, I see Linden as something as a living god, as it were. My goal is to try and transplant that view into the article, and explain to the world why Vancouver, and Canuck fans everywhere, see Trevor in this role, as someone who could be elected Premier of BC if he ever were to run.
The GA nom is just to give me some more motivation towards attaining this goal. The article is getting up there, and its time it gets the recognition it deserves.
Kaiser matias (
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03:02, 6 May 2008 (UTC)reply
GA noms take ridiculous amounts of time. I might as well review and make fixes without going through the bureaucratic hoopla of GAN and you/we can nominate this at FAC. Maxim(talk)19:03, 6 May 2008 (UTC)reply
This whole thing is also compounded by the fact that I just sent my computer in to get fixed the other day. That will take a few weeks to do, and then I'm leaving on vacation for 6 weeks. As such, I don't think I will be able to do much to get the article ready before I leave at the end of the month. It will pass FA soon though, it just depends on how much work I can do on it and how fast.
Kaiser matias (
talk)
22:36, 6 May 2008 (UTC)reply
I'd love to help you guys out with this. A while back I was considering doing a re-write of this article, but someone beat me to it ;) I'll definately take a look at the international section and see what I can do. I think what I've done with
Eric Brewer (ice hockey), a bit of a lesser know player, should speak to what I can contribute, so if there's anything in particular from that article that you guys think I might be able to help out with in this article, just give me a shout. I love hanging around a couple of newspaper databases that have a huge amount of info (basically gave me the beef of the Brewer article), so I can contribute some refs and such. I also think some lobbying over at Flickr for some better images is needed. Anyhow, lmk what you think, like I said I'd love to rewrite the international section. –
Nurmsook! (
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23:11, 6 May 2008 (UTC)reply
The prose issue would mostly be from me. I'm rather terrible at decent article writing, as I found from my
Joe Sakic experiance. Everything else in regards to the writing, such as providing information and the like, I do fine, just not the writing.
Kaiser matias (
talk)
00:25, 7 May 2008 (UTC)reply
As the copyeditor, I can say the article looks very, very good now, and quite comprehensive. Compared to similar FAs (
Ray Emery, for instance]]) the proportions of the article section seem in tune, as well. I propose we send this straight to FAC. Maxim(talk)21:39, 9 May 2008 (UTC)reply
First off, thanks greatly for the work you've put into fine-tuning the article. Secondly, I think that it really just needs a little more work on the Return to Vancouver section, and the clean-up of the personal section. The Return part mostly just says what records he has set, and doesn't include anything else, and the personal section is just a bunch of one sentence paragraphs. I'll see what I can do to expand those sections over the weekend, and take it from there.
Kaiser matias (
talk)
22:24, 9 May 2008 (UTC)reply
Good. I'm away, certainly Saturday-Sunday, and possibly Monday-Tuesday too. I'm also going to have a hellishly busy schedule next week, so this can wait. :-) Maxim(talk)23:03, 9 May 2008 (UTC)reply
Can I suggest diminishing the paragraph written on Linden's Masterton nomination at the end of the Return to Vancouver section? Seeing as how he didn't make it as one of the final three nominees, I don't think it is all too significant. I can see how it is worth mentioning briefly, however.
Orlandkurtenbach (
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05:05, 10 May 2008 (UTC)reply
I agree with that. I mostly added it as a way to explain his leadership. Over the next few days I'll probably create a new section that will serve that purpose much better; I'm envisioning something similar to what's already on
Joe Sakic.
Kaiser matias (
talk)
06:13, 10 May 2008 (UTC)reply
The reference of Rud's Canucks Legends: Vancouver's Hockey Heroes should be checked to see if it has the typo abolutely instead of absolutely, since the misspelling is in the article's quote. --
Michael Devore (
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19:34, 13 May 2008 (UTC)reply
I was hoping to request a main page featured article on October 9, 2008 for this article because that is when the Vancouver Canucks season starts. If you have any objections, please ask me. --
K. Annoyomous24GO LAKERS!01:23, 30 July 2008 (UTC)reply
Seeing how the Canucks will probably retire Linden's jersey sometime this year, I was hoping to wait and try and go for that date. It would be the a perfect date, and possibly even lead to media attention in the Vancouver area (mention of how Wikipedia honours Linden as well as the Canucks). So probably wait until they announce the date of the retirement.
Kaiser matias (
talk)
01:36, 30 July 2008 (UTC)reply
Kaiser, I'm of course going to let you request his article for Today's main page article since you, of course really deserve it. I, of course, am not a main contributor but wished I was because I've been a really big Vancouer Canucks fans for around my whole life (like you I think). If you request for TFA, the article would be worth 4 points. If I do it (which I won't unless you don't want to), It'll be worth 3 points. --
K. Annoyomous24GO LAKERS!06:29, 31 July 2008 (UTC)reply
Since it was announced that Linden will have his jersey number retired, The date will be moved to, of course, December 17th, the date of the pre-game ceremony. --
K. Annoyomous2405:26, 5 September 2008 (UTC)reply
Recent Edits
Before this turns into an edit war, I'll explain why I reverted your edits of a few days ago. Though before I do that, I just want to clarify that I have nothing to do with the IP who has been starting an edit war, I'm not that childish. Anyways:
In regards to the additional information about the 1994 Finals, I would say that a lot of it is more appropriate to the relevant article. Further to that, the website used as a source is not exactly a reliable source, and the information about Tanguay being the next player to score 2 goals in a game 7 is rather trivial in an article about Linden.
About the Keenan/Messier stuff, I'm more concerned about the fact that its incorrect. While Quinn was fired first, Keenan was only hired after Renney was fired, and technically the GM position was shared between several executives with the Canucks, including Keenan. And the source provided doesn't show anything about Linden regretting giving the captaincy to Messier.
Thats why I reverted the edits the other day. Not that I'm against adding anything to the article, but what was added didn't really fit in with the article. Hopefully we can resove this without it turning into something ugly.
Kaiser matias (
talk)
23:23, 22 November 2009 (UTC)reply
No hard feelings at all, indeed I would rather hear it from you rather an anon IP who is just reverting for the sake of trolling.
I did want to add information on the Quinn dismissal, as it didn't help that Linden lost support in management. I later realized that after Quinn gave up the head coach title, the Canucks went through a couple coaches before Keenan.
I think that this might be an okay interpretation from the CNNSI article: Linden did graciously give up the captaincy to Messier, later Linden described Messier's invasion of the dressing room as hostile. Perhaps there was no need for the word "regret". Of course, the most serious problem for Linden was his deteriorating relationship with Keenan.
GoldDragon (
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00:35, 23 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Since this is an article about a Canadian person, shouldn't it use Canadian spelling? I am specifically wondering about the spelling of "honor" instead of "honour" in the Jerome Iginla quotation (he is also Canadian).
Eiad77 (
talk)
13:20, 13 February 2012 (UTC)reply
My guess is that when the quote was added it was lifted it straight from the source
here. Weird thing is that this is from Canucks.com and for some unknown reason they did use the American spelling of "honor" and not the Canadian "honour". That said I'm not opposed to having it changed to the Canadian. IMO it does nothing to change the quote and it would be consistent with the way things are spelled throughout the rest of the article.--
Mo Rock...Monstrous(leech44)16:09, 13 February 2012 (UTC)reply
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