The links to ArenaFan were just as relevant to the pages as the official team sites due to the information on those pages. Obviously you didn't bother to look at those pages on ArenaFan before you removed the links. I will be putting them back on the team page listings for all AFL and af2 teams since they are extremely relevant. In addition, many of those URLs were not put in by me, but by other people who edited the pages, most of whom I do not even know. It should also be noted that I do add and edit the pages for content, mostly fixing errors submitted by people who know little about the subject matter, and my source for many of those modifications is ArenaFan. Finally, I can site hundreds of instances where similar links are provided all across wikipedia in a similar manner.
Nolesrule00:57, 9 July 2006 (UTC)reply
While I appreciate the desire to promote one's website, it's Wikipedia style to avoid adding links to your own site (see #3
here). I'm not disputing that there may have been others that added your links, but a reasonable sample showed that they were added by you. There are several other links to mainstream media sites
[1][2][3], all of which do not belong here either. By linking to your site here, it increases your visibility on Google (ranks which are determined by the number of links to it). That is frowned upon here. All of that said, I have left some of your links in where there was a sufficient reason to leave them in, especially in historical contexts. (I have, indeed, bothered to look at the pages on Arenafan.) But don't be surprised to see someone else remove them. I also have noted that you do edit Wikipedia in a responsible way otherwise, which I do appreciate. Thanks for your contributions. —
Twigboy14:46, 9 July 2006 (UTC)reply
Re: Af2 Expansion
Thank you, but Long Beach Cal. and these small but lucrative markets were considered before. No problem, the team owners went for other indoor football leagues. The Inland Empire, Cal. region, Arizona and four countries (the UK, Japan, Mexico and Puerto Rico) pulled out of the AFL/af2 expansion options... they have arenas too small or unequipped (or the cost of remodeling them); and great travel distances, plus hour difference for overseas AFL/af2 teams. I'd sure the failed World League of football done this international representation in the 1990s, when they had teams in The UK, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain. Today, the surviving European teams are called NFL Europe as a summer football league featured some notable NFL athletes on a "working vacation"...travel the country and work/play the game. + 63.3.14.130 also known as
Mike D 2604:05, 29 November 2006 (UTC) 04:03, 29 November 2006 (UTC)reply
Thanks for the hint. I'll remember that. As for the logo, since you didn't see it in KNDU's home page, I might suggest the Tri-City Herald's home page. You can find it at:
http://www.tri-cityherald.com. I'm a native of Kennewick, WA (the Tri-Cities Fever's hometown), and saw the story on KNDU's local news.
Elwin Blaine Coldiron01:25, 7 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Ran into a problem. I decided to check the local sites (including
http://www.kndu.com and
http://www.tri-cityherald.com. You were right about no mention about the uniform change, but I DID see the KNDU newscast on 1/05/07 and they did say that the Fever were returning to their old colors and logo because of negative feedback (I do live where the Fever play. I guess that the new colors and helmet may end up on eBay soon). But it's nice to know that you're such a fan of arena football. I have yet to see a Fever game live in the Toyota Center but I am proud of the team, especially when they won the NIFL championship in their first season (I guess that the Spokane Shock decided to do the same in af2 last summer).
Elwin Blaine Coldiron01:48, 7 January 2007 (UTC)reply
I think that there was no update because it was the beginning of the weekend and didn't have time to update the Fever webpage. I'll see if I can bug the Fever's front office on Monday and ask if they can update the page. BTW, you might want to end your messages with "~" four times, so that people know who sent the message.
Elwin Blaine Coldiron03:55, 7 January 2007 (UTC)reply
I have nominated you for adminship!
Tom Danson would like to nominate you to be an administrator. Please visit
Wikipedia:Requests for adminship to see what this process entails, and then
contact Tom Danson to accept or decline the nomination. A page has been created for your nomination at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Nolesrule. If you accept the nomination, you must formally state your acceptance and answer the questions on that page. Once you have answered the questions, you may post your nomination for discussion, or request that your nominator do so.
Glad I can see a familar face in this foreign land of wikipedia.
-Wranglers_04
Stop being such a psycho about af2 expansion.
If you wanted total control, you should have accepted my admin nomination. There are several unsourced cities as it is, and you actually removed a reliable active source once, which can get you blocked. I suggest you mind your own business.
Tom Danson22:22, 22 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Hi. I noticed that you are active within the AFL and its other pages. I'm proposing the project and would like your support. You can support by signing the Arena football section at the Wikiproject council. talk to me on my talkpage if you have any questions.
ROASTYTOAST23:27, 7 February 2007 (UTC)reply
Hello again. We got enough signatures to start the project. I was wondering if you could upload a image of the AFL football or something to do with the AFL. I'm thinking of using it for the article template on the talk pages. Contact me at the project or my talk page--
ROASTYTOAST23:07, 8 February 2007 (UTC)reply
Why have you reverted every single one of my edits? I spent a lot of time today to do all that. If it's a part of the project, then please show me where it has been said that my edits are "bad." --Ksy92003 (
talk)
00:07, 13 June 2007 (UTC)reply
Only one of them I did; see this
diff. That was on the Georgia Force division record, I see. But for Dallas' and San Jose's division records, they still read as 1.000. That's the only problem that I have seen and in my opinion it would've been better for you to just change that to 1.000 instead of reverting my edit, which took a while to do. --Ksy92003 (
talk)
01:44, 13 June 2007 (UTC)reply
When I went to
Los Angeles Avengers, I saw that it only said, "Lost Week 2." So, I really wanted to know whom they beat in Round 1. I didn't know that they had a Bye because it didn't say it. Do you understand what I'm saying? If it doesn't say, how is anybody supposed to know? If the current way according to the project is to not list every single round, I think it should be changed so that we do show every single round. Please reply on my talk page. Thanks. --Ksy92003 (
talk)
15:12, 14 June 2007 (UTC)reply
I am aware of the development of season pages. When the opportunity arises, I will begin the Los Angeles Avengers' season pages. I just want to know, since the Avengers might make the playoffs, if I should only include one round of playoffs in the season records. This seems weird because if somebody lost in the ArenaBowl, it would only say, "Lost ArenaBowl [...]," but not mention any of the playoff rounds that they've actually won. Which way should this be done? --Ksy92003 (
talk)
17:40, 14 June 2007 (UTC)reply
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HAHSadmin00:27, 16 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Hi, I would like you to please see
this link on the Arena Football League WikiProject talk page. I would like everyone to read this one and the one right after it. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. I will do my best to answer you in a timely manner. Thank you, Crash Underride05:09, 5 July 2008 (UTC)reply
Articles for the more popular and "star" players of the league need to be expanded, have citations added to them and hopefully we can get some
GA's out of them.
All articles on active players and coaches need to be updated with stats, news, and all things important. (Note: For stats it's best to use
ArenaFan.)
Also, we NEED to get things done so we can take them off of the to do list.
Project members are currently working to decide on a roster template to use on all
arena football team pages.
The infobox that is for
af2 players only is completed and working well. If anyone notices that colors are not correct, please find the hex code for the proper colors and let me (Crash Underride) know. I have currently place in the closest colors I could find.
Current Events
It has been
confirmed that
Pittsburgh is a strong candidate for a new Arena Football League team, along with
Boston and South
Florida, although there is no timeline on the league's expansion.
Mike Bawden and Friday Night Football Inc.
transferred majority ownership of the
Quad City Steamwheelers to Alan Millage and Joe Sisler and A&J Football Inc.
On
September 2,
1966Joe Auer returns the opening kickoff 95 yards for a Miami Dolphins touchdown in the Dolphins' first regular-season game, but
Oakland wins the game, 23-14 at the
Orange Bowl before 26,776 spectators.
On
September 4,
1994 Miami Dolphins quarterback
Dan Marino throws five touchdown passes in the Dolphins' 39-35 win over
New England to set an NFL record with his 18th game of four-or-more touchdown passes.
On
September 5,
1994San Francisco wide receiver
Jerry Rice caught two touchdown passes and ran for another in a 44-14 victory over the Raiders to surpass
Jim Brown as the NFL's career touchdowns leader with 127.
Our goal is to get the number of Stub-Class articles down to 0, in due time. The current article count is listed below, I have placed the forumla that is on the project page that is updated everytime the bot is run and it tallies up our articles and where they are and lists them as seen below, so that no one has to worry about making sure it's updated manually before the newsletter is sent out. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list is provided in the stub-class category of stub articles that need to be improved, and some should be fairly easy.
Articles for the more popular and "star" players of the league need to be expanded, have citations added to them and hopefully we can get some
GA's out of them.
All articles on active players and coaches need to be updated with stats, news, and all things important. (Note: For stats it's best to use
ArenaFan.)
Also, we NEED to get things done so we can take them off of the to do list.
New tables have been added to each team article for coaches. It is broken down into six columns. Column one is for the name of the
head coach. Column two is for the coachs tenure there. Column three is the coaches regular season win/loss record (ONLY while with THAT team). Column four is for the coaches post season win/loss record (ONLY while with THAT team). Column five is for the coaches most recent coaching staff (if the coach is no longer there, list the coaches last coaching staff), with years that the coaching staff members have been there, the term coaching staff ONLY applies to
Offensive Coordinator (to be listed as
OC),
Defensive Coordinator (to be listed as
DC),
Special Teams Coordinator (to be listed as
ST Coordinator),
Fullbacks coach (to be listed as
FB coach),
Linebackers Coach (to be listed as
LB coach),
Offensive line coach (to be listed as
OL coach),
Defensive line coach (to be listed as
DL),
Wide receivers Coach (to be listed as
WR coach),
Defensive backs Coach (to be listed as
DB coach). And coach that coaches multiple positions is to be listed as
QB /
FB coach, with a / between each position. Also, the list should start with Offensive Coordinator, then Defensive Coordinator. Place line break (<br>) after each coaching staff members name, and between coaching positions (should the column become wider than what looks good). Column six is for notes about the head coach during their tenure with that team only. Lastly, be sure not to make the columns too wide, if the column becomes wider than what looks good, place a line break (<br>) in the sentence/note.
Current Events
On November 22, the
Georgia Force will
host tryouts at their practice facility in Flowery Beach, Georgia.
Though Chris Vallozzi owns the
Florida Firecats, the addition of the
Milwaukee Iron in 2009, will in no way
affect the Firecats. His older brother Drew, is behind the new Iron franchise.
On October 10, AFL owners
approved a nonbinding letter of intent, that called for Los Angeles-based Platinum to invest $100 million into the league. A step that, as it stands, will dramatically alter the financial and managment structure of the two decade old league.
Tiffany Worsham, V.P. of Business Development for af2 has
contradicted the claims made by D. J. Daniels, the investor interested in bringing a team back to
Macon, Georgia. Claiming that there is "no reason for any optimism." She also went on to say that "serious conversations about the subject ended a few months ago."
Derek Stingley, it was
announced, is a candidate for the head coaching position with the
Albany Firebirds of af2.
Steve Clary, Jim Guy Tucker two owners of the
Arkansas Twisters have
decided to forego their shares of the team, as "they both were too busy with their other businesses."
Derek Stingley, has
removed himself from the list of candidates for the head coaching position of the af2's Albany Firebirds, as he has "another coaching opportunity closer to his family's home in Baton Rouge, La."
Our goal is to get the number of Stub-Class articles down to 0, in due time. The current article count is listed below, I have placed the forumla that is on the project page that is updated everytime the bot is run and it tallies up our articles and where they are and lists them as seen below, so that no one has to worry about making sure it's updated manually before the newsletter is sent out. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list is provided in the stub-class category of stub articles that need to be improved, and some should be fairly easy.