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Unless I'm confused, the user had only the one edit to Amrut Nagar today (really more of not knowing what belongs than vandalism) and your warning (which seems a bit harsh) and that's it. Was there some other vandalism I'm missing? -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 07:28, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
I probably should have checked with you first, but I moved List of the Chairman of the Federal Reserve to List of Chairmen of the Federal Reserve. I felt that "Chairman" needed to be plural, and that the "the" was unnecessary and awkward in the title. I hope this is an acceptable update. Also I plan on updating a few other things around the page; feel free to comment on my talk page if you see anything you want to discuss. - FrankTobia ( talk) 02:36, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
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As per the policy on Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria, any copyrighted image that is tagged as fair use and unfree image (that lack a free content license) must follow certain rules.
Two rules that seem to broken the most are #8 and #10:
For example, there is no fair-use rationale on the Image:UGA$!logo.png page that explains why including it on the Statistical Comparison table on 2006 Chick-fil-A Bowl#Final statistics would "significantly increase readers' understanding of the topic" when just printing the name "Georgia Tech" or "UGA" would be sufficient. And I do not know why it was promoted to FA unless it was an oversight because these images were sort of small and easy to miss.
Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:52, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
I'm sorry, but I am not the right person to ask about that. I would suggest you ask for an assesment from Wikipedia:WikiProject College football or nominate for a peer review. Best of luck -- Mr.crabby (Talk) 15:39, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
Good luck with the article! I'd be happy to give you help where I can. There are a couple things that jump out at me:
Right now, you've got a great start, and all you need is more content. I like Google News, ESPN.com, Sports Illustrated, Rivals.com, and the Athletics department websites of the individual schools as sources. You'll find others, especially since this was a nationally-televised bowl game. Keep at it. All it takes is time and the willingness to see the article to completion, and there's nothing stopping it from becoming Featured. JKBrooks85 ( talk) 02:54, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
I ran into this problem with 2006 Chick-fil-A Bowl, and had to ask an admin about it. I'll blockquote his email to me.
It's extremely important that anyone you get photos from say the magic words, "I grant permission to publish this image under the terms of the GFDL" or something along those lines ... not just "you can use this image on Wikipedia". Whatever email you get with permissions in it, please forward it to permissions-en@wikimedia.org so that they can tag the image description page that the permission has been confirmed. There are two reasons for doing that - (1) whoever handles the ticket will confirm that the language we need to have there is actually there and (2) it ensures that if someone looks at it in a year from now, they aren't scratching their head wondering if you really had permission or just made something up.
Basically, it boils down to you getting an email from the person saying "I release photograph XXX into the public domain (or whatever license)." You'd then forward that email to the email address posted above, including the image name of the photo that needs the license. They should be able to take it from there. JKBrooks85 ( talk) 20:53, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Congrats on getting the article to good-article status! I'm surprised that an editor got to reviewing it so quickly, but it's great news for you! I've added the article to the collection of GA articles on the main college football wikiproject page, and have added it to the list of new high-quality articles in the next newsletter. I've got a bit of free time, so I guess I can run through a copyedit for style before you submit it for a FAC. That'll get you a lot of comments, and you should be able to make the needed corrections during the FAC process. I'll give you a heads-up when I've finished the copyedit. JKBrooks85 ( talk) 21:09, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
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Okay, I've gone through and done a fairly thorough copyedit. There's no guarantee that I haven't missed something, so if something looks wrong, go ahead and change it. There's three main things that come to mind right away that still need to be fixed before submitting to FAC. Once they're fixed, I'd suggest submitting it to the Featured Article Candidacy and seeing what things people suggest fixing. They're pretty good at catching problems there.
That last point may be covered a bit better if someone at LoCE ever gets around to looking at the article. After you make those non-breaking space and en-dash corrections, I'd submit the article to FAC and move the request for copyediting up to the featured-article-candidate section at the LoCE page. That might get it a little more attention. JKBrooks85 ( talk) 20:41, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
I think the biggest problem left is that the prose doesn't flow well. You've got the information, the sources, and the pictures, but someone should really go through and fix the niggling style problems and flow of the prose. I'd suggest User:Karanacs. If you do submit it right now, be prepared for a lot of flak. I think it's worthy of support, but you'll probably run into some rough spots. JKBrooks85 ( talk) 03:06, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I was sorry to see that your FA nomination didn't get to stay around a little longer. The game recap section would be a lot better if you could flesh out the scores part a little more. Be careful and don't let it turn into a play-by-play, though. Good luck! Karanacs ( talk) 02:38, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
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I've got two FACs for college football coming up/in progress, and I was wondering if you'd be willing to take a look at them. The first is 2007 ACC Championship Game, and the second is 2008 Orange Bowl. I've been having a lot of problems getting people to take a look at them, and I'd really appreciate it if you could see if they're up to par and give your support if you think they're worthy. JKBrooks85 ( talk) 00:36, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the tip, Karanacs. Incidentally, 2008 Orange Bowl is up for FAC review now. JKBrooks85 ( talk) 23:35, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I wanted to let you know that I will definitely take a look at East Carolina University for you. I'm often not very active on the weekends, though, so it might be Monday before I get to it, or I might find a few free minutes and take a look today. If I haven't responded by Monday afternoon feel free to nag me about it. Karanacs ( talk) 18:33, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi PGPirate, I am honored that Karanacs thought well of my work. I did the bulk of
2005 Texas Longhorn football team which was the first CFB FA. {{although we later decided that
Aggie Bonfire belongs in the WPCFB also, but only after it was FA}} I have also helped with several GAs and done a little list work. I am going to start with
2007 Hawai'i Bowl. One of the first things I do when reviewing an article is to run the semi-automatic
javascript program. It has the following suggestions for that article:
between a number and the unit of measurement. For example, instead of 89 yards, use 89 yards, which when you are editing the page, should look like: 89 yards.
[?]I am going to work on some of the above and I'll list more suggestions here as I find them. I am going to number them so they will be easier to reference in case you want to discuss any of them here. Johntex\ talk 02:32, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Johntex\ talk 02:51, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
You were mentioned as someone who might have an opinion on the Tyrone Wheatley FAC.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTD) 00:46, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Leaving a user a message like "Your support would be welcomed" in regards to an FLC is generally discouraged because we like the noms to be judged from a neutral point of view. -- Scorpion 0422 18:53, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
If someone left comments that you think you've addressed, then respond on the FLC page and if they don't see it, leave a message on their talk page saying so. -- Scorpion 0422 18:35, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
It's alright now PGPirate. I've learned how to archive my talk page, thanks to User:Harald Khan. -- GoodDay ( talk) 23:14, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
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FYI, see the selected article of Portal:American football for this month. It may look familiar. ;) -- B ( talk) 02:33, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Tyrone Wheatley has been restarted. Your renewed support would be appreciated.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTD) 03:54, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
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I've started digging into this. Should have it done by later today, depending on how much time I can spend on it. On another note, could you swing by Virginia Tech bowl games and take a look at it? It's nominated as a featured list, and I'm planning it as the keystone article of the eventual featured topic covering Virginia Tech bowl games. Any comments on the nomination would be extremely helpful. Thanks! JKBrooks85 ( talk) 10:32, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Congratulations on your recent successful WP:FL promotion. You may be interested in taking part in our experimental procedure for the selecting lists of the day and lists of the month at WP:LOTD.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTD) 00:43, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
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I don't know if the MOS has any guidance on this. Personally I prefer City, State assuming the City is pipelinked to avoid any possible disambiguation. I don't like to see commas within a wikilink so I'd definitely opt for the former. Hope that's been of use.
I see no current season one that format page. Buc ( talk) 13:58, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
Adding fair-use rationales will stop them from being deleted, but technically they need adding for each article they appear on. Some appeared on two articles and had no rationale at all. However, they won't be deleted now, just removed from that article for which a rationale isn't included.
I'm not a whizz with non-copy pictures, but I think they should just be moved to the Commons, and linked to from En (and all other language) Wikipedia. Check the Image help section first.
It would be easier for me, and others to support if the pictures weren't there. I would remove the entire column. -- Matthew | talk | Contribs 00:42, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I just wanted to say that while I don't mind my comments being stricken, there are some people who do and while it doesn't say anything at
WP:FLC,
WP:FAC says "if a nominator feels that an Oppose has been addressed, they should say so after the reviewer's signature rather than striking out or splitting up the reviewer's text. Per talk page guidelines, nominators should not cap, alter, strike, break up, or add graphics to comments from other editors;". I'd just write done/not done or {{done}}/{{notdone}} which produced Done/
Not done, and then let the reviewer strike out or hide their own comments when they feel they've been addressed. --
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On my talk page you asked (in response to my FLC comments): "Should I change the scope of the list to all four year accredited colleges and universities in NC?"
If you want to suspend the FLC discussion for the NC universities list, just post a note to that effect in the FLC discussion. The folks who take care of housekeeping in the FLC area will notice soon enough and do whatever needs to be done. :-) -- Orlady ( talk) 13:23, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
When you get a chance, could you swing by the FAC review for 2005 ACC Championship Game? I'm having a devil of a time getting people to review it, and any comments at all would be extremely helpful. Thanks. JKBrooks85 ( talk) 09:32, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
I would happy to review the article. It will probably be in the next few days though as I am very busy at the moment. As a first suggestion you should make a request to the LoCE to have them review the article. They are very good at catching all the little problems with punctuation, grammar etc. They can also take a while to get around to reviewing an article, so make the request early. KnightLago ( talk) 15:02, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on The University of North Carolina Online requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.
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Hi PGPirate, thanks for your helpful edits on the Barr article. I'm going to restore the second linked SAS System, because I feel it's important to have a link to the SAS System article in the SAS System section of the Barr article, as or more important than the link in the introductory paragraph. I understand the general principle of only linking once, but I think an exception is warranted here. If you have serious objections, let me know. Thanks again for your work. Cheers, Metamusing ( talk) 20:52, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi, PGPirate. The manual of style of disambiguation pages states that there should only be one navigable link per entry, so I changed [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]], [[North Carolina]] back to [[Raleigh, North Carolina]] as 'Raleigh' is the dab topic, not 'north carolina'. I also noticed that you made the edit via AWB. Was this a change that was suggested by AWB automatically? If so, I'll need to file a bug report as this type of change should not occur on dab pages. Best wishes. Gwguffey ( talk) 02:23, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
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