User talk:Coll7

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Sports game

I'd reccomend we start assembling the lists of important historical games and at least 3 example games of each sport. This will help alot with next weeks GCOTW, as i think we should focus mostly on developing a good history and genre overview sections. We should also include how gaming has impacted proffessional sports (it has taken away from ratings). and can mention things like the Madden curse. --Larsinio 21:21, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Kaliningrad Oblast

Watch article on Kaliningrad Oblast, as one contributor deletes all "history" section. He commented that supposedly Lithuania Minor never existed, that's why he does it, but he deletes many other useful information about Prussians, Germans and even history after WW2 too. He seems to think Lithuania Minor is something Lithuanian government uses to claim Kaliningrad Oblast, therefore incorrectly moves whole history section to Lithuania Minor article and does not explains anything in talk page anymore. Therefore, as I don't have much time and seen your contributions in Talk:Lithuania Minor page, please look after Kaliningrad Oblast. The history section indeed might be a little POV but I hope it will be dePOVed by discussing in talk page and minor edits, instead of removing whole useful section 213.190.42.88 13:26, 21 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Infoboxes for administrative divisions

Labas, I started working on administrative divisions of Lithuanai and I created drafts of infoboxes at User:renata3/elderates for counties, municipalities, elderates, and cities. Would you have any comments before I start implementing them? Renata3 18:16, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sources for Baseball (video game)

Hello, good work on Baseball (video game), and thanks for the contribution. However, you forgot to add any references to the article. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and there is currently a push to encourage editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. From what websites, books, or other places did you learn the information that you added to Baseball (video game)? Would it be possible for you to mention them in the article? Thank you very much. Lupin|talk|popups 19:22, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to the Forgotten Realms project

Hi,

We are working on a Forgotten Realms Project to map Toril (mostly Faerûn, at the present). Since you contributed quite a lot on a Forgotten Realms-specific entry, we'ld like to invite you to join the project, so we could improve the “Mapping the Realms” project.

The goal is to create a sort of World Factbook for the Realms. This means:

A consistent content
Use of templates
Entries should be limited to “sovereign places”: states and free cities, as well a moderately-inhabited place such as the Western Highlands.

On top of this, we also plan to cover Lost Empires, such as Pelvuria or Imaskar and, of course, Netheril

The project is located here
The Geographical index of Toril is a good start to get a visual of had been done, as well as the Halruaa entry.

Main contributors are presently

If you know some other person who would be interested, feel free to forward the invitation!

Feel free to take a look. We hope to see you soon mapping the Realms with us!

Please take part in the improval of this article

Hello. I would like to inform you that there is an ongoing discussion at article Territorial claims of the Baltic States (formerly was known as "Lost territories of the Baltic States", but was recently renamed; some users seems to disagree with that renaming). Recent edits as well were accused of POV, and, in fact, article was disputed for a long time already. It would be nice if you would add that article to your watchlist and continue helping to improve it until a decition will be reached about its future (there is currently a poll about it in the article's talk page). I hope together we all will be able to make that article neutral. Kaiser 747 10:52, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ken Kutaragi

I'm requesting your opnion about this dispute. Lot of POV-Pushing, the article is currently blocked. --GroundZero 00:12, 21 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

GCOTW - Square Enix

Gaming Collaboration of the week

You showed support for Gaming Collaboration of the week.
This week Wikipedia:Gaming Collaboration of the week/current was selected to be improved to featured article status.
Hope you can help.

Jaco plane 02:54, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Merge Teamwork and Team building?

You may put {{merge|Teamwork}} and {{merge|Team building}} to respective pages. If agreed (or if no one gets interested) you may do the merge. Pavel Vozenilek 01:56, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cut and paste

Please never do a cut and paste move again, and wait until WP:RM runs its course instead. By cutting and pasting, your destroy the article's edit history, which is devastating for WP's GFDL nature. Thanks! —Nightst a llion (?) 11:03, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Savage Frontier articles

Thanks for correcting that about Stormfront. I forgot all about them. I haven't played through those two games myself (I do own them; maybe someday :) ), but I wanted to have that nice info box for all 9 of the SSI games. What do you think about the Gold Box gameplay article? --Sivak 00:12, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

DECUS

Hi. I've just added some info to the DECUS article, and wondered if you would like to check my work. I was an active member of the Australian Chapter for most of the 1980s; it's possible that some of the information I've added didn't apply to other regions or other decades. Cheers, Chris Chittleborough 23:09, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If you have any interest in Template:MLB

please join the current discussion at Template talk:MLB. As a member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball your opinion is particularly valued. Thanks. 66.167.139.143 08:37, 4 May 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Earl Weaver Baseball

Thanks for starting the Earl Weaver Baseball page. I played it non-stop for parts of two summers when I was a kid. I used to enter player data every week when my copy of Baseball Weekly arrived! To the wiki I added a list of a few antiquated stadiums that were included in the game (Griffith, Polo Grounds, etc.) --Akwhitacre 19:29, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Thanks for your kind words. I guess my problem (one of) is that I spend so much time checking edits on my watchlist for vandalism and incorrect information that I rarely get time to just edit to improve articles anymore. Maybe I should just stop looking at my watchlist for now and let some articles run their course (for better or worse). :P K1Bond007 06:14, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about. :) Stuff like that happens all the time. K1Bond007 06:25, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2nd Generation Consoles

The original author wrote the narrative in a chronological order and the timeline jumps around with the "big three" section. I feel that at bare minimum, worldwide sales figures should be quoted, or some proof that North America represented the great majority of worldwide consumer spending on video games. The entire article is mostly a cut-and-paste job so if we were to keep the North American big three section, a fair amount of other stuff would have to go to make the article work better. - Diceman 11:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New baseball article improvement drive

Baseball

Greetings fellow WikiProject Baseball member! Just a quick note: there is now an article improvement drive just for baseball-related articles at WP:BBAID. Please take a look and vote on an article or add one of your own. Once an article has been agreed upon, feel free to stop by and lend a hand in getting it to featured article status. Hope you can participate! —Wknight94 (talk) 00:29, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rock and a hard place

I'm not trying to be a dick, but what you did on the Video Game Crash of 1983 article is, in fact, original research. I'm not sure exactly what should be done... I know you're right, but it's a blatant violation of the basic principles of Wikipedia. What do we do? /Blaxthos 01:30, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Computer Gaming World list of the best games of all time

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October Baseball WikiProject Newsletter

The Baseball WikiProject Newsletter

Issue III – October 2008

: "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving a baby's life...; she'll save the baby without even considering how many men are on base!"; — Stephen King (The Dark Tower)

News and announcements

The Baseball Project promoted 13 lists to Featured status in August and 8 more in September. Amazing job!
A combined eleven articles were promoted to Good Article status in August and September.

Featured content

In September, WikiProject Baseball has had the following articles promoted to:
Featured Article status:

Nashville Sounds

Featured List status:

List of New York Mets Opening Day starting pitchers, List of Colorado Rockies Opening Day starting pitchers, List of Florida Marlins Opening Day starting pitchers, Nashville Sounds seasons, List of Tampa Bay Rays Opening Day starting pitchers, List of Seattle Mariners Opening Day starting pitchers, List of Boston Red Sox Opening Day starting pitchers, List of Arizona Diamondbacks Opening Day starting pitchers, New York Yankees seasons

Good Articles of August and September:

All the Way (Eddie Vedder song), Cy Young, Dan Brouthers, Harmon Killebrew, Rickey Henderson, Billy Pierce, Kinston Indians, Three Rivers Stadium, Bill Lange, Calgary Cannons, Hugh Daily, Homer at the Bat

This month's newsletter was designed and written by Wizardman, jj137, and Black ngold29. If you would like to contribute to future newsletters, please contact the Baseball WP outreach dept.

News from the diamond

The 2008 opening round playoff matchups with be:
- Boston Red Sox vs. Los Angeles Angels
- Milwaukee Brewers vs. Philadelphia Phillies
- Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Chicago Cubs
- Chicago White Sox vs. Tampa Bay Rays
Help to keep the articles of the postseason updated

From the Editors

We apologize for not sending out our August newsletter, we have tried to cover some events of the month in this issue.

The playoffs have started! The Dodgers and Phillies have won their respective Division Series and will face off in the NL Championship Series. Both series in the American League have yet to be finished. Show your support for your favorite teams by keeping up with their season pages!

-- jj137 (talk) 23:55, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Coll7! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 4 of the articles that you created are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to insure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. if you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 2 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

Pete Palmer - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Eddie Dombrower - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Tracy Reed (writer) - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Don James (video games) - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 20:38, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Tracy Reed (writer)

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non-notable and unreferenced for years.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Ridernyc (talk) 18:31, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Animal Rescue Foundation

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Women in Red World Contest

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

Category:Wikipedians who like NationStates

Hey! If you're interested, I started a series of userboxes for the game NationStates. Feel free to add any or add your own!-🐦Do☭torWho42 (⭐) 05:13, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Animal Rescue Foundation for deletion

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