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@Demt1298: - Thanks for reviewing ¡Americano! (musical). I was a little surprised to see that you marked it as a Stub rather than Start, and I wonder what you'd want to see improved to lift it up to Start class? Thanks! - Kenirwin/(talk) 15:23, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
@Kenirwin I viewed the article as a synopsis of the production, with some added content showing how it has been reviewed by media, but I felt there is more to be added/edited. I was looking for it to be structured in a way to not only show the significance of this musical, but also include more information about the production itself. Information like music included in the play, more in-depth summarization of the play (maybe by act or other structure), or even initial actors involved could also be meaningful to this article. I am a pretty new Wikipedian, so my marking as a Stub might be a little beginners ineptitude. To me the difference between stub and start is a bit ambiguous. Any feedback a more experienced editor is appreciated. Demt1298 (talk) 17:49, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
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@Evrik I made the edit on purpose. I was using the WP Scouting Assessment Index to work on anything that fell under ??? for either class or importance. I understood William H. Spurgeon III was a redirect, but William H. Spurgeon had no mention of Scouting. I was unsure why William H. Spurgeon III had been added to WP Scouting, but decided to address the missing importance level to address the ??? from the Assessment Index. Because your edit summary had no explanation of why it was undone, I undid your revision. I then noted you had undone another revision on the West Palm Beach Council Redirect, so I checked the Assessment Index and noted there were no ???. I am not sure if the first time I looked at the Assessment Index if the ??? were an error, but I was just working to clean up assessments. Demt1298 (talk) 02:40, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
If you look at the more than 2200 redirects found here, User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Scouting, you'll see that redirects do not get listed with class or importance values. If there is a ???? it's because the template is wrong somehow. William H. Spurgeon III is a placeholder right now. He was active in Scouting, and as you may know, he lived behind the orange curtain. As soo a I can find more biographical info on Bill III, I'm going to creat a stub. --evrik(talk)15:45, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
@Evrik An error in the template is what I finally assumed after reviewing the Assessment Index last night. Thank you for the follow up. Good luck on your research on Bill III. Demt1298 (talk) 15:51, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
"Orphan" isn't about how many links to other articles are present in and leading out from Hawkins' article; it's about how many links in other articles are or aren't coming in to Hawkins. If you look at the "What links here", you'll see that there are no other articles linking to him: other than a redirect from the "Allen Webster Hawkins" form, the only pages linking to him are in talk or user space, with absolutely no articles containing links to Hawkins' article. Bearcat (talk) 17:23, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
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I understand your point of view from a statistical record point of view, but the following is quoted from the article you are referencing. "A draw is a common result in football. Shoot-outs are only used in competitions that require a match-winner at the end of the game – this is predominantly in knockout "cup" ties, as opposed to round-robin "leagues"; they decide which team progresses to the next round of a tournament, or win it". The section of the article you made the correction too was Competition Fixtures not the statistics portion of the article. Listing it as a Draw under competition fixture that "requires a match-winner" makes the article appear as if there is no match-winner. Your comment "games decided by a PK shootout are draws" is true for statistics but not when determining match winners. Demt1298 (talk) 22:23, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
I looked current IFAB Laws of the Games and this is what Law 10-2 states.
The team scoring the greater number of goals is the winner. If both teams score no goals or an equal number of goals, the match is drawn.When competition rules require a winning team after a drawn match or home-and-away tie, the only permitted procedures to determine the winning team are:
away goals rule
two equal periods of extra time not exceeding 15 minutes each
kicks from the penalty mark
A combination of the above procedures may be used.
It states "to determine the winning team". Again from a statistical point of view I agree it is a draw, but for a match result it has been used to determine the winning team. Demt1298 (talk) 22:39, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
MLS Playoff Games Stats in Infoboxes
Hello! I have seen that you have made many updates to Austin FC players that were playing in the playoffs this year. MLS Playoff caps do not go towards the caps that are listed in the infobox. An example is Ethan Finlay who has 34 MLS regular season appearances this year, and 3 playoff appearances. his infobox should only have the 34 regular season gams he played. Please make sure in the future that you are being mindful of this. Thank you! Ewyourfaceew (talk) 00:47, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
Thank You for this. I found that out the other day and need to adjust all the infoboxes if they haven't already been by another editor. Demt1298 (talk) 02:46, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
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This is the second time you've done this. When someone adds copyrighted content once, that's one thing, but to add it again will draw a lot of scritiny to every edit you've ever made. Why? Because copyright violations are taken very seriously. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 07:02, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
I'd like an explanation for these two copyvios reports:
For the 2022 MLS Re-Entry Draft, I made the rookie error of copying information from the MLS rules. I did this to have rules of the draft included in the article in the same wording as you would find on the MLS rules page. I understand that information on Wikipedia should not be copy-written, I was just trying to ensure anyone who used this Wikipedia article could understand how the Re-Entry draft worked. I see another admin has reverted all of the article. I understand the rules from the MLS rules page, but not the entire article. Any feedback would be appreciated.
As for the 2023 U.S. Open Cup qualification, I am unsure how this is copy-write. All I have done is built a third round schedule just as there are first and second round schedules/results for this tournament. I did thus so that anyone who uses Wikipedia to look into this tournament has a summary of the games played and upcoming games. I don't know how to do this without it "qualifying" as copy-write, if it is strictly the schedule of the tournament. I follow multiple football Wikipedia articles that do this exact thing (2022 U.S. Open Cup qualification, 2022 U.S. Open Cup, 2022-23 UEFA Champions League, 2022-23 UEFA Europa League, etc.) Any feedback on this would be appreciated. Demt1298 (talk) 17:15, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
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Hello @Demt1298. I see that you are adding infoboxes to several articles. Thank you for that. One thing I noticed, however, is that when you include an image in the infobox that it is not done according to the MOS. In particular, WP:INFOBOXIMAGE says:
When adding an image to an infobox, thumbnails should NOT be used. Simply supplying the file name will work. For example, to use File:Image PlaceHolder.png, you can simply use |image=Image PlaceHolder.png. Captions should be specified with the |caption= parameter. Every infobox is different and the documentation for the infobox in question should be consulted for the proper parameters to match the image and caption.
@Archer1234 Thank you for this information. I appreciate all advice that I am given as I continue to learn more about editing in Wikipedia, especially when it is as constructive as this. I will keep this in mind in the future. Demt1298 (talk) 22:57, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for the information. I have worked on those four, but think there is probably a lot missing or mis-organized from lower divisions in America. Demt1298 (talk) 23:29, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
@Demt1298: Just to let you know these soccer teams do not have userboxes.
@Catfurball I apologize, I see that the Toledo Villa FC is for UWS, but will be the template for the USL League Two side. I see you redirected the userbox for Kalamazoo from NPSL to one with USL in the title. Excellent, I wasn't sure if a renaming was necessary.Demt1298 (talk) 19:44, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
You can leave out infobox parameters that aren't applicable, for example "embed", "collegeyears" etc. for most players as college sports is a US thing and "nationalyears" etc. for players who didn't play or in all likelihood will never play at international level.
Bit awkward as they tried to buy and rename the nighthawks and worked with them last season but then went behind their back this year and started their own team. so putting Nighthawks info instead of blank was almost the start of some drama ha. 2600:1700:7E40:4A8F:B1B2:2107:EAA3:B56A (talk) 00:14, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Demt1298. Thanks for adding infoboxes to footballer articles. Going forward, please consider these three minor issues which up till now I have been trying to for you:
For date ranges, please use en dashes instead of hyphens, so you get "1997–2000" instead of "1997-2000". See MOS:DATERANGE for details.
Per MOS:OVERLINK "names of subjects with which most readers will be at least somewhat familiar" should not be linked. These include countries such as "Argentina", "Peru" etc.
@Robby.is.on Thank You! I took the advise you gave awhile back and tried to implement it.
I need to remember the en dash, I do make that mistake.
I don't understand the Overlink, where am I linking too much? An example would be helpful.
I have stopped putting flags in Infoboxes, but was up until your last feedback, so you will likely still find them in the Infoboxes I did previously. Are you suggesting we don't use the flags on the page either? I am asking because the reference specifically mentioned Infoboxes and not pages. A more specific reference would be helpful.
Oh, heh, now that you mention it, I see that I've been to your Talk page before. ;-)
Yep.
"Argentina" was linked here, for example. I removed the linking in this change.
Are you suggesting we don't use the flags on the page either? Right. You added flags to the section listing clubs. Actually, that section can probably be removed altogether as it just duplicates the infobox you created.
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Hello. I noticed you've created several American soccer season articles that don't comply with WP:ENGVAR. Please be sure to add "American = yes" to the club season infobox and stick to MDY dates. SounderBruce05:26, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
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Pages in your personal sandbox are not allowed to be categorized as if they were finished articles. This is not a suggestion that you're free to ignore, it's an absolute rule that you must follow. Bearcat (talk) 16:19, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
@BearcatI am not ignoring a rule, I am asking for you to reference that rule. This should be a simple process for a Veteran editor when asked by another editor.Demt1298 (talk) 16:21, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
It's at WP:USERNOCAT, which I already linked in my edit summaries and thus already provided you a "reference" for, which means that you're "demanding" that I do something that I already did. Bearcat (talk) 16:23, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
@Bearcat I apologize that I didn't recognize your edit summary as your reference, I guess the brevity of it confused me. But thank you for improving my understanding of Wikipedia. I will make sure I do a better job trying to understand an editors shorthand, even if they haven't clearly explained it. And after requesting with the word please, which was responded to with digital yelling. I appreciate all guidance more experienced editors provide, no matter how it is accomplished. Demt1298 (talk) 16:30, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
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It came up in WP Nudity as a potential article to be included in the WikiProject because of the information under sights and museums about being textile free. The purpose of tagging it into WP Nudity is so other editors in that project can review this bit of information and see if there is more information to expand on within this article. I did a quick look at the Hiddensee article and it doesn't reference anything about nudity, so this is information specifically in the Hiddensee (island) article. On a personal side not, living in Germany for 3 years I noted that nudity is more widely accepted there and it tends to be around bodies of water, but I do not have any personal experience or knowledge related to Hiddensee. Demt1298 (talk) 18:48, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
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@Edward-Woodrow: I have been working on clearing Bare URL/CS1 errors. I have 406 updated references to fix bare URLs or CS1 errors. I was working on these prior to you challenge, but figured might as well get something for it. I will keep working on them too. I hope this meets your challenge. Demt1298 (talk) 16:25, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
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