User talk:Croat Canuck/Archives2

Columbus Cottonmouths

I have a question and it might not just be this team. If you look at the Columbus Cottonmouths website it says that they have been playing for 10 years which I understand but when I look at the ECHL wikipedia site. It talks about how they moved to flordia and how a team move to columbus which confuses me. I made some additions to the columbus cottonmouths site which I feel is correct to the best of my knowledge. Maybe they need to fix what is wrong on the echl wikipedia site. If you have any questions let me know. John R G 04:13, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

I just fixed the ECHL page and left a link for reference. http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/findteam.php3 John R G 06:27, 4 May 2006 (UTC).

Default Ron Wilson?

There are nearly a dozen other notable Ron Wilsons. I'm not sure why this should be the de facto default. I understand the passion of sports fans, but I don't believe sports should automatically trump over all. Since there's another hockey person name Ron Wilson whose heading is Ron Wilson (hockey), wha qualifier might one suggest for this Ron Wilson? — Tenebrae 15:51, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Cool. That's very collegial of you. I was up in Vancouver for several great days this summer, and it really is true that Canadians are, in my experience at least, just some of the absolutely nicest, most civilized people in the world. And very chatty -- but in a good way. When I finish the (yet another) Ron Wilson bio I'm doing, I'll give you a (virtual) call. All the best — Tenebrae 19:58, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Peanut Butter Jelly Time

Remember Peanut Butter Jelly Time. 209.29.46.128 22:42, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Leaving?

Please don't leave. You were just elected admin. Give it time and surely things will get better. It's not always going to go your way but everything can be worked out if you stayed. Please reconsider. SWD316 ^{talk to me} 02:36, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, I can only hope that this is an extended wikibreak. Hope to see you around some time! SWD316 ^{talk to me} 02:03, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Bro Don´t go, unless you have good reasons

you got me in this so i might just pull out too, i´ll have to consider. Give me an email some time to give me your reasons for leaving. You´ve done so much for Wikipedia don´t go.Mr. Creativity 03:21, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

my rfa

thanks for your support on my its much appriciated :)15:59, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikimedia Canada

Hi there! I'd like to invite you to explore Wikimedia Canada, and create a list of people interested in forming a local chapter for our nation. A local chapter will help promote and improve the organization, within our great nation. We'd also like to encourage everyone to suggest projects for our national chapter to participate in. Hope to see you there!--DarkEvil 04:20, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

My admin request went up in flames. (But thanks anyways!)

Hey, Croat Canuck, I wanted to thank you for your support of my (unfortunately unsuccessful) request for adminship. The final tally was 37/16/5, which fell short of the needed 75-80% for "consensus". I don't know if or when I'll go up for nomination again, but even if I don't, I will try not to betray the trust that you and 36 others were willing to place in me. Thanks for having faith in me... and happy editing! Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 01:01, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Admin request

Hey, CC. I tried the popup template on the page User:Eduard Gherkin/monobook.js but my Safari browser kept on closing automatically (I guess it could not handle it). So, I removed the template and held shift while I refreshed the page. Unfortunately, the popups continue to reappear and I cannot find out how to shut them off. Therefore, I request that you delete the page User:Eduard Gherkin/monobook.js if that's possible and see if that works. Contact me if you have any questions. Merci, mon ami. Eduard Gherkin 02:45, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Calimari

Thanks for the pointer to your revert / contribs for more of the Squidword vandal IPs... I'll keep looking for 'em for a while. Georgewilliamherbert 05:33, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

sports wiki

Hi!

I noticed you were active on many sports pages on Wikipedia. My friends and are I starting a sports wiki that you may be interested in. It uses Wikipedia's software but we made a lot of technological improvements to allow for more news and opinion articles, as well as regular encyclopedic entries. If you're interested, contact me and I'll give you the URL. --DNL 22:27, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Jose Theodore

Thanks for that bit, I didn't realize how widespread the thing actually was/is. There was some Habs fan who was really unhappy with that trivia detail and had removed it, claiming that it was libelous. :-) --Madchester 07:38, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Brevity?

May I ask what you meant in the importance of brevity in moving the Dwight Foster (hockey player) article back to Dwight Foster (hockey)? I have good reasoning (or at least I think) for moving the article, but I just want to clarify what you meant first. Croat Canuck 03:04, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Wait never mind, I looked it up at dictionary.com... So If you mean you don't like the length of the article title, keep in mind that most hockey player articles where there is a name conflict do go by (hockey player) and not (hockey), because for various reasons, (hockey) is just not specific enough. There are more kinds of hockey than just ice hockey, (ie. field hockey), and that itself can bring more conflict in itself. Then there are also many ice hockey people who share the same name, and thus we can separate them by (hockey player) or (hockey coach), depending on what they are most famous or notable for doing, if they've done both. If you have any more comments on that, please put it on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ice Hockey then on my talk page, so that other people in the WikiProject can discuss it as well.
Croat Canuck 03:18, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

_ _ Thanks for your question, copied above from my talk page so this is all in one place. If i can't convince you, i'm afraid my level of interest rules out my participating in a wider discussion, but if you think a wider discussion is needed, perhaps you'll be kind enuf to copy this to an appropriate place.

_ _ I note that accepting your reasoning would actually indicate that (hockey player) is an inadequate qualifier, and (ice hockey player) should have been used, but it does not stop there: if your argument were valid, Davey Moore (1980s) would be replaced by Davey Moore (American WBA junior middleweight world champion boxer, 1980s), and every other boxer who required disambiguation would need a nationality, a title status, a sanctioning authority, and a time qualification, since for each of those bits of info, some boxer requires it to tell them apart from someone else with a confusable name. (In fact, i've been told that a Wikiproject concerned in some way with video games decided every character in (at least) one family of games should have the name of that game-family in the title of the article on that character, even if there is no other article about anyone or anything that could bear that name!)

_ _ IMO it is obvious that those who wrote and voted on the policies on article naming and disambiguation intended that Dab'g info would be added only to articles that need Dab'n, and that Dab'g info would be only what is needed to distinguish them for articles that could have had that name but for the existence of the "competing" article or articles. If there are both a hockey coach and a hockey player with the same name, they may need (hockey player) and (hockey coach) -- but more likely (player) and (coach) will do the job!

_ _ Finally, note i said "copy this to an appropriate place", not "... to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ice Hockey". This is not a matter that can be settled there, but a dispute (unless i have convinced you) about the meaning of the MoS, and it probably cannot be settled even at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography, which obviously would have just as good a claim to "jurisdiction" (if there were such a thing as a WikiProject having jurisdiction). WP is very, very far from being a collection of WikiProjects; it is an integrated encyclopedia, and anything the (sub-)projects undertake as if they were working on, say, an encyclopedia of ice hockey, should be done on some other site if it is not compatible with the goal of the integrated encyclopedia.
--Jerzy•t 05:09, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

IMO the most important thing to say (in response to the new question that i haven't copied here) is that this isn't your problem. Hopefully you know that already, and are choosing to make it yours. I'm an admin as well, but not a bot driver, so that aspect would probably be better addressed by someone that you could introduce yourself to via some place you discover starting at Wikipedia:Bots (my successful first guess at the title!). I know there is a centralized registration procedure, but other than the bunch of bots near the top of WP:1000, i've just noticed them randomly as having signed edits. I'm not even clear whether they usually run on a shell account, or simply on a workstation client. I'd like to imagine that some bot drivers will take on "sub-contracts" for their bots from other editors. (Hmmm; a bot could crawl Category:Ice hockey players and its subcats, and spit out a list of names likely to be longer than needed; probably the prime contractor can screen them a lot better than a bot, tho maybe the bot should crawl to the Dab list & it for human inspection; if the bot can't read a list of names to be changed, do the changes, & clean up the links to redirects, maybe the prime contractor should do the moves & leave "snapping" the redirect-links to the bot.) It's not obvious that this is high-priority enough to take you away from whatever else you would be doing; it might be that the most efficient thing you could do would be to convince colleagues at that project that in the long run they need to be changed, and describe how to use What links here and the Dab that usually goes along with such an article to find the other uses and to determine whether the longer version is needed in a particular case; WP is always a work in progress, and it may a fine outcome for editors to just chip away at them as they have occasion to work on an article for some other reason. (In my case, i noticed your change on a LoPbN page & "chipped" it back to what it was before, without worrying about snapping the via-redirect links i left behind, or about the likelihood that you had done more of them; i've become convinced i can't fix all of WP, and try to keep from being dragged to far afield from my primary focus, which is the structure, including infrastructure, of the LoPbN tree, and secondary, which is format and completeness of existing entries, and (on the back burner) drawing attention to entries for bios not yet written.) Hey, you ask good questions; i hope my answers are as useful as you deserve. Thanks, and don't hesitate to ask more.
--Jerzy•t 07:05, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the backup

on the Gretzky article. The semantic arguement over one line in an article is more than a little ridiculous, especially when the diff is three words. RasputinAXP _{talk contribs} 10:41, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Brnjas

"Nj" is actually seperate letter in our alphabet sounding like ñ in Spanish or "gn" in French and Italian. We have also similar letter "lj" which is like gl in Italian or ll in Spanish. Our alphabet in this part looks like this:...i,j,k,l,lj,m,n,nj,o,p,r,s... I hope this was helpful:). Luka Jačov 12:34, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Kyle Wellwood article

Crikey, thank you for bringing that to my attention I have absolutely no idea what happened there and I sincerely apologise. Looking back through my contribs it seems I was on a reverting mission of the vandalism of a particular IP and it seems somehow I got the IP messed up and inadvertently completely incorrectly reverted Kyle Wellwood. I will apologise to the user on his/her talk page, and again my apologies for my (first ever) major botch up on wiki. Thanks for not jumping down my throat, others certainly would! Regards, File:Glenstollery.gif^POW! 03:31, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

1000 points

I understand completely, no problem about the changes man, good on you for changing it back. —This unsigned comment was added by AMac2002 (talk • contribs) .

Clearly you can tell I'm new, haha! Sorry about forgeting to sign. Yeah, I've just put a few additions on some players here and there, nothing big yet, but hopefully I'll get there soon! AMac2002 23:59, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Arbitrator needed

Do you know anything about the John Labatt Centre or the heritage act? I'm trying to encourage two guys to settle their differences. The same edits on the article have gone back and forth. Please see Talk:John Labatt Centre. Thanks Flibirigit 02:19, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Kitchener Rangers

Please look over the Kitchener Rangers article and let me know if I have missed anything important. Thanks ! Flibirigit 19:54, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

I think I was making changes to the Kitchener Rangers article as you were reading it. I moved the incorrected historical information to article stubs for the Kitchener Greenshirts and the Kitchener Canucks. Any history you have for those teams would be Great! Flibirigit 02:37, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Please review the Kitchener Rangers history that I added May 5th, 2006, let me know if I left out anything. Thanks. Flibirigit 16:25, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

NHL Entry Draft - Player Numbers By Team

Could you please elaborate on where the numbers came from on this list --->NHL Entry Draft#Player Numbers By Team. Please also see the dicussion at --->User talk:BoojiBoy#Number of NHL Draftees per team. Thanks! Flibirigit 15:00, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Kitchener Dutchmen & Greenshirts

I would like to know as much as you can tell me about the Kitchener Greenshirts and the Kitchener Dutchmen.

I understand there is a current Kitchener Dutchmen team in the Jr. B. league... when did this team start playing? I also know there were Senior hockey teams named the Dutchmen in the past but are unrelated.

I have found statistics for individuals playing for the Kitchener Greenshirts at a Jr. B. level from 1963 to 1978. Many of those players were also called up or played the Kitchener Rangers. These teams appear to be, or have been affiliated. Again, any ideas?

There are also stats for a Kitchener Greenshirts team in he OMHA from the 1970's, 1980's and 1990's.. do u know anything about Minor hockey in Kitchener?

Thanks again!!! Flibirigit 01:36, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Accepting the nomination!

Thanks for putting me up again, and I gratefully and cheerfully accept the nomination. I'll get right on answering the questions! RGTraynor 13:48, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Which I've done, so ... RGTraynor 15:16, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Yikes, I must have really pissed someone off for sockpuppets to come out of the closet to oppose my nom. Hrm, sorry about that. My inclination is to keep my mouth shut over it, though. RGTraynor 18:39, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Croats in NHL

Hi, Croat Canuck.

I'm also dealing with Croats in NHL. Today I've added some names in List of Croatian sportspeople; I'd glad if you help me in this. Your help 'll be very appreciated by all contributors. Thanks in advance,

P.S. Do you speak Croatian? A little?

Sincerely, Kubura 10:56, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

If you have any info on certain player (as you're a Canadian, I suppose you'll know more about Croats in Canada than me), especially in cases if a player has a surname that can belong to some other nationalities, beside Croatian, and, of course, in cases, if you have any data if a player is a Croat by its maternal side. Thanks in advance, Kubura 09:36, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Signature?

I see you and many others have customized your signatures in some way. I looked in my preferences, and couldn't find anything. Is this something I can do myself, or something that requires outside assistance (in which case, I won't bother)? Doogie2K 23:51, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

You rock, even if you are a bloody Leafs fan. ;) Doogie2K (talk) 23:54, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Now are you going to remove the Leafs part for the post season (seeing as how the Leafs and my dear beloved Vancouver Canucks didn't make the playoffs (stupid Bettman and his stupid rules :) -- Tawker 19:57, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

No I do intend on keeping it. Croat Canuck Go Leafs Go 02:57, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Mike Torchia

I see that you've written a lot of articles about former Rangers. I've listed the current Mike Torchia (a different Mike Torchia) under copyright problems because it was lifted entirely from a website. Perhaps you'd consider writing a new article? I would do it but I really know nothing about him and I know you're the resident Rangers fan here.

P.S. Owen Sound wasn't so hard. :P BoojiBoy 15:24, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Hey, he's not the only one! :P  RasputinAXP  c 01:01, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Adminship

I accept...here's to hoping it goes well :)  RasputinAXP  c 04:04, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Harold Albrecht

So, not only are you a Leafs fan, you're also a social conservative? Now I have to reasons to hate you ;-) All kidding a side, it was nice to see the Leafs not make the playoffs :-D Funny, I don't see Sundin in the top scoring leaders table. :) -- Earl Andrew - talk 05:34, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Steve Stavro

Thanks. I was surprised myself that there was nothing about him in Wikipedia so I thought someone ought to do it. Norum - talk 12:51, 26 April 2006

AHL/IHL player categories status

Hi, I think I managed to add AHL/IHL categories to most players currently in the NHL Atlantic Division and started on the Northeast division players... Category:American Hockey League players, Category:International Hockey League players ccwaters 11:48, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Finally replied to you

I disappeared for a week or two, in part because of the fair-use dispute, and in part because of personal-life events (so I still won't be around much). But I did reply on my talk page (I'm not ignoring you ;) ). Doogie2K (talk) 18:02, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Wiki-vandalism

I'm vandalizing your talk page: Go Sens Go! Toronto seems so dead right now without the Leafs... even I'm getting sad. Cheers -- Samir (the scope) धर्म 07:39, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

D'oh. You're so right. but who's still in the playoffs -- go sens go. -- Samir (the scope) धर्म 01:53, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Portal:Ice hockey

Just found this. Thought I'd mention it. ColtsScore 09:54, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

list of nhl players

There seems to be a minor problem with the List of every NHL player: half of it is gone! Anyways, the list went up for speedy deletion, and before anyone had a chance to even know it was up for deletion, it was deleted by User:Pschemp. After some complaining, it was brought back Wikipedia:Deletion review#National Hockey League player lists by Pschemp. But not even two hours later, NHL players A though G were deleted again, but this time by User:Proto with absolutely no explaination whatsoever. So far, any attempt at communicating with Proto has failed. Is there anything you can do to get back those deleted articles? Masterhatch 19:13, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Request for comments on article naming

Talk:World Junior Ice Hockey Championships If you're interested. Thanks. ColtsScore 08:59, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Kostitsyn/Kastsitsyn

Andrei Kostitsyn never changed his name - Kostitsyn is the Russian spelling; Kastsitsyn (note the three "S"'s) is the Belorusian. Same with his kid brother, who is Sergei Kostitsyn in Russian and Siarhei Kastsitsyn in Belorusian. Nice portal by the way. BoojiBoy 22:17, 12 June 2006 (UTC)