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Sherron Collins

The IP who edited before me said that Collins never actually signed with BC Lietuvos Rytas. He didn't include a source, but I couldn't find any evidence that Collins ever played for the team, so I removed all mentions of it. Collins never played in Puerto Rico, either, although that was already explained in the article. Zagalejo^^^ 04:43, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Well, the IP suggested that Collins never signed with Lietuvos Rytas to begin with. Maybe it was reported incorrectly. (It wouldn't surprise me.) Did the team themselves ever make an official statement one way or the other? Zagalejo^^^ 04:50, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

This seems like it might help. I do think, if an IP claims that information is incorrect, we should take them seriously and see what we can find out. Information on international basketball signings does get misreported often, so I decided to assume good faith, and at least remove things until we can get the facts sorted out.

While we're on the subject, I think I would probably remove the Puerto Rican team from the infobox, as well. We don't normally list NBA teams unless the player has made an actual appearance for that team. Zagalejo^^^ 05:01, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

The IP has commented here. Zagalejo^^^ 19:34, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

If you want, you can add something like that. Zagalejo^^^ 20:30, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Anthony Davis (basketball)

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Oh wow, it's been a *long* while since I've gotten to nominate a GA and I completely forgot how. Thanks for the heads-up! Keilana|^{Parlez ici} 19:49, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

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Hill Street Blues GA

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Hi TonyTheTiger, I've noticed your edits sometimes on the musician's articles and am very impressed with your work. Would you consider looking at Astral Weeks and letting me know what you think as far as how close it might be to being ready to nominate for a GAR? And of course, if you have time and want to copy edit that would be very much welcomed. Thanks. Agadant (talk) 01:58, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks so much for your reply! I very much appreciate your time and opinion. Agadant (talk) 13:54, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

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Emmy Nominations

I think if you added that, you can unhide the info. It's sort of a process of elimination thing, but it's good enough for me.--Gen. Quon (talk) 19:20, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

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Sorry, my bad. Aquila89 (talk) 16:47, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

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George Streeter

Hi Tony. Well, the Streeterville article is only the tip of the iceberg. I've had a closer look at the George Streeter article. Clearly whoever wrote that has an axe to grind! I'm almost tempted to revert the article back about 3 years! I've been reading through King of the Gold Coast by Wayne Klatt (2011), which seems to be a relatively non-biased account of events and, unusually for accounts on Streeter, cites its sources. The story of the District of Lake Michigan is complex to say the least, and further complicated by lies and embellishment from the protagonists on both sides of the fight. I would definitely like to tackle it at some point, though at the moment I have been trying to work my way back into the equally complex story of the Battle of Fort Dearborn which I hit a brick wall block with a couple of months ago.—Jeremy (talk) 03:35, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Hill Street Station

The DYK project (nominate) 16:20, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Mila article

Since you are providing the review of the Mila Kunis article I was wondering if you could provide some clarification on what another editor posted on the page regarding issues with capitilisation. There has been nothing provided on the talk page, even though one editor has asked, and to be honest I don't understand either. There may be some areas where it needs to be corrected, but I don't see it as a significant issue and of course you did not mention anythiing about it in your initial overview. Thanks. Fsm83 (talk) 02:01, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Barnstar

Thanks I appreciate the notice. I'm not necessarily accustomed to giving out awards, but I want you know that I respect all of the quality content that you've added to the encyclopedia. I may have a higher quantity, but I've only contributed about eight GA/FA articles. The encyclopedia needs small tasks and large and I'm happy to play my part. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:25, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

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Ah, I hadn't seen those templates. They may not be on the articles they're supposed to be for. Anyway, I've updated them. At some point, I hope to go through the whole Olivier-related space and update them because it's woefully underdeveloped. However, because of how little actually exists here and because the Oliviers don't have as clean a database as the ibdb, it could take are very, very long time. Unfortunately, my summer isn't as leisurely as it usually is and I'm not sure if it can all be finished by September. I can't even start until May. Therequiembellishere (talk) 01:13, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

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Passed. Thank you for the timely response. --LauraHale (talk) 05:28, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Should have been done? The bot came through and did it from what I can see. --LauraHale (talk) 05:47, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Whoops. :( Der. My bad. Sorry about that. Didn't realise you meant that.--LauraHale (talk) 06:04, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

DYK for LaVell Blanchard

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Review for a GA quickly?

Hello, Tony. Do you have time to review Kolkata Knight Riders and put in a GA category? It's already nominated for a long time, but we need to just have a nominator to review the article. Thanks. Dipankan ^{(Have a chat?)} 15:06, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Kony hook pulled

Nikkimaria pulled the Kony hook for close paraphrasing. If you're online, head over to the nomination page and see if you can fix the issue before it loses its chance to go up today. (I wish Nikkimaria would tell people; well anyway, I'm telling you, because I know having it at DYK today is important to you.) Yngvadottir (talk) 15:22, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

See the nomination page: this edit. She's listed several examples; she says they are from multiple sources. You likely know the sources well enough to fix it faster than an outsider. Yngvadottir (talk) 15:37, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Message Nikkimaria, if necessary by e-mail, to recheck it. She's an admin and can reinsert it, but she should re-pass it since she sounded the alarm. Meanwhile, continue checking the article prose against sources to find any "etc." Best advice I have! Yngvadottir (talk) 15:50, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Goodbye Mr. Fish

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Sport DYK reviews 2

I have a couple of older DYK noms sitting unreviewed. Can you review them? this, this, this, this, this? If you have any unreviewed DYK noms, I will be happy to review them. --LauraHale (talk) 04:06, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

• Template:Did you know nominations/Jocelyn McCallum, Softball in Queensland done.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 05:13, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
• Template:Did you know nominations/Michelle Cox, Softball in New South Wales. doing.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 06:40, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
• Template:Did you know nominations/Clare Warwick, Softball in the Australian Capital Territory doing.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 06:47, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
• Template:Did you know nominations/Justine Smethurst, Softball in Victoria done.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 07:03, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
• Template:Did you know nominations/Vanessa Stokes, Softball in South Australia doing.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 07:08, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. Much obliged. Some of them had been sitting there for over a month unreviewed. If you need any return reviews of any kind, let me know. :) --LauraHale (talk) 07:51, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Also reviewed Template:Did you know nominations/Joe Rosentover.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 20:46, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Help with Peer Review needed: Jayne Mansfield

Peers needed to peer review the article (here) on this peerless actor

A mid-importance article supported by WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers that was reviewed by Version 1.0 Editorial Team and selected for Version 0.7 and subsequent release versions. The article has come a long way from a fan boy mish mash to a fair enough GA. Now is the time to take it to the next level. Currently it's going through another peer review. Please, lend a hand. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 10:10, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

Talk:Eric Hosmer/GA1

Let me know about any other concerns so I could take care of it quick. Thanks Secret ^account 05:31, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

I dealt with your comments the best I could. The coverage of baseball biographies are dealt much different than football or basketball here on Wiki and with sportswriting in general. Yes Hosmer was a top prospect, but even the coverage of the biggest baseball prospects pales in comparison to basketball and football with only very few exceptions (Bryce Harper). Baseball is a sport that despite if the player was a huge prospect in the Minor Leagues, MLB Draft, high school, college and so forth, they are way more likely to become unsuccessful or an average player once you reached the highest level of the sport than a superstar. For every Ken Griffey Jr., there is three Mark Prior's, Ben McDonald's, or Brien Taylor's. Becoming a superstar is extremely unpredictable with players as well. Fans back then wouldn't be able to predict the success of Mike Piazza, Johan Santana or even Josh Hamilton who weren't top prospects, and in Hamilton's case, was an high prospect but labeled as a bust before becoming a superstar literally out of nowhere. That's why baseball fans don't really care about the players background sadly enough. Even the extremely hyped media coverage of Stephen Strasburg basically came to a standstill after he got injured last season. So if a top prospect just didn't pan out or got injured, baseball fans and the media might say he was a bust, but they wouldn't glorify him neither like what the media did with Ryan Leaf or Sam Bowie and coverage of the player would simply disappear. Once you become a proven star for a couple of years is when the extremely amazing, reliable coverage that a decent NFL quarterback comes. And then unless the player is the star for a big-market team and break all-kind of records (Derek Jeter or Barry Bonds for example), is when the player starts getting the same coverage as someone like Peyton Manning or Dwayne Wade.

Being the "seventh best" first base prospect isn't a "neutrality problem", it's a huge compliment considering that there's about 4500 minor leaguers currently playing and that those baseball sites like Scout.com or Baseball America evaluate more if the player is Major League ready than if the "player is superstar potential" but nowhere near ready for the Majors. And there's no reliable website that list Hosmer in a extremely critical light in my research (at least that isn't behind paywalls). If you see that something needs to be mentioned or explained in further detail I'll take care of it, but baseball players like Hosmer isn't, nor probably would ever get the same attention as basketball or football superstars because baseball is too unpredictable and the sportswriting is adjusted to that. What may be an excellent source in American football is a useless, unreliable source in baseball. Right now the Kansas City media doesn't care about Hosmer poor start so, and I'll admit the way they are reacting about Hosmer makes it more difficult to find the proper independent sources. And usually when someone is playing for a small market team like the Royals the national coverage almost always follows the example of the local coverage. That's local=national is usually the case with basketball also as you probably know.

American sports media sucks in general. There's so much more great and findable coverage of historical baseball figures than football, basketball, or hockey players from the same generation. But the coverage of current baseball players is poor comparing to current stars of those three sports. Just giving you an example of what you are going to work with once you start getting used to writing articles on baseball players. And we do damn need more baseball writers here on Wikipedia. It's only down to a few of us. After you finish with Philip Humber, try working on some Chicago Cubs or Chicago White Sox players like Ernie Banks?

Thanks for the review. Secret ^account 00:19, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

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Philip Humber

I requested a re-review from the original reviewer of the DYK hook now that Humber is more or less done being expanded. You were right; I thought we'd stall out near 3x, but we got it expanded 4.74x to this point. From a page at around 5k, that's nothing to sneeze at. I'm seriously impressed, and I'll hit you up with one of those teamwork barnstars when these get promoted if noone else does. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:02, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

DYK (reviewed)

- I reviewed this and found it to be good to go. Sorry for the 'quite' long wait. --Tomtomn00 (talk • contributions) 18:16, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

- Also this is good. --Tomtomn00 (talk • contributions) 15:29, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

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DYK for A House Divided (Dallas)

Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 16:09, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Kony 2012

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DYK for Philip Humber's perfect game

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DYK for Philip Humber

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A barnstar for you!

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	It was a pleasure working with you on Philip Humber. Without your work, it would not be a DYK. Together, our collaboration will reach GA and FA status soon enough. It has inspired me to find new ways to expand unexpected articles. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:09, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

your edit on Talk:Steamtown

Out of curiosity and for my education, what does this[1] edit do? ThanksGtwfan52 (talk) 04:23, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

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