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Christian Robert-Godfrey

Pretty sure this is a hoax. Only relevant Google results are about the Wiki article. [1] Stats table says 1 point for the Wings in 1984–85, see this http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/leagues/seasons/teams/0000341985.html. Nothing there. Then it says 6 GP and 20 PIM for Rangers in "1985." I checked the 1984–85 NYR and 1985–86 NYR pages on HockeyDB, nothing about him. RandySavageFTW (talk) 02:51, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Complete and utter fabrication. No record of him in Total Hockey. No record of him on hockeydb. 93JC (talk) 03:38, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christian Robert-Godfrey -Djsasso (talk) 12:52, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

I just speedied it as vandalism, since G3 now includes blatant hoaxes. If the HHOF has never heard of you, you never played in the NHL. Resolute 14:39, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Gilbert Perreault

There is a succession box at the end of page titled "All-Time NHL Rookie Season goal record." It keeps going till Selanne. Is this needed? Just wanted to know what others think. RandySavageFTW (talk) 04:58, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Doesnt seem to be anything requiring a succession box in my view. I'd remove it. Resolute 14:22, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Popularity through the eye of a peephole

Just noticed Mr Z-man's bot updated the popular pages list... Erin Andrews is by far the most popular, with 8 million (!) hits last month. Why? A nude video of her hit the net. Bravo, humanity... Anyway, I removed the WP:HOCKEY banner from Evil Knivel per last month's discussion, and I also removed it from Wrigley Field. In my view, a single game is trivial, and this game will never come close to being defining for the ballpark, and thus it really isn't under our scope. Agree, disagree? Resolute 04:14, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

I actually went through and removed the template from a bunch of articles with trivial importance to hockey (Wrigley, Ralph Wilson Stadium, Knievel, etc), as it really is pointless to have them under our scope when they usually have little more than a single line mentioning hockey. Kaiser matias (talk) 05:38, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

I disagree, and that anything relevant should have the banner. If we want to start tracking importance its easy enough to turn on the importance parameter on the template and then mark those ones as low. But I do think any place that had a regular season NHL game should definitely be part of our scope. -Djsasso (talk) 20:26, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Except that it is trivial, ESPECIALLY for a ballpark like Wrigley or Fenway. The most you could possibly say regarding the game to avoid giving undue weight is "On date, an NHL hockey game was hosted here." In the grand scheme of things, the event is no different than a random concert from the stadium's perspective. It would be like tagging Jann Arden as part of our scope because she butchered the Canadian anthem before a Flames playoff game in 04. Resolute 22:40, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

I think its defining because very few baseball stadiums have hosted a NHL level hockey game. Or a hockey game period for that matter. Just because alot can't be said about it, doesn't make it trivial. It has been talked about and been the subject of news stories other than just passing mention. Thus it is notable and not trivial. Besides what does it hurt having it listed? -Djsasso (talk) 00:14, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

List of Vancouver Canucks captains

I have nominated List of Vancouver Canucks captains for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Dabomb87 (talk) 19:46, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Notice wording proposal

Simplify the project notice to 'For articles on leagues or tournaments, follow the tournament organizer or league policy or convention on diacritics, accents and the like for player names.' This would remove the specific wording of 'North American' as it is proposed to use diacritics on QMJHL which is North American, but not any other league in North America, except I guess LNAH, which I don't think even provides any English media. The spellings then could be directly sourceable from tournament or league information. This could mean alternate spellings as well as alternate use of diacritics, but at least we would be using external conventions, and have a source. This would mean we could directly cite lists of medal winners, scoring leaders from the league or tournament English media. On the international front, this would mean following IIHF and IOC for articles on their tournaments. This of course, would not extend to national team list articles and player articles. Does this contravene Wikipedia policy? Alaney2k (talk) 20:44, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Are there any examples of tournaments or leagues with policies on how to spell player names for publication in an English medium? In these various threads, I have seen a lot of attempts to reverse engineer a policy based on a league/tournament's web sites, press releases, and so forth, but I think this constitutes original research and so is inappropriate for Wikipedia. On the other hand, I do like the idea of just being able to take lists from official press releases and make use of the names as is. Isaac Lin (talk) 20:59, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Ok, well I guess follow their example. Basically use their format and spellings. I doubt that they write down their diacritics policy. Alaney2k (talk) 21:18, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

You've got my vote.--Львівське (talk) 16:14, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

To be honest I think this would make it more confusing. And seems more like an end run around the pretty clear line we already have. -Djsasso (talk) 04:43, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Yes, you have a POV, but could you provide an example how it would make it -more- confusing? I'm not sure about the 'pretty clear line' we have now, being sustainable. We don't address what a reliable source is for the spelling of a player's name. At least for league articles, we could be defining what that is. No source is ever perfect, but we can address guidelines bit by bit in this way. I don't think that taking the IOC or IIHF at its word would be insulting. I am sure the NHL and other English media are not intending to be insulting. Alaney2k (talk) 17:28, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

More confusing because its easier for the average editor to know, NA article = No, International article = Yes. When you started having some articles yes and some articles no....others maybe it becomes much more confusing. I still think we should use the envar type standard, leave it how you found it. Except for player article names themselves. I think they always should be with them. -Djsasso (talk) 18:11, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

You need to live outside of the wiki world a bit, I see. There are different spellings of player names out there, not just diacritics. This is common for Russian names. Anyway, so we still have to connect the names. All I'm saying is we should be consistent with what we cover in articles. If you see 'Dmitri Yuchkevich' in the IOC publications for the 1992 Olympics, and we link or cite them, then it is incumbent on us to be consistent and make the link across to Dmitri Yushkevich to not confuse the reader. We external link to game summaries, so if you were to go back and forth, you'd see two spellings. Alaney2k (talk) 23:19, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Translations are different than transliterations. Russian names come from the cryllic alphabet so when they are translated to the latin alpabet there are sometimes multiple spellings, this is a different situation and one I have no problem with because they are translations, removing diacritics is purely a transliteration, which is a mistake. -Djsasso (talk) 13:43, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

You're getting the two confused. "Yushkevich" is a transliteration, a romanization of the Russian alphabet. A translation to English would be Yushkson.--Львівське (talk) 16:51, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Opposed to this change for the many reasons pointed out previously. Common English spelling should prevail. The compromise we have presently is not ideal, but it will do. I see no reason at all to water it down further. Resolute 18:02, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

I think it means more usage without diacritics as a whole and maybe you could consider that. Alaney2k (talk) 23:19, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure the tournament/league organisers keep a logical line when it comes to spelling, let alone a policy. Watching Sweden's first game in the last World Championships in Switzerland, I observed the absence of diacritics on the Swedish team jerseys, while the Austrian team had their names correctly spelled. I pointed it out via mail to the Swedish equipment manager, and he replied that he had pointed it out to the tournament organisers. They in turn pointed to Nike, who had manufactured the jerseys for the tournament as one of the main sponsors. And they claimed that Swedish players had always had their jerseys without diacritics - contrary to all evidence in pictures from earlier tournaments. Nothing could be done. So it was really Nike that decided how names were to be spelled on jerseys in the tournament! It was really a weird - or rather nauseus - feeling to see the first game for Sweden, where Kenny Jönsson (with "Jonsson" on his shoulders) made the first goal on Austrian goalie Bernd Brückler, who had his name correctly spelled! So, however good this proposal may sound, it will not result in good quality and consistent spelling. I do hope the Swedish equipment manager brings dots and rings with him for the next tournament! LarRan (talk) 20:14, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

We don't link or cite jerseys. I want to link to the tournament site and not have two spellings between our source and what we display. Alaney2k (talk) 23:21, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Of course we don't cite jerseys. The example served to illustrate what could be the result if we go with the proposal. Why would organisers be more careful with name spelling in match protocols than with that on jerseys? After all, the results are what counts. Personally, I prefer correct and consistent spelling (compliant with consensus) in wikipedia, regardless of whether the tournament organiser spells players' names correctly and consistently or not. LarRan (talk) 07:41, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

The spelling of their names looked perfect, very neat. GoodDay (talk) 20:18, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your mature contributions to the discussion. LarRan (talk) 20:38, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

You're quite welcomed. GoodDay (talk) 21:00, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

The tournament organizers can be used as a source, but not a definitive source. The most common English spelling should be used. -93JC (talk) 22:46, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

That goes without saying, you know? Reliable should be good enough. Of course, there are going to be errors. Alaney2k (talk) 23:19, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

"The most common errors and misconceptions should be repeated in wikipedia", that's rephrasing what you're saying, 93JC. Again: names aren't spelled differently in other languages that share the same alphabet. How is your name spelled in Italian - or Swedish, or Portuguese? I've got 10 bucks here saying it's the same way as you spell it in English. LarRan (talk) 07:41, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the straw man argument, LarRan. I love how you and a couple others keep painting those who disagree with you as ignoramuses. I thought all along your argument was that (for example) å, ä and ö are separate letters in the Swedish alphabet, and that we are substituting them with other letters. English, Swedish, Italian and Portuguese share many letters, but they do not have the same alphabet. (And I would expect the K in my given name to be replaced with C in Italian and Portuguese, and it doesn't bother me in the slightest.) -93JC (talk) 16:13, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Actually they do share the same alphabet, it's called the Latin alphabet - as opposed to the Cyrillic alphabet. Whether you bother distortion of your name or not is irrelevant. I provided links for your convenience. LarRan (talk) 16:19, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Actually they're derived from the same alphabet, it's called the Latin alphabet, but English, Swedish, Italian and Portuguese each have their own alphabet. I have provided links for your convenience. -93JC (talk) 16:32, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

When you edit a page, please observe the list button below the "Save page", "Show preview" and "Show changes" buttons. You'll observe that there is no English/Swedish/Italian choice. As they're all derived from the Latin alphabet, they're all able to reproduce each other's letters. Don't you see, this is where you go wrong: had there been a diacritic that was unique to the English language, you'd raise hell - well, maybe not you, but many other English-speakers - if we didn't reproduce it correctly, if we had been able to (which we most certainly had). I tried to develop this as en empathy problem in the "Die-a-critics..." section above. LarRan (talk) 16:50, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Please read the post above you and realize all of these different languages have different alphabets. Yes, the characters are derived from the Latin alphabet, but the connection ends there.--Львівське (talk) 17:02, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Someone might want to tell fiancé that its using the wrong alphabet to spell an English word or any of the other List of English words with diacritics. -Djsasso (talk) 17:22, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Gee, I wonder if any of those words have common use...oh wait, that's how they became loanwords--Львівське (talk) 17:25, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Hmm and gee, I wonder if a name transcends language and is a loanword. Not to mention they aren't all loanwords in that list. -Djsasso (talk) 17:27, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

My name indeed has different translations in different languages. Whether I choose to use them or not as my public name in those countries is unknown, however, and it would seem unwise to make any assumptions without any evidence to back it up. Isaac Lin (talk) 17:17, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Translations are different than a transliteration. (ie simply removing a diacritic). -Djsasso (talk) 17:20, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

I was answering LaRan's question — my name can indeed be spelled differently in different languages. However, to expand, it is unknown if I choose to use a transliteration of my name in say Chinese or a translation (or even another name altogether), and it would best to find some evidence from reliable sources (as you've noted already, this can be quite tricky) rather than assuming one thing or another. Isaac Lin (talk) 17:42, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Yup I agree. -Djsasso (talk) 17:53, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Let me elaborate a bit on the issue of diacritics and my theory on why some editors are fighting them (as far as my no doubt limited skills in English will permit me). You know, this discussion doesn't exist in the other wikis. No wonder, you might think. Since they have'm, they must tolerate them. Pure self-interest.

It's not as simple as that. You see, no language uses all existing diacritics. Most of them use only a handful. This means that not only do they tolerate the diacritics of their own language, they also tolerate those of other languages. You don't hear anyone saying "Hey, this is the Swedish wiki, we don't have ê, ć, ü, ô or à in our alphabet, so let's arbitrarily replace them with other characters that look roughly the same".

Here's my theory on why. To all of us who speak those languages, these characters are as important, relevant and valid as any other character. Pronunciation and grammar rules affect them/are affected by them, in the same way other characters do/are. (An example from Swedish: Å is a hard vowel, while Ä and Ö are soft vowels.)

Thus, we (rightly) assume that diacritics of other languages also must be as important, relevant and valid as the other characters of that language, affect pronunciation, etc, etc. This could be described as us having empathy. You wouldn't hear anyone ask "How is Zlatan Ibrahimović's name spelled in Swedish?” (I assume the name is familiar), because it would be a ludicrous question. The only valid question is "How is Zlatan Ibrahimović's name spelled?" - period.

The English language on the other hand uses diacritics very sparingly. So there is much less experience of them (in comparison), and people in general do not fully realise (my impression) their importance. Since people are not used to them, they seem to lack the curiosity that I (for one) have on how they affect pronunciation. So, they're looked upon as annoying "dirt on the paper", and only constitute a risk of being embarrased for having mispronounced them, as English-speakers have less "built-in" feel on how they affect pronuciation, no doubt the result of the lesser experience of and exposure to diacritics.

My "empathy theory" in short: since English-speakers have much less experience and "feel" of diacritics, they don't realise their importance. It's one thing to intellectually acknowledge that they exist, but it obviously takes more empathy to accept them fully, than what many editors have. To them, they only constitute a nuisance.

This whole discussion on "how names are spelled in English" is nonsense. Names are spelled the same way in English as in "their own" languages. (I'm only referring to languages using the Latin alphabet here.)

Now, the relevant question is: would wikipedia be more accurate, or would it be less accurate, if the articles on Börje Salming, Björn Borg, Kimi Räikkönen, Annika Sörenstam, François Mitterrand, Gerhard Schröder, Heinrich Böll and Wilhelm Röntgen (just to mention a few) were spelled without the diacritics? Obviously it would be less accurate. And why be less accurate, when we have the option of being more accurate? After all, that's what wikipedia's all about, isn't it?

LarRan (talk) 19:12, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

"Borje Salming (Swedish: Börje Salming)," "Bjorn Borg (Swedish: Björn Borg)," "Kimi Raikkonen (Finnish: Kimi Räikkönen)," "Gerhard Schroeder (German: Gerhard Schröder)," and so on. While you're at it, why don't you head over to the Latvian wikipedia and inform them they're all a bunch of insensitive boors for butchering Jaromír Jágr with this Jaromīrs Jāgrs non-sense? -93JC (talk) 02:49, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

(Copy-pasted from the "Die-a-critics..." section above): The Latvian language uses declensions in all cases for nouns and names, including nominative, which is where articles normally are stored. Masculine nouns (and names) decline with an -s in the first declension. So it's not a spelling issue, it's a grammar one. In English, nouns and names are declined only in genitive. Accordingly, Peter Forsberg's article is stored as "Peters Forsbergs" in the Latvian wiki. It has nothing to do with diacritics. Btw, did you notice that you spelled Schroeder with oe and Bjorn and Borje with just an o. Which is it going to be? Kimi Raeikkoennen? Seems like there are going to be various opinions on spelling either way. LarRan (talk) 11:56, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I did noticed I spelled Schroeder with an oe and Borje and Bjorn without. Because that's the common English spelling. On the other hand, I'd spell Stellan Skarsgård Stellan Skarsgård, because that's how his name is credited in English media. -93JC (talk) 13:58, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Seems like there is only one solution that is consistent: keeping the diacritics, and having redirects without them. Then people can enter whatever spelling they prefer, and still find the guy. And wikipedia would be more accurate. LarRan (talk) 14:15, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

It's not even about what the title of the article is in particular. The point is that Jaromir Jagr isn't less "accurate" than Jaromír Jágr. What you're arguing for is establishing your own naming convention contrary to established English. It's not our business as editors to decide what is "correct" and what is "incorrect". Quoting WP:EN:

[Our business is] to observe what is and has been in use, and will therefore be familiar to our readers.

All I want is to follow common English usage, and for you to come to terms with the fact that sometimes Anglophones will seemingly just ignore diacritics in someone's name, like Jaromir Jagr, sometimes Anglophones will use the diacritics even if they have no idea what they mean, like Stellan Skarsgård, and sometimes Anglophones will modify the spelling of a name with diacritics, like Gerhard Schroeder. All of these cases are perfectly correct and accurate in English. -93JC (talk) 17:11, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

(Continued) This empathy theory of mine isn't about being insensitive, although there is just reason for people to feel annoyed at having their name misspelled. The theory is offered as an explanation to why you and other editors will not accept diacritics. It is not a plea for sympathy. Empathy and sympathy are not the same. LarRan (talk) 12:05, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

I don't see what this has to do with the wording proposal. It seems to be a comment on what other people are thinking. I proposed a wording notice to follow, that's all. I'm not a big fan of all the POVs expressed. As for the wording, I have one person to support it, so there is no consensus to change the wording of the notice. We can stop now. I expect that any wording changes on the project page are brought up on this discussion area, and not changed by being bold. Alaney2k (talk) 14:24, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

May I see that proposal again? GoodDay (talk) 18:48, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

List of National Hockey League awards

Could an admin please move this to List of NHL awards? All of our lists (like List of NHL players and List of NHL statistical leaders use NHL instead of National Hockey League. RandySavageFTW (talk) 20:40, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Truthfully, I've begun to feel that it is better to spell it out. But that's just me. Resolute 20:55, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

I like spelling it out better, too. iMatthew ^talk at 21:14, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

No big deal to me, as long as it's consistent. RandySavageFTW (talk) 21:16, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Someone should move this and List of National Hockey League arenas, or move all the others to National Hockey League. Should be consistent. RandySavageFTW (talk) 17:57, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Personally I think consistency sometimes needs to take a back seat to practicality. I tend to prefer NHL in titles that would be too long if you spell it all out and the spelled out name in short titles like this one. -Djsasso (talk) 18:38, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Since NHL is the only sports league with these abbreviations, abbreviating NHL on players and statistical leaders are ok, though if we abbreviate NHL on List of National Hockey League awards, it may confuse readers, since NHL can also stand for other things. -- [[SRE.K.A.L.|L.A.K.ERS]] 19:03, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

It's not the only sports league: there's also the National Hurling League. — Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 19:58, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, I meant to say notable. Never heard of that league until I saw the dab. -- [[SRE.K.A.L.|L.A.K.ERS]] 20:26, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

NHL Commissioner

Could someone please move to NHL commissioner unless someone has an arguement for it to be capitalized. RandySavageFTW (talk) 00:46, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Its an official title so grammar would say it should be capitalized. -Djsasso (talk) 15:48, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Yep; as Djsasso says, it's a title. - Rjd0060 (talk) 15:50, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Makes sense. Wasn't sure though as it's not capitalized in the article. I'll just fix it now. RandySavageFTW (talk) 18:16, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Albert McCaffery and Bert McCaffrey

I think these two are just one person. Any other opinions? Regards Jambornik (talk) 13:36, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

The Hockey Hall of Fame seems to agree. I am simply going to boldly merge the articles. Anyone can feel free to revert if they think discussion is needed. Resolute 14:41, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

They're almost certainly the same person. Total Hockey also shows he played in the Olympics before turning pro. He was arguably one of the greatest amateurs in the early '20s, winning the Allan Cup with the Granites in '22 and '23 in addition to a gold medal in '24.

Date and place of birth are the only discrepancies. Total Hockey doesn't even show a date of birth, but the place of birth is noted as Chesley, Ontario, not Caledon or Toronto. The HHOF seems to back that up, showing he played for Chesley's amateur club in 1915-16. -93JC (talk) 14:44, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Patrick Kane

A few eyes watching might be good here. Kane was arrested and charged with robbery in Buffalo last night. I expect we'll see a fair bit of action on this article as a result. Resolute 16:20, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

A millionaire beating up a guy over 10 cents (20 cents, between cousins)? GoodDay (talk) 16:57, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Possed by the ghost of Dollar Bill?--Львівське (talk) 17:32, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Well that went about as well as expected. I've semi'd the article for three days. Resolute 01:46, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

So, shall we make 20 Cent a redirect to Kane's article? </sarcasm> —Krm500 ^{(Communicate!)} 00:00, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

You would have to add a Otheruses header then, like:

"20 cent" redirects here. For the coins, see 20 cent euro coins.

 :) --Bamsefar75 (talk) 00:31, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Spelling of centre and defence

Centre/Defence = Canadian, Center/Defense = American. On team season articles, should we spell them by the origin of the player or the team? RandySavageFTW (talk) 18:22, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Of the team. They would be the subject of the article, and the dialect of English should follow that. Resolute 18:31, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

What he said. lol don't walk into any more minefields while you are at it. -Djsasso (talk) 19:07, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

But but...! It's not even tempting anymore, is it? ;-) Rjd0060 (talk) 19:12, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

The article needs to be internally consistent. If we based it on the player's origin, there would be mixes of center/centre and defence/defense throughout the article. — Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 06:40, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Infobox Question: Nationality field / Flags

Since this character is reporting me and causing a fit, I'm just seeking straight up clarification on what the rule is. Flags/nationality for all passports/citizenship, or just where they have been hockey related?

To sum it up, German only flag for Kolzig, or Brazil and Canada for Regher?--Львівське (talk) 07:47, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

I read your talk page's comments from him. He's wrong you can represent more than one IIHF team per lifetime, Petr Nedved did. He played for both the Czechoslovakian team and the 92 or 94 Canadian Olympic team. I think as far as the flags go, WP:Flag says they must be used to represent national team play and not nationality. So Olaf Kolzig would only get a German flag, Regher gets Canada etc. However, if Rod Langway never represented anybody internationally, for example, I'd say its fair game to put the ROC or Chinese Taipei flag on his page. However, I'd hazard a guess that very, very few non-East Bloc born players represent a country that is not their country of birth. Brett Hull is the only other example other than the two above I can think of. So I'd say that multiple flags can be used if they represent that country in international play, but not to represent citizenship.

On this same logic, would it make sense to put both a Russian flag and a Soviet flag in that spot for someone like Sergei Fedorov or Pavel Bure who did represent both? Shootmaster 44 (talk) 09:50, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

I'd say leave the Soviet flag for the tables, but out of the infobox, as Russia technically is the successor rather than a separate country. As far as everything else goes, I say national team only (if NA, then place of birth?). If born in one but represented a 2nd, only use the 1st location as a flag if he played hockey there (internationally or not). Sound good? We need to get this in stone since the infobox template itself says use nat_2 for "dual citizenship"...--Львівське (talk) 14:01, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Well the meaning of the field only just changed which is why the documentation hasn't caught up. See the discussion on the infobox template. Based on the discussion there the name of the field is likely to change soon anyways to something like International Representation. And it will become an optional field so only players who have played internationally will have it in their box. -Djsasso (talk) 14:21, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

This won't crossover onto roster templates (nat. column) will it?--Львівське (talk) 17:25, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Well that discussion was specifically about the infobox. -Djsasso (talk) 17:45, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

I would say only use flags for countries that player has played internationaly and/or is a citizen of. So Kolzig would only have Germany, Regehr would only have Brazil, Langway, the US, etc. For the 2nd nationality flag, I would use it if a person gained a 2nd citizenship in their life, like Gretzky/Yzerman/Nedved have all done. They went through the trouble to legally acquire that citizenship, so it obviously means something in defining that person. It also should not just be restricted to players who have played internationaly, as the vast majority of all hockey players have never played an international game, and it is a defining aspect for a person to include nationality, something that is included in all biography articles, not just sports-related ones. Kaiser matias (talk) 22:44, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Well then Kolzig would be Germany/Canada, Ponikarovsky and Antropov would get Canada & Russia added to theirs, etc. Heck, virtually every non-Russian player who plays in the Russian leagues gets Russian citizenship, so this would be a mess of unjustified flags for so many articles if we went based on citizenship.--Львівське (talk) 17:53, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Kolzig doesn't actually have Canadian citizenship, as stated in his article. As for the rest, if they have dual citizenship, then there is no reason for them to not have it listed. Kaiser matias (talk) 21:00, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

I don't see what citizenship has to do with hockey...--Львівське (talk) 21:59, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

And if there is a rule against using flags for this purpose, then I'd be for removing them from the infobox, and just keeping the name of the country/countries there. Kaiser matias (talk) 22:47, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

WP:MOSFLAG certainly discourages using flags for birth locations, and implies using them only for national team representation. My personal take on this is that a solitary flag icon in a biographical infobox draws WP:UNDUE weight to that particular infobox field. It is certainly not necessary for navigational purposes, as is often the case when a long vertical list or page layout uses flag icons to identify instances of nations, national teams, or other national representation. I would prefer to see the flag dropped from this infobox. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 19:59, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

• User:Fire 55 is waging an edit war on the Zherdev article link. I've explained to him current policy, but he's not backing down, hell bent on enforcing WP:FLAGS regardless of this WP. For my justification of dual flags, WP:FLAG states that in the case of no intl. team representation, go by the governing body. Zherdev played for Ukrainian teams and was a registered hockey player under the Ukrainian ice hockey fed. until he was 16, so I feel it is justified to give him the 2. Rather than endlessly revert/war with this guy, and have to deal with him mucking up my talk page, can I get some assistance here? He's a very angry person...--Львівське (talk) 05:14, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

I found the "report" he left for you and I guess I am partly to blame for this. The way I understand WP:Flags would be if Zherdev appears for Russia, then that is the flag he receives. Until he formally plays a game with Russia, he can only have the Ukrainian flag. However, didn't we adjust the infobox criteria, so that the fields are not nationality, but rather international experience? So if he's never played internationally, he gets no flags and is just another hidden field like former teams for players who have not appeared for another team? But they aren't rude when you prove to him your point. When I showed him the WP:Flags link they did comply and I didn't receive any rude comments, so simply show him consensus.

But we need a ruling from one of the admins in here, since WP:Flags is a pillar of Wikipedia, does it supersede this project's consensus? The only reason I even knew about WP:Flags was because last winter WT:MLB invoked it and cleaned flags from baseball related articles that didn't qualify. Shootmaster 44 (talk) 05:32, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Well to my knowledge the proposal to removal all flags other than intl. tournament representation is still in discussion and we're not enforcing it yet. I made a subsequent proposal in the mean time to hopefully guide further issues.

Assuming Z never played for either Russia or Ukraine, he would still get a UKR flag based on the governing body WPFLAGS rule. I'm not even going by the ambiguities of IIHF eligibility, just getting to the core that he was registered and playing in Ukraine, not simply just born there. Now, being said that he would have the UKR flag in lieu of representation...when he did switch at the age of 18, that would be flag_2 for RUS, no? It seems pretty straight forward to me. Works within both WPFLAGS and WPHOCKEY guidelines.--Львівське (talk) 05:48, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

The way I understand WP:Flags is that until he played for Russia he is eligible for the Ukrainian flag. After playing for Russia in 2002, he no longer could have a Ukrainian flag as it superseded the National Federation guidelines. I think this is probably the best way to do this as it opens a can of worms up for "nationalizing" players (i.e. trying to make all players seem like they are "yours"). I believe the WP:FOOTBALL here sort of decided on the guidelines and since this probably occurs most in soccer, perhaps using their guidelines is the best idea. What they decided is basically the same as WP:Flags and MOS:ICONS, if a player appears for a nation internationally he receives their flag. If he has not played internationally, then he is eligible to have as many flags as he is eligible to appear for.

In this instance, Nikolai Zherdev, while being eligible for Ukrainian citizenship with the fall of the USSR (whether or not he took it is another story as I looked into it and the Constitution of the Ukraine didn't automatically grant citizenship officially, you had to apply for it when the USSR fell. As I looked into it whether being a 3rd generation Ukrainian-Canadian qualified me for citizenship.), has not appeared for the Ukrainian National Team. However, he has played for Russia at the 2002 U18s, 2003 WJC and the 2009 Worlds. So under the way the soccer people have it, he only gets the Russian flag. MOS:ICONS refers to this as their sporting nationality. Perhaps the easiest way to fix the infobox is to add sporting in front of nationality. Problem solved, he played for Russia, ergo he is a Russian sporting national. Just like if I emigrated from Canada to Papua New Guinea and became the new Eddie the Eagle and ski jumped for PNG at the Olympics, I would only qualify for a PNG flag, not a Canadian. If Zherdev, changes his mind and decides to play for the Ukraine, like Petr Nedved did with Canada, then the Russian flag should change to a Ukrainian one. If I understand the soccer project, you only get multiple flags until you make your first international appearance, then it becomes the most recent one. Shootmaster 44 (talk) 10:06, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

International Appearance?

This opens a question of what tournaments qualify as international experience? Does playing for Team Pacific at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge mean you appeared for Canada? Conversely, does playing for Russia at the U17s mean you played for Russia or does that tournament not count? What about the ADT Canada-Russia Challenge? Euro Hockey Tour? Asian Winter Games? What about the Summit Series? I could go on and on naming tournaments that exist and are recognized by the National Federation, but not sanctioned by the IIHF. We need an objective standard to determine what constitutes an international appearance. I propose we go with any tournament where the team is sanctioned by the National Hockey Federation. So playing in the Spengler Cup counts for Canada, as Hockey Canada says it does. But playing at the Quebec International Pee Wee Tournament doesn't for Canada. However, perhaps from here on in we need to cite either in the body of the article or the infobox where it says Hockey Canada or whatever recognizes this.

Of course, in a few cases the National Hockey Federation and the IIHF butt heads, since the IIHF is the be all and end all of international hockey, if the appearance is in an IIHF sanction tournament, it automatically counts. The only small problem is what to do when a team is kicked out of a tournament prior to it starting?

I realize that 99.99% of players who appear in the IIHF Division 3 tournaments never become notable enough to get pages. However, we must address all eventualities that may arise. Australia, I believe, was all set to send their U20 team to the 2008 (or 09) Division 3 World Juniors in North Korea. However, they were refused visas to enter North Korea, so they did not go. Do those players count as appearing for Australia as the Australian Federation recognized them as the Australian National Junior team, but they never hit the ice? In this same vein what about players named but subsequently injured prior to the tournament (i.e. Paul Kariya in 1998)? Do they count or do you actually have to appear in a game? I apologize for the length of this post, but I figure we should set rules so User:Lvivske and User:Fire55's on going quarrel will end once and for all. Shootmaster 44 (talk) 10:06, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Would the Quebec Intl. tournament count if you played on a non-Canadian team? ;-)

The problem with eligibility is that IIHF rules say that you have to have citizenship and play in that country for 2 years or more. By these standards, Yzerman and Gretzky should have American flags...Fedotenko America, Poni/Antropov Canada AND Russia, and so on. It opens a can of worms.

I really do like my proposal for this case (though it is rough) since it is more intermediary between establishing a concrete rational for the flag, and the other side of removing all unless they played in a tournament. The latter would require A LOT of work, not only in removing (and keeping removed) uncited flags, but also putting flags back on articles after they have been verified. --Львівське (talk) 19:06, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Places Of Birth

I noticed that some of the major cities and some not so major cities and towns have undergone some naming changes. Basically, for some cities they've dropped the province/state from the article's title. On the rosters/player articles, do we want to use the redirects with the province/state or do we want to pipelink these with city, state as the actual text that shows up? Shootmaster 44 (talk) 21:15, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

It should appear as "City, Province/State, Country" for Canada and the US. It would be strange to have it say "Portland, USA" or whatever. — Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 22:06, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

I pipelink as needed. So, either [[Airdrie, Alberta|Airdrie]], [[Alberta]], [[Canada]], or [[Calgary]], [[Alberta]], [[Canada]] as is necessary. Resolute 22:44, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

So in the case of [[Detroit]] pipelinking the name to [[Detroit|Detroit, Michigan]] is the favourable method, not simply using the redirect Detroit, Michigan for example. It appears the placenames project has decided that Canadian and American places are following the European method of dropping anything additional i.e. state/country to the article title. Shootmaster 44 (talk) 12:10, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

No, you would seperate it [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], [[USA]]. -DJSasso (talk) 12:37, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes, there has been a lot of discussion around whether the City, State/Province format is required for article titles when there is nothing to disambiguate, or when a city is clearly the one people expect to find (i.e.: Vancouver), but in the player lead, it still makes sense to include a link to the province or state of birth. Resolute 13:21, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Vancouver is a pretty poor example, because you never know... ;) -93JC (talk) 20:13, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

lol. I specifically used Vancouver as my example because of that. There was a great deal of discussion in regarding that move, but it was decided that people searching for Vancouver were far, far more likely to be wanting the major, cosmopolitan Canadian city rather than the suburb of Portland.  ;) Resolute 20:44, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

But it would still say "Vancouver, Canada", so you wouldn't expect it to be Vancouver, Washington... — Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 20:46, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

The article is just at Vancouver. i.e.: rather than being a disambig page giving you the choice of either city, the assumption is that the city in BC is what most readers are looking for. Saves us the need for a piped link in this case. Resolute 20:48, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Right. I was responding to 93JC who implied it might lead to some confusion. — Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 21:01, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

WP:HOCKEY/PPF

Should we update the statistics/a lot of this page now? The stats are nothing like what we usually use, they are more like this now. Not sure if we should include the same seasons having the same bgcolor, though. RandySavageFTW (talk) 02:37, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Do we really need to link Season, Regular Season, and Playoffs? —Krm500 ^{(Communicate!)} 12:00, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

I personally don't think so. -DJSasso (talk) 12:43, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Well it's not just that, the teams/seasons/leagues aren't even linked. Plus regular season and totals shouldn't be capitalized. Not to mention that's not the format we usually use. RandySavageFTW (talk) 15:09, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Player infobox proposal

At Template_talk:Infobox_Ice_Hockey_Player#Replacing_nationality_field_with_national_team, I've got a proposal up to realign some of the fields, and to enact the rough consensus that would replace the "nationality" field with "national teams". At present, I've excluded the automatic use of national flags, but depending on how we decide to use that field, can add it later. I'd like to get a couple more opinions on it before I make the changes to the template, however. Resolute 22:24, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

As I mentioned on the Infobox's Talk Page, this is probably the easiest way to end the flag war we've seen on certain articles. The only thing I'd be interested in deciding is when does this field get filled in? Let's say Player X has played at the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge and played for Team Pacific, at some point he becomes notable to have a page here and has not appeared for anyone else. Does this count as playing for Team Canada? What about if Player X played for Team Finland? Does this count? We need to decide what criteria counts as playing for the "national team." As there are several tournaments that mainly European countries play in as the "national team" such as the Euro Hockey Tour, so do they count? What about Team Canada at the Spengler Cup? There are a few other tournaments like the World Junior A Challenge and Viking Cup which feature some club teams, some regional teams (Canada East/West) and some national teams. Finally, there's the whole US National Team Development Program program which could qualify players as playing for Team USA, much like the old touring Team Canada could qualify players.

Also, in the rare instance of someone like Petr Nedved, does the field allow for more than one team to be entered? If we establish consensus on the rules of doing this, I see this as the best way to move away from the whole confused nationality problem, and it would bring us into line with WP:Flag and MOS:ICONS. Shootmaster 44 (talk) 06:44, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

I think you are making it needlessly complicated. If the team is called Team Canada period its a national team. If its called Team Ontario or Team Canada West then the team isn't representing the whole country now is it so its not a national team. USNTDP would be a national team because they are called Team USA. -DJSasso (talk) 12:53, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

USNTDP isnt a national team though. It's a junior team designed to train players for the national team. To simplify, we could simply restrict the field to senior representation. Resolute 13:28, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

They do play in international tournaments though I believe. But yes, your solution would probably be the easiest way to handle it. -DJSasso (talk) 13:32, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

So playing at the World Juniors wouldn't count? Perhaps the easiest way to solve this is playing at an IIHF sanctioned tournament. As the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge is not IIHF sanctioned, it wouldn't get thrown into the mix. Only the U18, U20, Canada Cup/World Cup, Olympics and World Championships would count for men and U18, U22, Olympics and World Championships for women.

If we do go with Senior representation, what constitutes Senior? Does Team Canada at non-Olympics/World Cups/World Championships count? I'm trying not to make this complicated, I just want to nail down firm rules as this whole flag squabble annoyed me. I like black and white rules for things. Also, what about the World University Games? Is this considered Senior (as in older than Junior or does Senior have a definition I don't quite grasp)? How about the Soviets when they played as the USSR in the Super Series and 1979 Challenge Cup?

I almost think that the doors could be thrown open and any time you play for a country, be it a friendly against Cuba or at the Olympics should count. So if the team is called Finland, USA or Canada then it counts, Canada West, Team Pacific etc. no? So long as its verifiable that the team was indeed called the national team I think it should stand. This is moreso to apply to players who's careers ended before the Nagano Olympics, as their international representation is a bit more questionable. But I think IIHF sanctioned tournaments (including qualifying for the smaller nations) is probably the best road. Shootmaster 44 (talk) 21:36, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

IIHF sanctioned would be an excellent, and neutral, barrier as well. However, the point of an infobox is to detail key information about a player. If playing for Team Pacific at the U17 tournament is your peak on the international scale, then your international career is not defining, and probably should not be listed. Same with the World University Games (atheletes here would mostly be nn anyway); Super Series was club team vs. club team, not National team vs. National team. Challenge Cup was an all-star team, not really a national team, etc. There is no need to unnecessarily complicate things. Resolute 22:15, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

If that's the line we want draw that's probably the best idea. IIHF sanctioning is probably the easiest way to sort this out. I don't believe they sanction any tournaments/leagues etc. that involve a club playing a national team (like the Spengler Cup has).

However, just to note the reason I asked about the Super Series, is in 1983, there was a USSR team that played, not CSKA or Dynamo etc. Same with the Challenge Cup, as the NHL played the USSR. I imagine in both cases some of these players were not regulars on the USSR national team and this may be their only international experience. Granted, it probably means their non-notable, but like I say clear rules is probably the easiest way to stop any sort of battles regarding what counts and what doesn't. Since neither of our battling parties, nor in fact anyone else seems interested in this, is IIHF sanctioning the way we want to proceed? Shootmaster 44 (talk) 02:58, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

I say deal with those rare situations on a case by case basis, as I bet almost all of those players would have played on another international team at another time. I wouldn't think there would be many occasions where a player played on one team in the super series for example and never played international again or prior. No need to be overly bureaucratic. -DJSasso (talk) 21:27, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

GA review about to fail...

Hi all. I reviewed Aaron Miller on August 16th. Tomorrow makes a week after the review was done, and the nominator hasn't returned to address my concerns. I usually only give nominations a week after being placed on hold, but since he wasn't around to fix the problems, I'll happily extend it if anybody here is willing to address the concerns listed at Talk:Aaron Miller (ice hockey)/GA1. Cheers, iMatthew ^talk at 15:22, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

New reference for TONS of articles available

I just got the NHL Official Guide and Record Book (2009 edition). It contains everything and anything (almost) about the NHL. I've written out the book's TOC (available here!). If you see anything on there that you'd like, let me know, and I'll scan it for you, or just look it up if you'd like. I'm hoping to start using the information to source a lot of articles that are currently unreferenced. iMatthew ^talk at 18:14, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Yup, this is the source most of us use each year for articles. Its definitely a great resource. -DJSasso (talk) 21:24, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

A lot of teams publish their own media and record guides on their websites now, which is awesome. That said, I would very much like it if I could get a printed copy of a few instead... I hate pdfs, lol. Resolute 21:34, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

And if you are cheeky you can sign up on the NHL site as press and get them all on a press locked site. ;) I forget the address now but I was going to do it last year but never got around to it. -DJSasso (talk) 23:32, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Matt, you'd mess your pants if you got your hands on a copy of Total Hockey. You know the player registers in the Guide and Record Book? Imagine having complete stats like that FOR EVERY PLAYER WHO EVER PLAYED IN THE NHL! It's awesome! --93JC (talk) 04:25, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

I keep having to talk myself out of buying that because I can get almost all of that on the internet already and the book is pretty expensive. Although it does go on sale for relatively cheap now and then. -DJSasso (talk) 13:16, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

If you wait you can buy the PDF version, which contains the NHL Guide, Rule Book and all of the teams' media guides on a DVD-ROM. I bought last year's on eBay for $12. There always seems to be copies available. The one I got was an official copy, with the proper sleeve, not a photo-copy. Alaney2k (talk) 17:48, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Manitoba Moose Rosters

This page seems pretty pointless along with all the articles themselves. Delete? RandySavageFTW (talk) 23:51, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

This has been on my to-do list for quite some time, but I've been so inactive on here over summer that it hasn't really happened. At the very least, the individual articles should be turned into season articles. As for the main article...List of Manitoba Moose seasons perhaps? – Nurmsook! ^talk... 23:59, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, that's fine too but I wouldn't mind just deleting them as they aren't even named properly and there's no dabs at all. RandySavageFTW (talk) 00:06, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Legendsmember template - port 8080

It seems to me that links produced by Template:Legendsmember currently does not work, due to the port 8080 not responding. Removing the port specification makes it work. The template is protected, so I cannot fix this. Maybe the unresponsiveness is an intermittent problem, but since links seem to work using the standard port I figure the ":8080" part should be removed. --Bamsefar75 (talk) 17:49, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

 Done -DJSasso (talk) 18:10, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I updated the doc page accordingly. --Bamsefar75 (talk) 00:04, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Could you also fix {{Legendsofhockey}}? — Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 04:17, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Whoops forgot about that one.  Done. -DJSasso (talk) 04:19, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Female pros

I may be having a senior moment, but I'm trying to recall women who've played in men's pro leagues, and I'm thinking Karen Koch, Manon Rheaume, Kelly Dyer, Erin Whitten, Angela Ruggeiro and Hayley Wickenheiser. Did I get them all?  RGTraynor  09:57, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Kim Martin, was set to play in Allsvenskan but NCAA rules prohibited her. —Krm500 ^{(Communicate!)} 16:30, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

List of first overall NHL draft picks

It is currently lacking significant sources all over the article. Hope someone can replace/recite/cite the references. -- [[SRE.K.A.L.|L.A.K.ERS]] 15:43, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Forgive my blindness: it looks covered to me. Could you be more specific? Alaney2k (talk) 16:53, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

I think what he means is that there isn't an idiotic inline reference off of every junior team and every player in the list. Not that Wikipedia, despite widespread belief to the contrary, requires them. I see five general references listed at the bottom of the article, and that is quite enough.  RGTraynor  18:29, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Yup that is exactly what I think he is saying. Numerous people have the incorrect opinion that 1 general reference can't replace 10 inline citations. -DJSasso (talk) 18:55, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Featured content policies do require inline citations, however. The complaint doesn't really revolve around the content or layout, simply the bronze star. Incidentally, however, things like "won a Stanley Cup" are presently unsourced. There are also some other minor issues - nationality templates being one. If I have time tonight, I'll do a little cleanup. Resolute 20:58, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

I do sometimes produce lists with citations every row, but I think that should only be done when information is given that is covered by a single general reference. In this case, the general references do cover everything so I think a citation per row is unnecessary. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 22:39, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

It would be rather silly to see one reference used 47 times when listing it once would suffice. It would roughly look like:

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au} "First Overall Selections". National Hockey League. Retrieved 2008-06-20.

Even at a resolution 1440 pixels wide, that goes about halfway across the screen. — Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 22:54, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Set them in the column headers, as is done at List of ice hockey teams in Alberta. There are ways, heh. Resolute 22:58, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

That said, I think the table itself is fine with a general ref. It's things like the hall of famers, SC winners and Calder winners that should use inline, and the lead, probably. Resolute 23:01, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

I am not saying it couldn't use more sources, just that I think there is a laughable assumption often that one is needed for every line or every minute detail. Which the featured content does not require. All it requires is that it is adequately sourced with some inline cites. -DJSasso (talk) 03:21, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Sorry guys for not being specific enough. I was talking about the Stanley Cup winners, which weren't referenced. It has been removed now, but I also thought there wasn't one for the Calder Cup winners. I was probably blind by not seeing it as one of the general references. Only three specific? More could be added into the article. -- [[SRE.K.A.L.|L.A.K.ERS]] 00:21, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Unrelated to the citations discussion, but I thought that we weren't supposed to include flags for nationality. blackngold29 16:48, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

WP:HOCKEY if you look at many of our pages pretty much uses WP:IAR on the MOS:FLAG guideline. -DJSasso (talk) 17:14, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

List of oldest NHL players

Does anyone have any sources for List of oldest NHL players? I looked up Reg Mackey in the 1998 Total Hockey and it lists him as deceased but no date of death. In fact, the rest of the top five are all deceased with no date of death as of the 1998 book release. I stopped checking after them. Thanks! Patken4 (talk) 01:08, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of oldest NHL players. iMatthew ^{talk • take my poll} at 01:24, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Rosters

Just curious why the template nhl rosters havent been adapted across to minor league teams? ..is it just a case of no one getting around to it, or was there some consensus not to do it?

also another quick question for the player infobox. What are users preferences when a player is 'undrafted' and has this included in the draft section? No dramas or should it just be entirely left out? Triggerbit (talk) 23:05, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, just write "Undrafted" from those players. 23:25, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

I'd just ignore the field personally, since it is optional, but that works to. As far as minor league templates go, people can update if they like, but for the most part, rosters for minor and junior teams just aren't updated often enough. Resolute 23:39, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

While on the subject; I don't like the captains being in parenthesis, can we use mdash (since it stands out clearer) like we did before we switched to the template? —Krm500 ^{(Communicate!)} 11:34, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Since I hadn't seen a consensus apply to minor league teams, I have left the older template on the Manchester Monarchs, Ontario Reign and Reading Royals as I found that one easier to adapt to what I show on said templates. Plus I like the sections for each position. So I've simply left things as they were. Shootmaster 44 (talk) 02:22, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Management selection of captains

In the Captain (ice hockey) article, a number of examples are given of captains selected by management. I believe the examples are given undue importance in this article and clutter up the main text. If anyone has any views, please contribute at Talk:Captain (ice hockey)#Discussion_of_management_selection_of_captains. Isaac Lin (talk) 03:12, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

I would appreciate any additional input to cross check the opinions that have already been expressed on the talk page. Thanks. Isaac Lin (talk) 22:37, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

New Infobox

i made a new infobox for ice hockey but i cant get it to work please can you fix the coding and when you do rate it and say if we can use it please BigPadresDUDE (talk) 02:48, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

PLEASE HELP

{{Infobox}}

ETC
ETC
position	ETC
league	ETC
shoots	ETC
Height	ETC
Weight	ETC
nationality	ETC
birth_date	--, --
birth_place	-------, ----
Died	--, --
ETC
amatur/national	ETC
draft	ETC
team	ETC
career_start	ETC
career_end	ETC
former_teams	ETC
awards	ETC

Note (Awards Optional)

I hope you don't mind, but I removed the code, and left only a link to the template page. The broken code was making it hard to use this page. Anyway, the problem you have is that your template is calling itself multiple times, causing the loop. A greater problem is that the template doesn't seem to do anything. You've got field names, but the code does not appear to be there, so there is nothing that the template can do with it.

Judging by what you were attempting to do, I would not favour including awards as part of the infobox. Even in Crosby's case, it adds a fairly ridiculous length to the infobox, let alone what it would do to someone like Wayne Gretzky's. It's also completely redundant to the awards sections in most articles. Fields like "college" are fairly trivial for hockey players, since an overwhelming majority did not play that level, and college (or junior) alma matter not used as a defining aspect of an NHL player as compared to an NFL or NBA player. Without the syntax, I can't judge style, so can't comment on that, except to say that formats that mimic baseball's infoboxes have been routinely rejected for hockey infoboxes. We do have various discussions ongoing about changes and updates at {{Infobox Ice Hockey Player}}, which you are more than welcome to participate in and offer suggestions. Cheers! Resolute 04:40, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

finalyy got it working and here it is (note awards section is optional) Go to my sand box to see how it looks filled BigPadresDUDE (talk) 18:28, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Not to be a mean, but I don't remotely see how this is an improvement on what we already have. -DJSasso (talk) 21:12, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

i worked really hard on this over several days alest tell me what you think man and if i need to make any changed to get it used? BigPadresDUDE (talk) 21:17, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia, btw. As far as I can see (in your Sandbox), you are not making an infobox template (in terms of being a template replacement), rather making use of the default/meta Template:Infobox to construct independent boxes with labels and values. --Bamsefar75 (talk) 02:22, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

huh? did you check my workspace and sandox ther my area for working on templates and goofing off some of those are good off sine if them are legit so what do you mean? if you mean what i think you mean Im New With WikiCode but im constructing a new infobox for mlb not the lame one in my workspace BigPadresDUDE (talk) 02:57, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

NHL players with questionable status

What do we do in cases similar to Jiří Hudler. He was a RFA and signed with a Russian team. Not sure what happened with the arbitration hearing but he's still on the Red Wings roster. Some minor edit warring with regards to his current team, etc. Thoughts? Leave them at Talk:Jiří Hudler#Current status if possible. Thanks. - Rjd0060 (talk) 15:42, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

The Red Wings website still lists Hudler on the roster. That should be all she wrote.  RGTraynor  18:56, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Not really. Dynamo Moscow also lists him on their roster. Resolute 21:25, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

I think as long as the Red Wings consider him on their team that is all she wrote until the season starts. If the season starts with him still on the roster we can clearly assume the source is wrong if he is playing no games and remove him. But until then, we have to go with the Red Wings interpretation. We can also list him on the Dynamo roster using the same reasons. At the beginning of the season we remove one. -DJSasso (talk) 12:25, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Hudler scored on Sweden in the Czech Hockey Games a moment ago, and he is listed as a Dynamo Moscow player (of course; its a European tournament). Their first KHL season game is due on Friday (Sep 11th). Can he play some KHL games and then transfer back to the NHL team when the season starts? --Bamsefar75 (talk) 16:20, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

History of the Montreal Canadiens

In hopes of it being featured as WP:TFA for the Habs' centennial date, I've nominated this article as a featured article candidate here. There is always copyediting required no matter how many times an article is looked at (heh), so if anyone is willing to give it a look over for any deficiencies, it would be appreciated. Thanks! Resolute 17:39, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

GAN backlog reduction - Sports and recreation

As you may know, we currently have 400 good article nominations, with a large number of them being in the sports and recreation section. As such, the waiting time for this is especially long, much longer than it should be. As a result of this, I am asking each sports-related WikiProject to review two or three of these nominations. If this is abided by, then the backlog should be cleared quite quickly. Some projects nominate a lot but don't review, or vice-versa, and following this should help to provide a balance and make the waiting time much smaller so that our articles can actually get reviewed! Wizardman 23:39, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

FLRC delegate election

Hi everyone! I'm just dropping by to let you know of the FLRC delegate election that begins on Tuesday. Being that this project is pretty active in the FLC/FLRC process, it was suggested that some editors here may wish to run in this election, or at least vote in it (voting starts on Tuesday). You may run in the election by following the instructions on the page. If you don't wish to run, please come and vote sometime next week! The election starts Tuesday and ends Saturday. For more information, check out the opening section of the page. Cheers, iMatthew ^talk at 22:46, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Wayne Gretzky

Hi guys, I wanted to mention some concern about the Wayne Gretzky page. I went there today to read about his status right now—he has not reported to training camp because his contract status is up in the air. Maybe I don't need to tell that to anyone here. :) Anyway, I started looking over his article and I'm concerned that it does not meet the comprehensiveness criteria required for FA. In particular, there is almost nothing about his coaching career, which as been ongoing for several seasons now. There is one sentence in the lead and one or two sentences in the body—not a lot for something he's been doing since the lockout. There is also the current news to consider surrounding the team's possible sale. Is anyone actively maintaining this article or interested in updating it? I'd like to avoid FAR because it's been there once already, last year. --Andy Walsh (talk) 03:47, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

If I recall correctly the reason there isn't alot on his coaching career is the idea of Undue Weight. He is notable for his playing career far more than his coaching career so there should only be a very small section on his coaching and the majority on his playing. As far as the current news regarding the possible sale of the team, that doesn't belong on a player page at all. -DJSasso (talk) 12:18, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Unless he loses his job or his status otherwise changes directly as a result. Given he is a minority owner of the team, it will become necessary at some point to introduce a sentence on the topic, but I'd personally wait and see how this shakes out first. Resolute 14:02, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, unless it directly affects his status is what I was getting at. -DJSasso (talk) 14:06, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Also, as for coaching accomplishments, nobody will (currently) mistake him for Scotty Bowman. GoodDay (talk) 14:21, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for all the feedback. I'm satisfied knowing it's an editorial decision not to put more in the article about his coaching, and not just neglect. --Andy Walsh (talk) 15:41, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Infobox Ice Hockey Player talk page merge

The original Template talk:Infobox Ice Hockey Player should merge with the newly created Template talk:Infobox ice hockey player. Someone did not move the old talk page after the template was moved and before the new talk page got created. --Bamsefar75 (talk) 13:16, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

 Done -DJSasso (talk) 13:32, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Category:MODO Hockey players

I moved MODO Hockey to Modo Hockey per WP:MOSTM a long time ago, could someone change this to Modo? RandySavageFTW (talk) 16:30, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Move NASA to Nasa while you're at it. —Krm500 ^{(Communicate!)} 17:19, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

WP:CFD is where you'd have to propose a category rename. Resolute 18:01, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

NASA stands for something, Modo doesn't. RandySavageFTW (talk) 18:46, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Yes it does. —Krm500 ^{(Communicate!)} 21:36, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

What does it stand for then and why isn't it noted in its article? RandySavageFTW (talk) 22:07, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

I'm not finding anything via Google. I'll switch them myself after a while to make sure that nobody can find anything else that says "MODO" stands for something. Not sure that you needed to start a CFD though. - Rjd0060 (talk) 12:40, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Well, the Modo Hockey article says it's an abbreviation of the team's sponsor, Mo och Domsjö AB. Isaac Lin (talk) 15:00, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Articles like NASA have a letter that each stands for something. Modo is like taking the first two letters from the first and third words of their sponser. RandySavageFTW (talk) 18:24, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

I don't see NASA abbreviating the word and so why should MODO? —Krm500 ^{(Communicate!)} 15:54, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Typically publications will apply their own style guidelines, as Wikipedia is doing. The New York Times has a similar guideline. Isaac Lin (talk) 16:16, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

I think what he is getting at is that there are exceptions such as NASA due I am guessing to WP:COMMONNAME, what makes NASA different inside wiki guidelines from MODO? Personally I have never seen the media not use the capitals, so I would think we would follow the sources as we do with NASA. This isn't a case of Telus for example who choose to spell it TELUS, but can be found in news articles to be spelled Telus. -DJSasso (talk) 16:44, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Well, I guess the New York Times would spell it with only the initial capital letter. This case is a bit tricky to resolve since it is an intersection of Wikipedia's guidance on trademarks, using all-caps, and using common names. Isaac Lin (talk) 17:33, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

And to further twist this skewed subject; Personally I want the article named MoDo Hockey, the way it was originally abbreviated (see [2]). I'm done stirring the pot. —Krm500 ^{(Communicate!)} 21:12, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Well WP:COMMONNAME says use the most common name (obviously), but WP:MOSTM is telling us not to. I guess it could go either way then but the player category and the article should at least be the same. RandySavageFTW (talk) 22:03, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Lists not up to standards

Hey, the List of Columbus Blue Jackets players and List of San Jose Sharks players FLRCs were taken down when I withdrew them back in July. I never had the chance to clean them up, and their still not up to standards. I don't have the time to clean them up now, so I'm letting you guys know that these are likely to be back up at FLRC if they're not cleaned up. iMatthew ^talk at 20:41, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

As for the SJS one, all that needs doing now is the lead expansion - I did everything else back in July. - Rjd0060 (talk) 20:49, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Roster entries for players with more than one nationality

I've got a situation come up on one of the Asia League articles. An import player actually has triple citizenship. Born russian, has acquired Canadian and german citizenship.[3]. The trade sheet identifies him as german, but that may simply be a case of he was there last, and they only have space for 1 entry. Which flag should we use, or should all be listed? I'm leaning towards Russian as he was born with it and apparently still has it. People can leave a comment here or on the article talk page Talk:China_Dragon if they have some ideas. note the china dragon article is a mess right now because they've just gone through a major sponsor change and they don't have a new website/english info up at this point, beyond the roster anyway.--Crossmr (talk) 15:00, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

If his Russian citizenship is still in effect (thus being the oldest of the 3 citizenhips), I'd opt for the Russian flag. If he was born before Deember 25, 1991, use the Soviet flag aswell. GoodDay (talk) 15:10, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

So any russian player born before 1991 should use the soviet flag instead of the russian flag, or they should use both?--Crossmr (talk) 15:15, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Either both or just the Russian flag (as the USSR flag is defunct). GoodDay (talk) 15:25, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

If the rosters for the Asian league articles are anything like the NHL rosters, it should always be the Russian (Ukranian, Belarussian, etc.) flag as the column discusses nationality, not birthplace. In this specific case, I would probably flag as German if you consider eliteprospects.net to be a reliable source. Resolute 15:18, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Even if eliteprospects.net is a reliable source, I don't know that I can take them at face value, since I don't know if they're technically limited with their nationality field, and they've simply chosen german because he's currently in germany. If he comes to asia for 1 or 2 seasons and goes back to russia after, do we then go change it to indicate he's russian, and if he then went to go play hockey in canada for a couple more years, should we edit it again to indicate he's canadian? So without knowing how he identifies himself, should we go with the most recent or the oldest? Keep in mind, he wasn't just born in Russia, he still has russian citizenship. If the guy had ditched his russian citizenship this wouldn't even be a question.--Crossmr (talk) 15:23, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Problem there is that we are just guessing, which isn't good practice. I'd be willing to guess that his German citizenship is the most recent, and therefore the one they have chosen to use. Given we're supposed to defer to what sources say, I'd stick with that unless something more concrete comes along. Resolute 15:38, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Okay, I'll go with german until I can find some more information/articles on the guy so we can figure things out.--Crossmr (talk) 23:29, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

As a side note, is there any definitive place to find out their chosen nationality? I have been updating the Ontario Reign and Manchester Monarchs pages. In the Reign's case moreso than the Monarchs', they sign players who have never played internationally, so by definition their nationality is questionable. Is there a definitive place to find this out, or does defaulting with the place of birth suffice? Shootmaster 44 (talk) 01:27, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

i would assume place of birth unless we have evidence to the contrary. If a person has dual citizenship the only way to find out what they "identify" as would be through an interview. I would guess most websites don't take that into consideration and pick one. I'm not sure how many players actually have multiple citizenship but I suspect the numbers aren't that high.--Crossmr (talk) 03:37, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Robert John Murray

Could someone please move this to Bob Murray (ice hockey b. 1948)? That is our usual standard for two players with the same name - birth year in brackets. I already moved Robert Fredrick to Bob Murray (ice hockey b. 1954). RandySavageFTW (talk) 01:14, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

We only go to birth years if we can't do it by middle names etc. Birth years is the very last resort. -DJSasso (talk) 12:49, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

All-time Goal Scorers

I noticed that baseball has dedictated pages for all-time career homeruns and all-time pitching wins, to name just two. I suggest we have a dedicated page for career NHL goals scored and not just have it buried in the List of NHL statistical leaders page. Juve2000 (talk) 03:00, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

I don't think it needs its own article, but I'm pretty sure there was a discussion about splitting the article into 3 (skaters, goaltenders, coaches). RandySavageFTW (talk) 22:05, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Would you request its deletion if I or someone else designed it? Juve2000 (talk) 02:24, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Erroneous adding of "HC" to russian team names, need some help redirecting

User Wildcherry06 has been redirecting / renaming a slew of KHL teams and adding "HC" to the name even though this goes against both official and popular usage. Needless to say, it's causing me a pain to have to keep reverting this. I had all the names set to the official KHL english standard as per their website (on the team pages where they flat out stated the official english names).

Could an admin or someone with the authority please return "Khimik Voskresensk" to the agreed upon "Khimik Voskresensk (2005–)" , it's blocking me from doing it to this one. Thanks.--Львівське (talk) 18:17, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

I agree with your position and have moved the article back to where it should be. -DJSasso (talk) 21:15, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

FLRC for List of current NHL captains and alternate captains

Hi guys, I unfortunately had to open an FLRC for List of current NHL captains and alternate captains, located here because it didn't pass FL criteria 6. This isn't an issue anybody can fix, I believe, so I nominated it for removed. iMatthew ^talk at 03:20, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

I leave most of my comments for the actual review page, but it doesn't remotely fail criteria 6. Yes it is being updated now because its the start of the year but criteria 6 says it can't change day to day this article doesn't change on a day to day basis, not even close. -DJSasso (talk) 03:54, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, but this is an incredibly poor nomination. Grsz¹¹ 05:24, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

I've withdrawn it. iMatthew ^talk at 12:19, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Never any harm in reviewing and questioning an article. Resolute 15:24, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

I'm not surprised it was nominated. IPs tend to insert 'temporary' replacements, when a captain or an alternate misses even 1 game. GoodDay (talk) 16:59, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

I've closed the FLRC. Not much harm done, and the plus is that now the list will receive more eyes from experienced hockey playesr. Dabomb87 (talk) 18:40, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey/Season Article Drive

I've removed the usernames from last season, and updated all of the links. I think this page is pretty helpful, so if everyone who maintains a teams' season article could add their name there, it would be appreciated! :) iMatthew ^talk at 15:42, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Slohokej Liga

New league, check it out and help out if you can, Slohokej Liga (LAz17 (talk) 19:28, 29 September 2009 (UTC)).

What makes it more multi-national than Austrian Hockey League? Or should I ask what makes the Austrian league less multi-national? --Bamsefar75 (talk) 12:30, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

I don't know anything about the league but by the looks of it most of the teams that were in the Austrian Hockey League that were not from Austria are now in this other league so the Austrian league is only Austrian teams now. -DJSasso (talk) 12:46, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

From what I can gather, this is almost like a Tier 1.5 of the Austrian league. Some of the teams from the Austrian league made the jump, however the majority of the teams seemed to jump up from the former Yugoslavian countries' national leagues they had been playing in. But that is just my educated guess checking out the various pages of the teams. My one question is HK Acroni Jesenice, the same team as HK Mladi Jesenice or does Jesenice have two teams? Shootmaster 44 (talk) 08:14, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

I think that there are some farm teams. For example, Medvescak is in the Austrian league, but Medvescak II, its farm team is in the Slohokej liga. Also, the graz team in the slohokej league is the farmteam of the graz team in the regular austrian league. I guess it's just a weaker league. (LAz17 (talk) 18:26, 5 October 2009 (UTC)).

Template:Colorado Avalanche roster

Could I get a few more eyes on {{Colorado Avalanche roster}}? A new user is repeatedly trying to change the flag on Wojtek Wolski's line from Canada to Poland. I'd rather avoid getting involved in a silly edit war, so hoping others can help enforce consensus on this. Thanks, Resolute 14:39, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Maybe Nationality (roster list) vs National Team (player infobox) causes this. I've updated his infobox to the new ntl_team parameter so the Canada flag is visible again (despite he hasnt played for any national team), but it seems rosters (are meant to?) still use nationality (for now?). Eurohockey.net says both POL and CAN here. Parentheses rule, btw. --Bamsefar75 (talk) 17:49, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Only players who played on a national senior team should have that parameter filled out. That was part of the point of the parameter, to remove the POV decision making that was happening too frequently in the infobox. The flags should probably be stripped out of rosters if anything, I used to be very big on keeping them, but I am not as sure anymore. -DJSasso (talk) 18:00, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

List of current NHL captains and alternate captains

Having a problem with an IP there (surprise, surprise). Either the IP is correct or the Bruins official website is, I'm not sure which. GoodDay (talk) 19:33, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

He's right. I looked at the pictures for the recent game against Carolina, and Sturm (#16) has got the assistant's A.

I suspected Sturm was, but ya never know. Now, if only the Rangers & Wild websites would update themselves, too. GoodDay (talk) 20:00, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Verifiability not truth. There has to be a verifiable source stating that there are different associate captains. A one-off picture won't cut it. The Flames are in a similar situation - Phaneuf had the second A for the home opener, but Langkow had it for the first road game. Until the Flames website (or an independent news source) confirms that Langkow is now also an associate captain, I'm not touching it. The Bruins heading should be treated the same. Resolute 23:23, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

That seems fair. PS: Remember the adding/deleting of Rhett Warrener's A at the Flames roster? GoodDay (talk) 23:35, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

1975-76 Minnesota Fighting Saints season & 1976-77 Minnesota Fighting Saints season articles

Anybody know howw to fixed those articles Infoboxes? The 1975-76 team folded, the 1976-77 team was a continuation of the Cleveland Crusaders. These are 2 different Fightning Saints franchises. GoodDay (talk) 19:54, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Won't be possible in this rare case because it goes based on article names. I don't think its that big a deal. People who are looking at Minnesota Fighting Saints season articles probably want to go to the next one of the same team...even if it is a different franchise. -DJSasso (talk) 20:30, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Can we put something there, to note it's a different franchise? The current setup is mis-leading. GoodDay (talk) 20:32, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

It's not all that misleading. It takes you to the next Minnesota Fighting Saints season which is correct. But yes the season article should mention that the team moved from Cleveland prior to the season etc. There should be a whole lot of prose on the article. *grin* you know what to do. ;) -DJSasso (talk) 20:34, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

The 1975-76 Cleveland Crusaders season 'continues' to the 1976-77 Minnesota Fighting Saints season (which is accurate). The 1975-76 Minnesota Fighting Saints season is the 'originals' final season. These accuracies need reflection in the Infoboxes. I'll try & fix it, in the coming days. GoodDay (talk) 20:37, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

You misunderstand me, this doesn't need to be in the infobox. It should be in the meat of the article. Just like we note any other major happenings in season articles. The arrows are accurate and correct in that its meant to take you to the next season of the team known as the fighting saints. What franchise held that name is somewhat irrelevant to season articles. -DJSasso (talk) 20:40, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Actually it looks like Alaney2k added in parameters into the WHA infobox that the NHL one didn't have when we last had this problem. I am about to fix the problem. -DJSasso (talk) 20:46, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Would you fix up the 1975-76 Saints article too. PS: How are you able to fix those? GoodDay (talk) 20:55, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

It's OK now, Alaney fixed it. GoodDay (talk) 22:46, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Question

Hockey teams can be like this for example... "Teamname Cityname". Or just "Teamname". I would like to know when do the city names tag on to the team names, for team articles? For example, this team in the KHL, HC MVD does not have a city name. Same goes for, for example, HK Partizan. I am working on getting some less important teams onto wikipedia, so I need this information. (LAz17 (talk) 18:30, 5 October 2009 (UTC)).

Go by the official name. If the name is just "Teamname", then the article should be the same. --Smashville^talk 19:15, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Yup, go by the official name. It's like Prince, they don't need to have a surname if they don't want to. In the case of MVD, MVD is an acronym for the police, so it's literally the "Police Team", and not bound to a city but instead an organization. Same goes for CSKA, but in CSKA's case there are several so the name and HC is inserted as a disambiguator.--Львівське (talk) 19:29, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

What if one does not know if the official name includes the city or not? I supposed it wouldn't hurt to have it? (LAz17 (talk) 16:52, 6 October 2009 (UTC)).

Basically use the name you most commonly see listed in english news articles. -DJSasso (talk) 17:17, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

And what if there is almost nothing in english about the team or league? I'm into some obscure balkan teams and leagues. (LAz17 (talk) 18:59, 6 October 2009 (UTC)).

Write it exactly like its on their league page. But almost all leagues can be found in english on eurohockey.net or other such pages. -DJSasso (talk) 19:08, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Difference in 1912–13 Canadiens record and Vezina's record

It came to my attention that there is a conflict in what the Canadiens' record was for the 1912–13 season was and what their goalie, Georges Vezina, posted. According to NHL.com, the HHOF and the Canadiens centennial website, Vezina had an 11-9 record that season; however, the Canadiens as a team posted a record of 9-11. Hopefully someone here might be able to explain this discrepancy, or just help confirm my suspicion that the NHL, HHOF and the Canadiens (most likely via the NHL or HHOF), are all just using inverted numbers for Vezina. Kaiser matias (talk) 22:20, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

If I could help you, I would, but not at this moment in time. Try reading some internet sources on this stuff, that could help you. If they edit-warred with you, just revert their edits as vandalism. Also, you spelt Canadian wrong. -- ISLANDERS27 15:29, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Actually he spelt the name of the team correctly, it uses an e not an a as the name is french. -DJSasso (talk) 17:43, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

I've tried writing to the HHOF in the past about inaccuracies on their site, with no response. The SIHR site has the right data for Vezina. (http://www.sihrhockey.org/member_player_sheet.cfm?player_id=4797) but you have to be a member to see the data for Vezina. If it's okay, I'll update the Vezina article and add a cite to the Coleman book for that season. Coleman did not list w-l record, but no other goalie played for the Canadiens that season. Alaney2k (talk) 18:12, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Hi. In 1912–13 NHA season, the stats are 9-11 not 11-9. --TaraO (talk) 20:41, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

More over: ourhistory.canadiens.com/ says 11-9 in the stats but 9-11 in the text (excuse my words ... i'm french). --TaraO (talk) 20:57, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

I figured that the HHOF was wrong. Thanks for helping solve this issue. Kaiser matias (talk) 21:16, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I've thought for a long time that the standard practice of many Project members and other editors to cite the HHOF's website as an unshakeable authority just didn't come out in the wash.  RGTraynor  03:54, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Me too. -- ISLANDERS27 19:21, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

team page question

I was working on HK Partizan lately, as well as some other teams. I didn't like the infobox that partizan had, so I changed it to Infobox KHL team. Now it looks better. However, the team is not in the NHL. If I write infobox hockey team, then the thing sucks. What can I do to remove KHL? (LAz17 (talk) 21:12, 8 October 2009 (UTC)).

Looking over the article, I don't see any reference to the KHL. If its the coding regarding the template that you're talking about, then the obvious solution would be for someone to simply move the template to a more neutral name. However, it really doesn't make that much of a difference on the overall look of the article. Kaiser matias (talk) 21:20, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

It's not in the KHL, but the template looks nicer than the previous one did. Would it be okay to keep the infoxbox template, even though the team is not in teh KHL? Also, I can't upload the logo onto Panonian League without it being too big. Some help? (LAz17 (talk) 21:33, 8 October 2009 (UTC)).

Funny you bring this up because I was mulling this over the other day. I made the KHL Infobox and I too have spread out and used it on non KHL articles. I guess a neutral name would be better since it's being used more broadly now....not that it matters since the KHL part only shows up in code, kinda irrelevant.--Львівське (talk) 22:17, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

I know there is a movement to start unifying these infoboxes into a single infobox or atleast less of them so I think what you did was fine. -DJSasso (talk) 03:07, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. Hopefully I earn myself a barnstar after a lot of work. =) (LAz17 (talk) 04:06, 9 October 2009 (UTC)).

In Roster templates... what if a certain player has two nationalities, not just one? (LAz17 (talk) 04:43, 9 October 2009 (UTC)).

The one they represent internationally (most recently) then--Львівське (talk) 06:18, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Would Bob Nystrom (ref) and Niko Dimitrakos (ref) be listed with their North American alternatives? They have not represented a national team but have two nationalities, although their hockey career has been very North American. --Bamsefar75 (talk) 00:25, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

I would keep them both CAN/USA respectively. Dimitrakos was born in the USA so it's no question, but Nystrom IMO only ever played hockey in Canada, and was a citizen, so it should be CAN.--Львівське (talk) 01:06, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Rangers

How are the Rangers getting away with this? They've got captain Chris Drury & alternate captain Ryan Callahan, they've no other alternate captain. GoodDay (talk) 13:06, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

I never thought it was a hard rule that you have to have one captain and two assistants. If I remember right when Crosby got hurt last year or the year before the Pens just had two assistants. I guess Crosby was technically still captain, but he wasn't playing, maybe that was it. Do they have anyone hurt? blackngold29 14:07, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Yeah I believe there is no rule saying you have to have any alternate captains at all.-DJSasso (talk) 14:11, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Rule 6.1: One captain and no more than two alternates, or no more than three alternates. There is no requirement for two alternates. Resolute 14:47, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

No more then 3 letter players per game (but less are allowed). Okie Dokie, thanks. GoodDay (talk) 14:50, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

So glad Callahan got a letter! —Krm500 ^{(Communicate!)} 21:26, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Also in that rule: "No playing Coach or playing Manager or goalkeeper shall be permitted to act as Captain or Alternate Captain." When will the Canucks give up the charade. I was hoping the NHL would not recognise Luongo in the 2010 Record Book, but alas, they do, even though it is a flagrant violation of the rules. Absolutely ridiculous, and knowing that he's signed through 2022 makes me think they will never get a real captain. Kaiser matias (talk) 04:36, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Agreed. I understand what he means to the team, but Brodeur has the same role in NJ. He's the leader of the team but he doesnt need a C painted on his mask to prove it to anyone.--Львівське (talk) 05:36, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Second that one for me, please. -- ISLANDERS27 12:17, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

The rule states no goalie may "act as" captain. To me, that means Luongo isn't allowed to perform the captain's on-ice privileges, such as talking to the refs, but doesn't prevent him being named as captain — Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 12:20, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Luongo's the player-boss in the locker-room & on the bench. The League should allow him to wear the 'C' on his jersey. GoodDay (talk) 13:59, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

(outdent)I've always interpreted the rule to mean that goalies can't be captain in any regard, as it was put in place to stop a repeat of Bill Durnan. If the league were to modify the rule to accomodate what the Canucks are doing, then I'd probably be less against it. But until that happens, I just see it as a publicity stunt. Kaiser matias (talk) 20:35, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

IMO, it was a insult to Ohlund. GoodDay (talk) 21:22, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

The issue reportedly was the time taken by Durnan to skate over to the referee to discuss matters, thereby allowing the Canadiens to essentially create their own extra time outs. Having a goalie act as an off-ice leader provides no competitive advantage, and so isn't something that the playing rules need to deal with. (Of course, these days with the ref going over to the coach to discuss things, the official role of the captain and alternates seems redundant.) Isaac Lin (talk) 04:03, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

lol, TSN

Doing some Theoren Fleury related research, and I came across TSN's look-back article on the Punch-up in Piestany. Compare the picture in that article with the screenshot I uploaded for that article. Amazing "coincidence" that their screenshot just happened to be the exact second of mine, lol. Reading the article, it's clear they used the Wikipedia article as a research tool. Just another sign of our influence on the mainstream media. Resolute 01:15, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

I was laughing, then the Bruins scored against the Islanders and I got upset. Way to ruin my laughter Boston! iMatthew ^talk at 01:21, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Template:Toronto Maple Leafs roster navbox

Should be deleted. We don't have anything similar for any other team. It's on all the current Leafs' articles. RandySavageFTW (talk) 16:30, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Agreed. A lot of these fan related nav boxes pop up 'now & then'. GoodDay (talk) 16:37, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

I agree also. I'm sure there were other similar TfD's in the recent past. Anybody remember what they were so we can start another TfD? - Rjd0060 (talk) 12:41, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

I am removing and redirecting per long standing consensus that roster nav boxes should not be on player pages. -DJSasso (talk) 02:07, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Agreed with that plan, though I'm betting this will end up at TfD. Resolute 03:40, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Yes, attempting to have to avoid that drama by doing it like this. We have TFD'd these far to many times. -DJSasso (talk) 10:48, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Agreed. -- ISLANDERS27 08:51, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Nordiques

I ran into some news recent only the Quebec Nordiques. Quebec City mayor eyes return of Nordiques to NHL - http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news;_ylt=Akx2UGFi7XmGrghi49vMyMl7vLYF?slug=ap-nordiques-bettman&prov=ap&type=lgns I think it might be good to put on the nordiques article page? Maybe? If someone could do that it would be good. I added it here, Potential National Hockey League expansion (LAz17 (talk) 00:26, 11 October 2009 (UTC)).

That should go to Potential National Hockey League expansion since it would be a different franchise than the former Nordiques. If a new team did come into existence and call themselves the Nordiques, then it should be mentioned at the Quebec Nordiques article. — Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 00:42, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

I noticed that the Potential NHL expansion article lacks the 1980's bid to move the St. Louis Blues to Saskatoon. Should this be included? I know multiple sources from the Toronto Star... it would take little effort to look them up I think. DMighton (talk) 04:59, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

That's historical to the Blues and NHL, not an indication of future potential. I kinda lost track of that article though after it altered course. If the Ralco Purina mess has value as historical context... Resolute 05:07, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Ohhh nooo, more expansion? GoodDay (talk) 14:10, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

"Fram Team" categories

Any suggestions on what to with the catergories like Category:Carolina Hurricanes Fram Team/Affiliates that User:Metsfan67 created last night? I'm tempted to do a mass CFD, but there might some use for them (after MASSIVE cleanup)... ccwaters (talk) 14:13, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

I believe he's made a misprint. Shouldn't that read 'Farm Team'? GoodDay (talk) 14:14, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Yes. On ALL of them. I'm also concerned about accuracy: A team from the 70ies NAHL was never an affiliate of the Carolina Hurricanes. ccwaters (talk) 14:18, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

(ec) Bring them to CfD, the team articles can be used for listing the farm teams. No need for categories. Plus, they'd have to be CfD'd anyways since Farm is spelled wrong and the naming is rather strange.--Giants27(c|s) 14:15, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Is there an easy way to do it?: I haven't checked, but I imagine he created one for most if not all 30 teams. ccwaters (talk) 14:23, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

It sure looks like it. I dropped him a messages a few hours ago suggesting he clean things up fast, but he's certainly being promiscuous in attaching these to minor league teams; I've already reverted two attempts to link to the Binghampton Whalers, an affiliation that folded seven seasons before Hartford's move, to the Hurricanes' template.  RGTraynor  14:37, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

(ec) Well there are some empty ones, which can be speedied as empty categories. But the rest will have to be bundled into one CfD.--Giants27(c|s) 14:38, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Nominated at CfD here. Resolute 18:26, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Scott Stevens

Apparently, all of the images were deleted in September, so the article needs some minor cleanup. Viriditas (talk) 13:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Done. I also removed the incredibly useless picture of the arena. Resolute 15:33, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Template: Montreal Canadiens roster

Would somebody check things out, myself & FlameMoth are having slight disagreement. GoodDay (talk) 20:47, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Leaving the accent off makes most sense, since as you stated this is a North American template and should be North Americanized.--Giants27(c|s) 20:50, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Since I would rather not get in this arguement, I will just say I agree with FlameMoth since its a french accent with a french team. And I know last year nhl.com and the canadiens website both left french accents on french player names who played on the canadiens on their english sites. So take from that what you will. However, I know we like to leave them off NA articles. -DJSasso (talk) 03:27, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

I agree with Giants, there is no need for an accent. -- ISLANDERS27 16:27, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Conference Finals

Resolved

 – Article errors fixed. -- ISLANDERS27 05:30, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

The article on the NHL Conference Finals is wildly, woefully wrong. It has an almost total misconception of how the Stanley Cup Playoffs were structured back "in the day." I don't have the time or stamina to do the research to catalog all the errors and how it needs to be fixed, but I thought someone at this project might want to take a look at it. MrArticleOne (talk) 01:18, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

If I had time, I could fix it, but not today. There are plenty of people round here who could help: see here for a list of people working on this project. -- ISLANDERS27 16:29, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

I've done some fixings. The conference finals began in the 1981-82 season. From 1974-75 to 1980-81, conference titles were 'regular season championships'. GoodDay (talk) 18:43, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

So this should be marked as Y Done. -- ISLANDERS27 05:30, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

If anybody wants to finish up, be my guest (as I've left the team totals 'vacant'). GoodDay (talk) 18:44, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

In my own opinion, the Conference Finals are good tradition for the NNL and yes they do have alot of research on this topic that the NHL has. Because its important to them and the whole league and the organization. by the way, I thought the Conference Finals begin the 1940's true? User:panicpack121 (UTC)

leagues

Could this be checked = Slohokej Liga? I think I am just about done with the relatively new page. If someone see's something that can be improved, let me know. Also, we did not have this article so I made it, Interliga (LAz17 (talk) 02:11, 15 October 2009 (UTC)).

It looks good to me. I'd add a few references to the page, especially since it claims to be the new Slovenian Hockey League, but some of the team pages show teams playing in both. As well, if it is a separate league from the Slovenian League, the founding date should reflect when it was made. I'd also consider putting a navbox with the respective teams on it, on each of the clubs' pages. Mostly because it would help jazz up the pages and would make it easier to navigate from team to team. Shootmaster 44 (talk) 07:08, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Nothing is actually new here. The slovenian championship used to be the playoffs of the slohokej liga. However, the slovenians want it to be for only slovenian teams, so it is separate. Foreign teams in the league can not participate in the championship, and the slovenian teams in the austrian hockey league automatically get promoted to the championship. It's like a separate thing on its own. An example: last season the croatian medvescak team won 1st place, but was not in the championship, because they are not slovenian. (LAz17 (talk) 17:06, 15 October 2009 (UTC)).

That information definitely belongs in the article. I am goign to assume that you would have some source for that, so it would be the exact thing the article owuld be looking for. Also a minor detail that is more of a preference on my part, but it might be worthwhile to include a map of where the teams are located, similar to what is at Austrian Hockey League, mostly for us who aren't familiar with the geography of the Balkans. Looks good otherwise. Kaiser matias (talk) 00:48, 16 October 2009 (UTC)