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Nicknames

An anon editor (who claims he made 10 % of NHL pages here :-)) is adding various nicknames to the names of icehockey players at the very beginning of their articles. I tried to convince him at his talk page, but he continues. I do not want to edit war with him and so first I am asking others what they think about his contributions. Thanks for your opinions. Jan.Kamenicek (talk) 10:55, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

List of NHL one-gamers

Forgive me if this has been discussed recently but I was away from ice hockey contribution for a couple of months until recently. But I would like to know what the current stand is with the List of players who played only one game in the NHL. In the discussion page it mentions why the page was created in order to prevent stubs from being made as he hated them. But eventually it was leaning towards creating an article for everyone, though only eight have been made from the list of redirects and the last noted comment on the talk page was in April 2009. So what is the current stand with this page, do we indeed create an article for them all or do we leave them as redirects. If this has been previously discussed recently I apologise for bringing it up again. Raphie (talk) 16:06, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

We now create the players when we can since its long since been decided even minor leaguers get pages. When that page was created the creator believed that minor leaguers were not good enough for pages. -DJSasso (talk) 17:25, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for that mate. I'll work away on them when I can. Raphie (talk) 17:54, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Can anyone guess which player on that list who has won an Olympic Gold medal? —Krm500 ^{(Communicate!)} 23:36, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Ronnie in 2006. David Moravec in 1998. --Bamsefar75 (talk) 11:51, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

As a side note, I checked all players on this list with careers that were dated in the 2000s to see if anyone had played their second NHL game. My research resulted in 6 players being removed as they had 2 or more games played now. -Pparazorback (talk) 12:34, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Altering year name

Is there any way we can change the names of some of the year-based entries (ex. 2007 NHL playoffs) so that other ways of writing it will redirect one to that page (ex. 2006-07 NHL playoffs, 06-07 NHL playoffs, 2006-2007 NHL playoffs these are the most common but there are others). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.152.144.120 (talk) 19:18, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

The NHL playoffs occur after the regular season (thus post-season) & entirely within the calender year (Jan-Dec). As result 2007 NHL playoffs is used, not 2006-07 NHL playoffs etc etc. GoodDay (talk) 19:33, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

136.152.144.120, you can create redirects. For example, you can edit 2006-07 NHL playoffs and type:

#REDIRECT [[2007 Stanley Cup playoffs]]

Then if anyone types "2006-07 NHL playoffs", it will take them to the article "2007 Stanley Cup playoffs". — Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 20:13, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

As a note, however, if you wish to do this, you will have to register an account. Only autoconfirmed users can create articles, which a redirect technically is. Resolute 21:52, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Resolute, I may just do that. However, I'd like others to keep this in mind when making any future articles. I don't think it is too much trouble, and it would make navigation much easier. 136.152.155.94 (talk) 23:46, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

I'll certainly keep it in mind. Redirects are cheap. Resolute 15:21, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Montréal Canadiens

Hesitating to post this since I'm afraid GoodDay might get a heart attack when reading it — NHL.com has finally started spelling Montréal Canadiens correctly. Time to move the article to it's correct location on Wikipedia, who will do the honours? —Krm500 ^{(Communicate!)} 03:16, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

The city has an English name. The club itself makes use of it, and makes no attempt to claim that the team name includes a French version of the city name. Common usage in English reliable sources is to use the English spelling. English broadcast media pronounce the city's name as in English. The club embraces its bilingualism; why should an encyclopedia do otherwise? Isaac Lin (talk) 03:29, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Oh really, because the first thing I see when I go to canadiens.nhl.com is "The Official Web Site - Montréal Canadiens". —Krm500 ^{(Communicate!)} 03:42, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

I first see the splash screen, which has no words other than "Français" and "English", and then when selecting English, a search on "Montr" shows every instance of the city name on the page itself is in English. The team's press releases use the English city name. The team has historically courted both English and French communities and assumed a neutral point of view, which is in accordance with Wikipedia policies too. Why should common usage by reliable sources including the team be ignored? Isaac Lin (talk) 03:53, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Just because the NHL spells it a certain way does not mean we do. Should we replace every usage of "defence" with "defense" on Canadian articles too? Montreal is the English spelling, and this is the English Wikipedia. Resolute 05:47, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Hehe, wasn't that your side's argument to change everything since "NHL says so!", Örnsköldsvik to Ornskold for example. Anyhow, it's Montréal on NHL.com, soon we'll finally see the å, ä, and ö's on jerseys I predict. —Krm500 ^{(Communicate!)} 20:35, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

I dunno about others, but personally I've always weighed in on the use of WP:COMMONNAME and WP:ENGVAR. Montreal (and names without diacritics) is used far, far more often in English. And I doubt you will see diacritics on jerseys anytime soon. Especially when European teams don't even put them on their own jersies - at least not for international teams. Resolute 22:14, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Isaac; The city and the team are separate entities, just because one has a simplified name (ie: Montreal) doesn't mean that the other, or we here at Wikipedia, has to follow that standard. See Gothenburg and IFK Göteborg for example. —Krm500 ^{(Communicate!)} 20:42, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Montreal is not a simplified name; it is the name in English, just as "Londres" is not a simplified version of "London" and "Moscou" is not a simplified version of "Moskva". The English name of the club is "Canadiens". The team has always followed common English usage by using the city's name in English as a modifying adjective for the club's name. With regards to player names, I believe you have put forward the argument that reliable sources ought to be ignored in favour of the name used by the player himself. In this case, with team usage matching reliable sources, why would Wikipedia choose to not match common usage? Isaac Lin (talk) 21:53, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

The NHL also spells all NHL players names without you know whats. Let's leave the Montreal Canadiens article title as is. GoodDay (talk) 20:45, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

"canadiens.com is the official Web site of the Montreal Canadiens. Montreal Canadiens and canadiens.com are trademarks of the Montreal Canadiens. "and the rest of the canadiens site does not use itwhat a webmaster uses on nhl.com isnt exactly the be all end all, but it is a factor..--Львівське (talk) 22:19, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

My take is that whatever the team wants to use officially, trumps all other common names. Sokil Kyiv uses the correct spelling of the city name, not Kiev, but wikipedia recognizes the latter as more common. The team writes both in ukrainian and english, the city as "Kyiv". Should this mean wikipedia convert the team name to "Sokil Kiev"? No, that would be ridiculous. "Montreal Canadiens" is a formal name, you cant divide it in half and say half is correct half isnt, it's a total package. --Львівське (talk) 22:22, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Exactly, just like the Gothenburg/IFK Göteborg example I provided. The title of Montréal Canadiens website is spelled with the é, however I also see that they only use an e on most other parts of the website. Nonetheless I think it was worth mentioning that the NHL has started to identify the team as the Montréal Canadiens, a surprising turn of events. Isaac: Montreal is most certainly a simplification, not a translation, of Montréal. Cheers! —Krm500 ^{(Communicate!)} 22:41, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Name of Montreal describes the earliest references to the city with and without accent (in some cases, without accent while in French text), so it seems the two variants arose in parallel. Nonetheless, as an international city, Montreal has both French and English names, just as other international cities do. Isaac Lin (talk) 23:16, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Would ya believe, I was considering getting the Infobox title fixed there & at Quebec Nordiques? GoodDay (talk) 20:47, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

FWIW, using nhl.com's site search, I found zero hits for "Montréal". Every usage on the site is the English "Montreal". the header of the Canadiens' official website (canadiens.nhl.com) uses the accent, but that is very likely only a lazy translation from the French page to the English. An issue that is very common with QMJHL team pages, where no effort of achieving credible usage of English is even attempted. Resolute 23:35, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Check the standings, do a mouseover on the Montréal logo at the top, etc. —Krm500 ^{(Communicate!)} 01:46, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Montreal Canadiens is preferred usage. GoodDay (talk) 12:21, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

I'm content with the article staying put (no accents). GoodDay (talk) 23:37, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

List of AHL seasons

I'm looking to improve this list, but this is kind of unchartered territory here. Suggestions about a format I've started at User:Grsz11/List of AHL seasons would be appreciated and that talk page. Thanks. Grsz¹¹ 05:27, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Personally I would leave as is. Its a list of the seasons, not of all that other information you are trying to add in. And in its current state it matches the other league seasons lists. Its meant to be a navigational list more than an informational list. -DJSasso (talk) 01:48, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

While true, I like the new idea shown by Grsz. It's informational and gives quick facts about the season without reducing the need of you clicking on the season link.--Giants27(Contribs|WP:CFL) 02:02, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Including that information is no different than including other information such as records on a list of team season or nationalities on a list of draft picks. Grsz¹¹ 02:07, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Yes and no, information on a list should be directly related to the list and highly relevant to the list and should not duplicate other lists. In fact one of the main criteria of FL is to not duplicate other lists. In this case things like the list for calder cup champions would be duplicated (as well as the other trophies). And in the end it would make it harder to navigate to the various seasons. This is basically a disambiguate page for all AHL seasons. -DJSasso (talk) 02:35, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Please be aware that during the first two "AHL Seasons" (1936-38) that although the name I-AHL was used, the games in fact were still being played between two then already existing four-team leagues (Can-Am and International) which played each other in an interlocking schedule of convenience. The two older circuits did not formally merge into what is now the AHL until a meeting held in New York City on June 28, 1938, when the seven remaining teams of the two leagues consolidated into one citcuit and admitted Hershey as an eighth member club replacing Buffalo which had folded early in the 1936-37 campaign. Centpacrr (talk) 03:08, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

I can understand the duplication concern. What about tracking the number of teams and changes in teams year to year? Grsz¹¹ 21:50, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

That might be a better way to go. -DJSasso (talk) 05:08, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Georgia Coburn

Copy and pasted version of Braydon Coburn. Needs to be deleted. RandySavageFTW (talk) 23:34, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Agreed, and done. Resolute 00:09, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Bringing up the flags in infobox issue again

Knowing how much fun we have with nationalities and the like, I felt like bringing it up again. It came to my attention that for the national team flags in infoboxes, we were only using senior teams as the standard, and keeping the rest, like junior teams, blank. I was totally unaware of this, and have been adding flags to several players who only played in the World Juniors, and not anything else. Looking through the archives, it doesn't seem like we actually decied to only limit it to senior, though if someone finds something, all the better. My proposal would be to suggest going for all senior teams, as well as World Juniors (U-20), and keep it at that. That covers nearly every player worth noting, and shouldn't cause much hassle with anything. Interested to hear what everyones thoughts are on this. Kaiser matias (talk) 03:13, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Agree, but U18 too IMO. —Krm500 ^{(Communicate!)} 04:24, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

On a somewhat related note, is there a compelling reason to have flags in team infoboxes? Is it really notable to display the nationality of the owner, GM, coach, and captain in this manner? Isaac Lin (talk) 04:36, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Football teams have this info, MLB/NFL/NBA don't. Could go either way, really. I think it's more relevant for euro league articles for sure.--Львівське (talk) 09:10, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Given how important the nationality of a player is treated in European football, I can understand that. Personally, I would favour removing them from the NHL infoboxes. Resolute 16:50, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

I too favour, deleting the flags. GoodDay (talk) 16:59, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

I have no problem using U20 but the minute we start using U18 we have trouble because of teams like Team Ontario. -DJSasso (talk) 17:05, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Team Ontario and the like are part of the World U-17 Hockey Challenge, an event that Canada hosts. The IIHF World U18 Championships is an IIHF tournament. Even so, I'm rather leery of dropping down to using the citizenship of some 16 and 17 year old kids. Kaiser matias (talk) 00:59, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

You said it, it's an IIHF tournament and thus U18 players fall under the same rules as seniors regarding which nation you represent, so it makes it a clear cut case for us and can then be used in the infoboxes. No? —Krm500 ^{(Communicate!)} 01:53, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Nicknames in infobox

Template:Infobox Ice Hockey Player no longer displays nicknames, but the field still remains on many articles in edit view. Mainly IPs add "nicknames" and we could run into some BLP issues. Is there a bot that could remove the field where it is being used? Grsz¹¹ 16:30, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Possibly. Or it sounds like another job for DJSasso's AWB sweeps  ;). Typically, I've been removing that field as I come across it. Resolute 16:48, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Yeah I have been meaning to do it using AWB for a long time. I just haven't gotten around to it. I will maybe start a sweep tomorrow. -DJSasso (talk) 17:06, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Why not just require citations? Many IPs could do many things. I mean if you're going to stop using something because an IP might abuse it, we might as well just disallow IP editing.--Crossmr (talk) 00:13, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Merged teams history

I'm going to start cleaning up the China Dragon article and I'm wondering how I should list the franchise history. Originally it was two teams, qiqihar and harbin both founded in 2004. they changed their name after 2 seasons, and then in another season they merged into the china sharks and are now the china dragon. Since the team is two merged teams both founded in the same year, should i have their founded year as 2007 for the sharks or 2004 for when the original franchises were created? Should I then list both series of names in the history section? or is there some kind of "defunct" team info box I could use in the section about them to put their histories in there? I feel like that would be a little pointless as the boxes would be pretty empty..just a creation date a couple names and a logo.--Crossmr (talk) 00:38, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Use the founded year as the year of the earliest franchise. This is how the Minnesota North Stars are handled because they were two merged teams...though they were sort of demerged later. As for listing their names I would just list both sets. -DJSasso (talk) 02:15, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll do that then--Crossmr (talk) 05:00, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Vancouver Canucks first-round draft picks successions boxes

Phew, just finished deleting those from the Canucks players bios-in-question. I assume I didt the right thing. GoodDay (talk) 21:36, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Holy smokers, now somebody's created 'Chicago Blackhawks first round draft picks successions boxes. I give up. GoodDay (talk) 23:51, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

..And the Detroit Red Wings aswell? I thought were decided not to have those succession boxes? GoodDay (talk) 23:54, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

I thought the decision was to replace the first round draft picks templates that were deleted with succession boxes? – Nurmsook! ^talk... 00:32, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

I thought succession boxes of 'Team first round picks' was discouraged? GoodDay (talk) 00:35, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

This is the discussion I am thinking of...Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Ice_Hockey/Archive30#Other_templates. – Nurmsook! ^talk... 00:39, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

But I understood it as 'succession boxes of NHL overall first picks' were OK; but not 'Team first-round picks'. GoodDay (talk) 00:42, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

That's what was discussed there, but at the actual TfD, it was opened to include teams' first round picks. Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2009_May_3#Template:FlamesFirstPick. – Nurmsook! ^talk... 00:45, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

My big blunder. I'll begin 'reverting' my deletions tomorrow (unless others want to revert them). GoodDay (talk) 00:52, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

(outdent) With help from Kaiser, my deletions have been reverted. GoodDay (talk) 16:32, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

At some point I may pick up replacing those templates, or I may not. I kinda lost interest in caring about it, lol. Resolute 20:00, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

I don't see any need (either Template or Succession box form) of information concerning a Team's first round pick history. To me it's the same as a Team's history of season scoring leaders or seasonal goal leaders etc etc. GoodDay (talk) 20:10, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Camille Henry

What's the status of this fellow. Is he still alive or not? Before I fixed the article infobox, it had him alive though the content had him dead. GoodDay (talk) 17:42, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

PS: The HHOF website isn't functioning, therefore I can't confirm either way. GoodDay (talk) 17:44, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

I made that infobox and I used HockeyDB which doesn't give death dates. I didn't notice it said he was dead in the lead so I just left it. RandySavageFTW (talk) 19:28, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Okie Dokie. GoodDay (talk) 19:30, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

1975–76 USSR Red Army ice hockey tour of North America to Super Series '76 or Super Series 1976

Howdy ya'll. Attempts to move the page-in-question, have proven impossible. Would somebody move the article for us? GoodDay (talk) 15:30, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

It's been moved back to the original name so a discussion can take place. -DJSasso (talk) 16:37, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Okie Dokie. GoodDay (talk) 16:38, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Could we get some more eyes on this discussion as its currently gone no where. It should be one of the two proposed new names, however there is disagreement over which one. -DJSasso (talk) 19:53, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Every NHL player with an article?

Ok, it's not totally the case. There has to be several players that don't have articles because theirs is a common name. But, as much as possible, every player who has played at least two games in the NHL on the List of NHL players by name lists has at least a very basic stub article. You will still see some red links there because either a re-direct hasn't been created or someone decided to add their own name to the list. If someone wants to go through all the names and find players still without articles, that would be great! Thanks! Patken4 (talk) 02:21, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Category: Lester Pearson Award winners

Should this be moved to Lester B. Pearson Award winners to match the article? RandySavageFTW (talk) 16:10, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Sure, as that's the actual name of the award. GoodDay (talk) 16:18, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Another Rfc at Naming conventions (people)

There is another Rfc that has been opened at the Naming Conventions page which concerns how this project and some others name articles. Seems to be same issue as last time. -DJSasso (talk) 18:35, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

IIHF U20 Relegation Round Teams

Hi, It's too early to place Austria and Czech Republic as the 4th and 5th place finishers yet. Mathematically (although perhaps improbably) one of them could still win their next two games and finish with 6 pts.

Psbutler (talk) 05:08, 28 December 2009 (UTC) Psbutler.

List of captains of the Washington Capitals

Perhaps we should have that article deleted. We've already got a captains list at Washington Capitals & as for the alternate captains, those are difficult to confirm. PS: There's no other article like this, for the other 29 clubs. GoodDay (talk) 16:54, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Was bold and redirected to the section on the capitals page. -DJSasso (talk) 18:23, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

2009–10 United States national women's ice hockey team

Do we need this fork from United States national women's ice hockey team? Grsz¹¹ 00:39, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

I would be bold and redirect. Generally we have been listing the most recent team on national team pages. -DJSasso (talk) 04:05, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Colorado Rangers

The term "Colorado Rangers" is a trademark of the Colorado Mounted Rangers. The Colorado Rangers page should be merged with the Denver Rangers page, after all, it is the same team. Could somebody please address my discussion comments on its discusson page? Thanks. 128.138.200.94 (talk) 21:56, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

If anything we would redirect the title Colorado Rangers to the Denver Rangers page. As the Colorado Mounted Rangers page is at appropriate location. I have replied to you also at the talk page. -DJSasso (talk) 05:03, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Gold medal in the World Cup of Hockey?

I've noticed infoboxes for international competition in hockey player articles where required, it uses gold/silver/bronze medals for the World Cup of Hockey; why? There's no gold, silver, bronze medals for that tournament, the winner gets the WCH trophy. GoodDay (talk) 23:07, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Speaking of Cups, anybody wanna join? </advertisement> :) iMatthew ^talk at 23:09, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Rofl, already have. And I've stunted my editing the past couple weeks to keep things eligible for that.  ;) as far as the WCH goes, I think as a matter of convenience. If medals weren't handed out, then fixing those entries would be ideal.

To my knowledge, there was no gold/silver/bronze medals. The Czech Republic & the USA didn't play a 'bronze medal game' & Canada/Finland wasn't called the 'gold medal game'. The word 'gold' has been used erroneously in the hockey media. GoodDay (talk) 20:14, 31 December 2009 (UTC)