User talk:Kinston eagle

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[edit] Basketball image

Hi! I just wanted to drop a note about the image Firstbasketball.jpg that you uploaded about a month ago — it's a nice addition to the basketball article, because it's clearly notable and important (rather than random) (assuming it's accurate etc. etc.) — thanks! Neonumbers 00:37, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Golf

Hi Kinston eagle, and thanks for your contributions to Edgmont Country Club. I was wondering if you would like to join WikiProject Golf? It would be a great opportunity to collaborate with other wikipedians on golf articles. Thanks again. Grover 05:16, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

No Thank you. Thanks for the offer though.Kinston eagle 10:44, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Teams vs. Former teams in MLB player infoboxes

Hi ... after a good deal of discussion over the past week or so on the WP:WPBBP talk page we reached a consensus that we would change the headers in the MLB player infoboxes from "former teams" to "teams". As such, please don't revert our work in making these changes. If you disagree with the decision we made, post your concerns on the project talk page. Thanks. --Sanfranman59 03:12, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi, echoing Sanfranman59's statement -- I think that we're moving from "former teams" to "teams" in general, though I don't think that there's going to be a mass move to change all "formerteams" to "teams" at once, and any help in fixing mistakes ("formerteams" that include current or vice versa) would be appreciated; but with all the great new writing that needs to be done on the encyclopedia, I don't think that reversions are helpful. -- Myke Cuthbert (talk) 04:53, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
Minor League and college teams do not belong under "teams" in player infoboxs, please see [[1]] for more information, it seems like you have a history of just making edits because you feel like they should be there but they are not approved, like changing teams back to formerteams after its been decided that formerteams is going to go away. There is a reason why no player has minor league teams on their list of teams, they are not useful, players can play for alot of minor league teams before making the big leagues, whats next are you going to start adding high schools, middle schools, little league teams to their list of old teams. MetsFan153 11:40, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I think that minor league teams should only be listed for a player with little or no MLB experience -- they are not an important part of a major league player's biography 95% of the time. Experience at the top foreign leagues (esp. Japan) generally is. (And here's where I hate infoboxes in general -- I don't think anyone would object to the adding of minor league teams to the prose of the articles). -- Myke Cuthbert (talk) 15:20, 27 May 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Ramirez/Lofton Trade

Wow. A single A player being traded for a veteran major leaguer? That seems to make him pretty notable.Kinston eagle 00:50, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

True. I see you working.  :) Nick22aku 00:55, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
...And not once but twice as I'm sure you remember the Bob Wickman trade last year. Nick22aku 00:58, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wilson Tobs

Thanks for the kind words--I really enjoyed creating some of the entries for many teams I read about in the sports section here in North Carolina. Please go ahead and add some history for the Wilson Tobs. You are probably far more qualified than me to write about that. Thanks again Jeick 23:39, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kingston Indians

Hey, I read your post at the WikiProject NC talk page. Although I'm no expert, I would recommend getting a Wikipedia:Peer review. Also, let me now what I can do to help, I'd love to see a North Carolina related article make featured status. --Mr.crabby (Talk) 16:38, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reggie Jackson

Can you please go to Reggie jacksons talk page and vote for either A's or Yankees colors in the infobox--Yankees10 20:55, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ongoing AfD of I Don't Dance

I submitted my comment to the Billboard 100 news, and I think that the article will definitely be kept if some of the ideas I placed there are used. Please check it outRavenmasterq 15:59, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Sports and games

Hi. I just noticed at Portal:Sports and games/Selected content nominations where you had nominated Kinston Indians. I have set it up for next month at Portal:Sports and games/Selected article/October 2007. I just used the first few paragraphs from the article - please feel free to change anything you would like. --B 22:39, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Alphabet books

I have just started to propose this article for Did you know. However I see you have spent a lot of time wikifying it (and I see it has a way to go). Was this your intention? Are you willing to help? Do you know where the "stuff" came from. Is it original? Lots of questions ... sorry Victuallers 19:22, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Are you that Kinston Eagle?

I'm a Cleveland Indians fan who lives in NC and sometimes watches the Kinston Indians and visits their web forum and there is a Kinston Eagle there as well. Is that you? LightningMan 15:45, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Skip Water's homosexuality

Dude, Skip Waters really is gay.Bwjs 03:10, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

  • Millions of people are. That doesn't mean he's notable. Kinston eagle 03:11, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NASCAR Fan24's secret page!

The Secret Page Detective Award
This user has found NASCAR Fan24's hidden page! Congratulations! -NASCAR Fan24(radio me!) 10:38, 4 October 2007 (UTC)


[edit] My Autograph Book

Thanks for signing. Sasha Callahan 20:47, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Notability Sports

Please rescind your nomination for deletion of the notability sports page. We can just tag it as rejected and be done with it immediately. An MfD will muddy the clarity of the present consensus and is likely to work at cross purposes to your apparent intent. I tried this last year with terrible result. --Kevin Murray 15:58, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] North Carolina Wikipedians

I was wondering if there are plenty of more Wikipedians from North Carolina, especially Newport where I'm from. I recommend there should be a page list for it. Bwjs 16:32, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reggie Jackson

well that is stupid, why does every other infobox have color but not his--75.82.16.153 13:55, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reggie Jacksons color

Please dont change the colors on Reggie Jacksons infobox anymore, there was one main person who kept changing it to A's colors and that was Pascack, and he hasnt edited since August. What I think is that we keep the Yankees colors in the infobox, but if someone keeps changing it back and forth, then we go back to neutral colors--Yankees10 16:08, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Just wait until people keep changing the colors back and forth to change it back to neutral colors, you dont control the article, so please stop, and by the way I didnt appreciate the response you said about me saying: "You're ridiculous", I could report that because you are offending me--Yankees10 18:08, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Its pretty dumb that you would use your IP address 69.68.238.142 to change the colors, like I wouldnt know it was you--Yankees10 21:45, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] BTW

You signed my autograph book twice. SashaCall (Sign!)/(Talk!) 20:19, 24 October 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Tex Taylor

I do not know if this Tex Taylor alive or not. However, there is a policy (see Category:Living people under Expansion) to put anyone not known to be dead and who would be under 90 years old in the Living people category. Afasmit (talk) 05:37, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Players on one team

I've undone some of the color changes you've done. I see nothing wrong with having colors for retired players that have only played for one team. Even players who have played all but one year on one team. Seems silly. —Wknight94 (talk) 03:37, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

I don't like it. Let's discuss. Was there some agreement to this approach somewhere? I've seen discussion in various places but I assume you can recall where since you're doing the mass changes. —Wknight94 (talk) 03:41, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
I started a section at WT:MLB#Infobox colors ---- again. Can you at least hold off on the single-team players until a discussion can take place? There's no rush after all. There is at least one other who agrees with me. —Wknight94 (talk) 03:52, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
There are thousands of retired players with articles here. Surely you can skip the few where I disagree with your approach, can't you? —Wknight94 (talk) 04:23, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
Not "one or two", just one. If you'd like to even leave the ones gray, I'd consider that. I'd be interested to know if there have been any disputes in such cases. My guess is no. —Wknight94 (talk) 04:32, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
By the way, you're wasting your time anyway. To remove the color from all retired player infoboxes, all you would need to do is edit Template:Infobox MLB retired. —Wknight94 (talk) 04:35, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
You can use {{Editprotected}} on the template's talk page. Or WP:RFPP#Current requests for significant edits to a protected page. As for a controversy, what you're trying to do is resolving the few color disputes that have come up (Reggie Jackson, Tug McGraw ---- where else?) at the expense of changing thousands of articles (yes, literally thousands), possibly causing a huge uproar that would be difficult to undo. —Wknight94 (talk) 04:53, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kinston

First of all, my "true intention" is to make it a great article. (see WP:FAITH) Please don't accuse me of having an agenda when you don't even know me. Someone being a gospel singer (even though i'm agnostic, i am related to christians in La Grange and don't hate christians) or a conservative politician (i'm a conservative libertarian btw) is not the reason I removed them. They don't seem noteworthy, especially the activist. I'll put them back since you're having a conniption, but once again, don't accuse people.--AgnosticPreachersKid (talk) 02:42, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Also, look at lists in other cities and towns. Many of them include notable people that at some point lived in the town. Please don't try to be "cute" and use the Kinston Indians example because that is an exception for Kinston.--AgnosticPreachersKid (talk) 02:48, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Spa(u)lding

Thanks for catching my typo -- every darned time I type his name, I put a "u" in it. I thought I caught them all, but apparently not. :) --Fabrictramp (talk) 21:26, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] TC&FCNSCFIBBA

Hey! Who said you could stop by our completely non-secret cabal clubhouse?!?

But seriously, thanks for answering my question about the PR. I had a feeling it'd take a while, and you only confirmed it for me. Feel free to let us know if there's anything we can do to improve Cap Anson that we missed. Cheers, Caknuck (talk) 22:22, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Baseball parks of Toledo, Ohio

Thanks for your input on this article. I made some more changes. If you're interested, please review. Regarding the Kinston Indians, I saw a game or two there in the early 1990s. I gather that they have remodeled Grainger Stadium since then. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 18:32, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Brandon Durden

Many thanks for catching single-A all-star bit on Brandon Durden. I read through that article twice before proposing deletion, and still missed it. (Which is a sign that article could use some work. *grin*)--Fabrictramp (talk) 13:42, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Justin Masterson

The AFD Barnstar
For cleaning up the article I created, Justin Masterson, and starting the saving snowball fight at it's AFD nomination, I award you the AFD Barnstar. Thanks!--Ryan (talk) 23:41, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

I would just like to stop by and say thanks for improving the article Justin Masterson and voting keep at the AFD. After your comment, the rest of the votes were keep. It was also keeped becuase you cleaned up the article.--Ryan (talk) 23:41, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ummm...

What is going on in this article. I'm not sure I understand the rationale behind your edits. It's pretty clearly a speedy page (either A7 or attack). Any reason you're wikilinking it? --Bfigura (talk) 00:30, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 2008 Rochester Red Wings

You don't think they'd take away my hard work over there do you? I'm kind of worried now! :( Philatio (talk) 05:15, 14 May 2008 (UTC)