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Hello SportsAddicted! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some recommended guidelines to facilitate your involvement. Happy Editing! :) Dlohcierekim 13:19, 3 September 2006 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial How to edit a page The five pillars of Wikipedia Manual of Style Be bold in editing How to write a great article WikiProjects Getting your info out there Cite your sources Neutral Point of View Point of View Verifiability Uploading images Image use policy Getting more Wikipedia rules Policy Library Getting Help New contributors' help page Where to ask a question Help Desk Frequently Asked Questions Getting along Wikiquette Civility Sign your posts Wikipedians Conflict resolution Getting technical Pages needing attention Peer review Utilities Village pump

[edit] Linking to Defender

When you want to link to the article about the football position defender, please do not link to Defender, as that is a disambiguation page (which nothing should be linked to). Instead link to the Defender (football) article, by writing out [[Defender (football)|defender]]. Regards, -- Jeff3000 20:31, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Oops sorry, I think I have to check my links better next time. Thanks, SportsAddicted 11:48, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Another one to check is Dutch, please link to the Netherlands as [[Netherlands|Dutch]]. Thanks -- Jeff3000 04:28, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Patricia Labee and her template (help requested)

Can anyone please have a look at the article about Patricia Labee? I created an infobox for beach volleyball players, which I have used on her article already. The last part of the template is about the best results achieved by the player, but for some reason this is nog showing up in the article, while it does show up when accessing the template. Can anyone help me with this ? Thanks SportsAddicted 14:54, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

I'll look into it! -- Merope 15:17, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, SportsAddicted 15:31, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Good gravy, I don't know what's going on, either. My guess is that the infobox template is buggered--Patricia Labee is the only page to use it so far. I'll put the helpme tag back, since I don't have a clue. Sorry! -- Merope 15:41, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

I took a look and fixed it. The problem was that the template has this line: {{#if: {{{bestresults|<noinclude>-</noinclude>}}} | In that line it is asked if there is a bestresults variable in the template. If it is found, the best results are displayed, if not, they are not. I put a 1 as the variable value, and it was fixed. I will change the template later so that it is not needed to check for that variable. -- ReyBrujo 16:34, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks ReyBrujo, I also answered your question on the talk page of the template. SportsAddicted 21:17, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scott Evans

Hey, thought you'd like to know that an anon is hijacking your Scott Evans article and changing it to refer to another Scott Evans. I've reverted twice and don't want to get into a WP:3RR situation so I thought maybe you'd want to weigh-in on which Scott Evans belongs there. —Wknight94 (talk) 01:25, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Hey there, I saw it and would have reverted him if you wouldn't have done it already. Anyways, as there is this other Scott Evans as well, I think we have to make it a disambiguation page then. SportsAddicted 01:28, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Not really. WP:D essentially says to think about what readers are most likely looking for when they type "Scott Evans" in the search. That should be the article at Scott Evans. Less likely candidates should be at Scott Evans (lacrosse) and Scott Evans would need a {{dablink}} at the top pointing to Scott Evans (lacrosse). You should only do what you did - create a dab page as the main article - if there is an equal likelihood that a reader was looking for each Scott Evans. I'm not familiar with either of these Scott Evans so I'll leave it up to you but, in general, I'm not a big fan of dab pages with only two entries on them. —Wknight94 (talk) 01:38, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

OK I actually agree with you, but I recently moved from the Dutch wiki to this wiki and over there it was the standard to do it this way. Anyways, the badminton player isn't really famous (yet) either, although he is a talent. So I think they're quite equal to each other for now and it can always be changed again afterwards. Cheers, SportsAddicted 01:43, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Looking at your user page I saw that you're probably from Rotterdam (town), New York ? That's cool, as I'm from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. ;) SportsAddicted 01:52, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Heh heh. Well, it's pretty obvious which Rotterdam was named for which.  :) —Wknight94 (talk) 02:01, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

LOL, I was wondering wether you would think those are quite equal as well ? ;) SportsAddicted 02:11, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Certainly not. One is a world-renowned seaport city - the other is my home town! —Wknight94 (talk) 02:19, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Aren't administrator's home towns privileged? SportsAddicted 02:26, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

I missed that policy.  :) —Wknight94 (talk) 03:02, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, then maybe I was mistaken and should we set up such a policy, just for you. SportsAddicted 03:07, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Garrincha picture

Many thanks for the good picture you recently contributed with. --ChaChaFut 04:48, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

You are very welcome. Isn't it great we can all create a better world? SportsAddicted 07:58, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sports biographies improvement

Hey - I've joined your project - which is a very good idea, even though it's huge for one person :) - and left a comment at User talk:SportsAddicted/Sports biographies/Cricket. Sam Vimes | Address me 18:41, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for joining, I will take a look and will comment where needed. SportsAddicted 19:28, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Do you want people to add names to your lists, or should they be left here for you to add them later? Sam Vimes | Address me 19:32, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Feel free to add them to the lists, I have all pages on my wachtlist, so I will see what happens there. Review the articles immediately or flag them with {{ntbc}} when you want to do that later. SportsAddicted 19:40, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

If you want to start a sports biographies improvement, please don't leave out important components when creating articles. See this diff to Ramil Aritkulov. Punkmorten 10:24, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

You're right. The thing is, there is so many categories I don't know of yet, or it's hard to remember which ones to use. I have to study categories more often. Thanks for the reminder though. SportsAddicted 11:05, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oh ja

Als je toch niet op nl. actief gaat zijn, kan je dan misschien je modschap daar opzeggen? Hoeft niet hoor, maar dan is het wel duidelijk... NielsFTalk to me.. 01:48, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, ben er nog niet helemaal over uit en mocht ik terugkeren, dan is het fijn die taken nog te kunnen uitvoeren. Ik weet niet of ik al op inactief sta, maar dat zou zo neergezet kunnen worden. Eerst nog even aankijken hoe het hier gaat en dan komt die beslissing over nl.wiki vanzelf bovendrijven. SportsAddicted 01:54, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Eredivisie aanpassingen

Is goed maat, ik zal er aan denken. Zeg ga jij nog verder met vermelding van wedstrijduitslagen per ronde zoals je dat zo mooi gedaan hebt voor ronde 1 t/m 3? Dat zou overigens ook een welkome uitbreiding van Wiki NL...

Mazzel, Pino

[edit] Holland Series

Replied to you on my talk page.--DaveOinSF 17:51, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alexei Kervezee photo

Hello... you added a nice photo to Kervezee's article, but I don't think we can use it at the moment. To qualify for the {{promotional}} tag you used, there must be evidence of who owns the copyright on the photo; simply mentioning the website where you found it (ie Cricinfo) is probably not good enough. Also, "promotional" images must only be of low resolution; this one is certainly too big. I'm going to ask on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cricket to see what the situation is, so you might want to look there. Loganberry (Talk) 01:18, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Answered at the Wikiproject cricket. SportsAddicted 07:33, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Football AID 1 October – 8 October

Thank you for participating in the Football AID vote this week.

Ben Thatcher has been selected as this week's collaboration. Please do help in working to improve it.

[edit] Current sports events

Hello - not sure if you were aware that you did this, but please do not remove the <div id="1_October_2006"> </div> and similar from the articles. They are used to jump to the proper position when someone clicks on the date on the calendar. --After Midnight ⁰⁰⁰¹ 04:07, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry wasn't meant to do that of course. Hope it's not much of a problem to restore it. SportsAddicted 04:20, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Nope, not a problem, I already have returned it. I only mentioned it, because it took me a while to learn what those do and I don't know how common they are for other users. Thanks! --After Midnight ⁰⁰⁰¹ 04:23, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

LOL, well I didn't know why they were there, but I didn't have the intention to remove them. And thanks to this mistake I now know what they are for. SportsAddicted 04:25, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chinese Hockey Squad

You're welcome :) --Aleenf1 06:28, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fencers

Hi, when creating articles about fencers please consider taking the time to see if there is more to add to the article (checking "what links here" is a good idea). For instance Igor Tikhomirov was an Olympic medalist in 1988. Thanks, Punkmorten 08:52, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip, I will get used to it some day. SportsAddicted 09:51, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Brazil in Lusophone Games

Well i think it's because their season is different than in Europe.. the Football Championship in Brazil is running with matches yesterday and in the weekend, so they decided not to take part of the competition.. About their Basketball, i don't know, but i think it's the same reason Calapez 14:20, 5 Octuber 2006 (GMT)

   Yes, that's why the football competition already started, to have the some date than European and African Qualifyers.. The football teams in the event are all Under 20 mainly --Calapez 16:21, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bio templates

I'm not sure what you're asking. Are you suggesting that these articles shouldn't be a part of the biography project? If you're curious as to whether I'm following you around, I'm not. I just grab batches of 50 or more new pages at a time and work them over the following day. I actually wondered what the little medal looking things were, and I see now what you're doing. It's very interesting, and I wish you well with it. I think sports bios would stil qualify as part of the overall biography project, though. Drop me a line any time if I'm misunderstanding you or for any other reason. Erechtheus 22:15, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Oh, that makes perfect sense. As far as I understand it, everyone who wants to participate can be a part of any project. You're perfectly welcome to add the templates to the talk page I have been adding. I don't even know who started the biography project. I think the biography template is a very important one to add to the talk page, particularly when the person is alive. It's important that everyone possible reads and understands the WP:BLP policy. Thank you for responding and good luck with your editing. Erechtheus 02:41, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Field hockey players

I saw you updated the {{WPBiography}} tag for a bunch of Argentine wome hockey players. Among other things you say an infobox is needed for the articles; which infobox should be used for these cases? Thanks, Mariano(t/c) 07:41, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

You think it would be wise to create a generic SportsPerson infobox? Or should I create a specific WomanFiledHockeyPlayer infobox? something in between? Mariano(t/c) 07:51, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Tell me what you think about the {{Infobox field hockey player}} so I can tune it up before start using it... Mariano(t/c) 09:32, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Done. Would you care to publicite it a bit? got to run, won't be back til monday. Otherwise I'll do it next week. Take care, Mariano(t/c) 14:16, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Yea, I thought about the continental championship, being the Pan American Games the South American equivalent of the European Championship, but I wasn't sure how to handle it. We could:

• use Continental Championship wihtout link
• have both(all) championships and make visible only the one used (europeanchampyears, europeanchamptitles, panamyears, panamtitles, etc.)
• or consider it second class information to be displayed outside the info-box.

I've never been for too heave info-boxes that are 5 times longer than the article itself (example: Naomi van As), so I would prefer to have less important titles (same thing for club titles) outside the infobox, but I don't have a strong oppinion on that.

A small thing on the use of the template. I thought of championshipyears as "championship in which the player participated", and not "champions in which the player won the following titles" later described with championshiptitles. I see Fatima Moreira de Melo doesn't have a row for the 2003 champions's trophy. She didn't participate, or she just didn't win a medal? we should first decide and the clarify the use of the pair of parameters to avoid this ambiguity. Cheers, Mariano(t/c) 07:37, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Ok, then I suggest we add both the Pan American Games and the European Championship as optional parameters, and later add the corresponding Asian/African/Oceanian championships when needed. Regarding the parameters though, how do we state in the info-box that a player participated of an even, but didn't win any medal? Use a - at medals? Are the parameters' names:competitionyears and competitionmedals coherent with it?

BTW, have you thought of adding a link to your talk page at your signature? It comes handy when someone want's to leave you a message. See you, Mariano(t/c) 09:46, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Should we change the parameters competitionmedals for competitionresults then? I'm asking you so I implement these changes for the new parameters (I will have to fix the players that already use the infobox).

for the signature, from the menu on top of any page:My Preferences/Signature. You can copy whatever you have at your dutch page, just be careful with the English words (Talk page, User, etc.)

For example, my signature is:[[User:Marianocecowski|Mariano]]<small>([[User talk:Marianocecowski|t]]/[[Special:Contributions/Marianocecowski|c]])</small>. By the way, congratulations on the title World Cup gold!! Mariano(t/c) 11:18, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

The change in the parameter name is small, but a standard on the use of the Infobox must be set. As now, only medals should be included. I will change it to results.

About your signature, you re-coded html elements. try using: [[User:SportsAddicted|SportsAddicted]]<small>([[User talk:SportsAddicted|discuss]])</small> (without the nowiki tags!!!!). that results is SportsAddicted(discuss) (discuss here is not a link because we ARE in the talk page ;o)

Take care, and enjoy your vacations! Mariano(t/c) 11:38, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Just realized... There's no European Field Hockey Championship article!!! Also missing is Hockey at the Pan American Games. I suggest we wait until created before adding them to the infobox... Mariano(t/c) 11:45, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Mea culpa... Forgot to tell you to tic (turn on) the Raw signature option... Mariano(t/c) 12:09, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RWC maps

Hi SportsAddicted, Thanks again for doing the map for the 2007 Rugby World Cup, its really great. If its not too much trouble, do you think you could have a go at doing one for the 1995 Rugby World Cup? Did it take long? If you don't have have any time right now then thats cool, but if you feel you could do it then that would be really appreciated. Cheers. Cvene64 12:24, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Hey, I just got both your messages then, and wow! Thank you so much for doing that. The map is just perfect, it looks really great. Thanks for taking the time to do it! Cheers Cvene64 12:33, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reply

I got your message, yeah, I'm bored and looking for stubs to help expand it in several sports, so I want to help you too if you need it... reply to me if you want me to help the article. Rakuten06 14:05, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Zou je mij een pleziertje kunnen doen?

Hehe, is goed, ik zal m'n best in ieder geval doen. Veel plezier op je vakantie :) jaco♫plane 08:34, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Flickrreview

Hi, thanks for your question about Creative Commons licenses. As you can read at Commons:Licensing, WikiCommons do not accept images that can not be altered. All I can suggest is that you contact the Flickr user, Michelos, and ask if he/she would be willing to license the photos under a less restrictive license. Thuresson 21:28, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Please do contact the photographer. Don't worry about the photos being deleted; deleted photos can be undeleted by an administrator. Thuresson 04:50, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chinese Taipei v. Taiwan

I have put Taiwan as parenthetical for each entry of Chinese Taipei in the 2006 Intercontinental Cup page due to the fact that players come from all over the country, not only Taipei and to make sure people know that this teams is in fact Taiwan, and not China. THe main Chinese language sports website here in Taiwan is using Taiwan, not Jhonghua for the team name. I will be attending many of the games and will update results and provide photos. Ludahai 01:31, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Philippines

Since you are so interested, please make the article and there will be no problem. It looks rather odd to have a well-ordered page have that one slash of red all the way through it. I have put a lot of time into that page and I want it to look good. I believe that the original page creator does get SOME leeway in some of these matters on Wikipedia. Ludahai 08:32, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll change them right now. It is almost gametime BTW for the 2006 Konami Cup Asia Series Game. I'll try to get them done before game time. Ludahai 08:56, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Speedskating World Cup

Thanks! Hopefully I'll have the energy to update it all throughout the season. :)

You're doing good work all round too, lots of nice articles and good work on current events. Certainly a lot less biased now. ;) Sam Vimes | Address me 10:23, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

(Late reply) I've seen User:SportsAddicted/Sportsnews, yes. I'm not quite sure whether it belongs in the wiki namespace - after all, the encyclopedia is supposed to be a bit permanent - but if you can find an okay title ("List of current sports events") or something, I suppose it's ok. Sam Vimes | Address me 09:14, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Van nistelrooy stats

The stats I got for his time at Man U were taken from here [[1]], and it may just be that I made some errors while extrapolating data from the table--I was rather rushed while creating the chart. Thanks for keeping an eye out! --Flute138 11:37, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Darts player infobox

I've tried to add some pieces of info to the darts player infobox but on Phil Taylor and Raymond van Barneveld some details have never appeared on edits such as darts used - my additional current ranking doesn't either - can you help, must be missing a comma, squiggle or something? I'll try to add infoboxes to other top players once its fixed Seedybob2 14:05, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Fixed it - the template had been adjusted from another sport, but had "teammate" or something left in. Since there was no teammate section it would never display everything added below. Seedybob2 23:27, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Intercontinental Cup

Since the Dutch can technically still be caught, I removed the color, though it is HIGHLY unlikely. If Australia beats the Netherlands by a large margin (not likely), and Taiwan can beat Cuba while keeping them off the board (not likely), the Netherlands could lose a three-way tiebreaker. Not likely, but mathematically possible, so they don't get the green yet. Ludahai 12:44, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Actually, Taiwan's chances of progressing are pretty good. If the Netherlands beats Australia, the Dutch get third, and unless Italy wins (creating a three way tie, which Taiwan will still win unless it get clobbered by a second string Cuban side), Taiwan sneaks in as seed number four. I expect (and hope) the Dutch win today. Even if we beat Cuba, you beat us on tiebreaker anyway - that was a great game.Ludahai 01:12, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Wow! Your manager has quite the potty mouth! Well, NOW the Dutch get green. Ludahai 14:03, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

It wasn't what he said to the press - most English language obscenities don't translate well into Chinese anyway. It was what he said to the umpire in the 11th inning that got him kicked out of the game. Every word of it was heard over the microphone behind home plate and was on TV. I can't repeat the language in a public forum, it was THAT bad! He might be facing a suspension or some other sanction after that outburst. Ludahai 01:55, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

No problem. Always happy to be of service. BTW, could you please keep an eye on the tournament page this weekend? I have a soccer match in the afternoon and tickets to the Cuba-Taiwan rematch Saturday night, and am going to both medal matches on Sunday after running a marathon in the morning (yes - busy weekend). Could you also update the scores here (Portal:Current events/Sports) as well. Thanks.Ludahai 05:47, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Handball tournament

Yep, I'm stalking you - see the "user contributions" button? ;) Don't take it in a bad way, I'm interested in most of the tournaments you make articles on, and usually also interested in improving them. :) Sam Vimes | Address me 22:32, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2006 Asian Games

I hope you can improve the wording in this article, as my english is lack of grammar. AND i have voted oppose, with more points, you can view, it should make different. Thank you. --Aleenf1 08:05, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Munich

Would you be interested in helping out atWikiProject Munich? Kingjeff 21:58, 18 November 2006 (UTC) The fact is there is no requirement of you having to know something about Munich. For instance, the other member in the WikiProject knows a lot about Wikipedia Policy and can help bringing articles up to policy standards. Maybe there's an area that you know about where you can contribute. Kingjeff 22:05, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

After looking at your user page, it looks like you might be good at assessing articles. Is this true? Kingjeff 22:07, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Do you know how to assess articles? It loos like you do from your user page. Maybe you could help out with that. I still haven't put templates on all the Munich-related articles and I surely haven't assesed them all. Kingjeff 22:15, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

It'sjust that you have Gold class articles, Silver class articles and so on. You may have created yourself but it looks like you know something about assessing articles. Kingjeff 22:22, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Would you like to be in charge of assessing articles? Although it will require you to change Template:WikiProject Munich. Kingjeff 22:30, 18 November 2006 (UTC)