User talk:Oldelpaso

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2005 – April 2006

Aaaaaaaargh

Aaaaaaaargh. What do you think should be done? Qwghlm 23:58, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

I've fixed the Villa, Bolton and Everton articles. I didn't revert them, I just merged some paragraphs together until the structure was roughly the same as it was before the offending edits. Going through them struck me how bad some of the other Premiership club articles are, both in terms of poor writing and POV, and how they focus on the present so much (Everton's in particular contains a vast running commentary on the current season). Some of them should definitely be nominated for future Improvement Drives.

I've prodded the Liverpool masseur, btw. No way does he meet any sort of notability guideline. Qwghlm 22:52, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Football AID 23 April - 29 April

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Football AID 30 April - 6 May

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History of the FIFA World Cup has been selected as this week's collaboration. Please do help in working to improve it.

Peer review

Hi Oldelpaso, Iam the person that submitted Rugby union at PR, your comments will be very helpful in the near future, as I plan to work on it very soon. Thats why I wanted to ask you if you could take a look at another article on the PR which I submitted as well - the Rugby World Cup - Wikipedia:Peer review/Rugby World Cup, as I noticed you are a main contributer to the FIFA WC, the quality article that was used as an inspiration for the RWC (obviously, I don't want it to be a blow for blow copy of the Football WC article structure, but thats kind of as it stands now, but I will make sure that the appropriate changes are made). But yeah, just if you have a spare moment some time, it would be great to hear your opinion on the article. Cvene64 15:23, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments - I responded on the peer review page. Also, I will make a good effort to play down its similarity to the FIFA article, and sorry about the edit summaries, I will do it always from now on. Thanks again. Cvene64 04:04, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Eyal Berkovic

I understand your reasoning for moving Eyal Berkovic even if I disagree with it. Even though he was only with the club for a short time, he made a very important contribution during that time. By your reasoning though, there are many players missing. For example: Neil Young from the sixties, Rodney Marsh from the seventies. CTID Cymruisrael 06:39, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Hello Oldelpaso, and thanks for supporting me on my recent request for adminship! It has succeeded with an unanimous support of 67 votes, so that I am now an administrator. Please feel free to leave a note on my talk page should you wish to leave any comments or ask for any help. Again, thanks a lot, AndyZ t 21:55, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Your recent edit to Arsenal F.C. was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to recognize and repair vandalism to Wikipedia articles. If the bot reverted a legitimate edit, please accept our apologies – if you bring it to the attention of the bot's owner, we may be able to improve its behavior. Click here for frequently asked questions about the bot and this warning. // Tawkerbot2 12:13, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

diff of bot edit. Looks like the bot isn't perfect yet :) Oldelpaso 12:21, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

lol. aLii 18:58, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

2006 World Cup articles/cats

Well, I just thought that categorizing 2006 FIFA World Cup (squads) there is a good idea... Actually, there's more to articles in this category than only squads - they can be expanded to something like 2004 European Football Championship - Russia, with qualification info and match results. In this case they should be moved out of Category:2006 FIFA World Cup Squads, and I guess the category should be nominated for deletion instead of renaming. Conscious 19:53, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

My nomination is at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 May 12#Category:2006 FIFA World Cup Squads. Conscious 05:36, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

World Cup 2006 Squads - Guily

Agreed, I was just trying to prevent further discussion on the talk page about it. Apologies if it sounded harsh or as if I was attacking you. That was not my intent. Batman2005 20:52, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

No Worries! Batman2005 22:51, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Michael Woodruff

The article Michael Woodruff has just achieved featured status. Thanks for participating in the peer review and helping to bring it up to that level! Cool3 20:06, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

your Robbie Fowler edit message typo

"rouge comma", haha

er yeah, no real message here :P aLii 18:56, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Actually I had come across WP:ROUGE before - I found it from the Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars page! I found my way to that page after finding Mel Etitis to be obnoxious and arrogant. In the talk article above mine on his page was an edit war about Bridge over Troubled Water. Should the "o" of "over" be capitalised or not? Then Wikipedia:Naming conventions#Album titles and band names, and then Talk:I'm with You, which completes the circle back to lame edit wars...

The best part of the story is that Mel Etitis was listed as a Rouge Admin ;) aLii 19:26, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Thank you for the nomination. I have accepted it, and it's at WP:RFA now. Conscious 20:38, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

I was promoted yesterday with unanimous support, that was impressive! Thanks again. Conscious 07:05, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Quick tip

If you're adding a comment about a template, instead of using nowiki tags, use the {{tl}} template, oyu get a clickable result: {{dab_current}} --GraemeL ^(talk) 21:20, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

RfA

I notcied that you participated in the Michael Woodruff featured article discussion, so I thought you mihgt want to vote in the Rfa for Cool3, the creator at WP:RFA. ShortJason 15:13, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Seeking an opinion

As an experienced Wikipedian with an interest in football pages and a record of work on a Featured Article, your opinion would be welcomed on a discussion at Talk:Swansea City A.F.C.. After various attempts to add a site with no original content, the site's owner has now recruited someone else to do the same. The question is this: am I correct to delete links to sites which themselves consist of others' copyrighted material and links to other sites? Given the paucity of real content, I have a strong suspicion that the site is operated on a "cash for clicks" basis.

I would like, ultimately, to see the Swansea City A.F.C. Wikipage reach Featured standard, so I am inviting opinions from Wikipedians with sustantial edit histories. Thank you for your time. - Stevecov 14:22, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

FAID Vote

Can you vote for Austria national football team Kingjeff 15:55, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

I just need some votes up there. Kingjeff 16:12, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Category:English Premiership players

Fair enough. I removed them accordingly. Mark272 19:18, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

FIFA World Rankings

I'm not sure about this so I thought I'd ask you, is this source good enough for wikipedia? Philc _T^E_C^I 00:14, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Also I was wondering, since I've now added a crticisms section to the article, what do you think is next on the agenda for the article? Philc _T^E_C^I 00:55, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

yeh, the reference says "But , FIFA ranking have been the subject of considerable debate, ever since its inception in 1993." which is what we neede citation for isn't it. Philc _T^E_C^I 17:25, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Ok, cheers for your help, I also fixed fixed the missing ref. Philc _T^E_C^I 11:52, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

BE sp

Please don't be offended, but I assume from your page that you are a Brit. Can you please check that you're using a British English dictionary for spell checking for relevant articles. You introduced the American spelling of manoeuvring (i.e. maneuvering) into the football (soccer) article with this edit - http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Football_%28soccer%29&diff=33114342&oldid=33112248 Jooler 01:45, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising

I just got warned for adding 'add commercial links (or links to your own private websites) to Wikipedia'. One of the first things I discovered once I became a journalist is to make sure I have the right information before I start spreading them. As a journalist I've used that site many years and even exchanged a few e-mails with the owner who told me he's running the site on his own and is barely financing it from his owen pocket so that hardly makes it a commercial website. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as an incommercial site that provides accurate info I had every right to add its links to these pages as the sole reason why I wasted my time adding those links was so that other people who seek information could get them fast. So put back those links and don't warn me again unless you know all the facts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.200.209.120 (talk • contribs)

Thanks a whole ton!

Can't thank you enough. Thank you SO much for volunteering to take up the FAID responsibilty..really appreciate it! -Aabha (talk) 07:04, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Football AID June 4-June 10

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

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

Barnstar Award

That honour is much appreciated. Thank you. Regards, SteveO 15:11, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Spot of help

Could you please try to fix the infobox for the Toronto Falcons, darned stuborn thing. Thanks. Minfo 03:39, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks a bunch. Minfo 19:48, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Hi Oldelpaso, thank you for voting in my RFA which failed eventually at a result of (91/51/8). I do not plan to run for adminship until a later date. Once again, I would like to thank you for voting. --Terence Ong _{(talk | contribs)} 14:50, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Source of FIFA rankings

This source specifies the FIFA rankings only for the countries playing in FIFA World Cup 2006. The rankings for June 2006 will not be released by FIFA due to the world cup going on. So the next rankings will come out only in July 2006.

Thanks for Supporting my RfA!

Thanks for supporting my successful Request for Adminship, which passed by a margin of 54/6/1. I hope that I will remain "a pleasure to work with" while fufilling my admin duties. If you see me doing something I shouldn't, please let me know. Thanks again, Ian Manka Talk to me! 00:07, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

RE: Category- Wikipedians who support Newcastle

Ok, thanks for pointing that out and telling me. Do you reckon it would be okay to have a link to it in a 'See Also' area in the article, or shall I just leave it out completely? --Temers 15:16, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Ok- thanks anyway. --Temers 15:49, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Help

Thanks for your offer of help in copy-editing the article to meet these standards, it is much appreciated, and I will be taking it up. The main problem at the moment seems to be the paragraphs imediately under the header overview, which were infortunately, left from the inital incident. I don't quite understand how different it has to be not to be a copyright violation though, as with only one source, it is difficult to lose the structure, without making the order illogical, or so I find. Philc _T^E_C^I 22:14, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Welcome: Arjan van Schotte

Thanks for the message, i didn't know how to tell him exactly but i knew it had to be removed!! Thanks for the welcome and the info. Arjan van schotte 19:10, 23 June 2006 (UTC) (I think that's right this time!!)

Thanks for your advice

Thankyou for advising me when i first signed up a few weeks ago. I appreciate it. If there is anyway i can help out in terms of using my football knowledge on Manchester City please do not hesitate to ask. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gingerdave (talk • contribs) .

are you editing wiki already? fecking portugal... elk — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.9.23.125 (talk • contribs)

Thanks

WikiThanks

Thanks for finding humour in my user page. I had wondered if any people thought it was anything other than pretentious ramblings.  SLUMGUM  yap  stalk  17:44, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

My revert on User talk:Wisdomcb

Hi, I just noticed (a moment too late) that you had already reverted Wisdomcb's talk page and left an additional comment when I reverted the page to a previous version - sorry for removing your comment, that was not intentional :P -- Ferkelparade π 09:41, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Archiving

Rats! Thanks for catching that, it was indeed inadvertent (and stupid). •Jim62sch• 22:37, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you so much for the kind sentiments in your note and the honour of the Barnstar. It is very much appreciated. Regards, Alias Flood 01:58, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: Mike Sheron

No problem. Actually, it was, seeing as I'm not all that familiar with the inner-workings of categories. I gave myself a pat on the back when I worked it out though. ;) Dudesleeper 18:44, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

hey

I'm back! I'm back! And hopefully here to stay now, without anymore breaks. Thank you so much for taking care of the collaboration..how has it all been? Missed being here. -Aabha (talk) 18:54, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

That's a mighty impressive number! This is really good. Things seem so different, stranger. Anyways, time to get back into the system. -Aabha (talk) 20:04, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

John Brooke-Little

--Forlornandshorn 16:17, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Pop Punk Revival Merge Discussion

Saw you on the Punk WikiProject list... Your input is valued! - Sir, please check out whats going on there Talk:Pop_punk_revival and add you opinion to the "Merge Discussion" Xsxex 22:44, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: Mr. Media

Hey, I didn't ask to be interviewed... not that I didn't mind it... ;) So now you know who that mysterious IanManka user is. A little too well if you ask me... ;) Ian Manka Talk to me! 01:59, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: Premier League FAC

I'll try and work on that too. I removed some earlier that seemed to be simply hearsay, and I'd wager that most of the statements now can be referenced, thought that will take work. Thanks for all the work you've done to get this article into shape! - Pal 19:42, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Dr Pepper Ballpark

Thanks for your help at the peer review for Dr Pepper Ballpark. I have made the changes that you requested and was wondering if you could come back and re-evaluate the article. Thank you. — Scm83x ^{hook 'em} 22:23, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

World Cup/Camera

Yeah, it has occured to me but unfortunately I don't own a camera! I was thinking of taking a photo of my ticket (I'm at home with family now who do have a camera) - given that there are no images at all in the article - but that wouldn't be for a couple of weeks as I don't have my ticket at the mo... its in a bag at a friend's house. --Robdurbar 19:47, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Premiership trophy

Ha! You know, I totally forgot I had taken that picture. Anyway, a cropped version of the original is now available on the Commons as Image:FA Premier League trophy.jpg - it's a bit blurry but smaller versions should be fine. Enjoy. Qwghlm 23:24, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks...

For adding the full stop to my comment on the Wikiproject Football Talk Page! You are quite right that I don't often go by the name Jewish Holocaust Jim. I'd be quite concerned if anyone did, actually! :-) Jim (Talk) 09:57, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Man City

Thanks for clearing that up and sorry for wasting your time. It still seems wrong to me, though. I guess the Americans have it better after all. Jono (talk) 17:38, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

(Barnstar moved to userpage)

Looks like Qwghlm beat me to it! I'll second that barnstar as I was going to give you the exact same thing once the FAPL article made FA status. Congrats on getting the Man City article to the front page and thanks for all the hard work you did on the Premier League article and that you continue to do through the football AID! Keep up the good work! - Pal 19:23, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

well done on another barnstar.... pub quiz tomorrow? Murray.booth 21:03, 14 August 2006 (UTC)