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January 2016

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I was just trying to get it to work, man. The template wasn't working on my tablet. Rikster2 (talk) 23:10, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

@Rikster2: The end part of the url with the "path=mbball" part apparently interferes with the template. If you just use the main address (www.utrockets.com), it works fine, but the specific address to the men's basketball page won't work on my desktop either, so I reverted it back to what you had put. --JonRidinger (talk) 23:26, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

@Rikster2: Corkythehornetfan fixed it. Just needed an extra "1=" before the URL. I just didn't have the time to look it up before reverting it to at least something that worked. --JonRidinger (talk) 23:32, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Utah Jazz first paragraph wording

I will concede the point about the run-on sentences in the Utah Jazz article, but why do you insist on changing the wording, seen in this edit? Look at the Orlando Magic article. It says "The club is currently one of two teams in the major North American professional sports leagues to play in the city of Orlando (the other is Major League Soccer's Orlando City SC)." Now I know not to bring other stuff into this discussion, but the reason why I brought up the Orlando Magic article is because I was trying to model the wording in the first paragraph to be consistent with other NBA team articles, such as the Magic article. I don't want to get into an edit-war with you, and I certainly don't want to violate the three-revert rule, which will result in both of us getting blocked from editing (so I'll leave the Utah Jazz article alone for now), but I am hoping for input from other editors so we can reach consensus as to how the first paragraph should be worded in the Utah Jazz article. Charlesaaronthompson (talk) 22:38, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

The Orlando Magic article should also be edited. The subject of the sentence in Utah Jazz is the franchise, Real Salt Lake, not the league. It also personifies the league by giving it possession, not to mention is just awkward. It's "Orlando SC of Major League Soccer" and "Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer". Remember to avoid WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS as a reason. The other issue with that sentence in the Magic article is that it doesn't need parenthesis. Parenthesis are for words or phrases that don't fit a sentence of their own. They should be used sparingly. --JonRidinger (talk) 22:15, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Really, the mention of the other sports teams in a market is borderline trivia. Why do we mention the other teams (both soccer) in Salt Lake and Orlando? Do we mention all the other teams in New York? Boston? Los Angeles? Philadelphia? Cleveland? For the lead, that's probably not appropriate, especially if it's not mentioned anywhere else in the article. The lead is a summary of the article, so it shouldn't have any info that isn't elsewhere in the article. Further, Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada doesn't count MLS as a "major" league. It's mentioned in the lead as "another prominent league" alongside the Canadian Football League. Generally, the major North American sports leagues are the "Big Four" of MLB, NFL, NBA, and NHL. --JonRidinger (talk) 22:22, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

@JonRidinger: I'm dropping my argument in favor of keeping it. I'll agree with you, there's no reason to mention Real Salt Lake in the Utah Jazz article or Orlando City SC in the Orlando Magic article, since neither the Real Salt Lake or Orlando City SC article mention the Jazz or Magic. Not only that, but the Portland Trail Blazers article doesn't mention the Portland Timbers. I'm OK with it if you want to just remove it altogether, since the focus in both the Jazz and Magic articles is on the Jazz and Magic, and any references to the Major League Soccer teams are borderline trivia. Charlesaaronthompson (talk) 21:26, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

Should I remove the mentions of Real Salt Lake in the Jazz article, and Orlando City SC in the Magic article, or do you want to do that? Charlesaaronthompson (talk) 19:16, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

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OSU all time wins

I agree with your concern that we don't want to just mirror someone else's (easily available) list. That being said we seem to have a new editor who is interested in contributing - and (rare among new editors) in learning about how the encyclopedia works. I'm wondering if there's any useful direction in which to point him? Maybe he just wants to do this one thing, I dunno, but I am going to think about this a bit and am soliciting your thoughts as well. Thanks! JohnInDC (talk) 13:52, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

@JohnInDC: Thanks! I did suggest he put his chart in a sandbox page. That way it's not "lost" and if a consensus is reached that it could constitute a separate list (similar to the list of OSU football seasons), then it could go there. But I hear what you're saying, that delicate line between enforcing policy and quashing new editors. --JonRidinger (talk) 19:27, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. If the guy only has this one thing in mind then maybe he'll be disappointed, but if he's an OSU historian then he might have some other stuff to contribute, dunno. Like I said, I'll noodle on it a bit! JohnInDC (talk) 19:53, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

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Unincorporated towns in Ohio

Please stop redirecting unincorporated Ohio communities to the township articles in which they are located. There is consensus that these named communities are notable, even if they could be expanded.– Gilliam (talk) 21:18, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

@Gilliam: in general, the consensus has been for unicorporated towns to be redirected to their township, especially in the cases like yours where the "town" name is the same as the township. One instance is Twin Lakes, Ohio and Earlville, Ohio, which both direct to Franklin Township, Portage County, Ohio. For instance, the history of Shalersville and Shalersville Township are one in the same; there is no difference between them, and they have never been governed separately. That's true for any unincorporated town, but especially the ones that only existed as post offices and haven't existed with their own identity for many decades now. I'd say, add the info to the township article and if there's enough info, then spin them off. As it stands now, no township article in Portage County is in any danger of being too large. Again, virtually all of these articles are stubs and are likely to remain stubs since there is no longer a separate census measure of them or separate identity. --JonRidinger (talk) 21:38, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

I've never heard of such a consensus; could you provide details? It's one thing to redirect "X, Ohio" to "X Township, Y County, Ohio" for the Western Reserve, given the frequent use of "X" to refer to "X Township" and the strong ties between township center and the rest of the township; as such, I wouldn't mind seeing Johnston, Ohio as a redirect to Johnston Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, and Deerfield, Ohio would be a good redirect to Deerfield Township if it weren't a former name for South Lebanon, but places like Earlville definitely aren't good redirects for townships, just like "X, Ohio" shouldn't be redirected to townships outside the Western Reserve. My opinion only applies when the choice is between redirect and redlink; when a stub has been created for a township center, e.g. Shalersville or Edinburg, I think it's a bad idea to re-redirect it to the township. Nyttend (talk) 21:55, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

If I remember correctly, it's largely from when city and township articles were first being created, along the lines of every township article having the standard "Township, County, State" name and all US city articles having "City, State" as their title except for some of the largest cities. Wikipedia article creation in general promotes developing existing articles and creating new ones only when necessary. For most of these unincorporated towns, you aren't going to get much more, especially ones that don't exist anymore like Freedom Station or Hiram Rapids. I have access to the same histories you do and there's just not a lot. In the cases where the town center is the same as the township, the histories are exactly the same and they are governed by the same entity.

@Nyttend: I'm curious why you think it's a bad idea to redirect town center names to the township, like Suffield, Ohio to Suffield Township, Portage County, Ohio. That's been the case with Rootstown, Ohio for several years now. And the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for "Suffield" is going to be the entire township, not the historic post office. For instances like Deerfield, Ohio, if there is potential confusion, that's why we have hatnotes for the top of the article, and/or disambiguation pages if the primary topic can't be determined. The article title should point to the most common use of that title. In the case of a redirect, we could have Deerfield, Ohio point to a disambiguation page, which is not unusual at all. See Carthage, Ohio for an example. Carthage could mean a neighborhood of Cincinnati, but could also be Kent, Ohio. --JonRidinger (talk) 22:40, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

I agree with Nyttend. To quote someone: "I wouldn't call myself an inclusionist because there are certainly limits to what should be here and what shouldn't, but I don't think I'm a deletionist either. If notability can be shown—even a small amount—then why not?" Roseohioresident (talk) 22:30, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

This isn't a matter of notability, it's a matter of whether or not a completely separate article is needed. --JonRidinger (talk) 22:40, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

And sorry, I misread the earlier reply from Nyttend and thought it was from Gilliam. Yes, I'm speaking of the instances for the Portage County articles, not necessarily for the every township article. But if the only thing for a town is that it once had a post office 100 years ago but there's little history, I don't see the need for an entire article; certainly a historical mention in whatever entity it is part of (township or county). But I'm thinking like for Mishler, Ohio, there's virtually no history on it besides the family who settled there and the road that now runs through it (Mishler Road). I already included its mention in the Suffield Township article. --JonRidinger (talk) 22:50, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

I'm not sure where you've seen a consensus to merge unincorporated communities to the townships they belong in; I've seen this done in some cases, but it's certainly not the general convention (heck, a lot of states don't even have townships or the equivalent in the first place). Townships can have more than one community in them, so I don't buy the town center argument, and a lot of these articles can be expanded with a little digging through book sources and other less easily accessible sources. TheCatalyst31 ^{Reaction•Creation} 23:52, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

@TheCatalyst31: I guess I meant precedent, which I interpreted as consensus, such as Rootstown, Ohio and Twin Lakes, Ohio. And I'm talking about Portage County (Western Reserve) specifically where, for instances like Freedom, Ohio, there is no distinguishable difference between the township and the town at its center. They were all governed by the same township government and all consider them township to be "Freedom". The very history cited in Freedom, Ohio does not differentiate either. It's all under "Freedom Township". It just uses the different hamlets ("Center", "Station", and Drakesburg) to give an idea of where certain people lived in relation to others; it doesn't treat them as different entities. I have access to a significant amount of history for these little towns (former and current), and no, there isn't a lot, mostly because they had very few settlers and only existed for a short time. That's why they were redirects and mentioned in their township article. In many cases, there aren't even signs for them anymore or community identity separate from the township. If the only info is they once had a post office, why can't that be included in the township article in history? Why do we suddenly need a new article for that? --JonRidinger (talk) 00:05, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Either you misunderstood me, or I wasn't clear in the first place. Let's step away from Portage County and go elsewhere in the Western Reserve. Weathersfield, Ohio is a redlink. Should it be created as a redirect to Weathersfield Township, Trumbull County, Ohio? Makes sense to me: due to the local geography of the Western Reserve, people often refer to townships without "Township" in the name, so it's a plausible alternate name. Very different from other places; I would oppose creating Paxton, Ohio as a redirect to Paxton Township, Ross County, Ohio, because unlike in the Western Reserve, townships aren't the basic frame of reference in southern Ohio, and people don't generally mention them except as "X Township". That's what I support. It looks to me as if the situation in question is different: Gilliam discovered a long-established redirect at Shalersville, Ohio, converted it into a stub about the town center; you're saying that the stub ought instead to be merged into the township, and you're also saying that other localities ought to be redirected to the township. I strongly disagree with the former (statewide, we don't mention freestanding unincorporated communities in township articles, aside from "The unincorporated community of X is located in Y Township"), and re-redirecting the new stub is also a bad idea, in my opinion. Nyttend (talk) 00:10, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

(edit conflict) If there's legitimately nothing more to say about a place than a few sentences, and you have sources backing that up, then I agree it makes sense to mention it in the township article instead; that being said, that's generally not the case, so I wouldn't want to make it a precedent. The same goes for town centers; if the township and the town center are considered the same entity in practice, it doesn't necessarily make sense to maintain separate articles. (There's actually a sort-of precedent for that one, since New England towns often have town centers that are technically separate communities but occupy most of the town.) It's just something that we should be careful about, and definitely not something that should be a general precedent when research hasn't been done; there are lots of places like Clayton, West Virginia that are really small but have plenty to write about. (As for cases like Rootstown, that's more an instance of someone deciding a redirect was better than a redlink, and nobody coming around to expand it since; considering there are thousands of communities in the US, many without articles, there are bound to be a few like that.) TheCatalyst31 ^{Reaction•Creation} 00:16, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

That's fine and understandable. I didn't mean to imply I was going around to every stub article and merging them. No time for that! This is all dealing with Portage County articles and all the pages I was merging simply had duplicate historic info (from the same source as the township article) and/or a mention of the former post office. That was it. I was surprised it was even an issue given how the names are treated historically (trust me when I say I've done a fair amount of research :) ) and presently (a case of WP:PRIMARYTOPIC). In all cases I have merged the post office information into the township history section, especially in instances like Mishler, Ohio or Freedom Station, Ohio where the "town" doesn't really exist anymore and virtually no info is available on it beyond a very short mention confirming it existed at some point. The Mishler one, for instance, isn't even mentioned in the 1885 history of Suffield. The 1885 Portage County history only mentions Mishler as "P.O. Mishler" under a bio for Joseph Mishler. No mention is made of the specific settlement at all and there's no indication one ever existed. My apologies for not being clear enough in my initial explanation. --JonRidinger (talk) 00:42, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Relevant guideline

With this edit at Stow-Munroe Falls High School, you indicated that the full title of a linked article should be used whenever possible the first time it appears in another article. Can you point to a specific guideline which supports this, or is this based on consensus at WP:WPSCHOOLS? This is a general question and has nothing to do w/ the SMFHS article. Thanks. Levdr1lp / talk 00:56, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

@Levdr1: It's mainly from MOS:ACRO: "Unless specified in the "Exceptions" section below, an acronym should be written out in full the first time it is used on a page, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses, e.g. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)." The main guidline, WP:ABBR, also says in the lead: "Always consider whether it is better to simply write a word or phrase out in full, thus avoiding potential confusion for those not familiar with its abbreviation. Remember that Wikipedia does not have the same space constraints as paper." --JonRidinger (talk) 02:22, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

So I take it these guidelines are generally limited to certain types of acronyms and/or abbreviations? Levdr1lp / talk 21:20, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Not sure I understand the question. I'd say to just consider the audience and the context. It applies to any use of abbreviations and acronyms, especially ones that are going to be unfamiliar to most readers (like "MAC Center"), and even in cases like "NBA" and "NFL" where American readers likely know what that means, but those outside the US might not be as familiar (like "AFL" meaning different leagues in the US or even a completely different league in Australia). Acronyms should have some usage in sources and should be established in the lead as to what they stand for. --JonRidinger (talk) 22:48, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

You did not cite a guideline in the SMFHS edit I linked above. Based on your response here, then, I take it that your reason for using the MAC article's full title in the SMFHS article had more to do with "MAC" being an acronym, and not necessarily because article titles generally should be written out in full in their first instance (i.e., your reasoning at SMFHS, based on your response here, would not apply to, say, whether or not to pipe "Monsters" into Lake Erie Monsters in its first instance in another article). Levdr1lp / talk 20:47, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

Eh, it would apply. It even says "This guideline covers the use of abbreviations, including initialisms, acronyms, contractions and shortenings..." My response in that edit was based on that same principle, which is to be aware of your audience and realize that using any kind of shortening isn't needed for space constraints and can be confusing for readers (hence not using "Kent State MAC Center" since readers won't know what that means and there's no size restraint to prevent using the actual name of the facility). But was my edit referring to a specific guideline to use the article title? No, it was based on WP:ACRO. Article titles have their own policies and guidelines to establish them to be as concise as possible, so shortening them should only be done when absolutely necessary. What I said in that edit summary reflects that. It would also apply for titles that have disambiguation...i.e. you wouldn't write "Theodore Roosevelt High School (Kent, Ohio)", you'd pipe the name without "(Kent, Ohio)", but also wouldn't use the nickname "Kent Roosevelt" in the first instance. Same for "Stow, Ohio", you'd pipe "Stow" unless the context required the state. But for titles like Cleveland Browns relocation controversy, you most likely won't use that exact title in articles, even in the first mention since it's not an official title of an organization/school/team, etc. For the Monsters, yes, the full title should most likely be used in the initial use rather than the abbreviated/piped version, otherwise it could be confusing to readers. --JonRidinger (talk) 07:07, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Levdr1lp / talk 17:43, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

Citation templates

I've used {{Cite web}} interchangeably with {{Cite news}} for years now. Thank you for bringing this error to my attention. Levdr1lp / talk 01:20, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

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