User talk:Jc121383

Greetings...

Hello, Jc121383, and welcome to Wikipedia!

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Happy editing! Mitico (talk) 19:32, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Portland Pirates players

Please do not add players to categories such as Category:Portland Pirates players until they have actually played in a regular-season or playoff game with that team. None of the Buffalo Sabres' prospects you added to that category have played for Portland yet. Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. You never know: any one of those players could make the Sabres' roster straight out of training camp and never play for Portland. Or they could be traded before ever playing for Portland. Or they could suffer a career-ending injury and never play for Portland. In any case, please wait until they actually play for the team before categorizing them thusly. I actually heard one of these edits mentioned on WGR this morning (which tipped me off to the issue), as the morning show crew was wondering why Dylan Hunter was listed as having played for Portland when he hasn't yet. These types of errors hurt Wikipedia's credibilty; please think about this when editing. Thank you! Skudrafan1 (talk) 12:34, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

CfD nomination of Category:Buffalo, NY restaurants

Uniformity of rosters

I have started a discussion over at Talk:List of current NLL team rosters which discussed the roster used on this page. If you are interested, please let me know what you think. Mitico (talk) 17:22, 1 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Diacritics at NHL team articles

I've noticed you've tried to hide diacritics from the birthplaces section, on some of the NHL team article's Template rosters. I agree fully with your actions, but they're futile (trust me, I know). GoodDay (talk) 21:49, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, what's the deal with some people telling to change the names but not the birthplaces. That seems fairly inconsistent and downright stupid. Jc121383 (talk) 21:20, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Djsasso will explain it to you; I'd rather avoid it, as it gets me too frustrated. GoodDay (talk) 23:22, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The reason for player names is a compromise because certain individuals argue bitterly that english doesn't use them. However there are a large number of people who believe that english does. Without getting into the huge arguements that come along with this topic basically it comes down to this. NHL sweaters do not have diacritics so we don't use them for players names because in a way you can argue the most common useage when it comes to the NHL is to not use them. Birthplaces on the other hand are very different as they are proper names to cities and would be translated incorrectly if you removed the diacritics as English does keep the diacritics unless there is a completely different english word for a city name. Munich is an example of a completely different name in english. There is pretty much no basis for removing them from birth places. Yes this makes for inconsistancies but it keeps the massive edit warring that occurs around this subject all around wikipedia from rearing its ugly head in hockey articles. -Djsasso (talk) 20:26, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]