User talk:Frank Anchor/Archive1

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Welcome...

Hello, Frank Anchor, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! —Elipongo (Talk contribs) 02:32, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Talk page etiquette

Hi Frank, I wanted to mention a couple things. I noticed you were making minor edits to another user's comment. While I appreciate that you took the time to clean up the markup that editor used, it is better to leave typos and mistakes alone (or to ask the person who wrote them to fix them) than to change them yourself. See WP:TALK#Others' comments for more on that. The second thing I wanted to say is to ask you to please use edit summaries more often in your editing, on all pages you edit. Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field, especially for big edits or when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. See m:Help:Edit summary if you want to know more about edit summaries. Thanks! BigNate37_(T) 22:39, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Interleague play

Frank, thank you for your numorous contributions to Wikipedia. There is something else you could do. Please stop adding unneccisary links to articles like you did to Interleague Play We appreciate your contributions to these articles, however, sometimes, the simpler the better. T t totaly dude 01:12, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		For his continued work at reverting vandalism and participating in Wikipedia discussions, I am proud to award Frank Anchor with the Working Man's barnstar. <Baseballfan789 21:22, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Edit to The Game

I saw that you removed The Game (Michigan-Ohio State) from The Game disambiguation page. I don't have a horse in this race--I attended neither university, although I am an Ohio native--but there was discussion about this at Talk:Michigan-Ohio State rivalry, and many uses were cited. And a quick Google turns up several references, including an OSU shirt that prominently displays the phrase. Is it really so obscure and little-used that it should be excluded? It seems to me that if it's used enough that including it on the dab page might help somebody find the article they are looking for, it should be kept in. Regards --ShelfSkewed Talk 22:25, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Go Tribe, Go Browns, Go Bucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!--JDeV Rock 03:21, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Hey, Frank - judging by your recent edits, it looks like you missed the (somtimes testy!) revived discussion on the "The Game" issue at the UM-OSU page - Talk:Michigan-Ohio_State_rivalry#The_Game. The upshot was to include the language that you removed. (For what it's worth, I agree with your general sense of the thing, but when it became clear that the phrase was going to be there one way or another, I did my best to see that it was at least accurate, or arguably so anyhow.) JohnInDC (talk) 13:45, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you, I was unaware of the discussion. Frank Anchor, (R-OH) (talk, contribs) 19:13, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Sure - as a liberal grad of the University of Michigan, I'm always happy to help out a conservative OSU counterpart! (Do you see by the way this afternoon's tweak by User:Baseballfan789? I think that is a better place for the point than the lead paragraph -) JohnInDC (talk) 19:23, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

thanks for the help, and I agree the page is better after Baseballfan789's edit. Frank Anchor, (R-OH) (talk, contribs) 23:46, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Terrell Owens

Hello. I've deleted the page and rollbacked your addition of the Baltimore Ravens category from Terrell Owens who, I'm sure you're well aware never played for the Ravens. On a sort of side-note, you might want to remove the fake "new messages banner" from your userpage. To newbies, it is confusing and to experienced editors it's an old joke that's grown stale. It does not fool anyone except the occasional newbie and it makes you look bad. Pascal.Tesson 05:16, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Point well taken, he was on the team for only a couple days. I guess that doesnt warrant the category since he never actually played for themFrank Anchor 21:02, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Lists of Michigan Wolverines football receiving leaders

Since you have edited {{Michigan Wolverines Football}}, I thought you might consider supporting Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Lists of Michigan Wolverines football receiving leaders.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 15:53, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Trivia section on Cleveland Indians

Thanks for re-re-adding the trivia section on Cleveland Indians. I was going to do it myself (User:Montco had done some edits in the interim, so I was waiting for word back from him on whether his edits involved integrating the trivia into the article) but you beat me to it ;) --Dachannien^Talk_Contrib 19:42, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Thug

I do believe that user: frank anchor should be considered thug. Just maybe somthing to think about. Thewiseeye3400 (talk) 22:24, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Redundant references

Your removal of the "redundant references" wasn't necessary. By removing the "redundant" reference, you're essentially unreferencing the first sentence that was referenced and you're only referencing the second sentence. This is against Wikipedia's policies, so I'd ask that you leave the references. Wlmaltby3 – ^talk/_contribs 00:33, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Oakland Zoo (cheering section)

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TfD nomination of Template:NFL team season lists

Template:NFL team season lists has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Buc (talk) 19:27, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Oakland Zoo (cheering section)

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AfD on Dr. King

I thought I should tell you: I removed the "past AfD" notice because the AfD for that article was not a legitimate AfD, but a form of vandalism, and taking it seriously would not meet with our WP:DENY policy towards such mischief. --Orange Mike | Talk 05:00, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. I agree that it was a stupid afd and possibly a WP:POINT but thought it should benoted anyway as it still happened Frank Anchor ^{Talk to me} (R-OH) 20:07, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Friendly message

Hey, frank. I like how you have your user page set up. I would also like to thank you for your recent contributions. Keep up the good work 67.38.245.14 (talk) 23:40, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. I see that you are anonymous. I would recommend you get a username. Frank Anchor ^{Talk to me} (R-OH) 01:51, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of North Coast League

An article that you have been involved in editing, North Coast League, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pioneer Conference. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? §hep • ¡Talk to me! 00:58, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

SPA Tag

Stop adding that tag to all of my edits. It is already on my first vote edit and that's fine. Just because you disagree doesn't give you that right. Refute the issues!!! --BurpTheBaby (talk) 03:42, 9 June 2008 (UTC) — BurpTheBaby (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

When you make such a major change, it should be noted that you are a single-purpose account. see WP:SPA and WP:3RR

Edit summaries, reverts

I do understand what's been happening here but nonetheless, calling this kind of edit vandalism isn't needed and only stirs things up even more. You could simply put a bulleted comment somewhere on the project page noting the editor's revert of the tag. Edit warring is always harmful and disruptive. Only a friendly note though! Cheers, Gwen Gale (talk) 04:18, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

ANI discussion marked "resolved"

I marked this ANI discussion resolved based on what appears to be a mutually agreed-to solution. Note: I am not an administrator. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 04:48, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

OHSAA

Hi there. I've seen your involvement in the OHSAA Afd and thought you may be interested in Wikipedia:WikiProject Ohio/HS Football Conferences and the drafts link on its talk page. Cheers. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 00:42, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Articles

User: frank anchor, it is great that you interest in a few articles such as SpongeBob Squarpants or the American Premier League 2007-08 . But in order to keep our standards of wikipedia high, we ask that you expanded your editing not just to a few articles but to severel helping to make wikipedia a better place. Take it from a wiki - vetern. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stoplight18 (talk • contribs) 19:59, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Responding to your note on my talk page, thank you for inviting me to learn about Wikipedia. But I have been making edits since 2002. But I have called my self different names (user names). Have fun editting and make sure to edit different articles. Thanks. StopLight18_(Talk) 0:44, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Continuation of discussion over notability of Ohio high school sports conferences

Hello. You are receiving this message because you recently participated in an AfD discussion regarding the notability of high school sports conferences in Ohio State. While the AfD has been closed as no consensus, the discussion is continuing here. You are invited to participate. Thank you. --Jaysweet (talk) 20:18, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you, hopefully the discussion can go better than in the AfD. Frank Anchor ^{Talk to me} (R-OH) 20:19, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pioneer Conference

Please do not edit closed AfDs, and particularly do not do so by reverting the closing admin. Thanks, Sandstein 20:27, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

See talk page, clearly a case of WP:IAR] Frank Anchor ^{Talk to me} (R-OH) 20:30, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Frank, discussion has been moved to Wikipedia:WikiProject Ohio/HS Football Conferences. --UWMSports (talk) 20:37, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

In addition, do not edit comments made by other people (see WP:TPG), or you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Thanks, Sandstein 20:52, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Dave's Markets

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I do not believe the article meets the criteria for speedy deletion (other wise I would not have created it). It establishes notability. I would have protested the tag myself but it appears that another user has already removed it. Frank Anchor ^{Talk to me} 20:01, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Ohio Conferences stuff

Just thought I'd see what you had been able to work on, since I'm not watchlisting every article, so we could make the necessary edits to the big table of articles. I naturally think the attempts to enforce time specific editing and take back to an AfD are ridiculous, but I am still going to try to demonstrate that there has been progress on a few articles just to point out how completely ridiculous the threats that some keep making are. matt91486 (talk) 13:23, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Flag in signature

I know that it's sort of ruining the fun of Independence Day, but we don't allow images in signatures per WP:SIG. In short, the American flag is not allowed in your signature. Happy Independence Day from your fellow American! —Kurykh 21:13, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I was unaware I'll remove it. Frank Anchor ^{Talk to me} 13:35, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sarah Johns

Could you please add the sources that you've found to the Sarah Johns voice actress article? I tried searching for "Sarah Johns" and voice, but all I found was mentions of Johns (the singer's) singing voice. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells• Otter chirps • HELP!)} 23:06, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikibreak

I am really sorry to hear that you are on a wikibreak. Hope you come back here soon. You have been an invaluable contributor to us. :) Regards, Buster Bluegill (talk) 03:27, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Llllloyd Carr

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Civility

Your highly-appropriate recent reversion of vandalism to your userpage was unfortunately accompanied by an incivil summary. Please maintain a more civil level of discourse, even when reacting to the actions of anonymous jerks. The edit summary was an unjustified insult to a significant percentage of our fellow Wikipedians. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:28, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Actually, I know that the gentleman using the anon ID was homosexual. His significant other is named James Frank Anchor ^{Talk to me} 19:20, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

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Co Champs

Frank, I reverted your recent change to 2008 Penn State Nittany Lions football team. There was a discussion on the CFB wikiproject talk page a while back (1-2 years ago?) regarding conference championships where there is no championship game. The consensus was to leave the infobox saying "<Conference> Champions" even though there may have been more than one, the rationale was to avoid terms like "Tri-Champions" or "Quad-Champions" when there were more than two tied at the top. Each team would be credited as "Champions" in the infobox and would include the co- or tri-championship explanation in the game notes or season summary section of the season page. Thanks for your help. - Billma (talk) 23:42, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

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Pro Bowl

Since I'm feeling rather lazy right now, could you also apply those # of selections changes to 2008 Pro Bowl, 2007 Pro Bowl, and 2002 Pro Bowl as well? Thanks. Pats1 ^T/C 18:33, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Sure, I have nothing better to do Frank Anchor ^{Talk to me} 19:20, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Table v. list

I understand your rationale for doing it that way, but I think my point (that finding specific teams is easier in a table) is equally valid. Since neither of us has a clearly superior argument, would one of these formats work better?

AFC East	AFC North	AFC South	AFC West
Buffalo Bills 2	Cincinnati Bengals 0	etc.	etc.
NFC East	NFC North	NFC South	NFC West
Dallas Cowboys 6	etc.	etc.	etc.

OR

AFC Team	# of Selections	NFC Team	# of Selections
New York Jets	7	Dallas Cowboys	6
etc.		etc.

Samer (talk) 17:28, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Either of those would work over league. i just think the table with every team listed separately is extremely long. I would probably lean toward the one without the divisions because the game is AFC vs. NFC, not AFC east vs. NFC east vs. AFC north etc. Frank Anchor ^{Talk to me} 18:19, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

I hate to butt in on your conversation, but I would prefer the one with the conferences, but it should be kept sortable, NewYork483 (talk) 02:24, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas, Frank. I have decided to contribute more to Wikipedia, as I have gotten away from it over the past few months. Now you have another contributor whose edits you can revert (hopefully not!) Ben1283 (talk) 06:17, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for the Christmas wish. I am glad that you have decided to return to Wikipedia. Please make sure to follow the Wikipedia guidelines and I will not have to revert any of the changes that you make. Frank Anchor ^{Talk to me} 18:16, 24 December 2008 (UTC)