User talk:TonyTheTiger

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	WP:CHICAGO Director (2006–present)
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	WP:WAWARD Director (2010–present)
	M:WALRUS Committee (2011–2013) (2016–present)
	WP:Ambassadors (2011–2012)

2010 WP:CUP

2nd place

Most WP:DYKs in a round

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“ Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'—Martin Luther King Jr. ”

“ Have nunchucks. Will travel. - Antonio "Tony The Tiger" Vernon ”

“ Freedom of expression does not truly exist if the right can be exercised only in an area that a benevolent government has provided as a safe haven for crackpots. - Abe Fortas 393 U.S. 503 (1969) ”

Tony The Tiger interpretation: Freedom of expression does not exist unless freedom of expression is protected when and where the audience exists.

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2010 WP:CUP submissions (finalists) – WP:CHICAGO – WP:CHIFTD – WP:FOUR – WP:WAWARDS
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Tigers on my userpage (feel free to add "free use" tiger)

If you appreciate my work above leave a tiger below. If you have trouble finding one that you don't see below go to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tiger and click on any of the subspecies to see more Images.

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  ClickRick (talk) 06:54, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
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  Seth Whales 16:52, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
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  Bigbluefish (talk) 23:09, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
• Geaux Tigers! User:Dank 18:29, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
  Geaux Tigers! User:Dank 18:29, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
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  User:Smallbones October 2, 2009
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  In "Sansindo" (Painting of a Sansin, mountain deity), a shamanistic picture of Korea. Caspian blue 21:52, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
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  Tiger and magpie, a minhwa (Korean folk painting) Caspian blue 21:55, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
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  Sleeping tiger
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  Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 00:45, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
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  Here we see Brandon Inge, a Detroit Tiger from User:TomCat4680 04:37, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
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  TonyTheTiger helping a "newbie" find his way.User:Buster7 7 January 2010 (UTC)
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  Les Miles, head coach of the LSU Tigers. User:Staxringold 18 January 2010 (UTC)
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  Commonly known as the Tasmanian Tiger. User:Rossrs 31 January 2010
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  another Detroit Tiger from User:TomCat4680 04:39, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
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  Fallschirmjäger 10:02, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
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  Yarnalgo _talk to me 06:25, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
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  TonyTheTiger conversing with a vandal. User:Buster7 9 June 2010 (UTC)
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  Calgary Tigers' Barney Stanley Resolute 19:57, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
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  Wayne Olajuwon (talk) 18:17, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
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  Tiger Williams - All-Star Legends 2008 in Toronto. Kelapstick 05:04, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
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  Bengal tiger - --Extra 999 (Contact ^me + _contribs) 12:03, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
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  Shearonink (talk) 17:16, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
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  From the "mushroom people", it's a Tiger Tricholoma! J Milburn (talk) 21:52, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
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  Keeping it rare with Tasmanian tigers Spongie555 (talk) 04:56, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
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  Gduwen (talk) 22:46, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
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  Sleeping Tiger MarnetteD Talk 01:59, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
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  Yourrr'e grrrreat! He looks like you even. Bearian (talk) 16:17, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
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  This guy approves of your work on the tasty-looking Shackleford (horse). – Quadell ^(talk) 15:25, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
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  Guest and resident at Tiger Temple in Thailand. – Quadell ^(talk) 15:04, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
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  Have a tiger catshark on me! Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:03, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
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  Tiger in the water Buster7 11:05, 09 Nov 2011 "
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  I uploaded this one and the meanies at FP rejected it. TCO 16:59, 23 November 2011‎
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  Aircraft of tge NATO Tiger Association --Sp33dyphil © • © 06:47, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
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  Harrison49 (talk) 13:00, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
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  Indian tiger dance. Redtigerxyz ^Talk 10:24, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
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  Thanks for making Wikipedia a better place! Imthebombliketicktick (talk) 17:41, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
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  A Tiger Moth plane SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 02:37, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
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  A Tiger Moth moth SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 02:37, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
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  A Bengal, for your hard work. Achowat (talk) 14:42, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
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  Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers . Hugh (talk) 19:50, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
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  Tiger holding Hunters at bay, by Charles R. Knight 1917. FunkMonk (talk) 13:43, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
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  Cover of Popular Natural History by Henry Scherren, 1906. Chiswick Chap (talk) 11:32, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
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  A very cool cat . --My76Strat (talk) 14:57, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
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  Nobody steals the ball from Tiger.-- I Jethrobot (talk · contribs) 01:12, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
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  A Tiger with a brush-like tail :) JKadavoor Jee 06:54, 10 August 2013 (UTC)
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  A beautiful-looking tiger lily. buffbills7701 18:14, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
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  A literary Tyger for your cooperative help reviewing our respective FACs. Thank you! --SkotyWA^T_C 18:14, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
• A Hungarian stamp from 1961!]] Newyorkadam (talk) 19:34, 19 December 2013 (UTC)Newyorkadam
  A Hungarian stamp from 1961!]] Newyorkadam (talk) 19:34, 19 December 2013 (UTC)Newyorkadam
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  Muenster Zoo. Buster Seven Talk 19:33, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
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  Tiger by Franz Marc, 1912, for all of your good work I wish I could give you the real painting! Randy Kryn (talk) 16:08, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
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  This White Tiger appreciates your good job.Alexcalamaro (talk) 07:53, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
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  Tiger lily, Fritzmann (message me) 01:39, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
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  Impressive work!!! BeFriendlyGoodSir (talk) 02:23, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
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  queen of 🖤 (they/them; chat) 00:47, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

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Millennium Park articles

Hi Tony, I would be more interested in Pritzker Pavilion as it has many similarities to BP Bridge. I am pretty busy in real life and here right now, so I will do my best to help with it, but don't want to commit myself 100% right now. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 14:34, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Burr Ridge

"This is an assembly of notable stores and it seems to fit in with the other centers at {{Chicagomalls}}." So basically you're arguing inherited notability (which is a crock) and WP:OSE. Like that's gonna hold water. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Many otters • One bat • One hammer)} 17:18, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Oct. 1st, 2009 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.252.146.130 (talk) 20:44, 1 October 2009 (UTC) Can I have permission from you to use your picture of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion on our Newsletter for Administrative Professionals. Our Newsletter is called Professionally Speaking and this would make an awesome header for us.

Please advise asap to jhaney1@sympatico.ca

Thanks J

Crown Fountain

Congratulations, Tony, on Crown Fountain making FA status!

I need to tell you, I have been going through some difficult real-world stuff (which will continue for some time) and simply cannot get online to edit. But I occasionally will check my watchlist on my cell phone while commuting. (It's horribly slow, but when you've got 90 minutes with nothing to do, what the heck?) Anyway, on my way home tonight I looked at the Signpost and saw that you got Crown Fountain to FA status. I know that this is probably no big deal for you, since you have done this more than anyone else, but it's the first time I've been cognizant of an article going through the process, so I decided to get online and congratulate you. Good job! Unschool 02:11, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Hey, Tony, I just pulled up some diffs, and I've got a question for you. I won't be hurt if you laugh at my silliness or are offended by my nerve. Anyway, when I look at the alterations I made in the lead, they appear from the diff to be significant; when I compare the lead as I left it to the lead that made it as an FA[1], there's no significant difference (other than a rewritten caption on a picture), meaning that the lead remained in the form I left it. This is my question: That's not enough for me to lay claim to be a person who helped this article make it to FA, is it? Assuming it is not, what kind of help qualifies one to lay claim to having helped an article to FA? Getting sources? What else? Thanks, you know how ignorant I am about all this. Unschool 04:24, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

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IL state parks

I'm hoping to watch races at Rockford Speedway this Sunday. Depending on the time, I may visit Rock Cut State Park for some pictures - it's less than 1 mile away from the track. Is there an admission charge for Illinois state parks, especially for someone from out of state like me? Please respond here on your talk page. Royalbroil 03:35, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Illinois Beach State Park had no admission as of three years ago. I do not know about other state parks and about current policies.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 03:38, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, that's what I thought. I had been to Illinois Beach State Park in the early 2000s with my brother and I don't remember an admission charge. I didn't see mention of an admission charge on the IL DNR website. Royalbroil 03:47, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

at WP:TFAR

You should look at the discussion, and you might want to withdraw the highway and nominate Fountain of Time in its place. I'm not sure of the points, or how others view this. My motivation is that I don't want a war article for Remembrance Day.

BTW, I couldn't find a free pix of Cecil Fielder or Mark Fidrych, so Al Kaline will have to do. Smallbones (talk) 15:50, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

GA

Are you ok w/the comments I added at the GA? Just touched on the sorts of things I have run into when seeking GAs. Feel free to delete any you think are off.--Epeefleche (talk) 22:30, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Importance proof of concept

Latest tagging run is done. By the way, see [2] and Category:Automatically prioritized Indiana articles for an idea of how importance could be set by bot. –xeno^talk 02:19, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Encyclopedia of Chicago

On October 4, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Encyclopedia of Chicago, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

BorgQueen (talk) 06:29, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Barry Bonds?

I noticed you had done a lot of work on the Barry Bonds article last year. Are you still working on it, or taking a break? I don't want to finish the work on helping get it ready for GA status without contacting the other editors. --DizFreak ^{talk Contributions} 07:51, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the offer on Bonds. Once I get some of the horrible stuff corrected, I will let you know and at that time would really appreciate your help. --DizFreak ^{talk Contributions} 06:11, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Feel free to help with Bonds. I won't complain! I was under the impression that you weren't interested. I always prefer to work with another who has more experience getting articles to GA status. I'll catch you over on that talk page. BTW, there is link to the work I'm doing on my userpage. --DizFreak ^{talk Contributions} 03:45, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Danita Angell

The article Danita Angell has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

no significant claim of notability, no indications that article may be meaningfully expanded -- short career, handful of GNews hits in captions

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Since you're a memeber of WP:WikiProject Architecture

Could you add some information to Contemporary architecture for general readers? As seeing the article in such the "poor" status (visiting the page to get some info but NOTHING in there), I was browsing the project member list, and recalled you're frequent a FA contributer. I want to contribute to the article, but that is not my field. It would be a great benefit for having your contribution to the article. Thanks.--Caspian blue 21:43, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

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DYK for Jake Long

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Bob Marley

Hi Tony, when your not busy please have another look at the state of the Bob Marley article now, ta. Off2riorob (talk) 22:25, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Respect, thanks for your work Tony. Off2riorob (talk) 11:01, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Wistert

now that you got the link

and saw Al get inducted - with Randall Cunningham

why won't you fix my edits that you took off?

plus, you really need to include how Al brought the stand up blocking we all see in the NFL today into the NFL with the Steagles

it is respect for Al and teaching kids their history

as far as the few sites that claim he missed so many games = Al never missed a game, was a 60 minute man, and only missed one start after the 5th game of his rookie year (when he replaced Ted Doyle as the starter)

it was against the Browns because of a bad ankle, but he ended up playing most of the game anyways

that is worth mentioning as well

Al is a better source of info than that of the hearsay of websites run by regular joes, since facts are so important...right?

hoping to hear a positive response back from you

since you have yet to reply to my previous message of proof Al finally got his respect, which I had asked you to chill, wait, and see

if you had = all of this would have been avoided —Preceding unsigned comment added by AFOS4EVER (talk • contribs) 05:53, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

again, here

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/sports/20090928_Cunningham__Wistert_inducted_into_Eagles_Honor_Roll.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by AFOS4EVER (talk • contribs) 08:54, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

question

Will you please restore the edits I made on Al Wistert??

for example,on this sentence, "His number 70 was retired by the Eagles in 1952."

It could read "His number 70 was retired by the Eagles in 1952 when the Eagles honored him with a day called Al Wistert Day. Al was the first Eagle to ever have his jersey retired by the team."

Which also could be used in the first paragraph where it says he was the first Eagle to be a Pro Bowl player. It could say he was the first Eagle to ever have his jersey retired by the team,and the first Eagle to go to the Pro Bowl.

You can decide.

I also would REALLY like the fact that Al brought the stand up style of blocking used today into the NFL.

He was the first to ever do it.

This is an important and historic moment in the life of the NFL.

you need at least these facts included on his page to give him proper respect, as well as educate people.

Isn't this the intent of Wikipedia?

here is a link giving you his whole career, much of it told by Al himself.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/261684-this-sunday-the-philadelpia-eagles-find-respect-for-history/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by AFOS4EVER (talk • contribs) 01:01, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Mike Kafka

Hey Tony, Giants27 and I are currently working on bringing Mike Kafka up to Good Article status, and we were wondering if you could help us out. Neither of us could find a free image of Kafka and since neither of us live near Illinois, we cannot take a picture of him. Would you (or your WP:CHICAGO buddies) happen to have a free image of him, or would you be willing to go to a Northwestern game to take a picture of him? Eagles 24/7 (C) 19:34, 8 October 2009 (UTC)