User talk:B

This user is not particularly active on Wikipedia, and mostly makes minor corrections and updates to Virginia Tech-related articles.

Welcome back! ;)--U.S.A.U.S.A.U.S.A. 22:29, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Ditto. Miranda 02:35, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Yea! — Rlevse • Talk • 03:00, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Congrats.

Congrats on your team winning today! Bowl or no bowl? Miranda 22:28, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Virtually every Division I-FBS (formerly I-A) team with a winning record goes to a bowl game. So yes, we will be in a bowl game no matter what. If we win the ACC title game against Boston College, then we go to the FedEx Orange Bowl and probably play Georgia, but possibly Kansas (if Missouri wins the Big XII title game) or Missouri (if Oklahoma wins it). If we lose to BC, then it's either the bowl formerly known as the Peach against a Southeastern Conference team or the Gator Bowl against Texas Tech. --B (talk) 16:56, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Yep, congrats on beating Boston College too...Gator Bowl. :-D Miranda 05:45, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Football notability

Can you tell me when this became consensus. It seem odd to me that former professional football players are not notable, but former pro baseball and basketball players are.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:LOTD) 16:12, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

I don't think you can draw that particular conclusion from anything there. This was a proposed change to a proposed guideline that was a work in progress. The proposal appears to have been rejected. --B (talk) 16:50, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Courtesy notice

I have mentioned your username in evidence presented at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Matthew Hoffman/Evidence. Your administrative action was mentioned as one superior (IMO) to that taken by one of the parties in the case. GRBerry 01:06, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Thx ... is Matthew Hoffman a reincarnation of Profg or something? If not, I'm missing the connection. I notice you also mentioned Whig. I think it was a really all-around bad idea for an involved admin to be the one to block him, but he really did need to be banned. I suggested during a previous ban discussion instead placing him on probation/editing restrictions and he just continued to be disruptive even during the discussion. An uninvolved admin should have been the one to make the block, but he did need to be banned. --B 01:51, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Hoffman created his account in 2005, didn't edit until 2007, and edited this page before Profg. Profg ended up with the last edit in the edit war as his only edit. The connections are 1) participated in same multiparty edit war, 2) Profg elsewhere was in disputes with the same users, 3) both were blocked by the same admin. GRBerry 04:00, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Welcome Back!

Good to see you back. Definitely missed your insights and your work. I'd really appreciate it if you could take a look at the FAC for 2006 Chick-fil-A Bowl and leave a few comments. Since it's a Virginia Tech bowl game, I think it's right up your alley. Thanks, and good to have you back! JKBrooks85 17:01, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

There's a rather serious error in the article. I'm pretty sure that game ended at halftime. ;) Seriously, looks great! --B 18:20, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Ha! Don't I wish. Incidentally, are you coming down for the Orange Bowl? I'll be there. JKBrooks85 (talk) 20:16, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

No - but remember to take lots of pictures ;) --B (talk) 20:42, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

#ifexist issues

Your last edit to {{cbb link}} broke the template. Is there a way we can compromise to still make it work while limiting the #ifedit traffic? This is the first I've heard about problems with that function, would you mind filling me in (and please dumb it down as much as possible, I'm no computer whiz) Hoof Hearted 21:00, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

You're right ... I screwed up and forgot to take off the extra trailing brackets. It's fixed now. See the bottom of WT:CFB for the discussion. The problem is that excessive #ifexist calls place a drain on the server and starting next Monday, ALL articles will be limited to 100 per article. So getting rid of the redundant calls is one step. The template was allowing the user to enter gender=men's or gender=men and rendering both versions as men's. That's a good thing - but it was taking four calls to #ifexist to do it. I reduced it to one call - anything resembling "women's" will be changed to "women's" - anything else is "men's". That knocks it down from 10 calls to 5, which is probably still too many for season articles. (100/5 = 20 ... and we have 25+ games/season.) So we need to link directly to season articles that exist and probably could remove the "athletics" link since that isn't our naming convention. (Articles named "Virginia Tech athletics" should be renamed to "Virginia Tech Hokies".)--B (talk) 21:36, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Looks like you're still missing an 's in there somewhere... Ah, you got it. OK, I will start unloading the pages of the {{cbb link}} where the season articles have been created. Hoof Hearted (talk) 21:41, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Ok ... I'm going to give this thing some thought. The football articles aren't as big of a deal because virtually every BCS school for the last two years has an article. So just fixing the links to existing articles gets it well under the 100 limit. But looking at Category:2006-07 NCAA Division I men's basketball season and Category:2007-08 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, very few of the basketball teams have articles. So we're still going to be over the limit on those and probably need to remove {{cbb link}} if there is zero chance that the team will ever have an article for the season (eg, 2006-07 Charleston Southern) and simply link to Charleston Southern Buccaneers men's basketball, making a redirect if the page doesn't exist. {{Cbb link}} may need to be reserved for actual text articles and not used in schedule pages. --B (talk) 21:47, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

I'd like your feedback on my proposal at Template Talk:cbb link. Hoof Hearted (talk) 14:23, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

cfb link and #ifexist

Thanks for the heads-up about #ifexist. I was not aware of that limitation. I'm also active in the US highways projects, where {{jct}} is used a lot. I just checked, and it does not call #ifexist, so it should be fine. (Articles with long exit lists may call the template over 100 times; because of calls to images, it really makes articles a lot more readible to use that template and not subst it.) You're right, though: cfb link should be subst'ed or otherwise avoided, except where there's potential for a future article. —C.Fred (talk) 00:56, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Profg

Oh, you are about! Sorry - I thought that you weren't, so brought up Profg's return to try and find an alternate mentor thingie. Sorry! Adam Cuerden ^talk 04:11, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Never mind. talk to you when not sleep-deprived and can speak coherently. Adam Cuerden ^talk 04:23, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Right. What I was trying to say is that User:Profg has returned, and I'm a little worried about him being without (minor) oversight. Are you willing to do this, or should I poke around the mediation cabal and see if I can find someone? I'm hitting exams. Adam Cuerden ^talk 08:21, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

I'll keep an eye on his contributions. --B (talk) 13:48, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

"Retired"

Yup. nobody can resist the gravitational pull Wikipedia appears to have on people. :) Maser ^(Talk!) 04:16, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

I wondered what happened to that photo!

I was going to upload that image (amongst others) and put it on my user page, but couldn't find a proper citation for it. When I went back and looked at my user page, I didn't have it on there and I thought I just decided not to upload it. Like I said, I was doing a bunch of them at once and I guess I put that caption in there with the others. This is certainly a BIG mistake on my part. Do you know the process for getting a photo deleted (and this one certainly should)? — BQZip01 — ^talk 00:00, 8 December 2007 (UTC)