User talk:GoodDay

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Hello to all fellow Wikipedians. GoodDay 22:40, 17 November 2005 (UTC).

This user has been on Wikipedia for 18 years, 9 months and 3 days.

You may be wondering why my archives only start at August 2007. The reason: I didn't archive my pages before that date, I merely deleted them (as I didn't know how to archive). Therefore, if anyone wishes to see material before August 2007? check out this talkpage's 'history'.

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Awards

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Preventing a thread from being archived

Just a tip: have a look at User:MiszaBot/Archive HowTo#Delaying or preventing archiving of particular threads to see how to keep a particular thread from being archived. isaacl (talk) 17:04, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, Isaacl. GoodDay (talk) 17:12, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Just a thought

Re: Brian Gionta and the Habs. Unless it is blatant vandalism, it is sometimes not a bad idea to let a minor edit like that stand for a while, let the dust settle, then go back and make corrections in a few hours if necessary. Getting into edit wars and stressing yourself out seems to be somewhat counterproductive. Resolute 17:22, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

It's rather moot, now. He's just signed with the Sabres :) GoodDay (talk) 17:23, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Alternate captains

It is premature to be listing the alternate captains for the upcoming NHL season. There is no guarantee that the "A" will be retained by the player who wore it last season, and most teams will not announce their alternate captains until the start of the regular season. Dolovis (talk) 16:02, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

Seen them listed on the other 2014-15 NHL team season articles, so figured it wouldn't be harmful for all of them. TBH, neither the captaincies or alternate captaincies of any teams are certain for next season. GoodDay (talk) 22:13, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

I've deleted the alternates from those teams which currently have no captain, as any of the previous alternates 'might' be named a captain in 2014-15. GoodDay (talk) 23:12, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

Resizing pictures to 300px

I see that you reference MOS:IMAGES when resizing pictures to 300px. From my reading of that page and this one that applies only to Lead images. The picture at Yeshivah_Gedolah_of_Johannesburg does not meet the definition of a lead image in my opinion. Michael Sandler (talk) 07:41, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

I thought it did qualify as a top-image. Anyways, I'll revert my change. PS- I believe I will slow down my pace of resizing top-images to 300px. Vast changes across articles, are generally discouraged on this project. GoodDay (talk) 10:17, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Valerie Scott (tennis player)

An infobox is not a reliable source. If the information in the infobox is also poorly sourced, it should be deleted, not duplicated. Pburka (talk) 03:13, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

I checked the source in the infobox & believed it to be reliable. If you wish to remove the source & dates from both the intro & infobox, I won't protest. GoodDay (talk) 03:15, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Years in United States articles

Would it be more beneficial to have a list of incumbents article in the 'see also' section of these pages, as opposed to listing them all in the 2014 in the United States or 2015 in the United States article. The federal makes sense (Who's President, Speaker of the House, President of the Senate, ect...), but each state's Governor or Lt. Governor becomes a bit tedious and a distraction from what the article was intended to be, which is what occurred during the year. The United States is just too big to be that meticulous, don't you think? As for elections, the major elections can be mentioned, but if a user wanted all information, then they could just go to that specific article to learn more. I'm very much anti-clutter when it comes to these sort of pages, it's just the way I edit. I want them to be easy to read. (Tigerghost (talk) 08:19, 18 August 2014 (UTC))

They're listed in every Year in the United States article, beginnning with 1787. If you want to propose deletion, I'll support it. GoodDay (talk) 10:13, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

FWIW - seems the following blockquote may be relevant =>

Copied from "Talk:2014 in the United States#This is just getting silly":
August 18, 2014

 Done - *entirely* agree - removed several listings [from the "2014 in the United States" article] - per talk discussion - seems better - in any case - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 14:02, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

BRIEF Followup - seems the notion of including lists of "Incumbents" (including "Governors" and [a bit later] "Lieutenant Governors") began with the "1787 in the United States" article (but apparently not for the years before this date) - one alternative to removing the listings outright may be to "hide/show" (with appropriate coding) the listings instead - one example of such coding is here =>

Governors and Lieutenant Governors
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
Example - "Governors" Listing Name - A Name - B Name - C Example - "Lieutenant Governors" Listing Name - A Name - B Name - C

Governors and Lieutenant Governors
Example - "Governors" Listing Name - A Name - B Name - C Example - "Lieutenant Governors" Listing Name - A Name - B Name - C

Comments (and/or other ideas) welcome of course - in any case - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 14:35, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Hope this helps in some way - in any regards - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 15:35, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

A link for you

You may enjoy this or this, or at least have an opinion about them. Drive ahead (talk) 01:57, 24 August 2014 (UTC)