User talk:Marc87

Welcome!

Hello, Marc87, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Fernando Pisani. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! Sarcasticidealist (talk) 23:47, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for your Canadian football work

The Red Maple Leaf Award

is hereby awarded to Marc87 for work in the area of Canadian football-related articles.
DoubleBlue (talk) 22:19, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

List of oldest NHL players

I was browsing Wikipedia and notice that you created the List of oldest NHL players. Aside from being horribly inaccurate (I can guarantee that there are not 128 year-old hockey players still living) it is complete original research and borderline unencyclopedic. For comparison, my list is far closer to accurate and still has problems. I was going to flat out nominate this for deletion - however, upon thinking about List of oldest living Major League Baseball players, the page may salvageable. So I guess my question would be, would you be willing to work with me on making more compliant with Wikipedia's guidelines? Cheers, CP 05:36, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Articles for deletion nomination of List of oldest NHL players

I have nominated List of oldest NHL players, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of oldest NHL players. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. iMatthew ^talk ^{• take my poll} at 01:23, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about the article

Sorry that your article was put up for deletion, I am very impressed with the way it appears, and am surprised that you are practically the only person who made it. Ikip (talk) 02:36, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

George Grigor

George Grigor is not still alive and did not make it to age 90. He died prior to 1992: http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22late+George+Grigor%22&btnG=Search+Archives&ned=us&hl=en&scoring=a —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.243.6.249 (talk) 05:02, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Herbert Schibukat

Herbert Schibukat died June 1999 according to his page now. 209.243.6.249 (talk) 15:41, 3 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Canada roster

Hi. Thanks for adding the Canada women's roster. Took you a while, I guess. LarRan (talk) 05:39, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hockey rosters in the Olympics

Hi Marc.

It's brilliant that you're able to populate the Olympics hockey rosters, but it would be nice to have sources for them. There is a spot in the stub templates that is reserved for a reference to the source. Could you tell me where you found this info?

Thanks

LarRan (talk) 21:55, 23 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ernie Laforce

Ernie Laforce died October 18, 2009: http://tanniesautographs.blogspot.com/2009/11/ernie-laforce.html 96.52.12.116 (talk) 01:42, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Also, Nick Damore died in 1994: http://www.hockeydb.com/vb/showthread.php?t=21406 96.52.12.116 (talk) 16:52, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re; Tammy Plante article

Please do not add content without citing verifiable and reliable sources, as you did to Tammy Plante. Before making any potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Deconstructhis (talk) 21:00, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

2010 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship

You did a lot of work on 2010 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship. Have you ever thought of nominating it at WP:FLC?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 02:25, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Never thought of myself for being nominated. Sure, why not.

Question

Hey, I noticed you changing any NFLactive to Gridiron football person infoboxes. I have no problem with this even though NFLactive has been significantly changed to support other leagues and retired players, however if WP:CFL still feels that Gridiron football person is superior then that's the way it is. However, I'm curious as to why you're changing the order of the categories. The way I and a lot of other editors do things are:

Birthdate related categories
Birthplace categories
Other (e.g. religious categories)
positional categories
collegiate team category
potentially the undrafted player category
all the teams they played for in the order they played for them

I understand that some people like it either way, but I'm curious as to your viewpoint and why you feel that the alphabetical order is best. Cheers,--Giants 27(Contribs|WP:CFL) 21:23, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Alphabet order is a lot easier to follow, Giants27

IIHF 2010

Hey fellow hokcey fan, whats the source for your edits here: [1]? Slaja (talk) 02:14, 30 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

TSN website

Volley

I have seen that you edited some volleyball articles. Some players articles, most of them looks outdated. I would like to improve players by country. Could you please choose a country to contribute with? Please take a look on Yekaterina Gamova, Hélia Souza, Serena Ortolani and Kenia Carcaces for a model to follow. Please can you please improve some volleyball players with infobox and some addons? References are very important. Let me know. Oscar987 21:59, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Order of categories

There is no prescribed order for categories, so this edit at Teddy Tahu Rhodes and this edit at Tim Hopkins seem to be trying to fix something which isn't broken and as such are pointless and disruptive. The sort order you imposed contradicts a widely followed custom which places the most significant categories first. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 07:45, 5 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not quite true, lots of projects do alphabetical order to make categories easier to find. He is probably just continuing the habit since he often edits one of the projects who do it this way. -DJSasso (talk) 10:40, 5 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your Olympic List

is missing Freddie Dunkelman (90 years, 168 days), John P. Riley, Jr. (90+ years), and Heini Lohrer (92+ years). 97.75.193.97 (talk) 18:25, 5 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

And Albert Renaud. 96.52.5.187 (talk) 13:31, 10 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Robi Botos

There is no valid reason why a person who was born and raised in Hungary, and then moved to Canada as an adult, should be categorized only as Canadian while having all Hungary-related categories removed from his article. That's not how categories work, or how they should work, on Wikipedia — people can be categorized by any country that's relevant to their lives. Bearcat (talk) 02:46, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Edmonton Oilers staff

Template:Edmonton Oilers staff has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Jmlk 1 7 20:29, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Kobi Oz

You recently removed Category:Tunisian jews from Kobi Oz. Unfortunately you failed to leave an edit summary so I could not tell what your intention was. If you removed the category simply because it was red, please do not do this. You may not have been able to find Category:Tunisian Jews, but other people with more experience here would have been able to fix that problem, had you not removed it. If your intention was to assert that he is not Jewish, please revisit the article as I have reverted your edit. In the future, please always provide an edit summary. Thank you. --Pascal⁶⁶⁶ 21:03, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lifetime template

Recently you have replaced the births and Living people categories in a couple articles ([2] [3]) with the Lifetime template. Please note that (as the documentation for this template states) automatic bots regularly replace the Lifetime template with the births and Living people categories you just removed, basically making both your and their edits pointless and a waste of resources. The purpose of the Lifetime template is as a shortcut when adding the births and Living people categories to an article. Please do not replace these categories with the Lifetime template in the future. Thank you. --Pascal⁶⁶⁶ 21:10, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Content requires sources

Please stop adding unsourced content, particularly claims about living people, without providing a valid source to support the claim. Your edits to Erich Gonzales have been reverted. Active Banana ( ^bananaphone 19:21, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

using olympic codes in bio infobox

cut the bullshit --Львівське (talk) 00:16, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

updating rosters

when you are updating rosters, as you did here [4], and you are going to change the captain of the team, please make sure to update the entire article. The captain of the team was present in two other sections of the page. What is your source for this change? to this point we only have 1 game sheet and the AL website makes no mentions of captains and assistant captains--Crossmr (talk) 12:55, 10 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]