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Thanks for the steak. :D It was tasty. Bigdottawa 13:51, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Football AID 21 Jan - 28 Jan

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Dixie Dean has been selected as this week's collaboration. Please do help in working to improve it.

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Football AID 28 Jan - 4 Feb

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Rinus Michels has been selected as this week's collaboration. Please do help in working to improve it.

Football AID 11 Feb - 18 Feb

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FAID 11-18 Mar

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Phil Stockman

He was born in Oldham, United Kingdom. NOT Australia. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Chrisjnelson (talk • contribs) 02:32, 1 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Cuauhtémoc Blanco

The level of vandalism isn't really high enough to justify semi-protection, particularly as the number of recent productive IP edits to the article outnumber the vandals. Oldelpaso 19:09, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Seeking community input re standardizing baseball roster pages

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Ice Hockey Project discussion of hockey player notability and project scope

Please come join the WikiProject Ice Hockey Notability standards for hockey players discussion. I'd like to see input from all our project members who have an opinion. Thanks! ColtsScore 02:21, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiProject Ice Hockey August 2007 Newsletter

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WikiProject Ice Hockey Newsletter

Dear Minfo/Archive 2! You are receiving this newsletter because you have signed up as a member of WikiProject Ice Hockey. The purpose of this newsletter is to update on the goings on of the project, as there have been major changes, and a lot of new recognized content in the past few weeks. If you are an inactive user, you probably won't recognize the new and improved state of the WikiProject!

From the project, Maxim.

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New recognized content

By Maxim
There have been a lot more Good and Featured articles written in the past few weeks. Here is a list:^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Featured articles

Wayne Gretzky — Promoted on 2006-02-14; on Main Page on 2006-06-13
New Jersey Devils — Promoted on 2006-11-20; on Main Page on 2007-06-30
Martin Brodeur — Promoted on 2007-04-28
Fighting in ice hockey — Promoted on 2007-05-07; on Main Page on 2007-07-19
Dominik Hasek — Promoted on 2007-05-25

Good articles

Featured lists^[5]

Notes

^ All articles are in order of promotion, as written on the main WikiProject page; FA's have official dates of promotions.
^ A star represents a featured article or list
^ A green circle represents a good article
^ Stanley Cup is an A-Class article
^ The lists system differs from articles, and doesn't give an official date of promotion

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Article Improvement

By Maxim

Upon some discussion on the WikiProject talk page, the Article Improvement Drive page was revamped by Krm500 and Maxim. It was renamed Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey/Article Improvement, and it includes two section. The first section is called articles in dire need of improvement. It list articles, usually important, that are in very poor shape. The second section is called requested help. Users list an article they request help improving a certain article, which will facilitate collaboration, which is the aim of any WikiProject. There is one article currently listed there, Henrik Lundqvist, here. The goal is to at least get it to Good article status.

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Diacritics

By Maxim

In the past few weeks, there has been quite heated discussion about the use of diacritics in article name. The current guideline is using diacritics in the pages of articles of all player names which require them, but redirects are exempt.

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Task forces

By Maxim
There have been two new task forces started within the WikiProject to coordinate major topics.

Sweden Ice Hockey task force

This task force was initiated by Krm500. Its current goal is to improve Henrik Lundqvist to Good or Featured article status. It covers all Swedish clubs, leagues and competitions and associated articles, players and coaches that are Swedish, or have played/coached for a Swedish club, and arenas in Sweden. They plan to eventually operate as a sort of a sub-project, which will have its own articles for creation, ranking importance and quality of articles, and co-ordinate article improvement. Its current members are Krm500, Bamsefar75, and CLAES.

New Jersey Devils task force

This task force was initiated by Bsroiaadn. Its goal is to improve New Jersey Devils to Featured Topic status. Although it currently meets the required article count, the task force wishes to improve it further. Its area of coverage is very similar to the Sweden Ice Hockey task force. Its members are Bsroiaadn, JHMM13, FutureNJGov, Sportskido8, Michael Greiner, JRWalko, and Soxrock.

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Requested Images

By Maxim
After discussion on the WikiProject talk page, Serte created a page for Requested Images. The page encourages users to license images for use on articles. The page also has section to request images for players, arenas, game situations, miscellaneous, and team and league logos. The page has been quite popular; since it was created on July 21, there have been six completed requests. There are four currently outstanding requests:

Patrik Eliáš — Photo of player, requested by Bsroiaadn
Scott Stevens — Photo of player, requested by Bsroiaadn
Daniel Alfredsson — Photo of player, requested by Maxim
Hart Trophy — Photo of the original Hart Trophy (retired in 1960), requested by Scorpion0422

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Article assessement completed

By Maxim
On July 12, Kaiser matias announced that he had completed assessing all the articles with a {{ice hockey}} tag, sorting them into Category:Unassessed Ice Hockey articles. Kaiser matias has ranked about 9000 articles in that category, and most were stubs, and "have no information at all", according to him. Everybody is encouraged to expand the stubs into real articles. This effort took around 5 months. A big thanks goes to Kaiser matias from me and all the project.

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Steak

Thanks for the steak, well appreciated! (Never thought I'd say that to anyone..)

WP:CVU status

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Flags

The problem with flags in football infoboxes is that in some browsers the infobox becomes distorted so that the team no longer aligns properly with the years and the goals. Thats why they are taken out. This particular issue isn't really covered in WP:FLAGS, but it does state that flags should not be overused. Regards, 23:57, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Ice Hockey newsletter

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WikiProject Ice Hockey Newsletter

Dear Minfo/Archive 2! You are receiving as you are a member of WikiProject Ice Hockey There's been more new thing going on at WP:HOCKEY, and I think this will help you to stay informed. Since the last newsletter sent out in August, there's been great changes. Read on to find out! Maxim_(talk)

This just in:
Maurice 'Rocket' Richard Trophy has just been promoted to featured list status, while the bot was delivering the newsletter. Maxim_(talk) 02:02, 28 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And I've just promoted Art Ross Trophy. And Clarence S. Campbell Bowl is at FLC. This should be the last update. Maxim_(talk) 00:40, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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New recognized content

By Maxim

Especially due to the featured topic drive, there have been many new featured lists promoted concerning NHL awards. Here's the full list of all the 13 FL's promoted since the last newsletter.^[1]^[2]

There have been no new good articles or featured articles. Maurice 'Rocket' Richard Trophy has been given A-Class status due to multiple issues raised at FLC.

^ The last one, List of Calgary Flames players, is the only one not associated with the featured topic drive.
^ At the time of publishing, there were 5 lists at WP:FLC and 2 lists in the "Holding cell", as there's been an accepted guideline to not put more that 5 trophy lists at the same time to, "compensate for the sanity of the reviewers".

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Did You Know?

By Maxim
There have been 4 new articles featured in the Did You Know section? on the Main Page since August.

Wally Tatomir - August 4, 2007, authored by User:Maxim.
- ...that Wally Tatomir, head equipment manager of the Carolina Hurricanes, holds four patents on ice hockey-related equipment?
Mark Major - August 12, 2007, authored by User:Schmackity
- ...that ice hockey player Mark Major attained 355 penalty minutes during the 1997-98 AHL season for the Portland Pirates, where he averaged 4.5 penalty minutes a game and still holds the club record?
Garth Butcher - September 15, 2007, authored by User:Canuckle.
- ...that Garth Butcher was a member of Canada's first-ever gold medal team at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships before becoming a pest and setting team records for penalty minutes in the National Hockey League?
AMP NHL Winter Classic - September 22, 2007, authored by User:Skudrafan1
- ..that the AMP NHL Winter Classic is scheduled to be the first regular-season outdoor National Hockey League game in the United States?

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Featured Topic Drive

By Maxim

Started by User:Scorpion0422, the aim of this drive is to make NHL awards a featured topic. A featured topic is basically a set of very high quality articles (good articles and featured articles/lists). In this case, the topic is NHL awards. Many users have helped, including Scorpion0422, Resolute, Serte, Hasek is the best, Maxim, Croat Canuck, Spike Wilbury, FutureNJGov, and T Rex/Dinosaur puppy. The progress has been very good; there are 12 featured lists promoted, and 2 good articles:

Hart Memorial Trophy (Scorpion)
James Norris Memorial Trophy (Scorpion)
Vezina Trophy (Scorpion)
Conn Smythe Trophy (Serte)
Frank J. Selke Trophy (FutureNJGov)
Lady Byng Memorial Trophy (Scorpion)
Lester B. Pearson Award (Scorpion)
Calder Memorial Trophy (Croat Canuck)
Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy (Maxim)
King Clancy Memorial Trophy (Maxim)
Jack Adams Award (Maxim)
Presidents' Trophy (Scorpion)
Stanley Cup (Earlier collaboration, very many involved)
Traditions and anecdotes associated with the Stanley Cup (Maxim)

Check the project page if you are interested in helping out. Although it's closer to being done than not, there's still work to be done. The next topic that might be tackled is Stanley Cup, but this remains purely speculative and in discussion.

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[1] All articles are in order of promotion, as written on the main WikiProject page; FA's have official dates of promotions.

[2] A star represents a featured article or list

[3] A green circle represents a good article

[4] Stanley Cup is an A-Class article

[5] The lists system differs from articles, and doesn't give an official date of promotion

[6] The last one, List of Calgary Flames players, is the only one not associated with the featured topic drive.

[7] At the time of publishing, there were 5 lists at WP:FLC and 2 lists in the "Holding cell", as there's been an accepted guideline to not put more that 5 trophy lists at the same time to, "compensate for the sanity of the reviewers".

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