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Home city location for the New York Islanders

I was curious as to how to reach consensus with other editors regarding the home city location for the New York Islanders (as per Talk:National Hockey League#Home city for the Islanders)? The Islanders' Contact Us page lists the address for the Barclays Center as: 620 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11217 (the page is seen here). IMO, I believe that Wikipedia should list the home city location for all sports teams based on that team's home arena address. How do you propose I reach consensus with other editors? Charlesaaronthompson (talk) 19:42, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Several people already watch the article, so some should chime in naturally. If you like, post a message to WT:HOCKEY to invite more discussion. Resolute 19:44, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Oops!

Sorry for the mistake with Jim vs Gary Roberts. Glad you corrected so quickly. I feel like an idiot since I do remember Jim Roberts from his playing days! Thanks!

MOS discussion

FYI, I would like to completely disassociate myself from the other editor's meltdown regarding ISO footnote dates, and I really don't want anyone to think that I somehow support that kind of behavior. I value your good opinion too much not to seek agreement when we can, and to disagree agreeably when we can't. Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 21:22, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

@Dirtlawyer1: Yeah, Walter's attitude is... strange. I get your argument though. Using anything but ISO dates for citations drives me batty, but when an article already has a style for its citations, it is incumbent on myself to conform to what is already there. It seems a lot of these issues are created using semi-automated tools, which indicates that we should perhaps be asking whomever operates them for ways to improve the tool itself - since both Walter (on one side) and the people you refer to on the other are consistent in one thing - their refusal to check the article for a pre-existing preferred format before converting. Resolute 23:38, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Patients

All I ask, is grant me patients, Resolute. BTW, Have you heard anything in the news lately, about the Queen of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, or the Queen of Saint Kitts and Nevis? Just wondering. GoodDay (talk) 05:00, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

PS: How should I handle this & this? They seem to favour sources for one office, over the other. GoodDay (talk) 09:35, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

I think Miesianacal is correct there. In general, we should say what we mean, so "Governor General" is far more useful in context than "representative of the Canadian monarch". He is also right that, in general, we don't need to cite statements in the lead when they exist and are cited in the body. Resolute 14:24, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
OK, howabout the overload of sources in the lead for the Canadian monarch? There's 9 of them. GoodDay (talk) 14:37, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
Ya may wanna keep an eye on the Rideau Hall article, a bit longer. There's been alot of changes there, in the last few hours. Changes that may be opposed. GoodDay (talk) 20:06, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

When you told me to "pick my spots...", I should've listened. It's so bleeping frustrating, sometimes :( GoodDay (talk) 06:09, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

All battles are frustrating. That's why it helps to only choose the ones that are worth fighting. Resolute 22:14, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

The republican accusation by an editor there, was a stinker. Not to mention 2 editors conversing in the french language, evern after I made it clear I only understood english. But you're quite correct, my recent post would likely be brought up against me in RFA. GoodDay (talk) 00:49, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Wishing you all the best . . .

Merry Christmas, Resolute, and may your holidays be merry and bright . . . . Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 04:17, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

Arbcase

Hey Resolute, just wanted to clarify a thing or two. The block was clearly involved, the issue was about him and he instigated the block, any other admin could have done that upon his request. I received no information at all to enable me to assess what was happening, i.e. if he had left me a message on my talk page telling me that it was a banned editor and named him, it would have helped. He simply warned me via bad faith edit summary, accusing me of being a proxy for a sockpuppet. I'm more than happy to have my behaviour looked into by Arbcom as you suggest, but I felt it was important that before it goes too far, you actually see the bigger picture. As regards In the end, and unsurprisingly, TRM was all harassment and no action in this regard, yes I didn't launch this Arbcom request, I simply don't have the time to focus so hard on the correct deployment of such a drama festival. As I'm already witnessing, the whole thing is transforming, and becoming about technicalities, and not about the over-riding issue. Anyway, all the best to you. The Rambling Man (talk) 20:27, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

RfC announce: Religion in infoboxes

There is an RfC at Template talk:Infobox#RfC: Religion in infoboxes concerning what What should be allowed in the religion entry in infoboxes. Please join the discussion and help us to arrive at a consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 21:19, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

DYK suggestions

Hi Resolute,

I wrote two Calgary-related articles that were recently approved via WP:AFC - Stampede Wrestling 50th Anniversary Show and Stu Hart 50th Anniversary Show. Would Wikipedia:WikiProject Alberta be interested in nominating either of them to Wikipedia:Did you know? Both articles have some interesting facts. Ralph Klein, for example, appeared at both events to honor the Hart family. 72.74.200.46 (talk) 05:48, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

The Stampede Wrestling 50th article is pretty thin, and may have been in mainspace too long to qualify. But the Stu Hart one is a rather solid article. I think I can work a DYK nomination for that one on your behalf. I'll see about that later this afternoon. Nicely done! Resolute 14:45, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
Hmm. Looking more closely, I'm not sure I could get a DYK nom passed. Not because of your writing, but because I don't see how the Angelfire link and the "Coreys Wrestling Video Archives" link would qualify as reliable sources as Wikipedia defines them. Wrestlenewz looks more legit, but I don't have enough of a background on Wrestling to argue in its favour myself. Given the article is heavily dependent on these links, I don't think I could successfully complete a nomination to place it on the main page. Resolute 21:30, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

I was actually citing the original VHS release rather than the CoreysTapes.com website. I can remove the links in question if they're a problem. I mostly used Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling's good and featured articles as a guide for finding references. Online World of Wrestling is used on Bobby Eaton (FA) and CM Punk (FA), TheHistoryofWWE.com is used on Survivor Series (1992) (GA) and Survivor Series (1994) (GA), and Wrestlenewz.com is used on Mark Henry (GA).

Would any of these meet WP:RS?

Thanks. 72.74.200.46 (talk) 01:26, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi, sorry for taking so long to reply. I usually disappear on weekends. But yes, all of those are RSes. CANOE is the old online archive for Sun Media papers. All of those are acceptable. Thanks! Resolute 14:29, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

could you please intervene

Special:Contributions/CaptianZeroIce This user is improperly issuing warnings and reverting info that is correctly sourced. User's excuse is that the info "Has No value", and he seems to have a connection to the article's subject. Upon closer inspection thre may be sockpuppeting happening as well. 47.55.192.66 (talk) 21:37, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

Hockey on the ice listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Hockey on the ice. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. . Right now this links to bandy, which is quite ridiculous if you ask me. Hockey on ice is ice hockey, and the redirect should justifiably go to that page. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 00:23, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

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