User talk:Philippe

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Philippe,

send me an e-mail [1] and I'll get you added to the bullpen yahoo e-mail list. Thanks for all of the work.

sean

Congrats on finishing with the cities. --Just me 13:05, 22 Mar 2006 (EST)

Grreat job with the cities, Philippe. --MichaelEng 11:58, 25 Mar 2006 (EST)

-- Thanks for all the cities. We're missing some Mexican Center League teams and 19th century ones, but amazing work overall! - --Mischa 13:08, 22 Mar 2006 (EST)

Hey Phillippe, can you take a look at Ian Snell's page? I'm fairly certain Ian changed his last name to his mother's maiden name, and then changed it back due to family issues with his father. John Lease 11:29, 12 June 2008 (EDT)

Contents 1 Image Tags 2 Stubs 3 Naming conventions 4 Featured articles 5 Places category 6 Danny Rombley 7 Longest game 8 Valentine 9 Nilsson 10 Clear 11 Adminship 12 Cobb 13 Hawaii 14 All-Stars 15 Question 16 Moving 17 Grady Hatton 18 SABR Bio Committee 19 Disambig 20 Dal Canton 21 Silver Sluggers

[edit] Image Tags

Greetings.

As part of the BR Bullpen's proposed Image use policy the following images that you have uploaded should be tagged with appropriate image tags.

Images

Image:Davenport IA.jpg
Image:Stade Olympique intérieur.jpg
Image:Stade Olympique Mat.jpg

Your files uploaded

--MichaelEng 00:43, 22 July 2006 (EDT)

[edit] Stubs

I think it was a good idea to have stubs for 2006 debut players who didn't have complete pages yet, so people know which ones need work. - --Mischa 12:21, 3 November 2006 (EST)

Well, at this point, they were all labelled stubs, whether there was content or not, so the tag was not useful. Plus, we have thousands of player pages from other years that have no content and do not have the stub tag, so why only tag the 2006 ones ? --Philippe 12:28, 3 November 2006 (EST)

A lot of those with content were not stubbed (Rajai Davis, Russell Martin, Nick Markakis, etc.).

As for why the 2006 ones, it's a way to make sure that new pages are listed as needing work or not. For old pages, going back would be a) very time-consuming and b) give us a HUGE list of stubs to be worked on. Right now we already have oodles of them.

What do others think? - --Mischa 12:33, 3 November 2006 (EST)

[edit] Naming conventions

According to Naming Conventions, For all smaller places use the format:

   * if located in the United States, Canada, or Puerto Rico; use PLACE, STATE (Two letter ISO code)
         o Las Vegas, NV not [[Las Vegas, Nevada]], Montreal, QC not [[Montreal, Quebec]] 
   * if located anywhere else; use PLACE, STATE (short) 

This is a bit unclear about what to do with ones where we don't know the state. Some pages have x, Dominican Republic while others just use x, which presents all kinds of inconsistency. I personally prefer the former as it distinguishes one Santo Domingo from another. This should probably be another topic of group discussion. - --Mischa 12:33, 3 November 2006 (EST)

I looked at the list for the D.R. and there were 90% marked as city only, and a few markes as city, D.R. All of these were the larger cities and linked back to the World Baseball Classic pages, at which time the move was probably made (all the links from player pages are to the cities only). So I decided to make theme all consistent, as they originally were. --Philippe 15:36, 3 November 2006 (EST)

Thanks for working out some of the rules, glossary, etc. pages that have been wanted. - --Mischa 11:05, 5 November 2006 (EST)

Hey Philippe, where do you find the partial season managerial records? --Jeff 13:27, 19 October 2007 (EDT)

Some of the old Sporting News baseball guides give them. --Philippe 13:32, 19 October 2007 (EDT)

[edit] Featured articles

Philippe, can you comment on the proposed featured articles? Also, do you want to submit a request for 1946 WS - I think it would be a good one. - --Mischa 12:05, 8 November 2007 (EST)

[edit] Places category

I think the places category is being mostly eliminated to make way for easier-to-navigate "settlements in" and "subdivisions of" categories. The bot unfortunately left some articles category-less. - --Mischa 09:04, 7 December 2007 (EST)

[edit] Danny Rombley

I wrote up a page for Danny Rombley, a Dutch national team outfielder. As he played for six years in the Expos farm system and you have a few Expos media guides IIRC, I was wondering if you could add other information. - --Mischa 19:26, 16 December 2007 (EST)

[edit] Longest game

Philippe, you're the only one who raised objections about making the longest game in baseball history the new featured article. Have they all been addressed now that the article has been edited some more? - --Mischa 10:57, 25 March 2008 (EDT)

Good work on getting glossary terms in here. --Jeff 16:18, 5 April 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Valentine

For Bobby Valentine's Japanese record, see here - --Mischa 14:20, 9 April 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Nilsson

Can you comment on BR Bullpen:Featured Article Candidates/Dave Nilsson? - --Mischa 10:45, 14 May 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Clear

Please do not take out the Clear templates after the vital information on the pages I am making as you recently did with the Rafael Perez page. Once I have made a page for each former Kinston Indian, the next thing on my to-do list is to add photos to all the pages and the Clear line will be needed then. Thanks. 69.68.238.142 08:40, 30 May 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Adminship

Hello. I was wondering how you become an administrator here. I'm an administrator and bureacrat at some other wikis, but I can't seem to find how you become one here. Regards, RyRy5 (talk) 03:25, 31 May 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Cobb

I'd like to propose the Ty Cobb article for featured status with all your additions but we need to list sources as in Dave Nilsson and Martin Dihigo. Can you do so? - --Mischa 12:17, 24 June 2008 (EDT)

Two questions:

1) Could you add the footnoted sources to the Cobb article?

2) If you have time, can you help wikify the calendar. I'm through July 22, only 2 weeks ahead of the current date. Since the main BR site links to the calendar, I want to stay ahead but it will be tough if I do it all myself. - --Mischa 12:01, 8 July 2008 (EDT)

Mischa, I won't have access to a computer for another week or so. I used the time I had this week to put in the 2008 All-Star rosters. --Philippe 04:51, 10 July 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Hawaii

Should we add USA to all the players born in Puerto Rico? Puerto Rico holds the same status now that Hawaii did then. 69.68.238.142 12:54, 24 July 2008 (EDT)

[edit] All-Stars

Are you only doing 2008? I think we're missing 2006 and 2007 as well. - --Mischa 12:08, 6 August 2008 (EDT)

I was travelling again with a bit of free time and access to a computer one afternoon. I'll do the 2006 and 2007 first-time All-Stars now. --Philippe 08:52, 8 August 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Question

Hi Philippe. A few months ago, you told me "To become an administrator, you have to contribute some quality edits for a while and be selected by one of the key-holders of the site. " What exactly do you mean by the "key holders" of this site? Do you mean the bureaucrats? Or do you mean the actual founders of baseball-reference bullpen? Thanks, RyanCross (talk) 04:34, 9 August 2008 (EDT)

Philippe, I think you are able to give adminship to users. If you look at the list of administrators, you are a bureaucrat, along with Sean, Mischa and Jeff. Bureaucrats are able to give users adminship and bureaucrat permissions. That, is you. All bureaucrats have to do is go to Special:Userrights, type in the name of a user in the box, search, highlight the user rights you would like to give, and save the user rights, and whatever you highlighted in the left section will be what the user is now. -- RyanCross (talk) 15:02, 9 August 2008 (EDT)

Ah, of course. That's why we're here isn't it? Oh, and I just wanted to say thanks for all the work you've done for years here. You've really helped this site out. :) Thanks Philippe. And I was wondering, I noticed that links such as major league isn't linked in most baseball player biographical articles. Why is that? Would love to learn. :) I wouldn't want to do something wrong when I write articles. Thanks, RyanCross (talk) 15:29, 10 August 2008 (EDT)

Working on the Olympics, I won't finish August 14 wikifying by tomorrow. If you have a chance, be my guest. - --Mischa 12:57, 13 August 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Moving

If you're using Verizon for your home internet connection, it might take them a while to set it up. It took us about 2 1/2 weeks, about 3 hours on the phone with them and 2 visits from their techs (even though the problem was on their end). - --Mischa 10:30, 25 August 2008 (EDT)

Hope your internet connection (and phone and utilities) are up and running on time. May you be out of your boxes within the near future as well. You can always freecycle the used boxed away once they're unpacked. - --Mischa 08:48, 3 September 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Grady Hatton

Phillippe, thanks for your work on the Grady Hatton page, I appreciate your help. I have one suggestion...under Notable Achievements the small chart on his Houston managers career is a bit repetitious, as it is covered in his managers career also. If you have any suggestions on the way things should be linked, as I noticed you made changes, please let me know and I will try to follow what is needed. No one has ever given me any directions as what is the correct way to link dates, teams, names, etc. Thanks again. --Dugout 14:39, 30 August 2008 (EDT)

[edit] SABR Bio Committee

Can you contact the SABR Biographical Committee regarding Rynie Wolters' birthplace - there is no such location as Schantz in the Netherlands. - --Mischa 09:26, 1 September 2008 (EDT)

What cost is there to joining SABR? - --Mischa 09:20, 2 September 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Disambig

While you're disambiging (not a word) Ramon Ramirez, be aware of the Panamanian national team pitcher Ramon Ramirez, who should be listed on the disambig page. I have one link to him at Ramon Ramirez Canejo - --Mischa 16:58, 2 September 2008 (EDT)

Actually, it appears to be "Camejo" according to the IBAF site. I don't see this at many other sites, though. Maybe Ramon R. Ramirez or Ramon Ramirez (Panama) would be better. - --Mischa 17:12, 2 September 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Dal Canton

Dal Canton died at St. Clair Hospital, which is in Mt. Lebanon, not in Pittsburgh. - --Mischa 20:33, 5 November 2008 (EST)

This looks like a case where the SABR Bio Committee got it wrong. I'll send Bill Carle an e-mail. Thanks.

The mailing address for some Pittsburgh suburbs is given as Pittsburgh but they're not legally part of the city. That could explain the problem. - --Mischa 20:45, 5 November 2008 (EST)

[edit] Silver Sluggers

Can you add 2006 and 2007 to the chart as well? - --Mischa 20:16, 13 November 2008 (EST)

When I have some free time... --Philippe 20:22, 13 November 2008 (EST)