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Wisconsin gubernatorial election 2012
What are you doing? You make a truly major change to an article without discussing it? No talk whatsoever? Recall elections are subcategories of elections. In this case It is a type of gubernatorial election. The "recall" article should just point at the main article. At the very least you should have discussed this on the article's talk page and probably the Wisconsin project page. I would respectfully request that you to self revert. Capitalismojo (talk) 14:03, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
The page move? I standardized the page with the other recall elections in US history (see
Wisconsin Senate recall elections, 2011). That's a minor change that didn't need discussion first, and I won't revert. – Muboshgu (talk
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March 2012 Move-to-Commons drive
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Sorry for the edit I made on Andrew Breitbart's page. That was a mistake which I didn't think through or notice. Thanks for your chiding correction.
My only intent was to modify the tense in the biographical section. I have NetNanny installed on the computer I was using and it is set to automatically substitute in the characters you noticed for profanities. I knew that, but didn't realize that it would happen in that context. I'll do my best not to do so again. I want to be a responsible member of the wikipedia community. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bro rick (talk • contribs) 18:21, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
The Original Barnstar
Thanks for creating the new article Daryl Jones (baseball). Your efforts to improve Wikipedia's coverage of biography-related topics is appreciated. Northamerica1000(talk) 01:44, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
My mistake on the Andrew Breitbart page
I'm sorry for breaking links on the Breitbart page. That was not my intent. The only change I deliberately made was in line 20, changing "who has served" to "who served." Thank you for your kind words of chastening.
I use NetNanny for filtering/blocking images, and it is also configured to substitute in @$#%&** in place of profanities. It is unfortunate that a) I did not notice the substitutions and b) I opted to edit the whole page rather than just the top section. I sincerely apologize for me error. If I opt to edit wikipedia on a filtered system again, I will watch out for this sort of issue.
I attempt to be a responsible member of the wikipedia community. Thank you again for alerting me to my error.Bro rick (talk) 18:34, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
Blue Jays assessment
I saw your request to make the assessment table for the Toronto Blue Jays project work. I fixed it and the table will be updated at
Thank you! – Muboshgu (talk) 02:18, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
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All-American college baseball players
Muboshgu, I've noticed your work on various baseball pages, including the recent creation of a new list of 2011 College Baseball All-America Team members. I work primarily on Florida Gators sports articles, and I've recently started to clean up the bios of the 70 former Florida Gators baseball players who have WP articles. Yesterday, I created the new Category:All-American college baseball players, which parallels a similar category for All-American college football players. If you're going to continue to work on baseball All-Americans, I ask that you to add it to the bios of the current and former college player bios you edit (as applicable, of course). Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 17:10, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
I will add that category to appropriate pages. Thank you. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:23, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Yankees ownership
Hiya! I popped over to try cleaning that page up and saw you already had about a month ago. Any plans on FLC'ing it? Staxringoldtalkcontribs 19:11, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Absolutely. It's on my list of lists to nominate, things just move slowly at FLC now. How does it look to you? – Muboshgu (talk) 19:24, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Looks good. There's one errant citation needed that'll be easy to find. Maybe find one source for one sentence on Topping/Webb, since they owned the team for 20 years? Staxringoldtalkcontribs 19:39, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Sure. I remember now I also nominated another list before that one because I can't find any sources about Calvin Chan and I wanted to see if anyone with know how on finding old offline sources could help. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:54, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Not really, no. I reverted your edit warring, which is perfectly legitimate. When you edit war, conversations stop being about the content and start being about the behavior. Regarding the content, it is perfectly appropriate to keep the quotes in the article as they relate to him and his recent ascension. – Muboshgu (talk) 15:36, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Your explanation of you reverts on your talk page doesn't suffice as justification for the reverts. You need to bring it to the talk page and discuss it there.(And I hope the reasons you give on the talk page will be more than because the quotes are "perfectly appropriate.")Festermunk (talk) 16:17, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Actually it does... 3RR is a pretty hard rule as far as Wikipedia goes. Additionally, there is a discussion of the quotes on the talk page... Staxringoldtalkcontribs 16:45, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Dispute resolution for Jeremy Lin
I've mentioned youhere as a participant in our on-going dispute regarding the inclusion of box-quotes in the Jeremy Lin article. Festermunk (talk) 16:47, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Vandalism
I've reported you here for vandalism.Festermunk (talk) 16:59, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Pretty funny. Nobody has ever reported me for vandalism before. Thanks for that first. It clearly won't stand up, as I'm within policy, though I can't undo your edit warring any more for fear of edit warring myself. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:13, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Congratulations for the high honor. Just seems like yesterday when I got my first "wonderful" email or my first "wonderful" talk page post. Sniff. I can't wait to be accused of edit warring or have my main page defaced. I'm jealous. Bgwhite (talk) 18:54, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Keep up your good work and you'll be accused as well. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:55, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Rollback
Using rollback to edit war is a big no-no, which might lead to your rollback being revoked. In this case, the edits you were undoing were not vandalism; therefore, using rollback was inappropriate. Please, be more careful in future. SalvioLet's talk about it! 18:16, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
I do think that was vandalism, specifically Blanking, illegitimate. There is no legitimate non-frivolous reason given for that editor's behavior. I meant to add an edit summary but clicked the wrong rollback too quickly, which was my error. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:02, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Chris Paul
Dear Muboshgu,
I have recieved your message on my recent Chris Paul edit.
I was trying to put a picture of him, on the Clippers since that is his new team.
In all honesty this was just an editing mistake, because I didn't know how to post a new picture.
Hi. Can you wait about a half hour? Or fix the issues addressed? I've got to tick all the boxes on all the articles to complete the review... and if you comment while I'm doing that, I lose work and it takes longer to fix the review. :( --LauraHale (talk) 02:15, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Okay, I won't edit the template page again until you give the go ahead. Thanks for the review. :) – Muboshgu (talk) 02:21, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Review done. Sorry about sounding terse. Was just trying to tick all the boxes and yeah. Can understand the pleasure of doing multiple nomination DYK hooks and the pain of waiting for it to get reviewed. Been there and done that. (Reviewed yours to use in case I decided to take some of the articles I am working on my user space to DYK in a group.) --LauraHale (talk) 02:44, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Not a problem. Edit conflicts are frustrating, and I'd hate to do it to someone good enough to review my ten article hook. I made some fixes and responded about the rest. – Muboshgu (talk) 02:52, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Spring Training Logs
If these were proposed to be deleted, then how come they have been deleted on some pages but still exist on others? If such a decision was made, shouldn't there be a uniform decision to either keep or delete all of them? Forgive me for speaking in slight frustration here but all of these anti-game log discussions I keep seeing are beginning to get a little, well...frustrating! Please forgive me for that, but I honestly do believe that there should be a conclusion reached once and for all regarding these so that these constant discussions and subsequent edit wars can be ceased. RedSoxFan274(leave a message~contribs) 21:56, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
I didn't realize there were more, or else I would've deleted them. I thought I had gotten them all. For now, I won't go through and delete any more, for the sake of having a complete discussion. Please join the discussion I linked to in the edit summaries if you want to discuss this further amongst the entire community. – Muboshgu (talk) 21:59, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Angels Spring Training
We have had an Angels Spring Training game log since the 2009 season, and there is absolutely NO REASON for us to stop now. If these "meaningless" games are meaningful enough to note on EVERY major online sports service, it should be meaningful enough to have a little game log on the 2012 Angels season page. --CASportsFan (talk) 22:00, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
There is a reason. By all means, go to the discussion thread that I linked to in my edit summary and we can have a full discussion there. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:02, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
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Paul Krugman
[1] Regarding this, I think you need to get over the prevalent "Defender-of-the-Wiki" attitude and think very hard what this "POV" is that you are talking about. It's because you do not know what it is.
Yes, I know that PK was not the only MIT kid who went to Portugal, and yes, Rick Eckhaus and Rudi Dornbusch who led the delegation. But since Krugman is the most visible of that group it's that those who experienced April 1975 remember Paul Krugman as the man who singlehandedly averted national disaster.
This project is failing. Contributions like these are reverted, and silly vandalism in not so visible articles hangs around for weeks. Not a good sign. 78.130.24.11 (talk) 18:08, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
DYK for List of Major League Baseball player–managers
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Los Angeles Angels edits
why were my edits taken off?
I'm trying to distinguish the names by showing the difference in leagues. The page makes for confusion if you read it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.51.143.137 (talk) 20:27, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
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I have reverted your edit on the Tim Tebow article. If you did not know, Tim Tebow has been traded to the New York Jets. Peyton Manning is the new QB for the Denver Broncos. Just wanted to let you know :) WheresTristan (talk) 21:13, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
As one of my favorite people ever once said, it ain't over till its over. There's a paperwork snafu that could kill this deal. – Muboshgu (talk) 21:25, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Earlier today, USAToday was saying he had been traded. Now they're saying "Maybe". ←Baseball BugsWhat's up, Doc?carrots→ 21:37, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Ball game pages
I think you should post a list of the prospective deleted pages on the baseball project page, to get a possibly broader audience input. ←Baseball BugsWhat's up, Doc?carrots→ 23:39, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Perhaps you're right, as usual. – Muboshgu (talk) 23:54, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
You still interested on doing the Mantle article to GA or FA together. I gathered some extra books about the Yankees lately. I could do Ruth, Maris, DiMaggio, Gehrig or most major Yankees figures as well. Thanks Secretaccount 05:45, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Is a ninth inning lead safe with Mariano? Hell yes, I'm interested. I've had all those guys on my wish list. – Muboshgu (talk) 13:17, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
I'm currently doing Larsen. The previous version sucked. I think that would be an easy FA, because of the perfect game, and being one of the most colorful characters in baseball history. Secretaccount 05:42, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Good start on Larsen. We can definitely make it a GA in not too much time. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:08, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
DYK for Chris Pittaro
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DYK nomination of Article
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Please comment on my talk page when problems are fixed as I might miss it otherwise. :( --LauraHale (talk) 05:15, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
No problem. I know it can be a burden to some to review multiple article hooks. I'll review one of yours to satisfy my QPQ later today or tomorrow. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:49, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
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Think of it like 50 RBIs! Your 50 DYK hooks, resulting from your creation and expansion of baseball articles, has significantly added to Wikipedia's coverage of that All-American sport. Way to go! Binksternet (talk) 02:55, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
If I think about it like RBIs, 100 makes for a good season. Halfway there. – Muboshgu (talk) 03:28, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
It's do-able. Go for it!
One possible new article you could write would be a fork of
Aluminum baseball bat including its advantages and disadvantages. The current bat article does not give the aluminum bat justice. Binksternet (talk
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I'll take a look at it. I'm on more of a bio kick right now, though, as you can tell from my subpages. Be ready with that 100 DYK medal, I'll be earning it soon enough. :) – Muboshgu (talk)
The third base coach is waving you in! Binksternet (talk) 17:06, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
Hal Chase
Once again: Chase was *not*, based on current analysis of baseball statistics, a good fielder. My edit is perfectly legitimate. And don't you have anything better to do? RMc (talk) 00:01, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
Again, no matter what current analysis says, he was considered a good fielder at the time, and that remains his reputation. Your edits are pushing the POV that he was not a good fielder, when really his fielding ability is a two-sided debate. – Muboshgu (talk) 00:05, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
WikiCup 2012 March newsletter
We are over half way through the second round of this year's WikiCup and things are going well! Grapple X (submissions), of Pool B, is our highest overall scorer thanks to his prolific writings on television and film. In second place is Pool H's Cwmhiraeth (submissions), thanks primarily to work on biological articles, especially in marine biology and herpetology. Third place goes to Pool E's Casliber (submissions), who also writes primarily on biology (including ornithology and botany) and has already submitted two featured articles this round. Of the 63 contestants remaining, 15 (just under a quarter) have over 100 points this round. However, 25 are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly. 32 contestants, the top two from each pool and the 16 next-highest scorers, will advance to round 3.
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I have reviewed this article, and found very little to be concerned about. As such, I have passed the nomination and listed it as a GA. Congrats! Resolute 23:10, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
Thank you! Two of my GA noms getting reviewed on one day? Considering what today is, it's almost reason to be concerned I'm getting pranked. :P – Muboshgu (talk) 23:14, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
Nah. If I was going to prank you, I would have deleted the article on notability grounds. ;) Resolute 23:16, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
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Yeah, my view would be that if they survive the AfDs then the DYKs will be good to go; though the new hooks will need verifying. The AfDs seem to be favouring keeping them too; things are looking good. Harriastalk 20:52, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
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I rewrote the article, I used three major sources, and I know there's more. Thanks Secretaccount 16:31, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for reverting me on the Posada article. I had meant to hit the rollback on a different edit on a different article in my watchlist, and must have misclicked. Sorry about that, I had no intention of rolling back that edit, and probably wouldn't have even noticed my mistake had you not fixed it. Thanks again, and sorry for the mixup. --Jayron32 04:23, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
RFA?
We need another admin or two that focuses primarily on baseball articles and you are highly qualified for the job in my opinion, dealing with all the stubborn, clueless baseball editors basically every day in the right matter. Need an
Let me know if you interested on the RFA, also I saw you expanding the Huggins article from my watchlist and I was thinking of this project I was doing a few years ago about getting every member of the 1927 Yankees. I managed to get two to FA before becoming inactive, but I'm willing to focus on the project again instead of my tragic players that I'm currently doing. I have over 30 books on the subject or the players plus archives from Baseball Magazine. Thanks Secretaccount 18:31, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
I saw that, but forgot to respond. I don't know that I have it in me to be an admin. I'll give it some thought before I say yes or no, though.
I've had it in mind to expand Huggins for at least a DYK and GA, plus an FA if possible. It would be nice to do work on the Murderers' Row Yankees. By all means focus on whatever you want to focus on for now. I'm mostly on an older player/HoF kick right now, and Huggins' start class article fit in well with that. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:33, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Ok let me know, and yea I'm also in a older player mode, right now trying to do an article every couple of days mainly on tragic baseball figures whose career was cut short. Hell
WP:BLP/N, stumbled upon unreverted vandalism or sockpuppetry is involved as its too much to update and I'm just not interested in present day baseball. Secretaccount
18:42, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Bleh some new editor added a massive copyvio to the Mays article over an year ago from this source. I probably have to focus on that now. Secretaccount 18:51, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Go do that then. There's plenty of time to work on other pages. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:54, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Btw Huggins in my opinion with the right sources would make an easy FA. Let me know if you need help with the sourcing, I have several books that talk about Huggins in detail. I never seen a full-length biography of him though, unlike Ruth, Gehrig, Lazzeri, Hoyt, Combs, or Barrow which is a bit baffling. Secretaccount 20:21, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
I'm surprised there isn't a Society for American Baseball Research bio on him. I've done a lot of my recent work with those. I think you're right about Huggins being an FA target. With only a morning of work so far, I've found a whole lot of good stuff that I'm incorporating. Which books do you have? I haven't even had a chance to look on Google Books yet, just the Google News archive. – Muboshgu (talk) 20:25, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
I'm at work, so I need to check some of these Yankee biographies when I get home (out of memory neither major Gehrig biographies, nor several of the Ruths go into that much detail on Huggins),
There I have that goes into some detail
The Wonder Team: The True Story of the Incomparable 1927 New York Yankees
Five OClock Lightning: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and the Greatest Baseball Team in History, The 1927 New York Yankees
The Greatest of All: The 1927 New York Yankees - older book (written in the 1970s) but goes into good detail about Huggins, I need to check if some of the info is verifiable though as some of those 1970s books are basically over hyped, mixes myth with reality garbage and I got that book fairly recently so I haven't had time to check the info.
The Man in the Dugout by Leonard Koppett is a good starting point on Higgins, written by one of baseball's greatest historians but kind of basic
Thanks. I'll take a look at how much of those books I can incorporate with the internet, please add whatever you can. I've already got Huggins' article expanded and sourced sufficiently for a DYK nomination, and once I clean it up some, I can nominate it for GA. Then we can work on FA. – Muboshgu (talk) 23:35, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
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Allie Reynolds
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Humber
I am pretty much done adding content to Humber. I would like to research his high school career. I think we should be able to find some All-American or All-State content for the high school draftee. However, I am unable to find any more than we have. I need to find another citation or two this afternoon. You can make an IAR request at DYK when you feel you are done with your expansion efforts.--
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I'm almost out of content to add too, but those are good ideas for us to try to expand a little further. I'll ask for someone to review Humber later today. – Muboshgu (talk) 14:38, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
POY was a great find. It probably means we are missing some All-American recognitions, but I don't know how to research those. I was going to give you a teamwork half barnstar or the Chicago Barnstar when this hit the main page. I had not decided. I'll go with the teamwork one though. I thought we would stall at about 4.0 too. I would not have worked as hard if I were doing it alone. Thanks for keeping me going. There are probably a lot of articles I would work that hard on if I had a partner.--
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Thanks. I've tried searching Google News archives and HighBeam for older stuff, but can't find much of anything. I think this was a case of great teamwork, as I probably could've made this a GA by myself, but it would've taken a lot longer, and I wouldn't have been able to get it a DYK or FA. (You're allowed to have co-nominators on FAC, right? We should both get the credit when it goes there.) – Muboshgu (talk) 18:39, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
I don't know much about East Texas media. Humber grew up a ways away from Houston and Dallas. Not sure how to research him further. However, when he was a college recruit as Texas 4A POY, he surely got some press. I am a bit uncomfortable with a GAC for this guy because I do not consider his breadth complete. I am guessing Carthage has a library and Humber is the talk of the town. Maybe a call into their librarian (if you use a cellphone where long distance calls don't cost you anything) might be worthwhile. Also, check in with Rice. Maybe, you can find a press release on Humber when he committed to Rice. There must be something describing Rice signing the Texas POY. Maybe we should dig through RiceOwls.com (google search "Philip Hosmer" site:riceowls.com) or some other website. When you sign a state POY from your own state, you must put out a release describing all his honors and such. The only problem is it was the early internet era. It might have been on an old server no longer in use. If he were 5 years younger, I would probably fail the GAC (or at least threaten to like I did with
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P.S. The Rice school newspaper probably did a biographical piece on him after winning the game for the only National Championship in school history. It would probably be something like. "He got his first glove at age 6 from such and such relative. His mom and dad drove him to whatever league every practice, until he could be trusted to bicycle there himself. They watched all his games and took him to batting cages to help him develop. By the time he was 12 he was playing against 14 year olds. He played varsity as a freshman. As a sophomore he was first team All-County and honorable mention All-State..." You get the point (He is a Texas HS POY, who won a the only national championship in school history for a Texas school.) There had to have been local stories written about his early life. The school newspaper and the school athletic department as mentioned above at Rice are things to check. This article is surely not complete. The thing is that we need some texas sources that I don't know how to hack from Chicago. I think you should withdraw the GAC nom or concentrate on promptly filling in his high school and early life stuff.--
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Once you feel comfortable going towards, FAC, let me know and I'll do a pre-review, trying to catch anything before going there again. WizardmanOperation Big Bear 23:29, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Thanks, I'll take you up on that offer. I've got some notes on things that I think are still missing (mostly the postseasons of the '00s, but a couple other things too) that I'll get to in the next week or two. Maybe I'll be ready to nominate it by early May? – Muboshgu (talk) 03:26, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
Sounds good. I'll review the article some time on Thursday; today will be playing catch up on topics (almost done cutting the backlog i neglected for over a month) and GA reviews. Ideally Covey won't have to wait too long though (fwiw, both my next planned articles spent at least some time on the Yankees). WizardmanOperation Big Bear 15:09, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
Thanks. Take your time, no rush. Out of curiosity, which are your next planned articles? – Muboshgu (talk) 16:11, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
Right now I'm working on Stan Coveleski. Progress is a bit slow but steady, suddenly found a bunch more sources by adding an e to the end of his name. After that probably Allie Clark since I have Sporting News sources saved for him back when it was free. WizardmanOperation Big Bear 16:37, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
Good luck. Clark looks ripe for a 5x expansion and DYK promotion. Coveleski looks like it's getting close. – Muboshgu (talk) 16:40, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
Jeter's set, that's on the talk page. I might have you do the nom for Clark if I write it quick enough, since I swore off of DYK a while back and would rather not touch it. If I can boost Covey to about 16kb of prose then it should be good for a GA/FA run. WizardmanOperation Big Bear 17:33, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
Talk:Philip Humber's perfect game
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Humber DYK expedience
Should we petition the DYK discussion page to prioritize Humber while it is still recent news?--
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I tried on the talk page. Do you think we should talk page message an admin? – Muboshgu (talk) 00:07, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Which talk page? I would put a request on the DYK project discussion page. I would do it myself, but I am pressing for two other noms to get some date priority.--
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On
WT:DYK, where I asked for an expedited review. I'll try to ping an admin. – Muboshgu (talk
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You did not explain why a date request was made on the talk page. This is a news event with decaying relevance. You should note that in your request.--
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Alright, I'll do that. – Muboshgu (talk) 00:28, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
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A bit disappointed in our page views. I had hoped for something like This. Maybe if we had been the LEAD hook. All my DYKs have been well below my expectation since I created
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DYK for Jack Zeller
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Yes I could use as much help as I can with the article. Despite being a baseball bio, it is a bit out of my range as I don't like dealing, nor I've ever written beyond a stub current or recent players. I found the article by luck in random pages and knowing his huge hype within the media I felt it was too key of an article to expand. Thanks Secretaccount 19:07, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
The best way to learn is by doing. Anything in particular you think needs the most attention? – Muboshgu (talk) 19:23, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
Well wherever you see the article needing work at, try to fix it. It looks like I'm about be inactive for a while as my work schedule got very hectic and there is where I do most of my editing from. And my remaining editing comes from an ipad which is inconvenient as I'm rarely home. The article is so close to GA status, I really don't want it not become a GA because of inactivity. Secretaccount 05:26, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
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