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MLS edits

Hey, Quidster - I've undone a few of your edits to MLS articles, mostly ones that are adding Supporters' Shield discussion to the Playoff article, or describing the MLS Cup as a "cup final" rather than the championship match in MLS (which for better or worse is what it is here). A lot of this ground has been covered in Talk pages, maybe the most complete discussion here. It may be helpful to have a look at that. Thanks! JohnInDC (talk) 22:17, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

2010-11 MLS (season) page name

Since the article has been moved back and forth a couple of times now, I've initiated at Talk:2011 Major League Soccer season#Article Name discussion on whether or not the word season should be used in the title. Your comments would be appreciated there. Ravendrop 05:07, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

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US Open Cup

Hi. You have done quite a bit of work for the Open Cup pages and that is great. However I wanted to make sure you don't do a lot of extra work for nothing. I do not know what range of sources you are using but there are some errors in what you have put up. Those of us that have done extensive research into the tournament are still debating the official name. One thing that is certain is that US Open Cup is not the official term for the 50s and 60s. In fact the term 'National Challenge Cup' was used in an official capacity well into the 80s. For the sake of familiarity it was proposed to begin use of US Open Cup as early as the 70s or some variation as mentioned here. Furthermore you have placed in the lead statement for the articles that it is the oldest soccer competition in the United States. This is actually far from true. There are numerous older tournaments. It is however one of the oldest tournaments still running but there again there are some state cup tournaments still running that predate the National Cup. Other than that you have done some outstanding work. Libro0 (talk) 18:07, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

GA nomination

Re: [1] Correction, the 2009 and 2010 USOC final articles are featured articles which is a significant step higher than WP:GA. In fact, the 2009 article appeared on Wikipedia's main page on September 26, 2010. Any cup final that Sounders FC wins (and maybe even if they lose) I can assure you I'll be willing to put the effort in to get it to FA quality. I don't have the time or interest to push for other articles to reach GA level. I'm happy to answer questions though if you feel inclinced. The GA review is the easiest of the steps. You just follow the instructions to nominate on WP:GAN, wait about 1.5 months until a reviewer reviews it, follow up on the reviewers comments, and viola, it's GA. From there you go to peer review and then finally featured article review following similar (but slightly different) nomination procedures. FA review is by far the hardest and most strict, but the satisfaction of taking an article through that process and the lessons you learn (copyediting, references, NPOV, non-free image use, etc.) make it worth it. I encourage you to nominate something for GA and try it out. It's not hard. --SkotyWA^T_C 06:11, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Carolina RailHawks navbox

Hi, I noticed you've been updating some of the navboxes for soccer teams - great job! Just one thing though - can you please change the main color of the Carolina RailHawks navbox back to the standard orange/white combo? It's standard practice for the heading that displays in the collapsed version of the navbox to mirror the primary colors of the home shirt of the team in question, and for some reason you've changed Carolina's to "steel gray", which doesn't seem to have ever been one of their official colors. I'd do it myself, but the navboxes are so complicated now that I'm not sure which parameter to change, and I don't want to screw it up! Thanks. JonBroxton (talk) 06:57, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Thank you so much for fixing that. Looks perfect now :) You're making an excellent job of these infoboxes by the way. They look really good, detailed information and everything. Bravo! JonBroxton (talk) 22:19, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of 2011 Super-20 League season

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Navboxes

Hey, can I ask you why you're making navboxes for amateur teams like West Texas United Sockers? Pro teams and former pro teams, I can understand... but this seems a little excessive. Cheers! JonBroxton (talk) 00:31, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

I can understand that, and I have to admit I kinda like them - I just don't want to see your hard work being undone if they end up being nominated for deletion. Maybe we should just do like you said, and only do navboxes for teams which used to be pro - like the El Paso Patriots and NV Royals ones you already did, for example. Western Mass Pioneers, New Hampshire Phantoms, Toronto Lynx and Carolina Dynamo all need them if you're bored ;) JonBroxton (talk) 01:41, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

US Open Cup

To User talk:Fifty7,
Thank you for having interest in editing US Open Cup pages. However you did make changes without response from a discussion. A short while ago User:Quidster4040 made some needed additions to the US Open Cup however he made some errors so I directed him to this discussion which is quite old and had no other contributors. I waited for Quidster4040 to either respond or take action. He did neither so I went ahead and made the corrections. I am aware of what the ussocer and the archives site say, however this information is not updated and based on limited sources. Some articles that were written in recent times about historical events will refer to say the "1948 Open Cup" for example but this is a retroactive use of the term for the modern reader to relate to. Libro0 (talk) 00:44, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

I am going to make changes and correct three of the tournaments, those being 1948, 49, and 50. I will include references to validate those changes. If you have any input, questions, comments, or suggestions please come by forums.thecup.us. They will be glad to hear anything and you can get up to speed on what has been covered. Libro0 (talk) 00:23, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

I noticed that you changed some of the tournament titles from concluding year(ex 1925) to season(ex 1924-25). My issue with this is standardization. There should be consistency with all the other articles. You cited your reason as the tournament began in the previous year. This is true, however you have to understand that it is true of all the tournaments. I believe you based your changes on the games that are presented on the brackets. Those just happen to be what is available here on WP. Most districts typically started play in Oct/Nov. So if you wanted to change them all to season format it would be okay. Personally, I would prefer concluding year but either way it is best if they are all the same. Libro0 (talk) 05:06, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Exactly. I will begin that soon. Quidster4040 (talk) 20:22, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

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Fox Soccer Channel Gold Cup

Hey. I'm just wondering what your source is that Fox Soccer Channel is only covering USA matches, and not USA group stage matches plus all QF, SF, and F matches. Because you made an edit to the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup page but did not bother to cite it. Smartyllama (talk) 18:36, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

US soccer champions

Greetings. I've noticed your work around the US soccer articles, and I wanted to commend you, particularly on the history aspects of the subject. I also wanted to tell you that I'm presently working on a large-scale renovation of the List of United States soccer champions article, in case you were interested in that particular piece and had any suggestions or input. It should be completed and posted soon. -- Fifty7 (talk) 20:55, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

MLS Cup article GA review

Re: [2] Sorry for the delayed response. GA reviews are not votes. You need to read the instructions at the top of WP:GAC carefully (the "how to nominate an article" section). You can nominate an article for GA review (by adding the nomination template to the talk page), and then it will automatically be added to the list of nominations on WP:GAC. After that, a reviewer will read the article and comment on any changes that need to be made for it to be GA level (that may take up to 2 months based on the current backlog). When the reviewer comments, you'll be given about 3-5 days to address them, at which time it will be promoted to good article status. Again, sorry I didn't respond to this sooner. I have a lot less time for Wikipedia than I used to. --SkotyWA^T_C 04:24, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

P.S. the 09 and 10 USOC final articles are actually featured articles now which is an even higher level of quality than good article. In order to achieve FA quality, an article must first pass a GA review, so that's step one. You can see how this process occured in the article history template on each article's respective talk page. --SkotyWA^T_C 04:27, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

VCU Rams

Hi! I've been helping out with the logos of various organisations, and I noticed that the VCU Rams soccer logo at File:VCU soccer.gif. Currently it doesn't have a fair use rationale for the two articles it is being used in - VCU Rams men's soccer and VCU Rams women's soccer. That's not a big problem - we need them in order to use the non-free content, but that is easily remedied. However, while I was going to add a rationale, I'm not sure if the logo is used for both teams, and looking online I couldn't tell. Can you confirm that it is used for both? I've removed the logos for now, but once we get the rationales fixed we should be able to add them straight back. Thanks. :) - Bilby (talk) 15:25, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	For creating the D.C. United task force and more recently laying the foundation for the D.C. United Hall of Tradition article. Fopam (talk) 05:11, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of List of Virginia Commonwealth University student organizations

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List of D.C. United seasons

Hi, I noticed that you submitted the above article as a featured list candidate. However, you only completed the first step of the nomination. Please see the section entitled "Nomination procedure" at WP:FLC and complete the nomination process. Cheers, Dabomb87 (talk) 21:52, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of List of Surinamese Hoofdklasse stadia

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Something's amiss

A couple times while editing DC United, you've somehow managed to insert Gordon Wallace (!) as the team's top goal scorer in the 2009 Champions League tournament. See here and here. Perhaps you're using a template or a saved file to make these edits? If so you need to fix it. The error isn't always detected in a hurry. Thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 14:32, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

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College soccer navboxes and standings templates

Quidster4040, hello. I've been meaning to drop you a message for a few days now, but I think you've already come upon some of my edits. I working on a project to standardize templates across all college sports. I'm primarily a college football guy, but coordinate a lot with the college basketball WikiProject and have worked on college baseball as well. See here for a summary of what I'm aiming for. It would be great to get some input from a soccer guy like you. I see you've been doing a lot of work setting up the 2011 college soccer standings templates. The college football and college basketball standings templates are constructed using functional templates like Template:CFB Standings Start. Would be great to get the soccer standings templates set up in a similar fashion. Let me know if you have any thoughts on this stuff. Thanks and the best. Jweiss11 (talk) 22:18, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your quick response and your enthusiasm. There are a few things in Template:CFB Standings End that are football specific. There are also some little style differences between the football and basketball templates that should be ironed out; I plan on working on that. I don't know too much about college soccer. Are there polls for college soccer? Looking at the Big Ten and ACC websites, they have a column for points in conference play. Looks like 3 points for a win and 1 point for a tie in the Big Ten. Is that something that should be included in the standings templates? Also, I see you've named the 2011 standings templates "condensed". Are there expanded versions out there? You can reply back right here to keep this conversation in one place. I've got your talk page on my watchlist, so I will see when you reply. Thanks again. Jweiss11 (talk) 06:24, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Anytime! Well, from what I've seen, rather than ranking teams based on their percentage record in conferences, they are ranked by the number of points, which is, yes, 3 points for a win and 1 point for a tie. The only poll I am aware of is the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) poll [1] in which coaches vote for who are the top collegiate soccer teams in the country. It does not display any votes nor first place votes, but just their previous ranking and their present record, which is display in wins-losses-ties. I have created expanded templates for the ACC and the CAA, which display the teams overall record, as well as their goals for, goals against, percentage and points. The latter only for the conference play. Let me know if there are any additional questions. Would you like any assistance with the templates? Quidster4040 (talk) 19:06, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

My apalogies. I accidentally linked you to the Division II rankings. Here's the Division I rankings. These rankings do include points, which I'm not sure how they are calculated, along with first place votes. Quidster4040 (talk) 19:12, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the poll link. I'd like to make a suggestion about the naming of the soccer standings templates. To make things sync with the way we've set things up for other college sports, the "condensed" standings should take the basic name, e.g. "Template:2011 ACC men's soccer standings". The standings templates with the goals for and against should be labeled with "expanded", e.g. "Template:2011 ACC men's soccer standings expanded". Does that sounds reasonable? Setting up expanded standings tables with points for/against may be something we want to do for other sports one day. Thanks. Jweiss11 (talk) 19:34, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

One more thought. It may be very helpful to you to set something up like Template:Cbb link for soccer. Jweiss11 (talk) 20:15, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

I have created a template now called {{csr link}} which is based heavily off of {{cbb link}}. A few of the condensed templates have the csr link instituted. I also redirected the expanded templates to have that tag on the end. Quidster4040 (talk) 13:53, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Nice work! Jweiss11 (talk) 16:12, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

Hey just wanted to let you know, I changed {{csr}} to {{csoc}}. This is mainly because when one looks at the URL for college sports websites, and their soccer webpage, the link abbreviates soccer as "soc", so I felt it would be apt to do the same with the template, since football uses "cfb" and basketball uses "cbb". Quidster4040 (talk) 13:17, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

I've been working with Jweis11 on the standings templates for football, and I've created a new set of meta-templates that serve as the formatting baseline for our standings. With these new meta-templates in place, it should now be easy to create a condensed soccer standings template that has the same look and feel as the football and basketball templates. Have a look at {{CFB Standings Start}}, {{CFB Standings Entry}}, {{CFB Standings End}}, and their basketball counterparts. I think we could just go with setting ties=yes in the soccer template so it displays for all cases. Maybe if I get time I'll even take an initial crack at creating the soccer standing templates. DeFaultRyan 17:19, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Actually, it ended up being so easy, I went ahead and created the start/entry/end templates. Here's a little demo of how they might look in this season's Big East for a sample. It should even be pretty easy to incorporate a link to the conference tournament the way many of the football standings templates link to their championship game. DeFaultRyan 17:31, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

{{CSOC Standings Start|2011 Big East Conference men's soccer standings|Big East Conference}}
{{CSOC Standings Entry|{{csoc link|year=2011|sex=men|team=Cincinnati Bearcats|title=Cincinnati}} |0|0|0|0|0|0}}
{{CSOC Standings Entry|{{csoc link|year=2011|sex=men|team=Connecticut Huskies|title=Connecticut}} |0|0|0|0|0|0}}
{{CSOC Standings End}}

2011 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final

Hey, I saw your recent additions to this article covering the Chicago Fire's path to the final. I've added a bunch of references to them and touched them up. Let me know what you think. I've also filled in the Sounders FC section. Now that the article has been expanded so much, I nomintated it for to appear in the Did You Know? section on Wikipedia's main page. Here's a link to the nomination template so you can watch it's status if you like (and help me respond to any concerns raised by reviewers). Note that I listed you as one of the article expanders in the nomination. Thanks again. --SkotyWA^T_C 17:41, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! I glanced at the route to the final sections for both clubs, and apart from one tiny spelling error, it looked fine to me! I'll take a look at what reviewers have to say and how I can fix any tiny errors that irk them. Quidster4040 (talk) 13:58, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of 2011 magicJack season

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DYK for 2011 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final

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Awesome! Thanks for your help improving this article. --SkotyWA^T_C 16:10, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

College soccer articles: see also sections and categories

Quidster4040, I noticed some of your recent creations, e.g. 2011 Atlantic Sun Conference Men's Soccer Tournament. A couple of small items to watch:

• The "A" in "See also" section headings should not be capitalized. Moreover, I'd recommend doing everything you can to keep those sections to a minimum or eliminate them entirely. They tend to develop into clutter heaps at the bottom of articles. A better strategy is to weave links to related topics into the lead and body of an article where appropriate.

• Watch the relationships between parent and child categories. You included Category:2011 in American sports in the Atlantic Sun Tournament article. That category is a grandparent of Category:2011 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, where this article indeed belongs. You want to avoid flooding the higher-level categories with items that belong only in lower-level subcategories.

I see you you've taken many of my recommendations to heart, e.g. the name change for Template:2011 ACC men's soccer standings expanded. Awesome. I've enlisted User:DeFaultRyan's help on the standings templates and he's working on some new nitty gritty coding to standardize these templates and allow them to support more sports. Thanks and keep up the good work. Jweiss11 (talk) 18:11, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the support, advice and pointers to do next time! Anything else that needs some quick retooling? Quidster4040 (talk) 13:15, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Request for TFA support

Hello again. I come with a humble request. :^) I've nominated the 2010 USOC final for TFA on October 4th here. If you get time in the next few days, please add your support. It'll need it I expect. Very low points. --SkotyWA^T_C 15:58, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

How do I do that? I'm still pretty unfamiliar with the FA process. Quidster4040 (talk) 16:04, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Here's an example of a recent support vote for another nomination a few days back: [3] --SkotyWA^T_C 01:11, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Great news! It's been scheduled] to appear on the main page on October 4th. Thank you for your supporting vote. Since there is no archive for WP:TFAR I archive WP:SSFC related articles here. --SkotyWA^T_C 16:18, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

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Categories for college soccer standings templates

Quidster4040, I added some more categories to most of the 2011 college soccer standings templates you've created so that they roll up into the standings by conference scheme here: Category:American college sports standings templates by conference. As you create more standings templates for multi-sport conferences, please make sure to have them roll up in like fashion. Standings templates for soccer-only conferences like the Atlantic Soccer Conference don't need to roll up this high. They should roll up to Category:American college soccer standings templates to parallel the soccer subcategories of the multi-sport conferences. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks. Jweiss11 (talk) 22:47, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for that! Quidster4040 (talk) 22:58, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

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VCU Rams volleyball

You just created a disambiguation page that links to nonexistent articles. Do you plan on creating these articles? Xenocide^{Talk|Contributions} 23:39, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Yup, I have begun the women's page. Quidster4040 (talk) 00:00, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

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Edit summaries

Hey, Quidster you really have to start using them. Regularly. When you delete an entire large section of an article without any accompanying explanation (like this), it really is indistinguishable from vandalism. The only reason I didn't revert it on sight is that I know your name. And not just the big edits, but the small ones too so that other editors don't have spend time reviewing your work to figure out what your latest project is. Thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 10:33, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

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I have added additional information and added citations and a reason why it should be a standalone article. Quidster4040 (talk) 20:21, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

MLS Cup 2011

The year should be at the beginning as per Wikipedia policy on article titles. Kingjeff (talk) 05:29, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

2012 Carolina Challenge Cup

Hello Quidster4040, I just thought I'd let you know that I saw your article 2012 Carolina Challenge Cup in the New Articles list-- The layout of the article makes it very clear.However, I noticed there are some holes that may need filling: the article does not contain in-line citations, and so doesn't follow Wikipedia style guidelines. It would be great if you could also add references to the related article Carolina Challenge Cup.

It's always nice to see users contributing to make Wikipedia better!Jipinghe (talk) 18:49, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

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My mistake, sorry

Hi there, I just wanted to let you know and to appologize for an edit I made on one of your articles, the 2011 Charlotte 49ers men's soccer team. I had removed two red-linked categories, but it was after I saved the page that I noticed they had only been added in the last couple of days. I assume you added them with the intention of creating them, and reverted my edit. I did however correctly format the section titles, but if you prefer I leave those articles alone, you can revert those edits. Sorry, for any added work I've caused you in having to go back and revert the changes I made to the headers. Cmr08 (talk) 01:31, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

List of football tams in the United States

Deleted this as incomplete, and note the typo in the title. Let me know if you want the deleted text in your userspace. NawlinWiki (talk) 20:08, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

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