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Hello Darius Dhlomo, and welcome to Misplaced Pages! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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John Jansen

I've added the "{{prod}}" template to the article John Jansen, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Misplaced Pages's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also Misplaced Pages:What Misplaced Pages is not and Misplaced Pages:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Misplaced Pages, or, if you disagree, discuss the issues raised at Talk:John Jansen. If you remove the {{dated prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached.

Born in Kingston

I removed your entry, for reasons I explained on Talk:Kingston, Jamaica. Please feel free to add a section of prominent Kingstonians, but listing just one isn't really balanced. Guettarda 15:13, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

India related links

Hi, you may be interested in these links. btw, great work on sports related articles, keep up the good work!! --Gurubrahma 06:04, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

v t e Links for Wikipedians interested in India-related content
This is a collection of links to WikiProject pages and Category pages relevant to India-related content
WP:India	Noticeboard Discussion board Article alerts Deletion talks Unreferenced BLPs India Portal Collaborations of the month India stubs Category adoptions Article requests
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Newcomers	Indian Wikipedians (add ] to your userpage) India category Wikimedia India English mailing list Wikimedia India mailing list

• I agree with Gurubrahma! Punkmorten 12:13, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Harry Keough

Hi, you edited the Harry Keough article to change his real name to "William Tyrone Keough." Do you have a source for this? I was unable to find any reference to this via Google. Thanks. howcheng {chat} 16:37, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

• I reverted your edit, but Ty Keough is Harry's son. I redlinked him in the Harry Keough article. You could write that article if you want. howcheng {chat} 16:49, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

"Born in" sections for New Zealand towns and cities

Hi Darius,

there is a consensus that only people of major notability should be listed in the article on their birthplace, and for larger centres, none at all. If we were to list everyone down to the notability of the hockey players you entered on Gisborne and Lower Hutt, there would be hundreds or thousands of names and the articles would be totally overwhelmed. dramatic 21:16, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Edit summary

Hello. Please remember to always provide an edit summary. Thanks and happy editing. JoaoRicardo 13:56, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

1992 Spanish female hockey gold medal winners

Hi, just to let you know that there's a typo in the medal table that I think you are copying and pasting. It says "Silver" in the name of the medal won, when it should be "Gold". I corrected a couple before realising this was probably a systemic mistake. Cheers, Sliggy 17:25, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Possible new infobox

Hey,

I'm working on a prototype for an infobox on the country olympic pages. The discussion is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Sports_Olympics#Template_for_X_Country_at_Y_Olympics

Sue Anne 21:00, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Error in Template

I was watching the new article track, and I noticed a typo in the block text you're using for articles like Syria_at_the_1980_Summer_Olympics. It should read "made its Olympic debut", not "made it's Olympic debut". Other than that, though, they look nice; I just wanted to let you know before it perpetuates too far.-Colin Kimbrell 22:18, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

Articles

I have been looking through the list of unwatched pages (available only to administrators) and found 1941 in sports (and others). I see that you recently edited this but are not watching it. You may want to go to your preferences and under the "editing" tab turn on "Add pages you edit to your watchlist". This will enable you to keep an eye out for any edits that are made to pages you work on and help to revert vandalism. If you do decide to turn it on can you please drop me a note on my talk page so I can cut down my excessive watchlist (6000+). Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 16:46, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Two minor things

Hey, Darius. You're doing a really, really, really good job with all these articles you're contributing on sports figures.

Two things that I'd like to suggest - first, could you take a few minutes and just create for yourself a userpage, so that it's not a redlink? Redlinked user pages trigger my "oh, this might be a total newbie/vandal - better check out their stuff extra-carefully" reflex. It's no big deal, just tell a little bit about yourself.

Second, as a result of some recent controversy that you might have heard mentioned, there is a new category: ], to which all articles on living people should be added. Since you're contributing so many articles, you might want to include it when you create them.

Keep up the good work. DS 16:22, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

• Great work Darius, but could you fill in the edit summary please? I know very well that you are a prolific, diligent and honest editor, so if you would simply note what you have changed, other editors will simply be able to look at it and believe you (I would anyway). REgards, Blnguyen 03:25, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Andrei Cherkasov

Thanks, I completely missed the lack of an 'i'. I went ahead and redirected it to the correct spelling. --Delirium 08:52, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Numbering

I see that you have changed 1500m to 1.500m in a lot of the articles. Is this convention an accepted policy??Blnguyen 03:57, 17 February 2006 (UTC) No it's not. See WP:MOSNUM. Rich Farmbrough 18:14 15 March 2006 (UTC).

Olympic conventions

Hey Darius, I know you're interested in Olympic coverage. Some people have started a discussion on conventions at Misplaced Pages:Olympic conventions. Just letting you know. -- Jonel | Speak 01:33, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Format of dates

If you do not like "10 March 2006", but prefer "March 10, 2006", do not go changing just that in all articles you encounter. That is against wiki policy. Simply change your preferences to your preferred date format and you will see the dates the way you like to see them without changing articles. See WP:MOSDATE. wjmt 13:38, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

In addition, and once again against wiki policy, you never seem to give an "edit summary". I am sorry, but you may have made a lot of nice contributions, but neither you nor I nor anyone else owns any article on wiki. There is no reason whatsoever for you to go into an article and change the date format because you do not like it, just as there are no objective reasons (apart from a FEW exceptions) to change, for instance, British English spelling to American English spelling. There is only one English wiki and I think the WP:MOS makes it clear enough which spelling, formats, metrics, and so on, should be accepted. You modified the date format in several articles I created, while WP:MOSDATE stated both mine and your format as valid. That means you have to leave it alone unless there is an objective reason to change it. There was not. Once more... if you hate seeing "10 March 2006", simply go into your "my preferences" and change it there. From then on, any and every article you see that contains links in any of the formats described in WP:MOSDATE, you will then see the way YOU like them, even if the article really has it formatted differently in any of four different ways (one of which was the was I formatted it...).

If you do NOT like how millions of native English speakers format dates, or how they spell certain words, or anything that does not fit into how you, personally, would like to see things, then start your own wiki on your own hard drive. Neither you nor I own any articles here, and unless an article is inconsistent in its use of date formats, time formats (12 vs. 24), "dialect" of English, and so on, you should only change things like that if they are not consistent with the rest of the article. Come on, Darius, if you really have contributed that much and if you really are so valuable a contributor, why do you waste your time on changing the format of dates, when all you have to do is change your preferences and you would not even have seen what you felt compelled to change? I am sorry, but, yes, you may have contributed a lot, but at the same time, you also do not ever seem to bother to give at least a brief description of changes you make (which is against wiki policy), nor do you tolerate things that are accepted by millions of other native English speakers and, most importantly, by wiki. I reverted your edits on articles I recently created or majorly contributed to as not complying with wiki policy. There is only one English wiki... not an American English one, a British English one, a Canadian English one, and so on... nor is there an English wiki that prefers 12 vs. 24 hour formats or the date formats that made me write this in the first place. You are not my superior and I am not yours. We are peers. And, with very few exceptions, you should respect the way I prefer to format dates, just like I would respect yours. wjmt 03:33, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

I'll stick my oar in as well - can you please stop doing it? I use US style for US subjects, but where people are from areas where the Day/Month/Year style is the dominant one, you shouldn't go around changing it just for your taste. Average Earthman 00:04, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

French Open tennis articles

Sorry, a mistake. All fixed now. Let me know if you come across any others. Rich Farmbrough 18:37 11 March 2006 (UTC).

Candice Forword

Candice Forword has been proposed for deletion. Please see WP:BIO for the relevant guidelines and improve the article if possible. NickelShoe 20:35, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

I've moved it to AfD. Please comment if you would like at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Candice Forword. -- Jonel | Speak 05:33, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Elena Dolgopolova

When editing an article on Misplaced Pages there is a small field labelled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

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When you leave the edit summary blank, some of your edits could be mistaken for vandalism and may be reverted, so please always briefly summarize your edits, especially when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you.

--Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:08, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

German Olympians

Hi there Darius. Good work on all the Olympic hockey players. I've noticed the german ones. With regard to WP:OLYCON, it was decided to group olympians by the country that they represented, even it is now defunct, so that means I have re-categorized the Olympians to either Category:Olympic competitors for West Germany, etc. Pleas keep this in mind if you create articles for the 1960-1990 era of German athletes. Happy editing,Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 02:44, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Henning Lynge Jakobsen

Thank you for your contribution. Where did you find his birthdate? I have had a hard time finding information on Henning Lynge Jakobsen even among Danish websites.--SVTCobra 23:25, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Christian Tröger

I have announced this stub at Portal:Germany/New article announcements. If you write more about German athletes, please add them there. Thank you, and happy editing! Kusma (討論) 19:09, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Interesting in Project???

Want to join the badminton proposed project i lauched. If you what to join, please look a this proposal and have a consideration. Thank you Aleenf1 08:53, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Still running man's barnstar

Very unoriginal of me, but I think it needs a renewal.

		The Running Man's Barnstar
		For relentlessly enhancing Olympic coverage on Misplaced Pages! Enjoy, ßlηguγΣη

By the way, if you create any articles with interesting or unusual facts, come to Template talk:Did you know and nominate them for inclusion in the DID YOU KNOW section of the Misplaced Pages:Main Page. Happy editing,ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 03:14, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Edit Summaries

I have noticed your work throughout Misplaced Pages, but had one concern, many of your edits are without edit summaries. Please consider using them so other users have an idea what your edits are. Best, Kukini 15:08, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Emanuele Merisi

Hi! I reverted your edit to Emanuele Merisi since the Manual of Style states that the place of birth should be in the article, not after the born in .... part. See this: Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style (dates and numbers). Let me know. User:Attilios

Australian Swimmers

Hi Darius. Thanks for all the great info on the 1980s and 1990s swimmers. Did you get the extra info on the non-medallists from a book, or just the AOC website. If you have a book with more information on the non-medallists, I would like to here about it. Great work, and keep it up.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 01:15, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

User page redirect

I redirected your user page to your talk page. This is what I do since I'm not really into user pages. It looks like you're the same way. I hope this was not too bold an edit. David D. (Talk) 05:47, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Football biographies

I was pleased to see your biographies of Dutch players, and look forward to more. I have altered footy-bio-stub to Netherlands-footy-bio-stub in the interests of greater precision. Keep up the good work.--Runcorn 07:03, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Delete tag

Hi, I notice you've been tagging a number of redirects with the {{delete}} tag. This is problematic for a couple of reasons. First, {{delete}} has been deprecated and should not be used. Please use one of the criteria-specific tags listed at WP:CSD instead. These allow you to specify the reason hy you think an article should be speedy deleted. Second, most of the redirects you have tagged seem legitimate. For example "Amy van Dyken" is a reasonable potential misspelling of Amy Van Dyken and should be left as a redirect. Thanks, Gwernol 12:49, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

French open source

What was your source for the old French open brackets? I'm interested in improving back entries for older Wimbledons, so if there's a source for this information online, I'd love to hear about it. Thanks! --Dantheox 21:36, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the link, though I've found and think I'll be using the official site -- more info, and I've already written a scraper for it. --Dantheox 05:31, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

If you're interested, see Portal talk:Tennis for details on my project. I'd love some feedback, --Dantheox 07:15, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

tanzania

Hi, I noticed you started Tanzania at the 1992 Summer Olympics. however i am not sure that they did compete - they are not listed at the olympic museum list --Astrokey44 00:22, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Use of freestyle in swimming articles

You've added many articles on swimmers, and in many of them, you've used freestyle as is. Please note, this points to a disambiguation page, and links to disambiguation pages are to be avoided. (There are 258 links, (not all yours, of course!), that need to be fixed). The correct link for swimming is freestyle swimming. Please use this link in your future articles so the link does not have to be fixed. And if you feel like fixing your articles yourself, you can see the list of articles that need to be fixed at Special:Whatlinkshere/Freestyle Simon12 02:50, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Swimmers

Crikey are there really that many Spanish swimmers I am am amazed!!!!! Nicely categorized Keep up the good work mateJames Janderson 08:59, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Adding sportspeople to article about The Hague

Hello, I started a discussion on this on the discussion page of the article for The Hague. Please reply there to keep the discussion public :) In short: I feel that to add somebody to a page not related to a sport, he or she must be somebody special. Won an Olympic medal, won a major international championship et cetera. Patrick Rasenberg

Please put a space or a   before units of measure ("100 m", not "100m")

Hello. I noticed your edit to the medals box in Otylia Jędrzejczak. You removed the space between the distances and "m". Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style mandates that there be a space between values and unit symbols: . I reverted those changes in that article. Best Wishes, --Mareklug 17:27, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Capitalization

Hi,

Please review Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style (capital letters) regarding capitalization on Misplaced Pages. I reverted some of your edits on the Rafael Lozano page. It's a difference between sentence case and Title Case. In the medals box, "Light Flyweight" should be "Light flyweight" and the small "b" in boxing was purposeful. Please do not make those changes to other articles, specifically their medals boxes.

Thanks! Please let me know if you have any questions. --Sue Anne 07:22, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Champions Challenge vs Champions Challenge (field hockey)

I want to issue this article name Champions Challenge (field hockey), under the search box, Champions Challenge is NOT clash with other article name, so why you put (field hockey) behind, we should name the article official name if it is not clash with other article name. --Aleenf1 06:56, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Capitalization

Darius,

Please, please, please review the Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style (capital letters) regarding capitalization on Misplaced Pages. You make such great contributions to the Misplaced Pages Olympic articles, but it is tiresome to have to come along behind you and fix all the capitalization errors. Please let me know if you have any questions. --Sue Anne 16:27, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Squads

You are making a great contributions to the 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup, thank you. BUT can you make a new page and tidy up? Like 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup squads. and tidyup use table form like:

Australia

Head Coach: Barry Dancer

--Aleenf1 13:33, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Drugs tests

From 1986 World Amateur Boxing Championships: Luis Román Rolón (PUR) and Loren Ross (USA) were both disqualified after the champs after failing a drug test. Do you have the source for this? I am working on List of athletes who tested positive for banned substances, but in order to insert new entries we need a source. Thanks, Punkmorten 07:12, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! If you are aware of more sportspeople who failed drugs tests, perhaps you could add them to the list, or let me know and I'll add them. Thanks, Punkmorten 08:17, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Hey amigo. The world of field hockey is your own. Excellent!!! From what I've seen you have practically contributed to all the articles on field hockey thorught the entire globeErnst Stavro Blofeld 14:30, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Germany-related articles

Hi Darius Dhlomo,

I noticed you recently created several articles about German sportspeople. I just wanted to inform you that you can post any Germany-related articles at Portal:Germany/New articles and Portal:Germany/New article announcements. Thanks--Carabinieri_Talk 14:44, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

2002 Men's Hockey World Cup

Hi, Darius Dhlomo:

Your recently edit to 2002 Men's Hockey World Cup was reverted. The text is good enough to view, and the match number is not so needed even you had add some new twist in it. Anyway, thank you for your contributions. Just receive faith. Thank you. --Aleenf1 07:25, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi I started Maurits Crucq. IS this ok and the other players for that hague team need starting are you sorting this? Ernst Stavro Blofeld 10:54, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Darius, please do not revert this article to your own preferred style without responding to the dicussion that has been requested. Aleenf1 has left a message on your user talk page, but you have not responded and continue to revert. Please discuss the matter with Aleenf1 at Talk:2002 Men's Hockey World Cup before you engage in further edits of the article concerned. Thank you, Tangotango 08:13, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Daichi Suzuki

What are your sources other than databaseOlympics? If you source this article, we can bring it to WP:DYK on the Main Page. Punkmorten 18:53, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Finland at the 2000 Summer Olympics

I've reverted your changes to the Finland at the 2000 Summer Olympics page for two reasons - a) I'm working on converting all of the pages to the table format instead of the bulleted list as it's easier to read and looks cleaner and b) the other listing of the medals violates the Manual of Style (capitalization). --Sue Anne 08:02, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Peter Grant

Are you planning to write an article about Peter Grant (athlete)? --Dweller 16:50, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Rocky

http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Rocky_Marciano&diff=84761896&oldid=84760741 This was most correct version, this idiot today reverted everything under umbrella of POV, which is not, go there and see what can be done to be reverted to this version. Everything has been deleted, the bio looks pathetic now, also, do you know any good sports administrators, so we can return to correct version?

Swimming footers

Ciao! I think it's useless you change the Olympics footers (although I like the new format). I seem that there's an effort of standardization on using the dynamic footer, like you can see in Alberto Tomba page. Good work. --Attilios 09:38, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Argentine

Hi Darius. Thanks for all the stubs on Argentine sportpeople. I wanted to ask you to use the work Argentine for the adjective denoting something from Argentina, since it's the standard used in Misplaced Pages (as you might have noticed from the categories' names). I know both are accepted and you could continue using the USA form, but it would give coherence to articles. Thanks a lot, and good wiking. Mariano(t/c) 09:08, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

World Cup referees

Darius, thanks for finding and adding the dates of birth/date for those referees. Much appreciated.

User:Steve bloomer

Page move

I think Carey May should be moved to Carey May Edge. Comment? Moriori 08:22, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Fine with me. Regards, Darius Dhlomo 08:24, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Dorando Pietri

Ciao! I've added an artcle for this famous man. Can I ask you help to revise my English (I'm Italian)? Thanks and compliments for good work.

Image:MarkSimmons.jpg

We can't use this image under this copyright. Wkipedia forks can be used for commercial purposes, so this limitation prevents the image from being here. User:Zoe|(talk) 00:46, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics - Men's Marathon

Hi Darius, I saw the results page you created for the 1984 Olympic marathon. I have just updated it to conform to the standard format we're trying to converge upon for Olympic event pages. Can I request that you take a look at how that is done, and follow that style for any new result pages you add? The key thing is the use of the {{flagIOCathlete}} and related templates to render the flag and to create a wikilink from the IOC country code to the corresponding "Nation at the 1984 Summer Olympics" page. There are other benefits too, such as the automatic correct selection of the appropriate flag (based on the Games year) for nation's whose flags were different in the past. (As it turns out, that wasn't an issue for this 1984 page, but it certainly helps for older Olympics!) You don't have to remember what the correct parameter to use for {{flagicon}} because flagIOC does that work for you. I hope you find this feedback constructive! Cheers, Andrwsc 18:01, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

WR progressions

ARe you going to add them to people who have not broken the world record? ie any butterfly swimmer? Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:12, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Err, whoops sorry. I didn't notice that you had added the SC world records as well...I was wondering why you added it to Libby Lenton - sorry. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:21, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Nice work!!! I have changed the table format slightly on World record progression 200m medley by using a simpler - and more standard - wikitable layout. I also added a separate column for the nationality with a full country name (it is sometimes difficult to distinguish countries by flags alone, e.g. east/west germany, ussr/china). I also reduced the wikilink density. Let me know what you think and if you like it, I can do the other pages too. Thanks again for the great page! Deon Steyn 10:02, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

We can shrink the font back to 90% (I had it at 95%) in which case it would be a similar size to the previous layout? Of course the country name takes up more space, but I think it's better to have the full country name no? Deon Steyn 10:19, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

You can shrink, but that doesn't change my opinion; I think the standard I used lookes much better - and is much more effective in presenting data - than the simple table format, which seems to be common'

I just thought a common wikipedia look is preferred to a unique look that might not appear best with all user settings, because it's quite distracting when you view many different pages and stumble upon one that looks completely different? Even if you stick to swimming topics, most pages have tables and most have the standard layout? I reduced font to 90%, does it look better now? Deon Steyn 10:32, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

I believe in diversity, not in dull unity, so I'm not convinced at all.'

I see your point, but it could get a little messy if every table looks differently? If we use standard construct users can set their preferences accordingly? Your format currently takes up more spaces vertically (less rows are visible at a time). I suppose there is no rule or guideline against the first format. Some things do need to change though, especially the link density. I would also prefer full country names and no flagicons for the location? Deon Steyn 10:56, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

If you change all the swimming (and swimmer) pages (and that's a lot of pages!) we would still be left with a situation where they differ from the rest of wikipedia and more specifically different to other sports and even other Olympic sports? It could be perceived by other readers as a little snobbish, apart from just annoying them? It seems like a lot of work for a small - if any - reward? As for link density, yes it has to be reduced according to standards, the country templates are a little more difficult, because they are automatically generated, but I suppose it can be "hard coded" to a flagicon and name (another option as on some Olympic pages is to keep the flagicon next to the athlete name, but then also have the country name somewhere else). Deon Steyn 11:19, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Is this an argument or what? Snobbish, for all edits I've done? Ever heard of the "feel free"-principle? I think we are getting in the dark zone now. But annoying? Yes, that does ring a bell.... Sorry, I didn't express myself clearly enough. I meant that other readers might perceive the swimming content as "snobbish" for trying to be different to the rest of wikipedia. I was just trying to help and point out that it is nice to be part of the larger community instead of trying to be too different? Deon Steyn 11:36, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Charles Daniels

Hey Darius Dhlomo, I am a councilor at Sabattis Adventure Camp. The camp property used to be owned by Charles M. Daniels. I have been doing some research on him and would love to learn more about him but it is very hard to find information about him. You put a lot of information about him on wikipidea and I was wondering if you know anymore about him. For instance about his family (names) children, wife, jobs and so on. Any information that you have can be sent to my email sabattis_NY@yahoo.com (I don’t know how to use wikipedia to well) . Even if you do not have anymore information I would like to hear back from you and ask a few other questions. Thank you for your help.

MIKE

Cease and desist

Please stop creating articles such as Daniel Sánchez if you cannot add the proper sort keys so that the articles are indexed properly in categories. Gene Nygaard 08:19, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

I fixed that one. Go back and fix any others you have messed up the same way. Gene Nygaard 08:21, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

From my talk:Temper your tone, my dear friend. "Messing up" is not my key business, start chasing other others. Darius Dhlomo

Don't be a smart ass. Just fix them. Starting with Rubén Paz. Gene Nygaard 08:37, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

And Astrid Strauß. Gene Nygaard 10:58, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Uruguay 1986 World Cup squad

Hi. I've corrected the Uruguay 1986 World Cup squad. Player #17 should be José Zalazar, not "Jose Salazar". Chanheigeorge 02:04, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Renzo Vecchiato

I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Renzo Vecchiato, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Misplaced Pages's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Misplaced Pages is not" and Misplaced Pages's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Misplaced Pages, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at its talk page. Removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, but the article may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. Oo7565 08:14, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Oscar Vega

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Ruud Geels

It was about time somebody created that one. Thank you very much. --ChaChaFut 23:32, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Another star..

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For your sizeable work in the field of new articles. Punkmorten 22:45, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

You don't deserve any stars

After repeated requests, why are you still creating articles with deliberately improper sort keys, such as the one at Almudena Muñoz in this edit.

Stop it, now. Gene Nygaard 02:59, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Gerardo Matos Rodríguez, too. Gene Nygaard 03:03, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Hennie Quentemeijer

Someone who attends the olympics, once, and is eliminated in the first round.

Unless they made a world record by being knocked out quicker than anyone else in Olympic history (which you haven't mentioned), why as a boxer should they have an article here?

I have placed a prod on the article, because I don't think Hennie is sufficiently notable.

Garrie 22:28, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Diacritic

While adding olympic competitors names to articles, please use proper diacritic. Thanks --Jklamo 21:14, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

I am repeating my request. I noted your edits for example in Czech Republic at the 1996 Summer Olympics, where proped diacritic not used. --Jklamo 12:53, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

And again, again, for example in same article. --Jklamo 16:19, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Sidney McKnight

I have proposed the article Sidney McKnight for deletion as not notable. Discussion at: Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Log/2007 April 24#Sidney McKnight. --Bejnar 21:05, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

class=wikitable

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And no more removing line spaces and "who's personal best is...". Please. Punkmorten 09:46, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

And please don't link to the page "athlete", which is a redirect to a disambiguation page. Thanks, Punkmorten 08:08, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

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Referring to my additions to your article on Emanuel Regao are to help in developing it, and are not, as you posted in your edit summary bullshit. Thank you. --Ozgod 19:36, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

AFD

Hi! I thought you should know about Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Sudan at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Punkmorten 17:35, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

World Amateur Boxing Championships

A quick congratulations for creating this and many others. Its appriciated.--Vintagekits 14:16, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

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Johnny Kelley

Excellent new article you wrote on this icon of the Boston Marathon. Misplaced Pages already has an article about him at John J. Kelley, so I added a "merge" tag. 69.201.182.76 20:49, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

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Jim Alder

where did you get the info for Jim Alder? thanks

Bill (disambiguation)

Hello. Please take no offense, but I reverted your addition of the two Bills to this article. As the hidden text in the article explained, putting someone here who is not called Bill (WITHOUT the usage of his family name) is discouraged. Only if everyone in his field (for example in the sports they were active in) would have a good chance of thinking of the same guy, would they be valid additions. Better add them to the family name disambigs, as appropriate for the two.

I know that this call will always be a bit subjective. But think of how many hundreds of Bills there would be in that list without it. Cheers and happy editing. MadMaxDog 08:39, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Medalbox

Hi Darius! Well, I think this is the point to ask you, if it is possible to find a general way for the style of the Olympic medalboxes. Do you think it would be possible to respect, that 1000s of Olympic medalist have a medalbox in this style:

Olympic medal record Women's Athletics 1964 Tokyo Discus throw

Especially nearly all have the style: 1964 Tokyo first year then place. If you add European championship you can add your style.

Please respect also, if a competitor was a member of the "United Team of Germany". If he/she represents West Germany or East Germany at the European championship, maybe we can take this style:

Darius Dhlomo Medal record Men’s Athletics Olympic Games Representing  United Team of Germany 1964 Tokyo 20km Walk European Championships Representing  East Germany Budapest 1966 20km Walk

Thank you in advance and :) Doma-w 10:58, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Template:MedalCompetition on articles on athletes

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The same goes for those volleyball medal boxes that you're adding, please disambiguate European Championships to European Volleyball Championship. Thaurisil_c 01:59, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Copyright violation in Yolanda Hightower

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Notability of Simon Mantell

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Lake Placid links

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Style guide and references

Darius,

I appreciate all the work that you do on the Olympics pages. However, I would like to suggest (as I have in the past) that you follow the style guide in regards to how you list an event. The 50 m backstroke is not the "50m Backstroke". These are especially troublesome in medal boxes where the information is correct and you go in and make it incorrect. Also, there is a big push to make sure that information is referenced, so please keep that in mind. Thanks! --Sue Anne 18:45, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

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Again

Once again, please respect the Olympic style with first YEAR second HOST CITY!! Thank! Doma-w 12:57, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Revert Due to Copyright Infringement

I reverted the Earl Bell (athletics) entry due to copyright infringement.