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WHA players
I think that I have have now finally completed the arduous task of ensuring that Misplaced Pages holds an article for each of the 808 hockey players who saw action during the WHA's seven-year run. I have been working towards this goal for over four years (on April 19, 2010 I created an article for Ray Delorenzi who played with the Vancouver Blazers/Calgary Cowboys; and on June 1, 2014, I created an article for the final player, being Jim Cole who played briefly with the old Winnipeg Jets). Along the way I have learned much about about Misplaced Pages, and have improved my knowledge of the history of professional hockey. Thank you to Parkfly3 who, through his work in completing and correcting the “list of players” articles for the individual WHA teams, made the task of identifying the missing players a bit easier, and to Scott Surgent whose book "The Complete World Hockey Association" has been an invaluable reference. Although I believe that each WHA player now has an article, I will continue to look through the historical records for any additional players who may yet have been over-looked. Dolovis (talk) 19:12, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for your hard work and dedication in completing the task. Articles on those players were a long-time coming and likely still wouldn't exist had you not taken the initiative to create them. --Hockeyben 15:32, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
Misplaced Pages page on me
Hi just curious why you're editing the page on me. I updated the information filling in the past ten years and then you erased it, why?
Jay McGee — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tinjay77 (talk • contribs) 00:07, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you for attempting to update the information in this article about yourself, however, the information you added appears to be original research. Even if you're sure something is true, it must be verifiable before you can add it to the article. Such information will be removed unless you are able to reference the information you added using a reliable source. Also be aware that editing an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. Please read and follow the policy of Misplaced Pages:Biographies of living persons before attempting any more edits. These are the rules we must follow, and thank you again for trying to improve Misplaced Pages. Dolovis (talk) 14:09, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
United Hockey League
To put it bluntly, what are you playing at? The "low-level" assertion would be valid if it was supported by one source; it's supported by all seven, which are six more sources than support the equally subjective assertion that Wayne Gretzky is the greatest hockey player of all time. Ravenswing 21:23, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
- What I am up to is, as a neutral third party, trying to help two editors (yourself and an IP) who are involved in an edit war over the use of their preferred POV and subjective adjective (“low-level” vs. “mid-level” league). What I did, using a verifiable source, is introduced the factual and neutral adjective “minor” league which should have settled the issue, but you still have continued to edit war by again re-adding the your preferred “low-level” POV adjective; once again antagonizing the IP to continue edit warring over this subjective adjective. Further, I am not able to verify your sources that you claim support your preferred descriptor because they are either hard copy articles which I do not have access to, or dead links. In any event, I remind you that the NPOV should be the preferred path for any Misplaced Pages article.Dolovis (talk) 14:58, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
- The easiest way to solve the edit war is for anon IPs -- as they should anywhere on Misplaced Pages -- to not remove statements supported by numerous inline citations. We are under no onus to cater to every anon IP with an axe to grind, nor need to redefine "NPOV" as meaning that any fact which someone contests must therefore be weasel-worded. As far as the sources go, I just pulled up each and every one of those dead links in about 15 seconds apiece from the Wayback Machine. Why weren't you able to do the same?
So let's see some of the other links there, shall we? Here's the Toronto Star article which supports the assertion -- that took me about 45 seconds. Ravenswing 19:21, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
- Why didn't you do it earlier? BTW, editing from a neutral point of view is Misplaced Pages policy, and using the factual term "minor league" is not "weasel-worded". Dolovis (talk) 19:29, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
- The easiest way to solve the edit war is for anon IPs -- as they should anywhere on Misplaced Pages -- to not remove statements supported by numerous inline citations. We are under no onus to cater to every anon IP with an axe to grind, nor need to redefine "NPOV" as meaning that any fact which someone contests must therefore be weasel-worded. As far as the sources go, I just pulled up each and every one of those dead links in about 15 seconds apiece from the Wayback Machine. Why weren't you able to do the same?