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Rivalry

Do you know how the process started of capitalizing "Rivalry" in the season schedule charts? Rivalry is not a proper noun and should not be capitalized in this sort of parenthetical usage. We've gotten much better as a project in recent years in removing unneeded capitalization. The initial caps version has been littered all across the season pages, but really ought to be corrected. Thoughts? Cbl62 (talk) 16:14, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Not sure how it exactly how it started, but I think you are correct about the capitalization there. We could probably have a bot sweep through and correct that. Jweiss11 (talk) 16:16, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

If that's something that can be done by a bot, I'd support that 100%. A whole lot easier than trying to do it manually. Cbl62 (talk) 16:17, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

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This Sunday! Misplaced Pages Day NYC Celebration and Mini-Conference (updated speakers + schedule)

Sunday January 14: Misplaced Pages Day NYC 2018

Part of Misplaced Pages's global 17th birthday celebration, Misplaced Pages Day NYC 2018 at Ace Hotel will include a mini-conference of scheduled panels as well as unconference style talks and discussions proposed by attendees on the day of the event. We are very excited to announce speakers such as Jason Scott (Internet Archive), Jackie Koerner (Visiting Scholar, Wiki Ed), and Andrew Lih (Wikimedia DC), as well as a fantastic line-up of panels that highlight projects and issues of relevance to the Wikimedia NYC community. See Misplaced Pages Day NYC 2018 speakers + schedule And there will be cake. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. Sunday January 14 Misplaced Pages Day NYC 2018 (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 10:00am - 6:30 pm at Ace Hotel, 20 West 29th Street in Manhattan We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Megs (talk) 02:22, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

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Southern Alabama Jaguars coach navbox

I have moved it to your user space. In the future, would you rather just have me to that? Also, would you just want football or would you like basketball and baseball too? Corky 18:44, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, that would be great. You can do that with any college coach or athletic director navbox. Jweiss11 (talk) 02:29, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

I've moved Template:Mississippi State Bulldogs women's basketball coach navbox to your user space as well. Corky 16:04, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Any reason why Template:Mississippi State Bulldogs women's basketball coach navbox is apparently your property and not appearing on articles anymore? Mississippi State's now the only SEC team without one, and a lot of less notable ones do too. This should be restored ASAP. Jhn31 (talk) 20:16, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Jhn31: Sure, it can be restored... once there are at least four (4) coaches articles that have been created. There's only two right now and currently fails Misplaced Pages's guidelines. If it gets restored without having at least four articles created, I'll just AFD it again. As you can see from the last AFD, it was going to be deleted. Corky 20:26, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

It's because it has less than four working blue links. Corky has been on a mission for some time to TfD all such navboxes. This is not something I've been totally on board with, but I've asked him to userfy such college coach navboxes in lieu of deleting them. How about you just create an article for one of the red links and then we can move the the navbox back to the mainspace? Jweiss11 (talk) 20:28, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

That's pretty asinine, Corky. Women's basketball hasn't really been around long enough for a lot of prestigious programs to even have 4 coaches, and/or enough dedicated fans to write articles about the coaches from the 1970s. Are you going to delete Stanford, Tennessee, etc., too? Even if you're technically just enforcing a rule, there needs to be some discretion on these matters, and removing all these navboxes is needlessly ticky-tack. At any rate, I have created 2 articles to satisfy the requirement and will create the rest soon, so Mississippi State's can be restored. However, I think if the college sports editing community at large was aware of these deletions, they wouldn't have made it through a TFD in the first place, at least not for obviously high-notability programs. Jhn31 (talk) 22:02, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Well, that's your opinion. The purpose for red links is that they will be created (soon) after the templates are created. Not some years down the road. The purpose of navboxes is to navigate, which doesn't happen when there are less than three or four links. There is nothing wrong with not having a navbox, categories to the job just fine. If you really want have something at the bottom of the pages, then you can use a {{Succession box}}. Tennessee should be moved to user space until it has four or more links for the template to be used in, and Stanford has three so it's fine. Corky 22:12, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Whatever you do, do not use a succession box for coaching successions! We purposefully phased those out several years ago. Jweiss11 (talk) 00:47, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Ole Miss Football

Looks like a few people keeps removing wins as you are aware of I am sure. Is there a way to make it where they are not able to remove any wins before they supposed to be removed? Thank you MDSanker 03:07, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

IP created roster at 1972 Michigan

Curious what you think of the IP user's efforts at converting the roster at 1972 Michigan Wolverines football team. I think it looks like a mess. Cbl62 (talk) 14:36, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Also at 1970 Michigan Wolverines football team. Cbl62 (talk) 14:37, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Agreed. Total messes. Those roster templates aren't designed to hold all the information. Jweiss11 (talk) 20:21, 2 February 2018 (UTC)