User talk:Coppercanuck

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Speedy deletion of 2004 World Junior Curling Championships

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Speedy deletion of Kitchener Spirit

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1979 Royal Bank of Scotland World Women's Curling Championship tagged for speedy deletion

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Speedy deletion of Erik Lefebvre

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The deletion was not because of one person and one source. It was because the text of the article was copied directly from the source — which violates Wikipedia's copyright policy. If you would like to continue working on the article — the text, minus the copyrighted text can be restored to your userspace where you can work on it. — ERcheck (talk) 03:13, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've created a personal sandbox page for you — User:Coppercanuck/Sandbox — and restored the content of the article you started, minus the copied text. You can work on the article there and when it is ready, start it in mainspace. I suggest that you re-write the text of the article. One reliable source is a good start. One other comment — images in the infobox cannot point to a www url, but need to be uploaded to Wikipedia or Commons in order to be rendered. — ERcheck (talk) 03:19, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sandboxes and stuff

Hey Coppercanuck. As far as I'm aware, you can just copy and paste text code from the sandbox into the regular editing window and it will create the article just like normal. One word of warning though (because I've fallen foul of this myself)... don't create bios for players who haven't played pro yet. The reason I'm saying this is because I notice you made a few notes in the talk page for Ottawa Fury about starting bios for their two Kenyan players. Unless they have played at least one game in a professional league (MLS, USL1, USL2, the Canadian championship, or the Kenyan First Division for example), they fail the criteria for soccer player notability, and will be deleted anyway, regardless of the quality of the article. I know this because I created really nice articles for Charles Alamo and Vito Higgins, two goalkeepers who are on the full professional roster of LA Galaxy, but which were deleted anyway, because they haven't "crossed the white line" yet. So just be careful about creating detailed articles, because it's annoying when they get slammed. Keep in touch though - it's nice to talk to other people working on the same articles as I am! --JonBroxton (talk) 18:40, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject Curling

Hey, it's a good idea. Remind me in September, and I'll set it up unless you wish to do so in the mean time. Unfortunately, I do not have internet access right now at my new place, and will not until September. (I now happen to live in the apartments above the Ottawa Curling Club ;-) ...no joke) -- Earl Andrew - talk 22:52, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of 2005 CIS Men's Soccer Championship

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:2005 cis soccer logo.jpg)

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Speedy deletion of St. Lawrence Laurentians

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Speedy deletion of London, Ontario PDL

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Curling infobox

Hi, great idea! Not too sure if managers, presidents, ice technicians, etc is all that necessary, same with major championships held. Maybe major championships won? Like, provincials championships. For example, the Ottawa Curling Club has won one women's (Jenn Hanna, 2005) and one men's (Eldon Coombe, 1972) provincial championship. -- Earl Andrew - talk 21:41, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

2009 PDL page

Awesome work getting this thing updated fast. --JonBroxton (talk) 23:53, 10 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No, I just reverted the Wolves change to read "Seattle PDL" because I realized there is no definite confirmation yet, and there is nothing on the Wolves' website. I jumped the gun. I think we should hold off on linking to them and updating their page until PDL HQ formally announce it. --JonBroxton (talk) 23:59, 10 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Victoria Highlanders squad

Dude, don't you think we're a bit early adding that to the page? I mean, it's four months until the PDL season kicks off, and as amateurs none of these guys actually sign a playing contract, so it's more than likely that one or two of them will end up not playing. Shouldn't we wait, and add the squads to the page when the actual games start being played next year (like we did with all of 2008's expansion teams)? --JonBroxton (talk) 04:41, 17 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hope I didn't come across as being rude there, I certainly didn't mean to. The reason I was thinking we should wait is because I remember when my team (San Fernando Valley Quakes) was launched in 2006, we had a big press release, named our initial run of players, presented them to the media... and then precisely two of them ended up actually having any playing time in the first season. Jordan Hughes, the former USL1 player is definitely notable and he should be added to the squad, for sure. The other college players who will play should not (in my opinion) be added until they actually turn out for the team: in the first place, they're not inherently notable in Wikipedia terms until they play a pro game, and only become semi-notable as PDL players once they take to the field, and we start noting them on the team pages as current players. However, in this case, lets leave the Highlanders players on there for now... just take it as a case by case basis :) At least we are two of the few who actually care about PDL articles! --JonBroxton (talk) 17:55, 18 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Curling wikiproject

I don't know the answer to your question really, as I'm not sure exactly what it is, to be honest. But anyways, I put my name on that request. I didn't realize you have to request wikiprojects these days. -- Earl Andrew - talk 06:26, 20 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Danny Kristo

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AfD nomination of Danny Kristo

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Wikinews Brier/Scotties curling tournaments

Do you wish to add a tid bit to the wikinewsc curling article? ... or add a new wikinews article when the Brier is finished.SriMesh | talk 03:37, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ahh so cool, the above article did end up getting published but it was in no way a sports article, just a curling article. I didn't go into all the teams and their names and who won what when. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 01:03, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Curling

Good job. There's also the WCT Player bios too, which should be incorporated. -- Earl Andrew - talk 22:00, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Opinion sought

I have a question for you, and as a regular contributor to PDL pages I thought you might have an opinion. Can you please have a look at the roster of Bakersfield Brigade... you see what I've done there, with adding links to each player's college bio? Do you think this is something we should do for all the players who don't qualify for full Wiki articles? Do you think the links are useful, or is it overkill? Let me know. --JonBroxton (talk) 20:31, 22 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

PDL bio links

Be my guest. So long as we keep a consistent format with spacing and everything, the more people help out the easier it will be. Keep an eye out for any corrections to nationalities of players while you're at it - some errors may have crept in here and there. Thanks! --JonBroxton (talk) 03:32, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Re the Canadian National Challenge Cup, I'd say that only the teams competing in it are notable, not individual players. If a player who wins it eventually turns pro it's definitely something we can mention in their bio, but if they don't turn pro, then I'd say they don't pass WP:N or WP:ATHLETE anyway. Good job on the Fury bio search, btw. --JonBroxton (talk) 20:52, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

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WikiProject Canadian Sport

Hi, you are listed as a participant in this project and in fact the only one of thos elisted who appears to still be active. Are you interested in helping me clean up this project?HalifaxRage (talk) 19:22, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

See my talk page. HalifaxRage (talk) 09:49, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Drop me a message or head to the discussion page at WP:CSPORT ... right now I am trying to tag as many articles as possible that wopuld be within the scope of this project. Next up will be to reorganize the main Sport in Canada page and start fleshing out topics. HalifaxRage (talk) 15:19, 4 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

curling wikiproject

Hello, we've finally done it! Check it out WP:CURLING -- Earl Andrew - talk 19:40, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Kettle Moraine Curling Club

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Speedy deletion nomination of Kettle Moraine Curling Club

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2009–10 National Premier League

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Jamaica Premier League

If I get some free time I'll do the 09/10, I had to create the templates to do the league table, so it shouldn't be that much work to do the 09/10, so I'll see what I can do. As for the playoffs you talked about, could you give me some more information if you don't mind. I'm not really familiar with the league, I just saw that the page needed some work. The page says:

"The teams will play each other 3 times each then the final 5 games will be played amongst the top 6 and bottom 6; making it a total of 38 games"

I'm not sure if that is correct or not though. --Footballfollower89 (talk) 17:16, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

update: I've updated the Regular Stage table for 2009/10, I'll do the playoff tables another time and I think I have worked out the playoffs thanks to the 2009/10 entry, so I'll update the 2010/11 also. --Footballfollower89 (talk) 17:47, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

2011 Pacific Coast Soccer League season and other articles

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Windsor Stars / Border Stars

Is the current Windsor Stars franchise the same team as the one which left the Canadian Soccer League after the 2008 season, or is it an entirely new team which only took the name from its predecessor? If the latter is the case, then Windsor Stars should be converted from a redirect to a full article. --Soccer-holic^{I hear voices in my head...} 15:41, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

June 2011

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Niagara United SC

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Nomination of Ottawa St. Anthony Italia for deletion

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Standings for PDL

Honestly, I'd leave them in the simpler format they are currently in, for ease of editing, and so they continue the look of previous years' PDL articles. --JonBroxton (talk) 17:10, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of List of Challenge Trophy 2010 teams‎

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WP:WikiProject Winter sports

Hello, I was wondering if you were interested in restarting this project you were one of the founders of? I'd like to tag various winter sports properly, so that they can have a collaboration area (such as for the sliding sports, luge, skeleton, etc, or icecross, etc) -- 70.49.127.65 (talk) 05:28, 10 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Getting Wikimedians to the Olympic Games

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Speedy deletion nomination of Fredericton Picaroons Reds

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NOTUSA doesn't apply to team USA, etc.

So I modified Jay Demerit to that end. Walter Görlitz (talk) 17:21, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Calgary Foothills SC

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Proposed deletion of Moncton Codiac First Touch

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Non-notable club appears only to have played at a regional level, not the national level required by WPFOOTYN. No indication of any other achievements garnering sufficient significant coverage to satisfy WP:GNG.

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I left some thoughts on how to include the L1O Women's Division on the Canadian soccer league system talk page, and thought you might want to offer some input. Gopherbashi (talk) 14:04, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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