User talk:Boomtish

Your contributions aren't worthless after all!

G'day Boomtish, I know you're shattered that your brilliant contributions have just been thrown away like this, but you might be pleased to know that your work is appreciated. I've moved the good version of the Kane Tenace article to a new wiki - See here. Also check out my profile on that site. Cheers, R o gerthat ^Talk 09:59, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tom Hawkins

- Lead covers many of the following lead points, just needs a bit of tweaking and copyediting into at the most 2 paragraphs.

The biography is 5,650 characters (No spaces) and 6,726 characters as it stands today. According to WP:Lead articles < 15,000 characters should be 1-2 paragraphs.
- 1. Context - see Template:Biography - covered in article BTW very well
- 2. Characterization - appearance, age, gender, educational level, vocation or occupation, financial status, marital status, social status, cultural background, hobbies, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ambitions, motivations, personality, what the biography refers to as used in the given context.
- 3. Explanation - deeper meaning and background.
- 4. Compare and contrast - how it relates to other topics, if appropriate.
- 5. Criticism - include criticism if there has been significant, notable criticism. Need to compare to other footballers, if appropriate.
  - - If the article was to become a feature article or an article chosen for a portal - only the lead would be used - does it induce the reader to desire to know what the article is about and seek further information?

- I'm not sure what issue (if there is one with the links) is apparent, but please do kindly point out any suggestions. This is an automatic javascript program that looks at format issues according to wiki guidelines on the referenced pages. You have an amazing amount of citations compared to a number of articles I have seen. This auto peer reviewer sees that perhaps the same reference is used in close proximity to itself as per the wiki referenced pages... Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links) and WP:CONTEXT

- No available images of use as of now. -Fair enough - these are hard to come by sometimes.

On the whole I thought your article was very well done. I have benefited myself from this semi automatic javascript peer reviewer it is so easy to install the program and use it on pages to promote their quality. Good luck in all your endeavours. Kind Regards Julia SriMesh | talk 06:33, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I updated the review, and listed why on the talk page - Promoted the article to Good Article class and listed the article also. Congratulations, and keep up the good work! SriMesh | talk 20:12, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox afl player

What's the go? You're redone the whole 'playing career' section but that has messed every single footy article. Eg Jim Adamson Crickettragic (talk) 09:46, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mate you've done well, it certainly looks better than before. 5 seconds or not though it's still going to be a pain in the **** manually editing the 2000 plus AFL player articles that we have. Crickettragic (talk) 09:56, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just a suggestion mate, but perhaps you could make a second infobox which includes these new edits that you have done? This is what is done in WP:Cricket for example which I'm part of, if someone has a new better looking template they make is seperatly instead of in place of the old one. That way while editers go through the task of updating each article, which will take a bit, the yet untouched articles remain as they were. Problem with what you have done is until we edit each player's page they are going to be without the vital section which mentions their career teams and stats. Thoughts? Cheers Crickettragic (talk) 10:12, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Boomtish! I've left a message on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject AFL, to get comments and assistance from a wider audience. JPD (talk) 10:41, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fernando Torres

I reverted your edit to Fernando Torres the appearences and goals are for domestic league appearences only. John Hayes^talk 11:07, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nice Going

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Request

I request your comment in this discussion for a dispute pertinent Australian rules football as national and most popular sport in Australia. Regards,--PIO (talk) 16:24, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Template:2007 Port Adelaide Grand Final side

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If you want this template deleted, please use TFD. For your information, עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 14:45, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox and Ron Evans

Pls look at [1]. Any comments on this? 149.171.241.207 (talk) 11:05, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dream Team cat

I think you are jumping the gun a bit with these cats... I'd wait until after they run out onto the ground... especially for injury cloud players like McPharlinThe-Pope (talk) 09:26, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a big issue, but thinking in 5 or 50 years time, we won't really care who made the squad, it's who makes the team that's important. No need to really do anything now, just review it on Sat night or Sunday.The-Pope (talk) 11:45, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Joel Selwood

Done a bit of a peer review. Hope it helps. JKBrooks85 (talk) 06:15, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

AFL Infobox

Just letting you know, seeing as you implemented it, that for the time being I've removed the footnote {{{repstatsend}}} because it was appearing on every infobox even though most of the time it wasn't applicable. Do you know of a way to make it optional? Crickettragic (talk) 00:18, 14 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use images

Hey, FYI I have tagged two of your images as failing fair use criterion 1 for non-free content - replaceable images of living persons. Images tagged are Image:Brad ottens.jpg and Image:Joel corey.jpg. Haven't checked the rest of the Geelong players' images but you might want to have a look and remove any others like this? I feel a bit like The Grinch for doing this, so close to Geelong winning their second premiership in two years (fingers crossed), so I apologise! Stupid WP:NFCC! :) Somno (talk) 06:16, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Selwood

I will try and get a review up this weekend. Good luck! -- Mattinbgn\^talk 06:50, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Joel Selwood FA nomination

Thanks for letting me know about the FA nomination for Joel Selwood. I know you have worked extremely hard to bring the article up to FA standard and I wish you best of luck. - Allied45 (talk) 09:11, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

AFL infobox

Job well done mate, in shaping the infobox, it's now a much more sensible size. For some reason however the 'place of birth' heading now appears, whereas in the past if it were blank, like the 'position' option, then it wouldn't come up on the infobox. As we don't know the birth places of most footy players, or at least those from the VFL era, would it be possible to make that bit optional again. I've also noticed an asterisk after '(goals)', has that been added for any particular reason? Cheers. Jevansen (talk) 09:59, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Joel Selwood

Great to see your still around to help as you've done great guns on the article so far. AFL article in the main are really very poor and it would be great to have a FA. A couple Peer Reviews will be needed first, although it's a very solid art with a good amount of refs. The problem with GA/FA on current players is that events are rapidly changing and therefore may not mantain GA/FA standards for very long.Aaroncrick^{(Tassie Boy talk)} 11:11, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure about the claim that he is the "second-youngest player in VFL/AFL history to win a premiership" at 19. That honour is held by Brian Leahy, with Murray Weideman the youngest. There have been three other 17 years olds who have played in a premiership team - Cameron Clayton, Allan Davis and Charlie Payne as well as numerous 18 year olds. All these though seem to be pre 1990 so perhaps the Geelong Advertiser article only took into account the AFL era? Jevansen (talk) 10:52, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This may be a better reference to use. Dustin Fletcher and Joe Misiti were 18 year olds in the 1993 premiership team, so even if the journalist was meaning the AFL era it would still be inaccurate. Maybe you could say something like he's the youngest premiership player since 1993? Cheers. Jevansen (talk) 11:04, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The article has been given a copyedit by User:Brianboulton. Aaroncrick (talk) 01:51, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

We should probably get Joel Selwood peer reviewed again and then nominate it for FAC, and it should have a fair chance of passing. Or we could possibly ask Matt to have a look over the article. It's getting to a tricky stage now as the season is coming to a climax and more info will have to be put into the 2009 section. Aaroncrick (talk) 06:45, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh well bit the bullet and nominated the article, also added your name to "Nominator(s)" Aaroncrick (talk) 05:56, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that. Aaroncrick (talk) 07:09, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm inclined to disagree as it would be easy to change the sentence if he gets 43+ possessions. Aaroncrick (talk) 07:00, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Demar DeRozan

You dont need it when it is on the side. Ice (talk) 17:24, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats

Congratulations on the successful nomination of Joel Selwood as a FA! It's great to finally have an AFL FA, well done! - Allied45 (talk) 01:34, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well done on all your hard work! Aaroncrick (talk) 01:36, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Here, here! Right back at you too mate! – Allied45 (talk) 11:27, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats! Came across the article whilst you were in the review process, and you guys have done a great job getting it promoted. I've done a fair bit of work on the Cyril Rioli article and just wondering if you'd be able to pop over and give us a hand, maybe put some suggestions on the talk page or something. Would be very much appreciated, since I usually just edit music articles and we haven't got much to base off of for AFL or sports players in general really. Cheers. (posted to your co-nominator User:Aaroncrick also) k.i.a.c (talktome - contribs) 13:00, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Gary Ablett - AA years selected

Don't believe all of what is in official AFL publications - a very unreliable source.

Ablett was chosen in VFL (not All Australian) Team of the Year - 1984, 1985, 1989.

RossRSmith (talk) 09:43, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Tom Harley

Boomtish, I appreciate your sentiments and good faith. Before seeing this message [2] I had already added the stats section back in, on reflection is adds to the article a lot. I see you are working on this article, was wondering about the "missing years" between port and captain. But regarding the intro - and all respect to the FA selwood - can I suggest Roger Federer as a better example. It is brief and a good intro rather than summary. Otherwise all the info- incl how his junior career went, is duplicated. Cheers ROxBo (talk) 12:34, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Another good example is Chris Judd. The bit about ' Harley is an ambassador for the anti-violence program..." is incidental to his notability and does not belong in the intro - like much else. ROxBo (talk) 12:40, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

2008 AFMA Player of the Year award

Finally found a reliable source for the 2008 AFMA Player of the Year award, which was in fact won by Brent Harvey, and not Gary Ablett, Jr. This is as listed in the AFL Record Season Guide 2009. I'll add this information into the relevant articles. Thanks, Allied45 (talk) 09:14, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And Adam Goodes won the '06 award, not Simon Goodwin. Oops! We messed up that award big time! – Allied45 (talk) 09:22, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Tom Harley

Excellent :) Aaroncrick ^TALK 23:35, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just to let you know, I've started the GA review on this article. Harrias ^talk 21:30, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, are you going to be around much? Aaroncrick ^TALK 22:29, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, yes I will be around. But any help is much appreciated too. Cheers Boomtish (talk) 05:42, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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