User talk:Dirtlawyer1/Archives/2010/June

Spaces

Where does it say these spaces are necessary? I don't believe they are. I have seen other users and even bots get rid of the spaces.--Yankees10 17:58, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Yankees10, standard typographical spacing is neither necessary nor required. It is, however, permitted, and it makes editing significantly easier for editors with less-than-perfect eyesight. (Spaces aren't necessary between paragraphs in wiki coding, either, only a hard return at the end of the last line of the paragraph is required.) Removing them is a matter of personal choice, and make-work for bots and edit-counters. On articles that others have created or substantially written, I preserve the spacing pattern of those editors, just as I would preserve regional spelling, date formats, and footnote formatting. I will avoid re-spacing any article that already has an established spacing pattern to avoid screwing up future diff comparisons, and I hope you would be willing to do the same. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 18:15, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

I wont revert any further, but don't be surprised if another editor or bot come around and remove the spaces--Yankees10 18:39, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Thank you. FYI, the bots eventually give up. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 18:49, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Yankees10, I was going to bitch about how silly it is to have a section for a one-sentence paragraph, but now it ("New York Giants") has two sentences, so what the heck . . . . LOL. What's your source for Jarvis' pre-2001 tackle statistics? (I haven't found one.) It needs a footnote (and I could use the source for other articles I'm chewing on). Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 18:31, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Source for tackles with Giants--Yankees10 18:39, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, sir. I will put the reference to good use. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 18:49, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Re: Problem

You could try Shimgray or Killiondude, they're both reasonable chaps. Killiondude is more active as an administrator, I think. If you explain the problem I'll take a look at it and help as best I can. Ironholds (talk) 17:15, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Re: Fred Taylor

I have no problem with the edits you made today; you fixed all the issues I noticed. I will admit that I did not properly examine each part of your previous edits. I have copyedited about 90% of all current Patriots players articles, and Taylor's was done a few months back. So I was operating off the assumption that the article was OK as it was and did not see that you indeed had valid edits among your questionable ones. My apologies and good work to further improve the article. Pats1 ^T/C 21:51, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for your consideration , Pats1.

Head coach categories

Dirtlawyer1, I'm not sure if I'm ready to take on the whole head coaches category problem. I've really just been trying to clean out the articles at Category:College football head coaches. There's also some sloppiness up a level at Category:Head coaches of American football. The head coach categories are indeed vexing. Do head coaches also belong in the regular coaches category always? Or only if they were also assistants at some time for that particular team? Or never? Seems there are head coaches categories for NFL teams as well, but I think they were also created by that same, now-banned user. Yikes. It probably makes sense to bring this up at the CFB project talk page and/or elsewhere to get some consensus and establish consistency. Jweiss11 (talk) 00:34, 29 June 2010 (UTC)