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WikiProject Arena Football League Newsletter - December 2008
Articles for the more popular and "star" players of the league need to be expanded, have citations added to them and hopefully we can get some GA's out of them.
All articles on active players and coaches need to be updated with stats, news, and all things important. (Note: For stats it's best to use ArenaFan.)
Also, we NEED to get things done so we can take them off of the to do list.
The af2 schedule was released and the league's 10th anniversary season begins on March 20, 2009.
In November, the Louisville Firehave ceased operations as an af2 team. That is, for the 2009 season, atleast as one of the owners of the Fire, Will Wolford, and team General Manager Dave Berryman pitched to the Arena Football League the idea of Louiville joining the AFL.
The AFL announced that the 2009 disperal draft will take place Tuesday, December 2 at 1 p.m. ET. The league also annouced that the free agency period (which was pushed back) will begin at 12:01 a.m. ET on Thursday, December 4.
December 2, 1984 — Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino breaks the NFL single-season touchdown pass record when he threw his 37th in a 45-34 loss to the Oakland Raiders. He finished the season with 48 touchdown passes.
December 8, 1940 — The Chicago Bears established an NFL record by defeating the Washington Redskins 73-0 in the championship game. Ten Bears players score touchdowns as Chicago won the title before 36,034 in Washington, D.C. Each player received $873.
December 18, 1932 — The Chicago Bears defeated the Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in a playoff game for the NFL championship after both teams finished the season with six wins. The game was originally scheduled to be played at Wrigley Field, but was moved indoors to Chicago Stadium because of snow and extreme cold. Special ground rules were set up to keep the ball in the middle of the improvised 80-yard long dirt-covered field that was flanked by walls on both sides. (Sounds reminsent of arena football, don't you think?)
December 23, 1972 — Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Oakland Raiders 13-7 in an AFC Divisional Playoff Game when Franco Harris' made, what when down in the history of professional sports as one of the greatest plays of all time, the "Immaculate Reception." It was also the first playoff win in franchise history.
Our goal is to get the number of Stub-Class articles down to 0, in due time. The current article count is listed below, I have placed the forumla that is on the project page that is updated everytime the bot is run and it tallies up our articles and where they are and lists them as seen below, so that no one has to worry about making sure it's updated manually before the newsletter is sent out. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list is provided in the stub-class category of stub articles that need to be improved, and some should be fairly easy.
here's the next version of the bot. Contains some bug fixes, a first version of a new feature (transclusion of discussion pages), and hopefully the corrected code for old AfD problem. If any errors occur, please notify me. --B. Wolterding (talk) 01:00, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
That change is not reflected in my code yet (will include it). But since the bot currently doesn't follow any workflows in the image namespace, it shouldn't make a difference.
On another point: Last night the bot had a very strange behavior; it added the content to the pages, rather than replacing it [1]. If possible, could you post the log of last night (before the bot runs today)? --B. Wolterding (talk) 16:56, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi Legoktm, it seems that the new version has not been rolled out yet. Do you want to update the bot on the short term, or is it better to wait until I will deliver some more modifications in a few days? Are you around at this time at all, or are you taking a wikibreak over the holidays? --B. Wolterding (talk) 00:16, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
