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2013–14 Dundee F.C. season moved to draftspace

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Dubdee fc squad

Max anderson lyall cameron michael cunningham luke strachan harrison sharp and grant rodger dint have there names in blue Dgmitchell91 (talk) 20:45, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Kits

Thanks for your work on the kits - any chance you could create a custom kit for Clydebank F.C., as the wiki kit options only have a basic centre vertical red line available? Boothy m (talk) 21:48, 7 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Appreciate it, and have made the home and away kits. Hope you're happy with them. Rossbatchelor (talk) 22:49, 7 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Scottish kits - A thank you

Just wanted to say thanks for the work tou do on club kits. One of the areas on wiki I'm totally useless at. Really makes a difference. Cheers CoatbridgeChancellor (talk) 21:35, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

you obviously, not tou CoatbridgeChancellor (talk) 21:36, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Much appreciated, it's nice to have something to do during all of this. Rossbatchelor (talk) 13:55, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Re-Scottish kits - A thank you

Just want to repeat these sentiments. Your work is amazing and much appreciated especially in non-league. I have one or two requests if possible. Caledonian Braves full kits are out (white and navy) and Vale of Leithen (Lowland League) have a new home kit.

Thank you.

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Stenhousemuir kit

Hi mate. Thanks once again for the work on kits, really makes a difference. Was wondering if you get a chance if you could update the Stenny home kit. They seem to be going with 19/20 kit for this season but I don't think the homes been updated for a while. Cheers. CoatbridgeChancellor (talk) 13:32, 28 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, just finished it. Hopefully it's fine. Rossbatchelor (talk) 23:41, 28 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

August 2020

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The player is about to join a team in a fully professional league, which is the reason I felt it was appropriate to create the article now. Rossbatchelor (talk) 15:22, 27 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Chances are he will play for Dundee but he's not considered notable until he makes an appearance in at least one Scottish Championship match (and even then there are arguments that he wouldn't meet the notability critera). I if were you I'd just grab a copy of the page details and then re-create the article once he meets the notability criteria. Oh, also, just FYI but the Scottish Championship isn't fully professional as Alloa and Arbroath are both ~~wee teams~~ part-time/semi-professional :P I'd also be tempted to call Raith a wee team but they might have something to say about that!!! XD Have a great day! :) Exxy (talk) 14:11, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Players will not actually be released until their contracts end on 30 June 2021

Please do not remove them from squad listings/change their articles until that date. Giant Snowman 20:50, 17 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Queen of the South Third Kit

I was wondering if you would mind adding Queens 3rd kit to the main Queens page and this season's page for me? I noticed you had updated the away kit earlier on. Rusty1111 : Talk 15:31, 10 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.qosfc.com/news-5502

Thanks for updating this for me. Rusty1111 : Talk 09:57, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Final kits

Hi mate hope all is well. Just wanted to thank you once again for your work on Scottish kits. You do a cracking job. I appreciate it might be a betrayal to edit Dundee United but if you get a chance they need their kits updated for this year. Only them and Livi away is outstanding I think. Thanks again CoatbridgeChancellor (talk) 00:32, 21 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Greg Stewart's Durand Cup stats

are correct, but I was wondering where you got them from. I haven't yet found an explicit source: "linked from " Mumbai City FC website fixture list is the best I can come up with. Do you have an explicit source that you could add to the stats table? cheers, Struway2 (talk) 16:06, 12 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Dundee season article

Hello,

Hope you are well,

Just wondering why you undid my edit to the Dundee season article for next season. Happy to discuss.

Stevie fae Scotland (talk) 23:18, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Stevie,

I hope the undoing of the edit does not come across as intending to cause confrontation as that is definitely not the case. I wish to try and maintain consistency between Dundee seasons as previous seasons also use the same format. To a lesser extent, it is also simply a matter of personal preference for me, as I prefer the collapsible box format to the table format.

I appreciate the efforts to standardise most of the Scottish football season pages and understand the reasoning of the guidelines behind it. As someone who has worked largely unaided on Dundee's season pages for years without any complaint about the formatting however, I would prefer to continue the format which I have established over several years and pages, as well as the fact that there are plenty other and bigger football season pages which utilise the same system I do with little complaint. This is all in good faith and I hope you understand my desire to keep consistency in my own way, as I appreciate your good work in various places around the other season pages.

Thank you for being understanding! RossBFD (talk) 00:40, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, not at all. It's just BRD so I understand. I understand what you are saying as well. My only rationale for the edit was to improve the quality of Scottish club season articles by helping them meet MOS:ACCESS (basically, the collapsible football box doesn't work with screen readers in the way it should) (as an aside, the footballbox renders as a table so technically whichever format is used it is a table format). What I don't want to do is come in and ruin Wikipedia for you or the all the work you've done on the Dundee articles. It would be nice if the format which has become fairly widespread met Wikipedia's policies and guidelines but, for whatever reason, that's not the case. Wikipedia is not and will never be finished so this is maybe one of those tasks that will take a long time to complete, if it ever is.

I would like to work with you and make these articles more accessible if possible. I'll respect your position though. I'm always happy to discuss further too. Stevie fae Scotland (talk) 14:37, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Player Images

Hi there Ross,

I'm a member of the media team at Dundee FC and I can see you're a frequent editor of the club's wikipedia page. A personal project I'm wanting to work on over the close season was adding/updating photos for the players from last season's profiles, using images I've taken myself.

I've added the following images, however, I'm not certain I understand how to add them to the pages correctly. I've uploaded them onto wikimedia commons, and have tried updating Aaron Donnelly's page 1st. I've managed to add the photo, but it seems much larger than what it should be.

If you have experience with this, I can send you the photos for you to add to the pages, if you're able to help? Here's the ones I've uploaded so far:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aaron_Donnelly.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amadou_Bakayoko.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antonio_Portales.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joe_Shaughnessy.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lee_Ashcroft.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malachi_Boateng.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marcel_Lewis.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trevor_Carson.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zak_Rudden.png Stuartp1213 (talk) 15:15, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Stuart,

I've added the uploaded images to the respective pages, hope you are happy with how they look. Feel free to message me if you'd like for me to add more of your images or if any of them need fixed. RossBFD (talk) 23:25, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for your help. Here's some more:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cammy_Kerr.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Finlay_Robertson.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luke_McCowan.png Stuartp1213 (talk) 11:11, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ross,

Here are some more images I've uploaded:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stuart_Taylor.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scott_Fraser.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scott_Robertson.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clark_Robertson.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harrison_Sharp.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jon_McCracken.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Josh_Mulligan.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ryan_Astley.png

Stuartp1213 (talk) 15:33, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Matthew Wright Nairn County

Hi Ross BFD, I was wondering what your source was for Matthew Wrights move to Nairn County? 2A02:C7F:C28:2F00:F7BC:FC3B:F568:E542 (talk) 20:39, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I did not make any edit regarding Wright joining Nairn County, though I had made the previous club status update edits for his prior stints at Elgin City and Brechin City. The edit regarding his move to Nairn was done by an anonymous user later on. RossBFD (talk) 01:11, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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