User talk:Ryan2845

Archiving vs. blanking

Just to let you know archiving user talk pages is encouraged (instead of blanking them). It is your entirely your choice how you want to treat your own talk page. Grey Wanderer (talk) 17:46, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sweet Lew

That's cool. I saw on Phog you were working on it. Beats the hell out of just copying and pasting, which is what I did. I'll try to help out. Mangenius (talk) 18:37, 27 June 2008 (UTC) (aka PeteJayhawk)[reply]

Kansas basketball page

Looking through the Jayhawk basketball page and just wanted to say you've done a really nice job. I've started to do invidual seasons for Syracuse as well. Keep up the good work. Chengwes (talk) 04:09, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kansas basketball and anon

I'm tending to support your argument here. Just be careful to use the talk page and watch out for WP:3RR. It won't do any harm if the information is on the page for a couple days, I think your view point will win out in the end. I've warned the anon about 3RR as well. Grey Wanderer (talk) 23:11, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Template:CBB Yearly Record End

Hi there. I noticed you added a fourth color to the coaching record key. Do you think we should also add a color for winning the national and regular season championship, the national and tournament championship, and all three championships - national, regular season, and tournament? That's three more colors there. I don't know if we'll clutter up the table by adding those. I temporarily added symbols for Pat Summitt's record - let me know what you think of that. BlueAg09 (Talk) 18:59, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

While it's certainly possible, i think it might clutter things up like you said. Especially when finding that many shades of colors that don't look too similar in a browser. I just added the "regular season + tournament" category because I didn't like that you had to choose one over the other, giving one more importance. National championships on the other hand, are certainly more important than conference results, so i'm ok with overriding conference results in that case. I think we should probably just stick to symbols on pages where it is desired, like the example you have shown. I certainly don't have a problem with someone else adding the categories though, if they can make it work nicely. Ryan2845 (talk) 19:43, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

July 2008

I see you've added colors on the season-by-season results table on the Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball page and I think it's a great change. I was only just going to comment that the colors do make viewing some of the text (the black standard text and the blue link text) a bit difficult. Demoares (talk) 22:41, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with that, i tried to find some shades of blue that would retain more readability but then they were harder to distinguish between the colors. I will probably try to tweak it some more later. Feel free to tweak it also if you like

I will say though that for me at least the black text remains highly readable on all color backgrounds. The main issue issue is the blue links. Ryan2845 (talk) 23:20, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've just lightened the colors up some, let me know if you think that is better Ryan2845 (talk) 23:37, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Get Up Kids

Hey, I appreciate your comments. While the Pope brothers live in Olathe now, I'm fairly certain that they are actually from KC MO, particularly due to their close relation to "Valentine Road" in many of their lyrics. Most of the band actually grew up on or near this road (save for James, who grew up in Liberty). They even stated this at their final show at the Uptown, which is actually ON Valentine Road. Just wanted to clear this up. But again, thanks for taking your time to improve these articles. I've really been working on them alone for a while, and it's good to have someone new contribute. Cheers! Rwiggum (^Talk/_Contrib) 19:17, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, I dunno about that. I'm POSITIVE that Pryor grew up on Valentine, and I'm very close to sure that Jim and the Popes did too. However, I know as a FACT that James is from Liberty. He's mentioned it numerous times at live shows, and Liberty is even mentioned a few times on Last Stop: Crappy Town, as well as in the Lawrence.com interview used as a reference on that page. Knowing this, I have to call that classmates.com entry into question. Rwiggum (^Talk/_Contrib) 19:28, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I guess that makes sense. However, here's my suggestion: Change the infobox, and include it in their bio, but you don't have to elaborate on the city. If you link to the Olathe, Kansas page, that will be enough. Also, I don't think that the article for the band should be changed. While three of the members were from Olathe, the band itself moved into a house on Valentine before they even put out their first release. (I listened to the bootleg of their final show, and it confirmed this.) Besides, since they were living in KC MO before they did anything notable, that would make the band itself from KC MO. Rwiggum (^Talk/_Contrib) 19:49, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dude, you have no idea. It isn't often enough that I encounter fans of the band, and when I do it's always great. Rwiggum (^Talk/_Contrib) 19:54, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Terrible Twos

Hey, would you be at all interested in helping make an article for The Terrible Twos? I was on Vagrant's website and saw that they would be releasing a second album, and I figured that they are long past due for an article. We'd just need to collect some sources for it, but that shouldn't be to terribly hard. Would you be up for it? Rwiggum (^Talk/_Contrib) 19:53, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sure! Go ahead and start it up and i'll see what I can find and add to it Ryan2845 (talk) 19:55, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I made the page. It's just a placeholder for right now. It really needs to be fleshed out, and at the moment doesn't have any sources. Rwiggum (^Talk/_Contrib) 20:27, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Panda Express

Hi Ryan. Thanks for cleaning up the Panda Express article bit on the commercial statement: "Panda Express is referenced in the game MLB 2K6 with an advertisement on the outfield wall." I didn't put it in. My eyeballs must be falling out, but it looks like I did ? But I didn't. Thanks very much. Cheers. -- (Bob) Wikiklrsc (talk) 00:23, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No problem

Any time! Zagalejo^^^ 19:42, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of I'm a Jayhawk

A tag has been placed on I'm a Jayhawk, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to have no meaningful content or history, and the text is unsalvageably incoherent. If the page you created was a test, please use the sandbox for any other experiments you would like to do. Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions about this.

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Kansas Basketball

In response to your message about the table I created to list Kansas' record vs. its conference opponents, I am of the opinion that including the winning percentage just makes the table more cluttered than it needs to be and doesn't add to the information the table provides. Yes, obviously, having the winning percentage on there would make life a little bit easier on whoever comes along and wants to know the winning percentages of the respective series. I don't think it would kill anyone to calculate it themselves. As for the percentage for the Coaches, I don't have a problem with that because we regularly refer to a coaches' record in that manner. The Big 12 media guides to not list winning percentages for the respective conference series and I feel for this reason, as well as the reasons above, we can do without listing the winning percentage in that table.

As for the "KU" on each of the individual boxes... that is to indicate that Kansas leads each of those series.

Thanks, Gorsbren (talk) 01:20, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball seasons

Hey, I was trying to correct the totals and at least one entry error on this page and it looks like you posted an update simultaneously with me. In my corrected totals for Phog Allen, I went with how the page was when I initially found it, in that the total for his 2nd tenure as head coach gave cumulative totals for his entire coaching career. I didn't include the 1 game coached by Karl Schlademan in 1919-1920 because my 100 years of KU basketball book doesn't either. I also have it that Howard Engleman was 5-5 in conference in 1946-1947 and not 5-4, but this could be in error since it's from another source.

Kmanblue (talk) 20:51, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I may not be correct but I beleive Engleman was 5-4, my logic here is that the official media guide states that Phog left the team after a loss to Missouri on January 7th, so that would be 0-1 for phog in conference play and 5-4 for engleman.

As far as the 1 game for schlademan, I have seen it noted both ways and i'm fine with either so feel free to change it if you like, but please change it on Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball#Coaches also if you do. Ryan2845 (talk) 21:18, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I looked it up and agree with your 5-4, but none of the official totals I can find count that loss towards Phog Allen's total losses. So I guess I leave that one alone. I went back and added the 1 win under Schlademan to Allen's total which is in agreement with the Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball#Coaches page.

Kmanblue (talk) 22:13, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Sunflower Showdown

Why did you switch the KU 08 and 09 seasons back to the Sunflower Showdown? It's the Governor's Cup in football, and the Sunflower Showdown in everything else.Topgun530 (talk) 19:01, 17 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well because I don't think that is true. I believe it is called the sunflower showdown in football as well, the trophy is the governor's cup, not the name of the game. It may be "the game for the governor's cup" but it is still the sunflower showdown series. Same as the KU/MU series is called the "Border War" not the "Indian War Drum Game" which is the name of the trophy.

A quick google shows both athletic departments also reference the game as the "Sunflower Showndown" kstatesports.com kuathletics.com

As does the media LJworld CJonline NYtimesblog

Boise State's ranking

I dont know if you caught the game on ESPN, but it listed Boise State as #12, and now with the win over SJSU, theyre probably going to stay that way

all right sure —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kookface (talk • contribs) 15:07, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ingle Martin

Where did you see that the Chiefs cut him? Iamawesome800 (talk) 17:08, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

Hi there! I have noticed your tremendous work in Big 12-related articles. Thank you very much for your work! Here's a barnstar as a token of my appreciation:

		The Running Man Barnstar
		I award the Running Man Barnstar to Ryan2845 for his substantial contributions to NCAA sports articles. BlueAg09 (Talk) 07:24, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship

The first listing of future sites had the dates on it. 71.130.215.6 (talk) 15:38, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject Electronics collaboration

Hi, I am writing to you because you have listed yourself as a member of the Electronics WikiProject. Sadly, this project is pretty dead, but I propose to resuscitate it with a collaboration. The idea is to have a concerted effort on improving one article per month, hopefully to GA or FA status and nominate the very best of them for the front page. I have prepared a page to control this process at Wikipedia:WikiProject Electronics/Collaboration (actually, I mostly shamelessly stole it from Wikipedia:WikiProject Mammals where a collaboration of this sort was succesfully run). There you can make nominations for articles for collaboration or comment on the nominations of others.

If you want to take part you might like to place this template {{WikiProject Electronics Collaboration}} on your userpage which will give you a link to the current collaboration. If you are no longer interested in Wikiproject Electronics, please remove yourself from the members list, which is now at Wikipedia:WikiProject Electronics/Members

Thanks for listening, SpinningSpark 17:42, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bolding Mentioned In Standings

There is a reason that team names are bolded as stated in the note under the standings. They are bowl eligible. NoseNuggets (talk) 11:16 PM US EST Nov 23 2008

Season pages and schedules

Hey - I'm doing the Syracuse basketball page for the current season. I looked at the Kansas page (very nice job, by the way) and I noticed that there was a template already set up for season schedules. Is there any way to make the process faster besides manually putting in each game? Is there some kind of bot program that can make it faster? It seems laborious to go through the whole season again. Thanks. GoCuse44 (talk) 03:49, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Damn. Oh well. -- You guys played a great game, too. Best of luck the rest of the way... GoCuse44 (talk) 05:07, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Would appreciate your opinions on this topic

Hey Ryan2845, I would appreciate if you would take a second to give your opinions on this topic Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football#Should we have a standard on linking Specific .28weekly.29 rankings.3F since you are a regular editor on the College Football Project. Thanks. Rtr10 (talk) 05:43, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]