User talk:CFIF

Welcome!

Hello, CFIF, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Thought you might be interested...

hey cfif, thought you may be interested in the Kyle Farnsworth page i just added some edits to. i know he doesn't play with the cubs anymore (since they're your favorite team), but check the info and link i added. you'll be rewarded with laffs. Clinevol98

Good edits. --CFIF 21:55, August 4, 2005 (UTC)

by the way, i didnt think someone was doing exactly what i was doing on wikipedia; we both go to baseball team pages and write bios for the players that dont have them or expanding bios. like the farnsworth page...i love the braves and noticed that no one had put info about his fights.Clinevol98 22:00, 4 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

We need more people like you. I really don't like seeing baseball stubs that consist of one-three sentences w/no external links or categories (besides "Baseball Biography Stubs"). --CFIF 22:03, August 4, 2005 (UTC)

Alright, ill get around to adding the categories. Clinevol98 02:20, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for the info..... (CFIF 14:33, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC))

Not to be forgotten...

Considering the imposters (sp?) that have worn Cubs uniforms over the years, maybe you also need a section, "To be forgotten". This year, LaTroy Hawkins would be at the top of that list. This category might be regarded as POV, though. d:) Wahkeenah 30 June 2005 19:58 (UTC)

Well, you can also say the Not to be forgotten is a POV also. (--CFIF June 30, 2005 20:04 (UTC))

Barnstar

Thanks for your kindness and sorry for the late response :-) MusiCitizen 04:54, July 24, 2005 (UTC)

Katrina

What do you mean by "European"? People who live in Europe? People who were born in Europe? People who look like Europeans? With Katrina, I have already mentioned that I underestimated this event. And you are quoting what I said previously, while knowing subsequent events. I stand my my POV that America is not prepared for a large disaster, due to not having experienced once since 1906. I now hope that complacency will change. Leistung 15:59, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You acted like the floods in Europe were more important than this disaster. --CFIF 19:26, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

We mainly saw CNN here, and it looked as if New Orleans was missed completely, and the storm passed over very quickly. Obviously the aftermath has compounded the problems, and the Katrina disaster appears bigger then anything in Europe. However, I do think that there should be some sort of local Civil Defense operating in the US. If there is, it doesn't seem to work. Do you have "what if" senarios there? We have had interest ones here on TV, eg, What if the power was switched off? Result: Total chaos. What if the young people refused to pay for old people? Result: the old folks die. Leistung 10:20, 2 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Externals on Katrina

Please don't reinsert those externals into the Katrina article. Wikipedia is not a link directory or an aggregation blog, See WP:NOT. In particular some of those sites which have been repeadidly inserted by open proxy addresses contain suspect donation requests. Wikipedia consensus since the tsunami is to not external to unoffical donation sites. --24.165.233.150 20:29, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Who are you to tell me that? Those are external links. And you can't seem to find a username. --CFIF 20:50, September 3, 2005 (UTC)

Cats

Why are the categories not needed for some of the hurricane articles, as you've said in your edit summaries? --Golbez 00:41, 23 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

They may confuse some people who look in the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season cat, and it's kind of useless to have a link in a category pointing to a disambig page. At least that's my reasoning. --CFIF 00:43, 23 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I reverted your removal of the categories at the Tropical Storm Maria article because it is a guideline/policy of the tropical cyclone wikiproject to have those sorts of categories for tropical cyclone disambiguation pages. Just letting you know why. Miss Michelle | Talk to Michelle 17:21, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry. I didn't know about the guidelines --CFIF 21:06, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

(Moved this into the Cats section)

Personally I like looking at the season category and seeing a full list of names. It's even better when the disambiguation pages are obvious because they say (disambiguation), but I haven't gotten up to trying to convince people to rename them all. I agree that duplicate category entries are not needed however: for instance Hurricane Ophelia and Tropical Storm Ophelia do not both have to be in Category:2005 Atlantic hurricane season. Jdorje 09:18, 6 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that's why I removed them, because it may confuse people. --CFIF 14:44, 6 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hurricane disambiguation categories

I noticed you removed the categories from Hurricane Arlene (which I added back). These categories don't hurt anything, they help navigation by filling out the categories for each season so all storms are visible there (see for instance Category:2005 Atlantic hurricane season. They've been added to *every* disambiguation article so removing them from just one isn't a good thing. If you feel strongly about this we should bring this up in a discussion somewhere and if there's consensus you can remove them from all the disambiguations. Jdorje 06:53, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I apologise. See the section above. --CFIF 12:43, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

hurricane button bars

Can you go through and fix all the button bars you've added? At minimum they need to use a template that's in the template space. Jdorje 08:53, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed the ones added to hurricanes in the 2003 season. That's the only season I added a button bar to. --CFIF 13:39, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

TV Market

Hi, I have noticed that in the past you have edited or created a template for a television DMA (market) in North America, or have edited an articles about television stations. Currently their are several different styles of the template being used. Because of this i have set up a workshop to obtain input on setting up a common configuration for these templates. Feel free to assist at Wikipedia:WikiProject Television Stations/markets. Also while you are their, feel free to leave you name as a participant on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Television Stations as well as any comments you might have, to help wikipedia improve articles on television stations. If you know some one else who has helped contribute to these templates or you think would like to help, please pass this mesage on to them. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 04:39, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sarasota,FL

Hi, I noticed you have some activity in the Sarasota,FL article. My problem is that the article seems to have some features of the City of the Sarasota and the unincorperated parts of North Sarasota County (which most there considered themselves from Sarasota). Having lived in the unincorperated parts of the county for most of my whole life, this destinction is important. Most of the people don't live in the City of Sarasota. I just think the article needs to be strictly about the City of Sarasota, or preferably about the whole Sarasota Area (Mostly North Sarasota County). I was thinking that I should talk to someone who has some history in the article before I do anything else. --Iraqiman 06:02, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. A lot of people assume Stephen King lives in Sarasota. Good idea --CFIF 12:09, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Tampa newspeople category

Hi. What do you think about making your Category:Tampa news personalities a subcategory of Category:Tampans? Just wondering... I can see the pros and cons of either approach. The Tampans one seems too generic but, from the wording in it, I'd assume the news personalities fit the dscription as residing in Tampa or having resided there. I also kinda figure Category:Mayors of Tampa, Florida belongs under Tampans too... wknight94 20:03, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe as a sub-category. --CFIF 20:09, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Florida.

I noticed from Category:Wikipedians in Florida that you are a floridian and I have created a state wikiproject, Wikipedia:WikiProject Florida. So far is it very small but it could be expanded later. Join it if you want and help make it grow, set tasks etc. Thanks. --Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 04:25, 21 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Baseball on Wikicities

Hello CFIF, Googie Man here and I want to ask you something as a fellow baseball fan(and regular at Tropicana Field) on Wikipedian. Jimbo and Angela have made a new webstie called Wikicities. This link in particular will take you to the baseball Wikicity. As you'll see it's similar to Wikipedia, but my hope is this will allow baseball fans to do more and different things, like reporting on games, in depth statistics, create mulitple pages for pictures, and whatever else baseball fans care to create. You've done great work on Wikipedia and I was hoping you could help get this baseball Wikicity off the ground. Please let me know what you think either at my talk page, or you can email me at terry@wikia.com. Thanks! Googie Man^(Talk), 21:26, 4 January 2006

Thanks so much for your response CFIF! I'll see you on the Baseball Wikicity. Googie Man, 21:34, 4 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You helped choose {{subst:IDRIVEtopic article}} as this week's WP:ACID winner

Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive.
This week {{subst:IDRIVEtopic article}} was selected to be improved to featured article status.
Hope you can help.

Apologies RE: TV Templates

I have just read your message about the TV templates. Sorry... JB82^{{ * }} 01:19, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
P.S. I don't believe in Carl Everett either.

OK.....just making sure you knew......--CFIF 02:14, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

KTVX -> KTVX-TV Page move

As we have talked about on the talk page for KTVX, the page should have been kept at KTVX and not moved to KTVX-TV. The FCC call letters for this station are KTVX. I refer you to Wikipedia:Naming_conventions#Broadcasting. Please make note of the phrase "... should always be titled with the official call sign as assigned by that country's regulatory authority." (bold text mine). If you have anything to add to the conversation please bring it up on the talk page of KTVX, we already have a section about the article name. A 02:38, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

But legally, all stations must have W/K___-TV/DT/LP/CA as a suffix. Technically WTVT, in Tampa does not have a -TV attached to it on its query page, but it's license says: Service Designation: TV NTSC (analog) television station. None of the stations have -TV directly attached to them on theit query page. But if it's liscense says Service Designation: TV NTSC (analog) television station, its suffix is TV. End of story. --CFIF 02:45, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This has been gone over numerous times on the talk page of KTVX. Please pull up that page for further arguments, but in summary, the first type of service to be assigned call letters does NOT have any suffix. The service designation does not change the call letters. If you wish to argue this, please take it to the talk page of WP:Naming_conventions, but until the convention is changed, please do not move pages to -TV unless the FCC query returns the call letters as such. KTVX is NOT one of those stations. I did not set the convention, but I do what I can to keep the TV stations I have on my watchpage conforming to the convention. A 02:54, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I reverted your moves because these are the absolute correct callsigns to these stations. As a New York City-area resident, I happen to see that stations such as WNBC, WNYW and WPIX currently id themselves with those callsigns, and not as WNBC-TV, WNYW-TV and WPIX-TV. These are the official callsigns according to the FCC, and unless proven otherwise, these should be the titles. As A said, all titles should be based on the official callsign as regulated by the government, as shown here:Wikipedia:Naming_conventions#Broadcasting. ErikNY 20:52, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Chris

I’m sorry to say that this user want to delete all articles in Dates in baseball (please see), because he (or she) ‘’don't see baseball history by date as notable or useful” (¡?). I would like to know what do you think about it. Thanks in advance. MusiCitizen 22:25, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright problem with Image:Lapoweroutmap.PNG

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Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Thank you. Longhair 06:05, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that. --CFIF 11:16, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

dont bite the newcomers!

A template for deletion for someone as new as this user is poison-- especially when it can benifit from a clean up. Please remove your template for deletion and walk through this user how they can be a better wikipedian and improve the template. it's better to show a man how to fish than to tell him his fish doesn't taste very good :). Thanks, --Urthogie 23:22, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry. It's just that the template was somewhat messy, and it clashed with pages. Its not really the users fault and not blaming him/her, I just think it was a little too messy. I'll try to get rid of it off the deletion page. --CFIF 00:58, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I really appreciate it!!! --User:WIKISCRIPPS2005 21:16 EST FRI FEB 03 2006 | 02:16 UTC SAT FEB 04 2006

You are welcome! --CFIF 02:19, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for helping out so much, it was really a reasonable mistake. Just make sure to check if a not so great article or template was made by someone whos new to wikipedia in the future-- and guide them through it. Peace!--Urthogie 15:25, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Future Templates

I have ideas for corporate templates for the following companies:

I'm just curious to know if any or all of them are good ideas...

I would also like to know of the formatting of a template...

--User:WIKISCRIPPS2005 21:37 EST FRI FEB 03 2006 | 02:37 UTC SAT FEB 04 2006

Sinclair would be a great one, along with Gannett and Raycom. Just create them like you did before. Go to the corporate websites for the information on the important folks, and other Wikipedians will be glad to help you create one. If you want, you can create a sub-page for a work in progress by creating something like: User:WIKISCRIPPS2005/Gannett Template. (I'll post this on your talk page also). --CFIF 02:41, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A Sinclair Template (SBGI) is up and running and I think Gannett should be next in line... --User:WIKISCRIPPS2005 22:50 EST SUN FEB 05 2006 | 03:50 UTC MON FEB 06 2006

Two new templates for Gannett and Raycom Media are now up and running. Enjoy!!! --WIKISCRIPPSUltimate 14:43 EST FRI FEB 17 2006 | 19:43 FRI FEB 17 2006

RE:TV Templates

alrighty! i'll look for the ones that you've mentioned, but if i miss any, can you let me know?

Raccoon Fox 00:00, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sarasota celebrities

Thank you for ditching that section.Flawiki 20:57, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Raccoon Fox

SO he said that he was going to change to the standard? Apparent he has the impression to just add the color bars to all of the boxexs, among other things. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 21:13, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sports Wiki

I noticed you were active many baseball pages on Wikipedia. My friends and are I starting a sports wiki that you may be interested in. It uses Wikipedia's software but we made a lot of technological improvements to allow for more news and opinion articles. The site is ArmchairGM. We're not "officially" launching until March 6th, but you can feel free to poke around and add content.--Roblefko 17:52, 13 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked

I've blocked you for 48 hours for trollish WP:POINT disruption. --MarkSweep (call me collect) 04:40, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm just the big bad troll CFIF! I'm just such a terrible persom. Oh BTW, I think that barnstar given to you for banning me by User:Physchim62 just looks wonderful on your talk page. Talk about disrupting Wikipedia to illustrate a point. Your point is all people that disagree with you should be silenced. --CFIF 15:07, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've responed to Mark on his talk page. I agree that you were trying to make a point but I think the block is a little lnger than necessary. However, I will not remove it as I have no intrest in a wheel war. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 02:51, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, and I agree, maybe I did step a little too far. --CFIF 02:53, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, you're now unblocked. --MarkSweep (call me collect) 22:31, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, and I'm sorry for some of my comments on your talk page. --CFIF 22:32, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Whoa, whoa whoa! I tried to edit and it said I was still blocked. --CFIF 22:35, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It might be that Mark didn't unblock my IP, let me check. --CFIF 22:37, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I logged in and re-logged in and it still said I was blocked. --CFIF 22:38, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The autoblocker is a PITA. Try now. Haukur 23:29, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It works now. Thanks. --CFIF 23:31, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The "-TV" suffix

Exactly how would I know that??? --WIKISCRIPPSUltimate Tue Feb 21 2006 10:11 PM EST

By looking at the FCC TV Query. --CFIF (talk to me) 20:26, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: CW Network Affiliation

---> Possible CW Affiliates

I'm only trying to get the message out, however I understand your logic... No hard feelings!!!

WIKISCRIPPSUltimate SAT MAR 04 2006 8:37 PM EST | SUN MAR 05 2006 1:37 AM UTC