Talk:January 2006 in sports

message: Just a thought: I think we should have the following sequence of sections in the 'pink poster' to the right of this page: 1. Current events, 2. Upcoming events, 3. Deaths in <Month>, 4. Current sporting seasons, and 5. Related pages. (Sections 3 and 4 might swap places if there's a good reason; the others should be placed in the suggested sequence.)
Yes, I admit the sporting seasons are important, but when I look up this page from time to time, I invariably scroll down to the Current events and Upcoming events sections---to see if there's any new events I'd like to follow. The updated-once-every-season Current sporting seasons section just gets in the way! I'm sure other readers experience the same frustration. Any comments? --Wernher 18:32, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Go ahead really - well said Sam Vimes 18:38, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestion: Put current events on top

message: Can we agree not to include ordinary regular-season college or NBA basketball games? The Duke-Texas game was an exception due to all the hype, but including every Top 25 game may clog the page. -- Mwalcoff 22:30, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: What makes a game qualify? Two top 5 teams playing? Two top 10 teams playing? Two top 25 teams playing? TrafficBenBoy 06:19, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Usually, as a rule of thumb that I use, it can be posted when there is a rivalry game (such as Duke-North Carolina), a #1 vs, #2 (like the previously mentioned Duke-Texas game in December) or a major upset by an unranked team of a Top Ten squad (like Marquette's shocker of UConn or North Dakota State stunning Wisconsin), then we can mention that. NoseNuggets 1:31 AM US EST Jan 5 2006.
I think a game where two Top 10 teams are playing should be put on there. It's a very important game. A lot more important than a game in the NFL between two teams that can't make the playoffs, wouldn't you say? TrafficBenBoy 01:15, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

text: I heartily disagree that any NBA regular season game, unless Michael Jordon comes back for one night only and drops 150 on Detroit or something, would be more important than an NFL playoff game. But that's just semantics, since I agree the Sonics-Suns should be on the page. I just had to state my opinion. Lord Bob 10:45, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No problem having it there, but having all the details from 1995 and 1998 seems a bit excessive. I've removed them. Sam Vimes 10:48, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please no basketball 

message: I'd like to direct people's attention to Wikipedia:How_the_Current_events_page_works, which says:
Each listed news item should be no more than one small paragraph long. Write concisely, omitting superfluous words, but grammatically, in properly formed sentences. Aim for brevity: concentrate on what happened, where, and to whom. This isn't really the best place to explain why; again, use Wikinews if you want to write such articles.
I would assume that the same guidelines apply to Current sports events. This is not the place for detail. This is the place to write that Doug Flutie kicked the first drop kick since 1941, not the place to say that the last guy to do it was Scooter McLean of the Chicago Bears in the fourth quarter of the 1941 championship game. The extra detail can go in the relevant article (drop kick, or whatever) or on Wikinews.
If we don't keep the entries short, the page will get way too long.
Mwalcoff 23:54, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  How this page is supposed to work 

message: Do we really have to italicise every single thing that happened? It's not the way it's done anywhere else... Sam Vimes 21:36, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: True. Dunno what happened to that, we used to do it a year ago. Sam Vimes 22:08, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Italics

message: NoseNuggets continues to flaunt the rules of the current-events pages. 
I was going to put another warning on his talk page, but I see Zoe has beaten me to it. What should our next step be?
#List him at Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts
#List him at WP:RFC/USER or
#Go straight to WP:AIV and have him blocked?
I would recommend the third option, except for the fact that Zoe has only put a "test4" template on his page. I'm afraid WP:AIV requires that the vandal get a "test2" and a "test3" warning before the "test4" one.
Mwalcoff 03:11, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not a requirement, especially when there have been other warnings, including my link to WP:OWN.  I suggest RFC.  User:Zoe|(talk) 01:03, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dealing with NoseNuggets 

message: Though I readily concede that the hidden tag suggesting that no more than three or four deaths appear at a time and that in any case none appear more than a week after first posting, and thus that no consensus has been reached on the matter, I removed all deaths having occurred more than two weeks ago.  Since the page is "Current sports events", distinct, for example, from a prospective "January sports events", it seems inappropriate that deaths should remain on the page for the duration of the month; a death that occurred on 1 January is surely no more a current sports event than an NFL game having been played on that day, which surely we would not leave on the page.  If others are not in accord with this line of thinking and a consensus develops for an alternative plan, I will surely welcome the reverting of my edits.  Cordially, Joe 01:27, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Deaths

message: Just started February 2006 in sports for you.  This one will be real crowded with the Olympics, Super Bowl XL, the start of NASCAR.  Consider it a "heads up". NoseNuggets 12:31 US EST Jan 31 2006.
:Question about the Olympics - do we state the results of every medal event, or just the most notable ones (however way we can determine that). Sam Vimes 21:37, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ugh; this seems to have done incorrectly, as the current page should be moved to January 2006 in sports, and then the new month created from the redirect page. Someone (I don't mean you) seems to have mucked something up, though, and the page can't be moved. MisfitToys 00:02, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. Type away! -- Arwel (talk) 02:13, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: February's up