User talk:Cal Umbra

August 2010

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Football In Scotland task force

As part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Football a new Football In Scotland task force has been set up as you edit Scottish football articles i would like to invite you to become a member if you wish. Warburton1368 (talk) 15:32, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Scottish taskforce new articles

A new article section has been set up on Scottish taskforce project page. As you are a taskforce member I would ask you to submit any new articles you create or articles you have created since the 5 August relating to Scottish football on the project page. Thank you (★☆ DUCKISJAMMMY☆★) 14:18, 15 August 2011 (UTC)) 

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Airdrie Seasons

The info on Airdrie mad for the top scorers is incorrect as i have been finding as i have been doing the season pages one by one. If you look at the last season article you will see that. It should of been finished but I've lost the will to continue the season articles at the moment.Edinburgh Wanderer 18:53, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

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Soccerway stats

Hello, first of all I'd like to congratulate you for the pages related to football clubs that you have created on wikipedia. I've noticed that sometimes you use soccerway.uk as a source of a matchs' stats. I'v also seen that you create huge amounts of data in small periods of time. Is there any way of automatically creating wikipedia match stats using other sites as a source? The traditional way seems a bit too time-consuming. Thanks again for your contribution. --Txuriurdin (talk) 23:41, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

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Falkirk F.C.

Hi, Cal Umbra, I'm beginning the copy-edit you requested for the above article at the GOCE request page. Please feel free to contact me, or to correct or revert my edits if I'm doing something I shouldn't. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 03:56, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Hi again Cal, can you please clarify the following: "When the SPL was created from the old Premier Division, a play-off match that was held between the second bottom team in the top division and the team ranked second of the First Division was abolished during the 1997–98 season." Was this play-off match between the club second from the bottom (9th?) and the club placed second in the same Division, the SPL First Division? Or was it between the clubs at 1st and 2nd positions as happens in England? I'm not into football and I find that sentence most confusing. Thanks, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 05:48, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Hi Baffle, yes it was the team ranked second from bottom (9th) in the Premier Division and the team ranked 2nd from the division below (First Division), with the winners earning a place in the Premier Division the next season. The team ranked last were (and still are) automatically relegated and the team who won the First Division were automatically promoted. I think what might be confusing you is the creation of the SPL. The SPL is basically exactly the same as it was beforehand when it was the Premier Division except it "broke away" from the leagues below, that's why relegation/promotion rules changed and Falkirk missed out on the play-offs. I hope that makes sense. I'll try and reword it again for you if it is still nonsense. Cal Umbra (talk) 20:43, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Aha I see, thanks for clarifying that sentence - it was the term 'top division' that threw me. I understand now and I'll clarify on the article. :-) Also, non-article related - could you add a closing </font> tag to your sig so that others' text isn't affected against their wishes? Thanks again. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 00:40, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Apologies. Thanks for pointing that out! Cal Umbra (talk) 10:40, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

No worries; I'm now declaring the copy-edit done; feel free to contact me about any ongoing issues, or issues arising from it. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 21:56, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

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Wikipedian in Residence at the National Library of Scotland

I'm just dropping you a quick note about a new Wikipedian in Residence job that's opened up at the National Library of Scotland. There're more details at the WP Scotland noticeboard. Richard Symonds (WMUK) (talk) 16:00, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Scottish Challenge Cup

I have done the GA review for the article, and placed it on hold. Nothing major, the comments should be straightforward to clear up. The review is on the article talk page. Oldelpaso (talk) 21:47, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your efforts. I have passed the nomination. Oldelpaso (talk) 16:54, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Grahamston F.C.

Hi Cal. I've redone the headlines, bumping the three up one level; style is that after a second level headline comes a third level, not a fourth. I have no idea why i only changed one of them yesterday ~ some kind of a blip! It must have looked a bit odd, and ought to look better now. Cheers, Lindsay^Hello 05:05, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

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Hey Cal Umbra

I'm sending you this because you've made quite a few edits to the template namespace in the past couple of months. If I've got this wrong, or if I haven't but you're not interested in my request, don't worry; this is the only notice I'm sending out on the subject :).

So, as you know (or should know - we sent out a centralnotice and several watchlist notices) we're planning to deploy the VisualEditor on Monday, 1 July, as the default editor. For those of us who prefer markup editing, fear not; we'll still be able to use the markup editor, which isn't going anywhere.

What's important here, though, is that the VisualEditor features an interactive template inspector; you click an icon on a template and it shows you the parameters, the contents of those fields, and human-readable parameter names, along with descriptions of what each parameter does. Personally, I find this pretty awesome, and from Monday it's going to be heavily used, since, as said, the VisualEditor will become the default.

The thing that generates the human-readable names and descriptions is a small JSON data structure, loaded through an extension called TemplateData. I'm reaching out to you in the hopes that you'd be willing and able to put some time into adding TemplateData to high-profile templates. It's pretty easy to understand (heck, if I can write it, anyone can) and you can find a guide here, along with a list of prominent templates, although I suspect we can all hazard a guess as to high-profile templates that would benefit from this. Hopefully you're willing to give it a try; the more TemplateData sections get added, the better the interface can be. If you run into any problems, drop a note on the Feedback page.

Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:53, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

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