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FA Cup

Thank you for adding an explanation about the venue choice for FA Cup matches. --ClaudioMB (talk) 19:34, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

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Re: Davis Cup

No problem, I understood your point about Federer playing for the Davis Cup for the first time in months, but it was the use of "surprinsingly" which I thought carried POV, and I also believe that Federer's return was not the only factor of the Swiss' success in the Play-offs (the rise of Wawrinka as a top ten player, and the success in doubles of the Federer/Wawrinka team at the Olympics was also important). --Oxford St. (talk) 14:45, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I have seen your call for the creation of individual Masters Series articles on the Tennis WikiProject discussion page - I am currently working on creating individual articles for other tournaments (Rotterdam, Long Island, and the various men's year-end championships), so I'm quite busy right now, but I fully intend to participate to the creation of Masters Series events. I think the first aim should be to do with each event what was done with the Canada Masters, that is create articles back to 2000, when the Super 9 officially became the Tennis Masters Series. For my part, I'm probably going to start working on the Paris event soon. --Oxford St. (talk) 15:51, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I think for consistency you should pick an event. Let me know when you make your choice. Cheers, --Oxford St. (talk) 16:17, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Indianapolis Tennis Championships

I saw your message saying you would work on the Indy event, and I did some research, to discover it only started to be called Indianapolis Tennis Championships in 2007. It bore four other names before that, mainly RCA Championships - I corrected the tournament's template using these names, as well as the main TennisEventInfo-TennisEvents2 templates, and moved the pages you created as well as the '94 and '95 ones that already existed to their correct location.

I have also removed the links of the dates (against MOS), and corrected some categories. Also, I tagged the articles in the talk pages (as you may know, User:rst20xx tagged all tournament articles recently, and asked me and some other editors to tag all new articles we might create). One last thing - I haven't corrected that, but scores should actually be written with Ndashes, instead of regular hyphens (that's – instead of -).

Anyway - good luck with the rest your work. Cheers, --Oxford St. (talk) 00:23, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Bradley James (born 1984)

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Re: Tennis

OK, there is a number of small changes that I probably would do to the 2000 RCA Championships pages if I were to copyedit them - perhaps some of these changes are not that important but here we go :

On the main 2000 RCA Championships page:

• The current lead to present the players is fine, but I usually write them under a different format : First a sentence about the top 3 players (The singles field/draw/line up featured/was headlined by/was led by/included etc... Player 1, Player 2, and Player 3) in which I usually mention the ranking of the top seed (you can see that in the Player Activity section on the players profiles of the ATP website - here Kuerten was ATP No. 2 when arriving in Indianapolis) to give an idea of the importance of the tournament (it makes a big difference if the top seed is World No. 1 of ATP No. 34). In that first sentence, I usually mention all the titles won by the top three seeds, and eventually finals, perhaps semifinals, in Grand Slam events. In the second sentence, I mention the titles, or Grand Slam performances, of the fourth and fifth seeds, and just the names of three other players (Also present/competing/lined up etc... were Wimbledon runner-up, Long Island titlist Player 4, Hamburg winner Player 5, Player 6, Player 7 and Player 8). I try to always keep that little preview section on three lines (font on my computer is on small - the preview generally ends up on four lines with a normal font). (Anyway, there must be a thousand good ways to write these previews, but that's how I do)
• More importantly, you should have PDF versions of the draws in the external links section - when they're not available on the ATP website, get them on the ITF website (Go in the 'Drawsheet' section here, and use the URLs of the Printable versions). When tie-breaks scores are not present in the ITF draws, I sometimes use this website, and put a link to the draw in question in article (like here, with that Singles Scores (with tie-breaks) link).
• Also important, you should create the red links categories, like the Category:2000 RCA Championships here.

On the singles 2000 RCA Championships - Singles page:

• When the defending champion loses in the final, I usually write Player 1 was the defending champion, but Player 2 defeated him/her 6–0, 7–6(4), in the final.
• The score in the navbox needs to be ndashed.
• You need to have PDF links to the draw and the qualifying draw.
• The category needs to be created.
• You must create the talk page to tag the article.
• As for the use of byes - it is actually very simple: you just need to remove in the code the matches that do not take place, see for example the code of this article - the 1st first round match is not seed01 vs. seed02, but seed03 vs. seed04, and the 4th first round match is not seed09 vs. seed10, but seed11 vs. seed12.
• Finally, one last recommendation would be to check, double check again and again the scores, to avoid errors. The draws of the ATP/ITF, and even the website I gave a link to earlier are not always right. I generally compare the scores of several sources: the ITF PDF draw, the results on the ITF website, the ATP website draw, the stevegtennis.com draws, and the scores in the Player Activity of players profiles on the ATP website.

There is your review. Once again, let me stress the fact that there is probably a thousand ways to write these articles, and this is nothing else but my own way to do it - even though I applied it to standardize many, many, many articles.

I hope I didn't sound too picky. Let me know if you have other questions. Cheers, --Oxford St. (talk) 13:05, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

I've made the last few changes necessary in my view to the 2000 RCA Championships main page - other than these changes, the page seems perfectly fine to me. I'm going to look at the individual draw pages soon. --Oxford St. (talk) 14:10, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

I've made the changes necessary to the 2000 RCA Championships - Singles page (changed the links, corrected some scores, names, and flags, used an 8-team-bracket for the finals section (we use that for the 64 or 56 players draws), added half the seeds which were missing, and some other little things). I also modified the 2000 RCA Championships category - you don't have to actually write something when creating a category, as there is always an automated text created, however, you need to put subcategories to allow navigation (here I've just added the ATP Tour cat), and also create a talk page in which you tag the cats (once again by request of User:Rst20xx). I'll look at the doubles page when it is finished. Cheers, --Oxford St. (talk) 14:59, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

One other thing - when seeded players do not complete their matches, or withdraw before their matches, we write withdrew due to or retired due to next to the round in which they lost, and add the reason. Here I googled articles about the tournament to find out why Rios and Novak retired and withdrew, but the reasons are sometimes metioned on ATP pdf draws. The same thing is done for doubles seeds, mentioning the family name of the injured player (withdrew/retired due to a groin injury for Woodforde). --Oxford St. (talk) 15:04, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Re: 2008 County Championship

I could probably do a small summary for 2008 English cricket season, but honestly I didn't see too much of this season so I doubt I could do anything particularly in depth for the individual articles. I'll see what I can rustle up later tonight, though :) Regards, AllynJ (talk | contribs) 21:35, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Howzat? It's a start at least. If you wanna tidy it up or anything that'd be great. :) AllynJ (talk | contribs) 02:30, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

That looks good. I will see if I can add anything more myself. Good work on the stats on the County Championship page as well. 03md (talk) 08:22, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Masters Series/Super 9

The template may be quite useful, but the articles prior to 2000, when the ATP coined the term 'Masters Series', should use their official sponsor name. I know that some Masters articles pre-2000 already exist with "Masters" in the title, but they should be moved.

I have actually started searching for the tournaments' official titles for the year 1990, and modified the 1990 Super 9 template;

and the 1994 Super 9 template, as well as all the 1994 Super 9 articles, which I have already moved to their official names:

--Oxford St. (talk) 21:40, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Don't be sorry - it's a normal mistake. For your information, the Indian Wells Masters website has a detailed History section in which the men's and women's tournament's past names are listed. The stevegtennis.com website I previously mentioned here, probably has some of these sponsor names, too. --Oxford St. (talk) 21:55, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

I must have some of these names, so I'll try and finish the template tomorrow. Anyway, we should start by doing the "Masters" articles from 2000 to today, and that is already a big job. The pre-2000 Super 9 articles can wait, I believe. Cheers, --Oxford St. (talk) 22:29, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Hello ! Sorry not to have answered before, but I have been extremely busy for the past weeks (and it is not going to get better) and I did not have enough time to do the necessary job to complete your template. I just did some googling, looked into the info I have, and completed the template, changing some stuff here and there. If you contact me, I may not see the message for some days, so don't expect quick answers. Cheers, --Oxford St. (talk) 00:29, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Strange question - the Stuttgart Masters took place in Stuttgart ! And before in Essen, and before in Stockholm. The several cities in which the 8th Super 9/TMS/AMS event took place are all mentioned in the Madrid Masters article. --Oxford St. (talk) 11:03, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh, sorry about that, I thought your question was strange... The Stuttgart events all took place (at least between 1996 and 2001, when it was a top tier event) at the Schleyerhalle, also known as the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle. --Oxford St. (talk) 14:13, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

OK, there are some spellings errors here and there (Bhupathi not Bhupati), and you still don't use ndashes, but it's a good start. I just don't understand why you created the pre-2000 articles for Stuttgart under Stuttgart Masters and not Eurocard Open, or whatever the tournament's name was at that time - also, you can use the sponsor titles in the infoboxes, instead of still having Paris, Monte Carlo or Stuttgart Masters - for the colors to appear, you just have to add the necessary names to Template:TennisEventInfo and Template:TennisEvents2. --Oxford St. (talk) 09:26, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Well, you have to add a code with the name with which you want a color to appear, and the code of the color, at the end of the existing lists, like this, in the necessary templates. Template:TennisEventInfo corresponds to the infobox on the main page, and there are several templates (Template:TennisEvents, Template:TennisEvents2), which correspond to the navboxes on the draw pages, when the event is mixed, or men/women's only. Cheers, --Oxford St. (talk) 17:49, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

I added "German Open" and "Monte Carlo Open" to the Template:TennisEventInfo page. Monte Carlo is working but German Open still shows up as a white background when added to the infoboxes. 03md (talk) 21:35, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello ! Well, on the German Open/Berlin Open subject, I guess the easiest and most logical thing to do would be to use the actual sponsored names of the event for the WTA tournament when it was using one. According to the article's main page (German Open (tennis)), the event had sponsored names from 1997, but actually, this document (which is not always to be trusted, but is still very valuable) says the WTA German Open started to be sponsored in 2000. So what I would do first is rename the articles from 2000 to 2008 with their sponsored name, rename the main article with the current sponsored name, and then, for the years pre-2000, when both the WTA and ATP had a German Open, simply name the articles [year] ATP German Open (for 1990-1999 articles), [year] Grand Prix German Open (pre-1990 for men), and [year] WTA German Open. I don't know if that is the best solution, but once again, it seems to be the most logical one to me. Cheers ! --Oxford St. (talk) 11:05, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

I have actually started checking the pages - I have worked already a few days ago on the pages for the 2006 Paris Masters and the 2005 edition. I intend to continue, starting with the Paris events, but I am indeed busy with the Masters Cup article, and many other non-wikipedia things. ;) Cheers, --Oxford St. (talk) 22:46, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of 2000 Majorca Open - Singles

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More FA/League Cup stuff

Hiya, I've just changed the 1994-95 competition, adding in the results. I'll work through the later seasons over the next few days, and seeing as I'll have finished all the post-war FA Cup competitions once these are done, I'll make a start on those League Cup ones I said I'd do. El Pollo Diablo (Talk) 08:21, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

October 2008

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Paul Krugman is not dead

You added this, but see this. rootology (C)(T) 22:30, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

It's been a couple of days and while you've been busy creating articles such as Italian economic battles you've still not explained why did what you did to the Paul Krugman article. I don't understand why you replaced the current events template about his Nobel Prize with one announcing his death. If you thought he had died, why not leave the current events template in place and just add the one for recent deaths? There's probably a good explanation for all of this, but because it's a WP:BLP I think you need to mention it here. Thanks. 66.167.48.185 (talk) 20:39, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Cups again

Hiya, I have an excel spreadsheet which is moderately automated so that you can paste in the results direct from the FA website and, with a bit of tweaking here and there, it will create outputs for wikipedia. It takes a little while to get it right, but if there's somewhere I can send you a copy of the spreadsheet, then let me know. El Pollo Diablo (Talk) 09:55, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I emailed you the spreadsheet with an explanation this morning. El Pollo Diablo (Talk) 13:45, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi, sorry about that - I'm assuming you're using windows, so go to start->programs->accessories and then open Notepad. Alternatively, you can go to start->Run... and type "notepad" (without the quotes) and that should run it. Paste it into there, save the data as a text file, and then you can open that text file in Excel by clicking on the drop-down menu "Files of type" and selecting "All Files". Hope that helps. El Pollo Diablo (Talk) 11:04, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Re:2008 Tennis Masters Cup

Thanks - I have adressed a message to User:The Rambling Man on tour, who had proposed his help to create FA and GA in the tennis project, I hope he will help bring this article to FA status. As for the WTA championships - it would certainly be a good idea to do the same thing, but I don't know the WTA tour as well as the ATP one so I don't think I can do it myself, and anyway I really believe we should wait and see how this idea of ATP year-end event as FA turns out here, before spreading the idea to the WTA event, and, eventually, to past ATP and WTA events. --Oxford St. (talk) 23:06, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

RE:ATP Masters Series/Super 9 Tournaments

Thanks for the request. I'll start working on the draws as soon as possible. Totalinarian (talk) 16:15, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

2003 Indian Wells Masters

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Re:Miami Masters

Well, I thought it had changed from Lipton International Players Championships in '92 to Lipton Championships in '93 (that's what is written in this official PDF from the WTA website), but then I found this web article from nowhere, which just says the event moved from Lipton's sponsorship to Ericsson's in 1999. Still, if I were you, I'd trust the WTA PDF more, and have Lipton International Players Championships from '90 to '92 and Lipton Championships afterwards. If you intend to change the Miami Masters article, you should include the WTA PDF as a ref, to prove the name change. Cheers, --Oxford St. (talk) 20:21, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Re:Templates

If you intend to continue creating the ATP Tour/WTA Tour yearly templates, please do the job from A to Z, by creating talk pages with the correct templates, by double-checking the spellings and the links and the tournaments' correct names. You should also use What links here and replace the existing template with the new one (I know redirecting the old links to the new template allow it to be transcluded instead of the old ones, but we should avoid having too many redirects, and anyway, that pracice sometimes creates technical problems). This is something I have done yesterday for the 2006 and 2005 ATP templates, but I don't have the time to do this for all of them. --Oxford St. (talk) 11:57, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

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Re: Masters Series draws

Apologies, I took a brief hiatus from doing those. Will recommence writing up the draws ASAP. Totalinarian (talk) 17:03, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

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Brasil Open

Well, I don't have any particular information about it, so I can't say if it is exactly the same event for sure, but it looks like it is. The first WTA Brasil Open was held in 2000, and the tournament moved in 2001 to Bahia, precisely at the same location of the 2001-created ATP Brasil Open. The tournaments' dates, also, show the men's events were held one week after the women's, so I guess that, yes, it was some kind of joint, combined event during the three years of existence of the WTA event - much like the Canada Masters, which takes place with the men, then with the women playing, or next year's Swedish Open, which will take place first on the WTA tour, then on the ATP World Tour. Good find, I think you can add the women's results to the Brasil Open page ! Cheers, --Oxford St. (talk) 20:08, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

I don't know if you're aware of it, but there's a very pratictal tool on the ITF website (at this link) which allows to search in their tournaments database by region, nation, surface, name, etc... If you enter the widest field of search in the dates (say, early 1968 until now), and look for tournaments in Brazil, you'll see all the events which took place there, Grand Prix, ATP Tour, even some WCT tournaments (not all of them), and Challengers. Apparently for 1991, there were two tourneys in Guaruja, one in Brasilia, one in Buzios, one in Sao Paulo. Almost all of these have articles on wikipedia (which I've found using the "Category:Tennis tournaments in Brazil"); ATP Guarujá (which corresponds to Guaruja I - I have no clue why it was played twice in 1991, and if Guaruja II was a second edition of that one, or a completely different tournament, held only that year), Brasilia Open, ATP Buzios. It looks like the Sao Paulo event doesn't have an article. Hope it helped you. Cheers, --Oxford St. (talk) 12:43, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

OK, I've made some research and it is not simple. Guaraja I, won by Patrick Baur, is the same Guaraja as in 1990, and is known as the Chevrolet Classic. Now, searching for Guaraja II, I found articles speaking of Javier Frana's win over Markus Zoecke, at the Philips Open,... but in Sao Paulo ! Yet, the real Sao Paulo event, won by Miniussi was a different event, the Banespa Open. So, for the templates and pages, use 1991 Chevrolet Classic for Guaraja I, 1991 Philips Open for Guaraja II, and 1991 Banespa Open for Sao Paulo. Now I still don't understand why newspapers say the Philips Open was in Sao Paulo while the ATP website (and the ITF) say it was in Guaraja, but here is all the information I've got (perhaps we should send a question to the ATP website, and hope for an (unlikely) answer...) Cheers ! --Oxford St. (talk) 16:28, 16 December 2008 (UTC)