User talk:Alex9234

Made an MLB Postseason Navbar for you

Hey @Alex9234, I see you like baseball, I also like baseball. I threw together a navigation template for your articles. I basically just copied it from the NBA playoff template. Feel free to mess around with it and make it useful for your articles. As a life long Giants fan I just hope you're not a Dodgers fan! Dr vulpes ^{(💬 • 📝)} 05:28, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

I’ll check it out later, thanks. Alex9234 (talk) 05:38, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

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Thank you for creating 1998 MLB Postseason.

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Oh, that was for the NLCS part. I actually found the source for that on Google myself, I actually had no idea it was present in the Sign stealing article. Alex9234 (talk) 17:30, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

October 2022

Hi Alex9234! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at 1974 Major League Baseball postseason that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Nagol0929 (talk) 01:31, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

I'll try to remember that from now on. Alex9234 (talk) 01:34, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Adjacent communities

The best way to add adjacent communities to a geographic article is with Template:Adjacent communities, rather than text. Cheers. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:15, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

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College football consensus v. unanimous champions

Hi Alex9234, Just wanted to let you know that GBFlyer is continuing to ignore your talk page message and revert pages to saying consensus rather than unanimous. I reverted their edit on 2018 Clemson Tigers football team but they reverted it again. In order to avoid an edit war, I figured I'd let you know since you left the message on GBFlyer's talk page. Not sure what the appropriate next steps might be.

Thanks, Swimmer33 (talk) 21:19, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Nah, it’s okay. I think the original editors here had them at Consensus anyway, so I was going to change them back. Alex9234 (talk) 22:53, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Swimmer33, Alex9234: you both may want to weigh in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football#Unanimous national champs. Thanks, Jweiss11 (talk) 01:50, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

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Indeed. Friendly piece of advice, unfounded accusations of vandalism often have a boomerang effect on editors that throw them around. It would be best to stop while you're ahead. Philipnelson99 (talk) 01:05, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

Well, I guess I'll provide some context: The user apparently took issue with me making legitimate edits and accusing me of being disruptive and violating WP:MOS. In my opinion the user isn't following WP:CIVIL and his behavior is very close to WP:OWN. He never presented a valid reason for reverting my edits, appears unable to explain why my edits violated WP:MOS, and is doing the opposite of assuming good faith.

I've contributed to many articles and even created a ton of articles, but I never ran into a situation like this until today.

I've also made lots of edits that other users had no issue with, but when it comes to NHL-related articles, the users there keep reverting my edits without explanation. Many of the NHL editors on Wikipedia appear to be incredibly picky and revert any edit without warning, even if it's legitimate. I really don't like the micromanaging they do. I only seem to encounter this problem whenever editing NHL articles.

I'd appreciate it if the user provided a good explanation and not just reverted edits for no reason.

That's my side of the story. Alex9234 (talk) 01:10, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

I would too. And you could absolutely take this to WP:ANI or another dispute resolution forum. But the issues you bring up don't meet the narrow definition of vandalism. Philipnelson99 (talk) 01:15, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

Well, I've recently assisted with other users who have been having trouble with Vandalism and edit warring as of late, so I just assumed it was vandalism. There was a lot of edit warring and vandalism going on in the 2023 Michigan Wolverines football team article when Michigan won the national title a few months ago, a bunch of what appeared to be Ohio State, Michigan State, and Notre Dame fans appeared to be vandalizing that article and other articles regarding Michigan football, and I've been helping some users track down and stop this from happening as much as possible. It got really out of hand in January and February.

That's one matter I'm trying to help resolve. Alex9234 (talk) 01:22, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

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