User talk:El Pollo Diablo

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Thanks dude! Just the stuff I needed... :-) --El Pollo Diablo | Talk 09:12, 18 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Petri Nets

Hi, El Pollo Diablo, Welcome to Wikipedia. I just responded to your questions in the talk page for this article on Petri nets. The article itself is a camel -- a horse designed by committee. I have routinely witnessed miracles in Wikipedia, and I'm hoping this article will eventually become one ... (visualize praying hands). As it stands now, it is a mess, but not as much of a mess as it was before I had gotten ahold of it (or so I would like to imagine).

Are you familiar with the LNCS volume 3098 on Advances in Petri Nets? In it there is a paper on Petri nets and dependability that you might be interested in seeing. In my response to your questions I mentioned extensions, and this volume is full 'o them. Rüdiger Valk's paper on Object Petri Nets takes extensions to Petri Nets to novel extremes. Come to find out, his stuff could be useful in modelling the dynamics of blood borne infection/resistance on the cellular level, so the application domain for Petri nets is really broad. The whole moral of this story is that there ain't no such thing as a "standard Petri net". Vonkje 02:04, 20 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Football links

Hi,

I noticed you were new and had been editing football articles, so I thought I'd give you a few links that it took me a while to find. Hope they're useful.

User:Sjorford/Football - comprehensive list of football articles on Wikipedia
Wikipedia:WikiProject Football - place to discuss football articles
Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Association football - good page for editors who are interested in football

CTOAGN 16:19, 20 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Alex Ferguson

I reverted your deletion as I felt that leaving the article with nothing on his achievements at United was a bit extreme. I've put a few ideas on the article's discussion page.

CTOAGN 23:25, 20 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Article improvement drive

Hi El Pollo Diablo,

The Football AID is restarting. The next project article is to be selected on January 1, 2006. Please look at the nominations and take part actively. Thanks. -Aabha (talk) 10:36, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Football AID 15-21 January

Thank you for participating in the Football AID vote this week.

UEFA Champions League has been selected as this week's collaboration. Please do help in working to improve it.

Gay Cowboys

"At the 2006 Golden Globes, a film about gay cowboys, Brokeback Mountain, won Best Film" -- I removed that, from Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls it has nothing to do with the article, please dont add things that do not have to do with the article. Mike (Reply to my comments/questions on my User Talk Page) 12:15, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Football AID 23 - 30 January

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Bobby Charlton has been selected as this week's collaboration. Please do help in working to improve it.

Raymond E. Feist articles

Hello,

While searching around the "What links here" list attached to the Raymond E. Feist article looking for other Wikipedias who may be fans, I found you. Currently I am working on expanding the related articles of the Riftwar books, but there is a lot of ground to cover with 20 books to look through. I am hoping to gather other editors who may be willing to spend a little time to help out. There are articles which need expanding and clean-up, and I don't think I can do it alone.

The current articles are (red links to be started): The series articles:

Blocked IP

The IP of what I can only assume must be all of Loughborough University campus has been blocked. While I appreciate that there has been a vandal from this IP, blocking the entire thing is counterproductive as there is at least one (me) genuine editor here. Surely there is another way? --El Pollo Diablo (Talk) 14:32, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's really a tough problem, actually. The autoblock is simply a 'secondary' block that happens to the IP of a named user when his account is blocked. The admin can't see the IP, so there's no way he can know what he's autoblocking. The autoblock stops persistent vandals or spammers from simple making another account and going right back to what they were doing five seconds later. The balance, of course, is that other good editors can get blocked for a few minutes, and if it happens often enough they stop contributing. I'm really sorry if this keeps happening - please hang in there and know that we try to fix autoblock damage as fast as possible. Kuru ^talk 01:01, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

James Milner Career section Not really asking for full feedback on this article (although I wouldn’t mind it). I’d just like to know what you feel the best way the divide up the Career section is, by Club, by season, not at all or some other way. Please leave your reply under the section in my talk page named “Milner Career section”. Buc 16:26, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't ask you specifically I asked a lot of users. But this was sorted a while ago. Incidentally this article is now a FAC. Buc 18:59, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Counties

I've responded on my talk page! Owain (talk) 20:09, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

PL Map

Well, there's hard to find a good colour, you could remove the lines of the subdivisions, and just have the country outline — chan dler — 06:31, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of Premier League fixtures

I removed the fixtures because of the on-going copyright discussions for safety reasons. Sorry if you put a lot of work in that, I know what you've been through. But better to be safe than running into a legal suit with some "strange-thinking person"... Hockey-holic (talk) 19:05, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Manchester United task force

Hi there. I noticed from the list of participants at WP:FOOTY that you are a Manchester United fan. A task force has been set up to help improve articles related to Manchester United, and we are looking for participants to help with the effort. If you would be interested, please add your name to the list at the task force's page. Thanks. – Pee Jay 10:13, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Our Monthly Collaboration

Hi. The Man Utd Taskforce which you recently joined has selected Alex Ferguson article as the collaboration of the month. We plan that all the members will try to improve this article to be a splendid article or maybe even a featured one. Sincerely, HeLLboy2HeLL (talk) 08:54, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Irish Football

Time to get this kick started again.--Vintagekits (talk) 15:13, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oxford Wikimania 2010 and Wikimedia UK v2.0 Notice

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English Cup competitions

I noticed you had started creating more articles for FA Cup seasons,a project I started about 9 months ago when only the 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons had articles. Would you be able to do the same for the Football League Cup as there are only articles stretching back to 2002. Cheers. 03md (talk) 09:16, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers for your response. The Carling Cup website doesn't have results but this link to Soccerbase does. I will have a go at the results for recent years and see how I go. Well done on your FA Cup progress - just a few months ago the amount of coverage was pathetic! I started a while ago but made little progress. Thanks. 03md (talk) 10:17, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again, I was wondering whether you still planned to have a go at a League Cup article as you haven't responded. Thanks. 03md (talk) 19:04, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers. I will also have a go at some articles soon. You could start with the articles for 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05 or 2005-06 as there are already stub articles for these. 03md (talk) 09:33, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Have you had a chance to start the articles yet? 03md (talk) 22:04, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well done - I checked back at about 5.30pm and the article looks good. 03md (talk) 16:29, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that you had created the page for the 2004-05 Carling Cup on your userpage so I have copied the information to the article. Well done with your work. 03md (talk) 10:10, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

FA Cup 1962-63

On 15 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article FA Cup 1962-63, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 06:54, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

FA Cup project

I just wanted to let you know that the FA Cup articles from FA Cup 1994-95 to FA Cup 1998-99 are incomplete and , as you are doing articles for the old competitions, would you be able to complete these for consistency. Thanks. 03md (talk) 08:33, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers. I have been trying to expand some of the cup final articles. I will try and complete the stub league cup articles in the next few days and let you know when they're done. Did you use Excel to put the results into the article and, if so, how.03md (talk) 09:05, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good work on FA Cup articles

Noticed you've been doing good work on FA Cup articles, have a barn star for your work.Mick Knapton (talk) 08:51, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

		The Original Barnstar
		A well deserved virtual award for your fine work on FA Cup articles.Mick Knapton (talk) 08:51, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

English cups

Cheers. I have been trying to expand some of the cup final articles. I will try and complete the stub league cup articles in the next few days and let you know when they're done. Did you use Excel to put the results into the article and, if so, how.03md (talk) 09:05, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Could you email me the spreadsheet either on matchamnetgear@aol.com or d_matcham@hotmail.co.uk and I will make a start on the League Cup articles. 03md (talk) 12:23, 17 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the email but I'm not quite sure what program to paste the data from soccerbase into? Could you help me. 03md (talk) 23:20, 17 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

FA Cup 1928-29

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FA Cup move

I've corrected the template; I thought I already had done so, but it appears not. Without having a script, however, it would be time-consuming to move all the respective articles. I moved that and a couple of others, due to GA or FA nominations, which would be best with the correct endashes in the wikilinks or text. I guess you would be better asking someone with the correct tools or scripts to move the rest of the pages with the press of one button. Perhaps ask at WT:FOOTY. Peanut4 (talk) 20:01, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

1915 FA Cup Final

Thanks for your recent additions to this page, adding a little colour and some details 86.142.235.136 (talk) 22:42, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Taunton Town

Hi, I've undone your change to FA Cup 1930–31 which changed the redlinked Taunton Town (1) F.C. to link to the current Taunton Town. AFAIK, the current club was only founded in the 1940s, and isn't the same club as the first Taunton Town. Both the FA (in their FA Cup Archive) and FCHD here refer to them as Taunton Town (1), to distinguish from the current club, which FCHD has here. No doubt if an article ever gets written for it, a better title could be chosen, perhaps along the lines of Accrington Stanley F.C. (1891). By the way, I'm amazed by the amount of work you've put in on the FA Cup seasons and finals, they're a tremendous addition to the project. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 09:24, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unused football kit

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Skier Dude (talk) 05:50, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Gas Holders

I noticed you said you work on gas holders. I also do as an Instrument Techinician in the Yorkshire area. I was hoping to enhance the page with information on the workings of gas holders, however being as what was the Transco region (or NEGAS in my region) has long since broken up, I was wondering how the system differed from region to region as writing on their workings in one region only would be somewhat immaterial to Wikipedia. I was wondering if it would be possible to share information on the mechanical/ instrumentation/ electrical variations across the counrtry. Mtaylor848 (talk) 00:37, 9 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Would you be interested in joining a WikiProject devoted to Lancashire?

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FA Cup

In all of your entries I have looked at you suggest that 'Some matches, however, might be rescheduled for the Sunday... '. This is incorrect, as no FA Cup or Football League matches were played on Sundays until 1973-4. I think that this was due to Sunday trading laws, and it was only allowed in 73-4 to get round the industrial problems which resulted in the Three-Day Week(Mundellan (talk) 00:43, 29 November 2009 (UTC))[reply]

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Women in Red World Contest

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