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Happy editing! I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 00:04, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

ODU William&Mary

Did these two play while in different subdivisions (FBS and FCS?) The FBS FCS rivalry list states "and have played one another while in different subdivisions." The three meetings, as mentioned on the rivalry page, occurred when both ODU and W&M were in the same subdivision (FCS). Please feel free to correct me if this is wrong. 98.186.148.50 (talk) 15:39, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

You are correct, my mistake. I moved it to the FCS rivalry list since that list includes some current FBS schools. Thank you! Vataxevader (talk) 16:09, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

Potentially though, it will be moved to the FBS vs FCS someday if they schedule each other in their present subdivisions or even the FBS section if W&M ever moved up to FBS. 98.186.148.50 (talk) 14:45, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

Ways to improve 2022–23 Sun Belt Conference men's basketball season

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Thank you for creating 2022–23 Sun Belt Conference men's basketball season.

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This is a good framework around which to build a season history. Great start to this page!

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BusterD (talk) 21:19, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

Sorry for the formal tone; that's the way the page patrol software is currently written. I've been seeing some frequent problems with other editors' team season new articles. It's fine that such an article is incomplete, but as a new page patroller I must require the bare minimum of independent sourcing be applied so the page may pass review without my having to source it myself. Your page contribution does not have such defects, and I wish more editors would follow your lead. If I can ever be of assistance, please call on me. Happy to meet a fellow wikipedian. BusterD (talk) 17:55, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Old Dominion categories and template renaming

Just wondering if you have a source for having Old Dominion athletic categories and templates moved from "Monarchs and Lady Monarchs" to just the unisex "Monarchs"? SportsGuy789 (talk) 06:36, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Lady Monarch 2012–2013 Basketball Quick Facts and WBB 13 14 Season Stats, both sourced from ODU Sports. The nickname "Lady Monarchs" is not being used in any form by Old Dominion University. Vataxevader (talk) 15:27, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

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Why the reverted edit on Late Night with Seth Meyers?

Hello, Could you explain your reasoning for reverting my edit? IMO, there's no good reason to insert "liberal" into the article, and it just comes off as editorializing. It's just a late night talk show with elements of political satire. No need to categorize its politics! Inspector Semenych (talk) 18:12, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for inserting the talk section! Over the past few days, I have been editing pages of multiple late night talk/variety shows, including Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Saturday Night Live, The Late Late Show with James Corden, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and Gutfeld! It is important to view how these shows translate messages of political satire that are displayed to their audiences.

Shows such as the The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and The Late Late Show with James Corden offer some segments of political satire, but not enough to entitle them under a certain group of political ideology. Many themes displayed on their shows override the "political" impact that the show leaves when they introduce other events such as games with celebrities, celebrity/influencer interviews, and other topics used to not as heavily focus on news/political satire as much as other talk show hosts.

I believe that Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, and Gutfeld all display opinionated ideals when performing acts of political satire through social and televesion media. I also believe that its notability over the past years has grown enough to make it stated on their respective Wikipedia article pages. When reviewing Gutfeld!, it can be stated that it displays acts of conservative political satire due to the topics discussed on the show and the fact that it is aired on Fox News, which is publicly know as a conservative news network.

If you research the Twitter and YouTube pages for all of the talk shows that I listed in the previous paragraph, you will find a plethora of clips that contain segments of political satire that seem to hold strong opinion against certain political ideologies. I believe it is important that we correctly align talk shows with their respective political ideologies if they evidently stream a heavy frequency of opinionated news/political satire to their audiences. Vataxevader (talk) 19:40, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

Sorry for the sudden addition to a discussion that ended almost 7 months ago, but I believe these additions should be sourced. While I agree that it's important to show that the programs may be opinionated, those claims should be attributed to a source. Based on what you said, you have done original research by checking the shows' online pages, which, per WP:OR, is not allowed.

Take Tucker Carlson Tonight for example; it says the show has a conservative viewpoint and is sourced by multiple references. And even with the most extremely far-left or far-right shows, like perhaps Gutfeld! or Fox & Friends, if there's no reliable, secondary source to prove it's indeed this or that, it should not be included. Cheers! Spinixster (chat!) 10:40, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

You are correct, they should be reliably sourced, as should any claim in any article from the Wikipedia database. This should be done to prevent the presentation of opinionated talking points. As such, I will pull a few references from mainstream publications that support my claims:

• Republicans, Democrats both lose from late-night TV’s silencing from The Hill regarding the loss of late-night political satire amidst the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike - "Beyond the punchlines and wisecracks, with the hosts MIA on late-night TV, Democrats are also deprived of rallying voices." "Colbert was one of Trump’s fiercest late-night TV critics throughout his presidency, ripping the 45th commander in chief nearly nightly and seeing his ratings climb."
• Watchdog finds 81% of all political late night show jokes in 2023 targeted conservatives from New York Post. Despite the New York Post being primarily a conservative media source and the Media Research Center a conservative watchdog group, there is evidential truth behind the amount of jokes targeted towards Republican politicians/subjects during late-night talk shows. If these numbers are incorrect, I am open to other sources that may refute the MRC's report.
• Why Conservatives Find Few Laughs On Late-Night Television from Forbes. This article discusses data from TV analytics firm Alphonso (now LG Ad Solutions) that displays numerical differences in the amount of CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News audiences that watch late-night talk show programs.

Even if I were to source the political claims of a talk show in their page introduction, it would be removed the same way it was before. Vataxevader (talk) 18:24, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

February 2023

Hello, I'm Ost316. I noticed that you recently removed all content from Bank of America Center (Norfolk, Virginia). Please do not do this. Blank pages are harmful to Wikipedia because they have a tendency to confuse readers. As a rule, if you discover a duplicate article, please redirect it to an appropriate existing page. If a page has been vandalised, please revert it to the last legitimate version. If you feel that the content of a page is inappropriate, please edit the page and replace it with appropriate content. If you believe there is no hope for the page, please see the deletion policy for how to proceed. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you wish to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Ost (talk) 16:09, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

I was trying to remove redirect to move page to Icon Norfolk since there is no needed addition of (Norfolk, Virginia) in the title. If possible, please conduct this move because I am still a novice at this! Vataxevader (talk) 16:14, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for explaining; that was not clear from your edits. Please be sure to use the edit summary when editing to help others understand your intentions. The way you could have made this change would have been to move Icon Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia) to Icon Norfolk. However, because of your edits to the short title, you now cannot do that directly, as you can only move a page over a redirect if the creation of the redirect is the only edit to the title. Instead, you should now make the request as a technical request at Requested Moves. Additionally, the longer name is generally not deleted after a move; redirects are cheap and the old title can still be useful to people looking for the old name, particularly since there are other articles linking to it (See Special:WhatLinksHere/Icon Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia)). —Ost (talk) 16:51, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

Ways to improve Big Blue (mascot)

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Thank you for creating Big Blue (mascot).

I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:

Thanks for writing an article on the Big Blue mascot! The page would benefit from more independent and reliable sources in order to establish the subject's notability. It seems that only the article from The Virginian-Pilot is a source independent of the university, which may not be sufficient for its own article. See Roar-ee the Lion for comparison of a notable university mascot page. Please let me know if you have any questions!

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2022–23 Old Dominion Monarchs women's basketball team moved to draftspace

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2022–23 Old Dominion Monarchs women's basketball team moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, 2022–23 Old Dominion Monarchs women's basketball team, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more in-depth coverage about the subject itself, with citations from reliable, independent sources in order to show it meets WP:GNG. It should have at least three, to be safe. And please remember that interviews, as primary sources, do not count towards GNG.(?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 12:23, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

How come all of the other SBC WBB articles for that season do not have to have as many sources but remain in article space? Vataxevader (talk) 16:54, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

2015 Sun Belt Conference women's basketball tournament moved to draftspace

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Just leave it alone man. I created it to connect the existing 2014 Sun Belt Conference women's basketball tournament and 2016 Sun Belt Conference women's basketball tournament, which have very little sources the last time I checked. You seem to be fixated on Sun Belt articles and their teams by removing them despite the purpose of notable record keeping even after citing verifiable sources. At this rate, you should delete all of the Sun Belt Conference women's basketball tournament articles because they don't meet your policy standards!

Also, if you have the time, the 2022–23 Old Dominion Monarchs women's basketball team was moved back as an article after you unknowingly moved it to draftspace. Please review it for your own records. Vataxevader (talk) 14:05, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

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Question around College WBB standings templates

Hi, I am curious if there is a formal policy on empty links in the standings templates? I understand that all templates for the 2023-24 season have empty links in them, and this is a newer thing to me - I have not seen this in seasons past and I am curious what has changed. Thank you for your time! natethegreat4226 (talk) 19:03, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

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I usually wait until the end of the season to add the college basketball link to the standings template. For now, they should remain the original page name like the other standings templates. Vataxevader (talk) 18:37, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

To answer your question regarding policy, Template:CBB standings entry suggests inputting the cbb link, as discussed in my previous reply, for a team without a team page. Again, would recommend leaving them red-linked until the end of the season. Vataxevader (talk) 19:26, 8 January 2024 (UTC)