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Coordinates

Sorry to bug but I was wondering why you changed the coordinates for quite a few of the States.

WildAGR (talk) 17:11, 16 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Four digits after the decimal point is way too precise for a city, let alone a U.S. state covering thousands of square miles. According to Wikipedia's own guideline, Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates#Precision_guidelines, the precision of coordinates must correspond to the width/length of the area. For most states, 1 degree is enough precision. Even for Rhode Island, the smallest state, one digit after the decimal point is suitable. 0.0001 degrees of latitude (or longitude at the equator) equals 11 meters (36 ft). That level of precision is appropriate for an individual building, not a U.S. state. Sanjay7373 (talk) 03:35, 17 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Sylmar Coordinates and Elevation

Hello Sanjay7373,

Thank you for editing the Sylmar article with coordinate refinement and elevation. Much appreciated and liked.

The official elevation of Sylmar as 1,270 feet above sea level is fascinating to me.

Not just Sylmar, but all cities and towns are given an officially specifice elevation, even though the elevation is actually a range of heights above and below the officiall elevation. I am always fascianted with thinking of what exact place is chosen for the elevation.

In the case of Sylmar, I think that elevationof 1,270 feet may refer to the "SYLMAR SQUARE" on Foothill Boulevard at the corner of Sayre Street, a historical and cultural area of stores and eateries. It may refer to the intersection of Foothill Boulevard and Sayre Street? I would like to verify that the elevation of 1,270 feet is actually SLYMAR SQUARE. A careful inspection of a USGS Topographic maps would assist in that regard.

Wondering if there is a way to add an edit that recognizes the official elevation as being at SYLMAR SQUARE?

By the way, welcome to being an editor, I became an editor only a few years ago, but active only in the last few months.

Did you notice that I edited Sylmar article in the Topography section showing a range of elevation for the offical neighborhood known as Sylmar for the City of Los Angeles. I grew up in Sylmar, having been brought here by my parents that moved to Sylmar in 1960, but originally from Amsterdam, Holland, Nederland, below sea level, as an immigrant family arriving in the USA in 1956, sponsored by a church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, then in 1957, moved to Santa Monica, California, for three years until 1960.

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Ways to improve Vista Valencia Golf Course

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Thank you for creating Vista Valencia Golf Course.

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

This golf course does not meet notability as given here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Event_Venues/Sports_task_force/Notability#Golf_courses

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@Whiteguru: I created the article not because I'm interested in golf (I'm a basketball player), but because of a push to increase coverage of my hometown, Santa Clarita, California. Crossover1370 (talk | contribs) 23:53, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Santa Clarita, California

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Thanks! I had expanded the article by a factor of nearly 3 times and included new information and references about all aspects of the city. Crossover1370 (talk | contribs) 06:46, 4 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Portal:Basketball‎‎

Hello and thank you for creating Portal:Basketball‎‎. I think the portal has potential but may not survive in its current form, as it links to several pages which haven't yet been created. Do you plan to complete the portal? You may also be interested in the 2019 MfD. Certes (talk) 13:20, 20 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. I will complete the portal. In the meantime, can the portal be moved to a draft? Crossover1370 (talk | contribs) 18:26, 20 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It could, but that might make it difficult to complete development, because the templates behind portals rely on pages and subpages being in the expected places. WP:WikiProject Portals has plenty of useful information and advice, and the other sports portals provide a variety of models. Certes (talk) 19:34, 20 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I cleaned up the portal a bit, and added transclusion lists, so article titles can be easily added. I strongly recommend having this as a manually maintained portal, with hand picked content for the articles and for a potential Selected images section, DYK section, etc. At the MfD, the previous portal was deleted largely because it was 1) unmaintained, 2) abandoned, 3) incomplete and 4) outdated. I support a new version of the portal if it is manually curated, because otherwise some may consider it disruptive to recreate it in a similar state to how it previously existed. Also of importance is to add links to the portal to relevant articles, navigation bars and related portals. I also added a chart to the portal's talk page which leads to lists of FA-class, GA-class, etc. articles. Pinging Certes to here, because they notified me of the new portal's creation. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 20:07, 20 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for completing the portal! Crossover1370 (talk | contribs) 22:39, 20 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I don't view it as complete, because it would benefit from more, such as a Selected images section, consisting of hand-curated images, a Did you know/interesting facts section, and potentially more. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 22:42, 20 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You seem relatively new to Wikipedia, so here's some tips for how the portal can be improved. Also pinging JoeNMLC here, who has worked on the portal. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:16, 21 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Very importantly, it is vital that links to the portal are placed in relevant articles in their See also sections. Otherwise, the portal will be mostly orphaned, and nobody will visit it, because nobody will know of its existence.
The Selected picture section would benefit from more high-quality, hand-curated images. This comprises images that are manually added to the portal, as opposed to those in the General images section, which are simply transcluded from articles. More images can be found at Wikimedia Commons, such as here. It is easy to add images using the template now in place in the portal; it's easier than adding images to articles.
A DYK / Interesting facts section would be a great addition.
The addition of more high-quality / high-relevance Selected articles is in order.
It's unclear if you're motivated to work on the portal or not, but if so, the creation of Selected team and In this month boxes would also be a huge improvement.

I have been on Wikipedia since July 30, 2019 and have made (as of right now) 2,518 edits. I will create a DYK section. Crossover1370 (talk | contribs) 01:03, 21 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, way cool. I forgot to mention, if you're not aware of it, check out Wikipedia:Portal for more tips on portal building. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:17, 21 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nb. I went ahead and started a DYK section. More entries can be added at Portal:Basketball/Interesting facts. The status quo for DYK sections is to use content from Wikipedia:Recent additions; just scroll down and type "basketball" in the "Search archives" box. Importantly, if you are not already aware of this, if you add to the page, per Wikipedia's copyright policies, please leave an edit summary that states that information was copied and where it was copied from, the latter with a link. See this example diff for how to do so. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:34, 21 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I was busy with other activities. I had planned to create the framework for the portal and complete it in the future. Crossover1370 (talk | contribs) 17:21, 21 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Vista Valencia Golf Course for deletion

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portland

might even be 117F. https://explore.synopticdata.com/KPDX/24h shows 116.6°F appearing briefly and then slipping back to 115. the NWS twitter account isnt claiming it yet, but the truth will be made plain soon enough. —Soap— 01:37, 29 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

According to the National Weather Service, the record high in Portland yesterday was 116°F.

Yes thank you .... it's a bit of a struggle to make sense of raw temperature readings that aren't intended for the general public. It seems that US weather stations in fact record in Celsius now, with precise measurements every hour and less precise measurements every five minutes. On the assumption this was one of the less precise 5-minute observations, it can only have been 47.0 °C (116.6 °F), which should therefore round to 117, but for some reason they're not claiming it as such. I'm still confused but I'm sure, as I've said, the truth will be made plain soon enough. Thanks for doing your research and also for your close attention to the articles. —Soap— 23:53, 29 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Players stats and more

At the recent AFD, you made the following remark

I have browsed through the articles of several high-profile WNBA players and don't see a single one with totals.

I'd like to to put that in context. I took a look at the category covering the top draft picks for the WNBA over the years. Category:Women's National Basketball Association first overall draft picks

Of these 23 entries:

3 did not play at a US college 2 US college but no stats 7 US college stats added by someone else 11 US college stats added by Sphilbrick

In other words, for articles with US college stats, I have added more than everybody else combined. When I first started adding stats, I picked up on a format that someone else had used, so it is hardly surprising that a preponderance of the articles about women's basketball players largely follow a similar format. In recent weeks, I decided to undertake an effort to add stats to the many articles that were missing stats and I started using the same format. However, I noticed while working at my approach, which was to copy the data compiled by the NCAA, drop it into an Excel file and then create the "standard" format, I realized I was excluding the majority of the information. I'm fine with some of that. I think it would be overkill to list the number of turnovers, the number of double doubles, and the number of times a player has fouled out of the game, but it began to dawn on me that the focus was on ratios despite the fact that data sources had a mixture of ratios and totals with somewhat more emphasis on totals.

That's what led me to open a discussion to talk about how we present statistics, and a tiny number of basketball editors, primarily interested in the NBA, decided that presenting only ratios made sense. They claim this was backed up by what's presented on the Internet, and when I pushed back with facts, there was no interest in collaboration or discussion.

My approach using the sub pages was a serious attempt to accommodate their strongly held, albeit irrational belief that basketball biography should only present ratios. I thought we could eat our cake and have it too by presenting a table that only portrayed ratios while allowing the reader to click a button that allowed them to see the totals. I honestly thought that was a good way to accommodate their views and my desire to share totals. As we have seen, there was opposition to that approach. I'm fine with the decision that the sub page approach isn't the best approach, but I note that several contributors to the AFD, while supporting the removal of the sub pages, felt the information belong directly in the page.

For what it's worth, adding statistics wasn't close to my end goal, it was just a precursor. I've noticed a substantial proportion of articles about women basketball players are missing images. I've had some success writing to colleges and getting permission for an image, but I always point them to the article in which the image will be used, and I don't feel comfortable asking a school to provide an image for what might be a not much more than a stub. I felt that adding statistics would add a little more "heft" to the article I've been improving references and adding some material while adding statistics. My next step was to start asking for images and then follow up with even more expansion of the article.

Seimone Augustus college stats added by Sphilbrick
Sue Bird college stats added by Sphilbrick
Tina Charles (basketball) college stats added by Sphilbrick
Margo Dydek did not play at a US college
Brittney Griner college stats added by someone else
Lindsey Harding college stats added by Sphilbrick
Dena Head No college stats
Chamique Holdsclaw No college stats
Sabrina Ionescu college stats added by someone else
Lauren Jackson did not play at a US college
Jewell Loyd college stats added by Sphilbrick
Janel McCarville college stats added by Sphilbrick
Angel McCoughtry college stats added by Sphilbrick
Chiney Ogwumike college stats added by Sphilbrick
Nneka Ogwumike college stats added by someone else
Candace Parker college stats added by someone else
Kelsey Plum college stats added by Sphilbrick
Breanna Stewart college stats added by Sphilbrick
Diana Taurasi college stats added by someone else
LaToya Thomas college stats added by Sphilbrick
Ann Wauters did not play at a US college
A'ja Wilson college stats added by someone else
Jackie Young (basketball) college stats added by someone else --S Philbrick (Talk) 18:42, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Sphilbrick: Most of the articles above don't have totals (maybe they were removed by other editors). As a (male) basketball player myself I am aware that ratios (ex. a 70% 3-point percentage) are generally more significant than totals (ex. 500 career 3-pointers). Sure there are examples of players being celebrated for milestones (ex. 10,000 career points) but in the end, Stephen Curry is considered a good shooter because of his high shot percentage, not his total number of shots. As far as I can understand, this also holds true for women. Hardly any of our articles on NBA or WNBA players display totals. If you want basketball players' articles to display both ratios and totals you may initiate a discussion or RFC on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Basketball. Crossover1370 (talk | contribs) 00:46, 7 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Phil/Cross - Good work on improving those articles; the Sue Bird one could especially benefit from some good editing. 2603:7000:2143:8500:4988:58A5:565D:7845 (talk) 06:14, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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I only occasionally edit such articles. Most of my edits are related to basketball and geography (especially that of southern California). Crossover1370 (talk | contribs) 19:45, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The article has a talk page. It's good form to discuss matters there, rather than edit-warring. wp:otherstuffexists is also a good read, in conjunction with wp:lede.--2603:7000:2143:8500:4988:58A5:565D:7845 (talk) 06:11, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I reverted once, which does not break the 3-revert rule. Crossover1370 (talk | contribs) 06:33, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Crossover1370,

Right now, there are a lot of redirects to the targeted article and I thought this one was redundant. And also because it has been the only raid on Mar-a-Lago, the 2022 is unnecessary in the title and is an unlikely search term. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:04, 10 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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