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I created a book yesterday to remove a redlink in the featured topic template. Today Headbomb did a great job expanding it to include many more highly relevant chapters. You can have a look at it here - feel free to help improve it too! ← George talk 21:22, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
I was bold and made some changes to the task force page. Please revert anything you don't like. I formalized the task force's goal to push for a featured topic and mocked it up to add a bit of visual motivation for us all. I wasn't sure whether the USOC final article should be in there or not. I think it doesn't belong. Maybe in a few years we'll have enough cup finals under our belt to constitute a separate featured topic. In adding the FT mock up, I had to move the list of participants up so that it didn't collide with the WP:FOOTY banner. I also had a hard time picking a picture for the FT mock up. If you have a better idea, go ahead and change it. I added a link to the commons category that had a bunch of useful pictures since they don't show up in our assessed articles category. I also removed the generic alerts from the alert list. They took up a lot of space and weren't that interesting to me as a member of the task force. Lastly, I set it up so that this talk page is automatically archived (pretty much everything else about this task force is automatic already). Hope that's okay with everyone. Please undo any of these changes if you disagree with them. -- SkotyWA T C 06:14, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
There's a question on the FA review for the US Open Cup final about why Sounders FC does not have periods after F and C. I can't remember why, but I know this has come up a couple of times in the past. Do any of you remember? If so, please comment in the FA review. Thanks! -- SkotyWA T C 16:04, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
It's a nice sunny day in Seattle and I bring good news to go with it. 2009 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final has just been promoted to featured article this morning. Thanks to all project members for your help with this and especially thanks to Cptnono for following up on many of the review comments. -- SkotyWA T C 15:48, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
I was just bored a bit, so I created a navbox based on the one we use for Sounders FC players. Enjoy!
{{ User:ComputerGuy/SSFCtf}} – CG Talk 23:46, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
Since this is not a forum, this is to try to get pictures to upload. Er... that's it. So it looks like people in front of us and my group will have a few extras for Galaxy. Face is $35 which is the only thing I feel bad about. Email me if anyone is on or consider shooting me a message on other weekends since this is like the third week this has happened. It could be considered a taskforce meetup but since there is cash involved it may not be kosher to mention it here. And go PR Sigi's article! Cptnono ( talk) 06:25, 8 May 2010 (UTC) So nothing tonight :( Since it is an early start tomorrow I won't be checking email in the morning (roll out of bed hungover to go drink at Qwest). With the guys in front of us and one of my season ticket holding buddies working weekends now we usually have extras (sometimes free if it is last minute) so feel free to ping me in the future on game day if it is an evening kickoff. Seven rows off the field! If you have a camera you can get some better images in the topic area and have a drink (even if it is just a Mocha) with a fellow editor and fan. And just a reminder: There is almost always day of at the box office or on Occidental so don't be shy about getting downtown. Cptnono ( talk) 10:58, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
I created this article a couple weeks ago and wouldn't mind someone rating it. I based it on the Arsenal F.C. squad numbers. Here it is, Seattle Sounders FC squad numbers.
Antoinefcb ( talk) 18:56, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
I've started a Sounders FC page on the Simple English Wikipedia here. Its a stub right now, but it could be expanded to a good article or even a "very good article" (their equivalent of a FA). – CG Talk 03:43, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Just started this, List of Seattle Sounders FC records and statistics, feel free to add more. Antoinefcb ( talk) 00:32, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
I forgot I made a Sounders Wiki back in April of last year, so I started redoing it! I could use a little help, though! Here's the wiki. – CG Talk 19:43, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
Could someone rate these articles:
Thanks, Antoinefcb ( talk) 18:53, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
Sorry for practically disappearing for the last few months. Work and real life have been (continue to be) busy. I still have intentions of getting the 2009 season article up to GA level at some point. The 2010 season article is coming along very well and prose+references are being added by several editors. That article should have a much better/quicker path to GA.
User:ComputerGuy pinged my talk page recently about nominating one of our FAs for todays featured article. I had thought about this before, but wanted to share with everyone in this task force what I had been thinking. Note that none of our current FA level articles have been at that level for a year yet. This is an important milestone to reach preferably before nominating FA article for appearance on the main page (it's not required though). Here are some plans I'd like to propose:
Also, I wanted to get User:Cptnono's thoughts/plans on getting Sigi Schmid to FA level. -- SkotyWA T C 17:55, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
I have a question here. I don't understand why we have the career stats on the List of Seattle Sounders players? The number of matches played, goals, assists, yellow cards, red cards. I don't understand that. I think those should be included in both the 2009 and 2010 season articles and the List of Seattle Sounders FC players should just be a list of players alphabetically by last name who made an appearance for the Sounders. – Michael ( talk) 22:35, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Antoinefcb ( talk) 22:38, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello everyone, I would have joined up sooner but I wanted to have some time available when I did, instead of joining and then not doing anything at all because of my personal life. I've had some free time recently so here I am. I've always been a fan of the city of Seattle and I knew how passionate its people are about sport, so when I heard that it was getting an MLS team I was delighted. They're a credit to the league and I can only see them getting bigger. They also play in green, which is a big plus! I was wandering what sort of reception a List of results by opponent would get?
There aren't many around, but I'm hoping they'll catch on eventually because they're very interesting, in my opinion (I'm a statistical anorak). I saw this at the start of the year and was inspired to do one for Argyle, which I plan to do more work on soon. I would be happy to do one for the Sounders in the MLS. I see the season articles are in very good order, but I'll be happy to update them when necessary and help out anywhere I'm asked to. Cheers. Argyle 4 Life talk 23:59, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion related to the NASL and USL Sounders' articles that might be of interest. Talk:Seattle Sounders (USL)#Requested move. Cptnono ( talk) 22:37, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Talk:Emerald City Supporters#Sub groups Cptnono ( talk) 23:34, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
Looks like we might have to vote.
Would be nice to have a list of every team the Sounders have played. Antoinefcb ( talk) 16:16, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
File:SoundersUSOpenCup.jpg has been proposed for deletion. I invite the members of this task force to add their comments/opposition/support to the discussion. -- SkotyWA T C 08:09, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, this message is intended for Drew Carey, or whoever might be able to help. My name is George, and I'm one of a handful of Wikipedia editors who work on Sounders FC-related Wikipedia articles. Together, we've gotten the Sounders FC article to "featured" status - a status held by less than 1 in 1,000 articles. While we have talented, dedicated writers, Wikipedia is limited to using images that have been released into the public domain, so we often lack great photographs of players, coaches, owners, and the team. I was hoping Drew, who I know is also a photographer at the games, might be willing to release some of his photographs into the public domain, so that we could use them to improve the Sounders FC-related Wikipedia articles, polishing the teams image, and giving even better coverage for fans.
Hi George, Thanks for the email. The best thing to do would be to write him a letter with your request and send it to: 12 Seahawks Way, Renton, WA 98056
I stumbled across this on my travels. And while I'm at it, I may as well shamelessly plug Portal:Hertfordshire, which I've given a little bit of TLC today. Anyway, I was thinking it could do with a revamp, namely the colour scheme and adding some Sounders-related content (although not too much, otherwise there's a danger of unbalancing it). Obviously the main club article is a no-brainer, but any other ideas of what should go in there? -- W F C-- 02:09, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
As an FYI to the task force members, I've successfully nominated another Sounders FC related article for DYK. The article is 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final which I recently expanded 5x. The hook will include links to Seattle Sounders FC, Qwest Field, and Columbus Crew. Here's the discussion. -- SkotyWA T C 15:55, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
So people don't seem to agree with my edits on the Seattle Sounders FC page. Have I been throwing everybody off lately? Because this is making me think I'm one of the bad guys here, and I'm a Sounders FC task force member. – Michael ( talk) 05:52, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
I've nominated the 2009 US Open Cup final article to be featured on the main page. You can follow the discussion (or even express your support) here. -- SkotyWA T C 16:44, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
I just requested a move for Leo Gonzalez. Talk:Leonardo González#Requested Move – Michael ( talk) 01:25, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Miguel Montano isn't on loan is he? All the links I found don't say anything about his being on loan and that the terms were not disclosed, so I can only assume that Montano isn't actually on loan from Quilmes. Can anybody conferm that for me? – Michael ( talk) 21:43, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
I thought it best to start a discussion about the pros and cons before being bold about it. Obviously Steve Zakuani's country would need to be called "DR Congo", but would fellow Sounders FC task force members be happy to try out the squad template used here in the team's article? A big advantage would be the scope to stick a few images of current players in, without causing problems for low resolution readers. -- W F C-- 09:50, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
I will start the discussion by saying that I HATE it, I hope we can go back to the old one. Antoinefcb ( talk) 15:34, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Anyone have (or have access to) any pictures of the Open Cup final? I need one or two good pictures of the run of play and then one picture of the cup awarding ceremony to include in 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final. It doesn't look like there are any on flickr yet with an appropriate license, but more will likely come. I'm asking the members of this task force to keep an eye out for images of the event that could be used on Wikipedia. I may end up having to ask the Seattle's front office for permission to use one of their pictures again if we can't come up with our own. -- SkotyWA T C 20:36, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
I've proposed a new section be added to the article and would like some help copyediting it before it's added to the article. If you can help please join the discussion. -- SkotyWA T C 15:52, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
You guys might want to check this. Made a few changes miself. Antoinefcb ( talk) 15:35, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Anyone have a good eye for cropping images? This is appropriately licensed. I was going to bring it over but the guy overshadows the more noteworthy subject (no offence to him at all and it is a cool shot).
And Sigi is over at FAN. Cptnono ( talk) 09:18, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
I really don't want to revert the significant work made by the IP, but I have concerns here. For all the world it looks like an exact duplicate of another table, with a "goals contributed" (whatever that means) column added. Although simple statistics are not copyvio, porting a table en-masse is. Additionally, if red cards are now considered non-notable, I fail to see how any of the newly-added columns can be justified. Finally, I don't see how the number column is going to work. Sooner or later there will be players that have had more than one shirt number. Could other task force members have a look and give their opinions? Regards, — W F C— 04:47, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
I had some free time today (it's been a while) and decided to create a template to help the members of the task force be aware of article activity/reviews without having to check the project page regularly. The template ( WP:SSFC/Dispatch) uses the Project content bot to stay updated with GA and FA reviews. I've asked the bot owner/writer to add support for peer reviews as well (should be an easy feature add). You can add this template to your user page or your talk page and have this taskforce's activity "beemed in" for free. Take a look at my talk page for an example of it's usage. -- SkotyWA T C 01:05, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
I've made a request for a page to be generated here (the link will no longer be red when the bot creates the page) that lists the top 20 pages that are part of this taskforce by number of page views. I thought this might be interesting/informative for the members of this taskforce. -- SkotyWA T C 19:48, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
Good news, 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final has just passed WP:GA review and now has that most excellent green icon in the top right. Keeping the progress going, I opened a peer review for the article in the hopes of getting it prepared for an FA review. It would be great if the taskforce members could take a moment and read the article and provide feedback/suggestions on the prose (or anything else). Thanks. -- SkotyWA T C 20:48, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
I've been preparing for a while to nominate Seattle Sounders FC to appear on the main page on March 19, the anniversary of their inaugural game. It also coincides with opening weekend of the 2011 MLS season which is nice. I've been working on a prototype of the blurb and wanted to ask taskforce members to take a look and see if it can be improved further before I nominate it. I'm planning on nominating it in the next day or so but we'll have several weeks to tweak the blurb still. If you're familiar with the TFA request process, I think it will have 4 points (1 for being over a year at FA status, 1 for date relevance, and 2 for wide coverage). -- SkotyWA T C 07:07, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
After a recent request, I added WikiProject Football/Seattle Sounders FC task force to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Seattle Sounders FC task force/Popular pages.
The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the toolserver tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr. Z-man 00:52, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
You guys know me well enough that it should be read as "2011 assholes!" :) . Saw George's edit about no-longer-here Blaze (the eruption at the bar was funny and I am still bummed) and Skoty's about Starfire (the park is not older but the new facility is newer). So it is a new season! I hope everyone's evening was great (considering the loss). Maybe we will work on articles and maybe we won't. All I know is that having a few Sounders fans poking around here makes things that much more fun. Here is to a handful of months with some fun times at least once a week for the next several months. So to you George I am chugging a beer. For you Skoty, a glass of milk. Cptnono ( talk) 05:53, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
And I can't miss raising a beer to WFC (Newcastle works for me) and to Antoine (hurry up and turn 21 and get out here, dude) Cptnono ( talk) 05:58, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
So this article was created a while ago and has remained "off the radar" of this task force by not having a talk page (and therefore not being tagged). I discovered it this weekend (when it was still called "History of Seattle Sounders"). After looking through the article, I was confused about it's purpose and decided to move it to where it currently sits and rewrote the lead. An IP editor disagreed with me and did a copy/paste move back to the old location (which I've temporarily undone per WP:MOVE and WP:CUTPASTE). I invite the editors of the task force to take a look at the article and then join the discussion on the article's talk page so we can come to some consensus about how to proceed with this article. -- SkotyWA T C 03:48, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
A discussion at WT:FOOTY has been taking place in recent weeks about how to distinguish between the previous and current Whitecaps, specifically at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football#Vancouver Whitecaps naming issue. In the sub-section of that discussion, there are a few proposals on the table for clearing up the Whitecaps issue. Because at least one of the proposals would affect Sounders articles, combined with the reasonable assumption that a consensus may end up being claimed quite quickly if nobody provides input, task force members might want to monitor the situation. — W F C— 12:17, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
I ran into this article and saw the squad list and I have to say something about it. I'm not a big fan of it and I don't know what compelled the change. But, from what I read in the talkpages, it might have something to do with MOS:FLAG compliance. If that is the case, may I suggest an alternative. It's a variation of the common Fs squad template that is used in pretty much every Argentine league football club article, like this one, except it used {{flag}} instead of {{flagicon}}. I have't used it myself for my favorite club because it still needs very minor work. But, I'm sure with more widespread attention drawn to it, it could be improved (like getting the names to not wrap). Cheers. Digirami ( talk) 23:12, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
So I've been very busy with work lately, and haven't been able to get back to working on Wikipedia much. Now that the 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final FA review is completed and Seattle Sounders FC appeared on the main page (yay!), my next goal will be to pass List of Seattle Sounders FC seasons through a peer review ( this comment makes it clear that it can't be an FL for several more years) and then get the FT nominated. At some point I'd like to go back through the season articles and finish polishing them up and take them through a GA review, but I won't get to that for quite some time probably. Do any of the newer members of the project want to try to get a season article through GA review? That would be awesome. What's everyone else working on? Any other ideas for what to do next in this task force. We've accomplished a lot, and most of the obvious stuff from when the task force was created has been done now (short of the featured topic thing). What's next? Thoughts? Aspirations? Goals? Anyone? Buler? -- SkotyWA T C 16:42, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
Given the events of this weekend, I naturally pulled up his article to read about the player and was pleasantly surprised to find a decent article with good coverage and references. I'm going to put some effort into improving the article (cleaning up refs, expanding the lead, and adding any other points that may be missing) and get it to GA status. I'm doing this for two reasons: (1) to get to know more about this great player and human being, and (2) to pay a small tribute to him on Wikipedia. I encourage task force members to join in if you want to help. Get well Steve. #forSteve -- SkotyWA T C 16:06, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
Hope everyone's keeping well. I've been doing a bit of work on this high-profile stub, and the conversation on the talk page has turned to DYK. The proposed hook at the moment is something along the lines of "...that the 12th man in the 39th game is likely to be a travelling army?", the 12th man referring to a set of supporters, the 39th game some stupid idea the Premier League had a few years back. Anyway, it got me thinking, while we wouldn't get away with a namecheck, it could be an opportunity to get a Sounders FC photo onto the main page. Does anyone know of a particularly good, and free, photo of supporters that we could use? — W F C— 07:10, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
So I'm tooling around on Wikipedia this evening and I found this: Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/D.C. United task force. Very cool to see another MLS team getting some attention. -- SkotyWA T C 04:37, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
I might miss both games (can't remember the last time that happened) due to a massive project at work. If anyone is going, let me know if they are removing the WaMu signage for the theater of the Events Center. I don't know if CenturyLink is grabbing all naming rights Qwest had or if they are picking up all branding. It is hard to assume either way since the operator has said that it would stay WaMu until a new sponsor came up. Cptnono ( talk) 03:04, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
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I created a book yesterday to remove a redlink in the featured topic template. Today Headbomb did a great job expanding it to include many more highly relevant chapters. You can have a look at it here - feel free to help improve it too! ← George talk 21:22, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
I was bold and made some changes to the task force page. Please revert anything you don't like. I formalized the task force's goal to push for a featured topic and mocked it up to add a bit of visual motivation for us all. I wasn't sure whether the USOC final article should be in there or not. I think it doesn't belong. Maybe in a few years we'll have enough cup finals under our belt to constitute a separate featured topic. In adding the FT mock up, I had to move the list of participants up so that it didn't collide with the WP:FOOTY banner. I also had a hard time picking a picture for the FT mock up. If you have a better idea, go ahead and change it. I added a link to the commons category that had a bunch of useful pictures since they don't show up in our assessed articles category. I also removed the generic alerts from the alert list. They took up a lot of space and weren't that interesting to me as a member of the task force. Lastly, I set it up so that this talk page is automatically archived (pretty much everything else about this task force is automatic already). Hope that's okay with everyone. Please undo any of these changes if you disagree with them. -- SkotyWA T C 06:14, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
There's a question on the FA review for the US Open Cup final about why Sounders FC does not have periods after F and C. I can't remember why, but I know this has come up a couple of times in the past. Do any of you remember? If so, please comment in the FA review. Thanks! -- SkotyWA T C 16:04, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
It's a nice sunny day in Seattle and I bring good news to go with it. 2009 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final has just been promoted to featured article this morning. Thanks to all project members for your help with this and especially thanks to Cptnono for following up on many of the review comments. -- SkotyWA T C 15:48, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
I was just bored a bit, so I created a navbox based on the one we use for Sounders FC players. Enjoy!
{{ User:ComputerGuy/SSFCtf}} – CG Talk 23:46, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
Since this is not a forum, this is to try to get pictures to upload. Er... that's it. So it looks like people in front of us and my group will have a few extras for Galaxy. Face is $35 which is the only thing I feel bad about. Email me if anyone is on or consider shooting me a message on other weekends since this is like the third week this has happened. It could be considered a taskforce meetup but since there is cash involved it may not be kosher to mention it here. And go PR Sigi's article! Cptnono ( talk) 06:25, 8 May 2010 (UTC) So nothing tonight :( Since it is an early start tomorrow I won't be checking email in the morning (roll out of bed hungover to go drink at Qwest). With the guys in front of us and one of my season ticket holding buddies working weekends now we usually have extras (sometimes free if it is last minute) so feel free to ping me in the future on game day if it is an evening kickoff. Seven rows off the field! If you have a camera you can get some better images in the topic area and have a drink (even if it is just a Mocha) with a fellow editor and fan. And just a reminder: There is almost always day of at the box office or on Occidental so don't be shy about getting downtown. Cptnono ( talk) 10:58, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
I created this article a couple weeks ago and wouldn't mind someone rating it. I based it on the Arsenal F.C. squad numbers. Here it is, Seattle Sounders FC squad numbers.
Antoinefcb ( talk) 18:56, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
I've started a Sounders FC page on the Simple English Wikipedia here. Its a stub right now, but it could be expanded to a good article or even a "very good article" (their equivalent of a FA). – CG Talk 03:43, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Just started this, List of Seattle Sounders FC records and statistics, feel free to add more. Antoinefcb ( talk) 00:32, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
I forgot I made a Sounders Wiki back in April of last year, so I started redoing it! I could use a little help, though! Here's the wiki. – CG Talk 19:43, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
Could someone rate these articles:
Thanks, Antoinefcb ( talk) 18:53, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
Sorry for practically disappearing for the last few months. Work and real life have been (continue to be) busy. I still have intentions of getting the 2009 season article up to GA level at some point. The 2010 season article is coming along very well and prose+references are being added by several editors. That article should have a much better/quicker path to GA.
User:ComputerGuy pinged my talk page recently about nominating one of our FAs for todays featured article. I had thought about this before, but wanted to share with everyone in this task force what I had been thinking. Note that none of our current FA level articles have been at that level for a year yet. This is an important milestone to reach preferably before nominating FA article for appearance on the main page (it's not required though). Here are some plans I'd like to propose:
Also, I wanted to get User:Cptnono's thoughts/plans on getting Sigi Schmid to FA level. -- SkotyWA T C 17:55, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
I have a question here. I don't understand why we have the career stats on the List of Seattle Sounders players? The number of matches played, goals, assists, yellow cards, red cards. I don't understand that. I think those should be included in both the 2009 and 2010 season articles and the List of Seattle Sounders FC players should just be a list of players alphabetically by last name who made an appearance for the Sounders. – Michael ( talk) 22:35, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Antoinefcb ( talk) 22:38, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello everyone, I would have joined up sooner but I wanted to have some time available when I did, instead of joining and then not doing anything at all because of my personal life. I've had some free time recently so here I am. I've always been a fan of the city of Seattle and I knew how passionate its people are about sport, so when I heard that it was getting an MLS team I was delighted. They're a credit to the league and I can only see them getting bigger. They also play in green, which is a big plus! I was wandering what sort of reception a List of results by opponent would get?
There aren't many around, but I'm hoping they'll catch on eventually because they're very interesting, in my opinion (I'm a statistical anorak). I saw this at the start of the year and was inspired to do one for Argyle, which I plan to do more work on soon. I would be happy to do one for the Sounders in the MLS. I see the season articles are in very good order, but I'll be happy to update them when necessary and help out anywhere I'm asked to. Cheers. Argyle 4 Life talk 23:59, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion related to the NASL and USL Sounders' articles that might be of interest. Talk:Seattle Sounders (USL)#Requested move. Cptnono ( talk) 22:37, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Talk:Emerald City Supporters#Sub groups Cptnono ( talk) 23:34, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
Looks like we might have to vote.
Would be nice to have a list of every team the Sounders have played. Antoinefcb ( talk) 16:16, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
File:SoundersUSOpenCup.jpg has been proposed for deletion. I invite the members of this task force to add their comments/opposition/support to the discussion. -- SkotyWA T C 08:09, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, this message is intended for Drew Carey, or whoever might be able to help. My name is George, and I'm one of a handful of Wikipedia editors who work on Sounders FC-related Wikipedia articles. Together, we've gotten the Sounders FC article to "featured" status - a status held by less than 1 in 1,000 articles. While we have talented, dedicated writers, Wikipedia is limited to using images that have been released into the public domain, so we often lack great photographs of players, coaches, owners, and the team. I was hoping Drew, who I know is also a photographer at the games, might be willing to release some of his photographs into the public domain, so that we could use them to improve the Sounders FC-related Wikipedia articles, polishing the teams image, and giving even better coverage for fans.
Hi George, Thanks for the email. The best thing to do would be to write him a letter with your request and send it to: 12 Seahawks Way, Renton, WA 98056
I stumbled across this on my travels. And while I'm at it, I may as well shamelessly plug Portal:Hertfordshire, which I've given a little bit of TLC today. Anyway, I was thinking it could do with a revamp, namely the colour scheme and adding some Sounders-related content (although not too much, otherwise there's a danger of unbalancing it). Obviously the main club article is a no-brainer, but any other ideas of what should go in there? -- W F C-- 02:09, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
As an FYI to the task force members, I've successfully nominated another Sounders FC related article for DYK. The article is 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final which I recently expanded 5x. The hook will include links to Seattle Sounders FC, Qwest Field, and Columbus Crew. Here's the discussion. -- SkotyWA T C 15:55, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
So people don't seem to agree with my edits on the Seattle Sounders FC page. Have I been throwing everybody off lately? Because this is making me think I'm one of the bad guys here, and I'm a Sounders FC task force member. – Michael ( talk) 05:52, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
I've nominated the 2009 US Open Cup final article to be featured on the main page. You can follow the discussion (or even express your support) here. -- SkotyWA T C 16:44, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
I just requested a move for Leo Gonzalez. Talk:Leonardo González#Requested Move – Michael ( talk) 01:25, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Miguel Montano isn't on loan is he? All the links I found don't say anything about his being on loan and that the terms were not disclosed, so I can only assume that Montano isn't actually on loan from Quilmes. Can anybody conferm that for me? – Michael ( talk) 21:43, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
I thought it best to start a discussion about the pros and cons before being bold about it. Obviously Steve Zakuani's country would need to be called "DR Congo", but would fellow Sounders FC task force members be happy to try out the squad template used here in the team's article? A big advantage would be the scope to stick a few images of current players in, without causing problems for low resolution readers. -- W F C-- 09:50, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
I will start the discussion by saying that I HATE it, I hope we can go back to the old one. Antoinefcb ( talk) 15:34, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Anyone have (or have access to) any pictures of the Open Cup final? I need one or two good pictures of the run of play and then one picture of the cup awarding ceremony to include in 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final. It doesn't look like there are any on flickr yet with an appropriate license, but more will likely come. I'm asking the members of this task force to keep an eye out for images of the event that could be used on Wikipedia. I may end up having to ask the Seattle's front office for permission to use one of their pictures again if we can't come up with our own. -- SkotyWA T C 20:36, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
I've proposed a new section be added to the article and would like some help copyediting it before it's added to the article. If you can help please join the discussion. -- SkotyWA T C 15:52, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
You guys might want to check this. Made a few changes miself. Antoinefcb ( talk) 15:35, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Anyone have a good eye for cropping images? This is appropriately licensed. I was going to bring it over but the guy overshadows the more noteworthy subject (no offence to him at all and it is a cool shot).
And Sigi is over at FAN. Cptnono ( talk) 09:18, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
I really don't want to revert the significant work made by the IP, but I have concerns here. For all the world it looks like an exact duplicate of another table, with a "goals contributed" (whatever that means) column added. Although simple statistics are not copyvio, porting a table en-masse is. Additionally, if red cards are now considered non-notable, I fail to see how any of the newly-added columns can be justified. Finally, I don't see how the number column is going to work. Sooner or later there will be players that have had more than one shirt number. Could other task force members have a look and give their opinions? Regards, — W F C— 04:47, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
I had some free time today (it's been a while) and decided to create a template to help the members of the task force be aware of article activity/reviews without having to check the project page regularly. The template ( WP:SSFC/Dispatch) uses the Project content bot to stay updated with GA and FA reviews. I've asked the bot owner/writer to add support for peer reviews as well (should be an easy feature add). You can add this template to your user page or your talk page and have this taskforce's activity "beemed in" for free. Take a look at my talk page for an example of it's usage. -- SkotyWA T C 01:05, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
I've made a request for a page to be generated here (the link will no longer be red when the bot creates the page) that lists the top 20 pages that are part of this taskforce by number of page views. I thought this might be interesting/informative for the members of this taskforce. -- SkotyWA T C 19:48, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
Good news, 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final has just passed WP:GA review and now has that most excellent green icon in the top right. Keeping the progress going, I opened a peer review for the article in the hopes of getting it prepared for an FA review. It would be great if the taskforce members could take a moment and read the article and provide feedback/suggestions on the prose (or anything else). Thanks. -- SkotyWA T C 20:48, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
I've been preparing for a while to nominate Seattle Sounders FC to appear on the main page on March 19, the anniversary of their inaugural game. It also coincides with opening weekend of the 2011 MLS season which is nice. I've been working on a prototype of the blurb and wanted to ask taskforce members to take a look and see if it can be improved further before I nominate it. I'm planning on nominating it in the next day or so but we'll have several weeks to tweak the blurb still. If you're familiar with the TFA request process, I think it will have 4 points (1 for being over a year at FA status, 1 for date relevance, and 2 for wide coverage). -- SkotyWA T C 07:07, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
After a recent request, I added WikiProject Football/Seattle Sounders FC task force to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Seattle Sounders FC task force/Popular pages.
The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the toolserver tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr. Z-man 00:52, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
You guys know me well enough that it should be read as "2011 assholes!" :) . Saw George's edit about no-longer-here Blaze (the eruption at the bar was funny and I am still bummed) and Skoty's about Starfire (the park is not older but the new facility is newer). So it is a new season! I hope everyone's evening was great (considering the loss). Maybe we will work on articles and maybe we won't. All I know is that having a few Sounders fans poking around here makes things that much more fun. Here is to a handful of months with some fun times at least once a week for the next several months. So to you George I am chugging a beer. For you Skoty, a glass of milk. Cptnono ( talk) 05:53, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
And I can't miss raising a beer to WFC (Newcastle works for me) and to Antoine (hurry up and turn 21 and get out here, dude) Cptnono ( talk) 05:58, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
So this article was created a while ago and has remained "off the radar" of this task force by not having a talk page (and therefore not being tagged). I discovered it this weekend (when it was still called "History of Seattle Sounders"). After looking through the article, I was confused about it's purpose and decided to move it to where it currently sits and rewrote the lead. An IP editor disagreed with me and did a copy/paste move back to the old location (which I've temporarily undone per WP:MOVE and WP:CUTPASTE). I invite the editors of the task force to take a look at the article and then join the discussion on the article's talk page so we can come to some consensus about how to proceed with this article. -- SkotyWA T C 03:48, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
A discussion at WT:FOOTY has been taking place in recent weeks about how to distinguish between the previous and current Whitecaps, specifically at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football#Vancouver Whitecaps naming issue. In the sub-section of that discussion, there are a few proposals on the table for clearing up the Whitecaps issue. Because at least one of the proposals would affect Sounders articles, combined with the reasonable assumption that a consensus may end up being claimed quite quickly if nobody provides input, task force members might want to monitor the situation. — W F C— 12:17, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
I ran into this article and saw the squad list and I have to say something about it. I'm not a big fan of it and I don't know what compelled the change. But, from what I read in the talkpages, it might have something to do with MOS:FLAG compliance. If that is the case, may I suggest an alternative. It's a variation of the common Fs squad template that is used in pretty much every Argentine league football club article, like this one, except it used {{flag}} instead of {{flagicon}}. I have't used it myself for my favorite club because it still needs very minor work. But, I'm sure with more widespread attention drawn to it, it could be improved (like getting the names to not wrap). Cheers. Digirami ( talk) 23:12, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
So I've been very busy with work lately, and haven't been able to get back to working on Wikipedia much. Now that the 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final FA review is completed and Seattle Sounders FC appeared on the main page (yay!), my next goal will be to pass List of Seattle Sounders FC seasons through a peer review ( this comment makes it clear that it can't be an FL for several more years) and then get the FT nominated. At some point I'd like to go back through the season articles and finish polishing them up and take them through a GA review, but I won't get to that for quite some time probably. Do any of the newer members of the project want to try to get a season article through GA review? That would be awesome. What's everyone else working on? Any other ideas for what to do next in this task force. We've accomplished a lot, and most of the obvious stuff from when the task force was created has been done now (short of the featured topic thing). What's next? Thoughts? Aspirations? Goals? Anyone? Buler? -- SkotyWA T C 16:42, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
Given the events of this weekend, I naturally pulled up his article to read about the player and was pleasantly surprised to find a decent article with good coverage and references. I'm going to put some effort into improving the article (cleaning up refs, expanding the lead, and adding any other points that may be missing) and get it to GA status. I'm doing this for two reasons: (1) to get to know more about this great player and human being, and (2) to pay a small tribute to him on Wikipedia. I encourage task force members to join in if you want to help. Get well Steve. #forSteve -- SkotyWA T C 16:06, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
Hope everyone's keeping well. I've been doing a bit of work on this high-profile stub, and the conversation on the talk page has turned to DYK. The proposed hook at the moment is something along the lines of "...that the 12th man in the 39th game is likely to be a travelling army?", the 12th man referring to a set of supporters, the 39th game some stupid idea the Premier League had a few years back. Anyway, it got me thinking, while we wouldn't get away with a namecheck, it could be an opportunity to get a Sounders FC photo onto the main page. Does anyone know of a particularly good, and free, photo of supporters that we could use? — W F C— 07:10, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
So I'm tooling around on Wikipedia this evening and I found this: Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/D.C. United task force. Very cool to see another MLS team getting some attention. -- SkotyWA T C 04:37, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
I might miss both games (can't remember the last time that happened) due to a massive project at work. If anyone is going, let me know if they are removing the WaMu signage for the theater of the Events Center. I don't know if CenturyLink is grabbing all naming rights Qwest had or if they are picking up all branding. It is hard to assume either way since the operator has said that it would stay WaMu until a new sponsor came up. Cptnono ( talk) 03:04, 21 June 2011 (UTC)