Talk:Lanny McDonald

Tamarack Brewing Company

I reverted the edit that added the following information to the article: "He now owns a brewing company in lakeside, Montana called tamarack brewing company Ale house and Grill." This information is false, Lanny McDonald is the not the owner of this business as the edit implied. The buisness is owned by Josh and Andra Townsley. Andra, being McDonalds daughter. [1], [2] are a couple of articles found that clearly state the owners of the business. This also shows proof that the second to last edit was also incorrect, as the edit changed the name of his daughter from Andra to Andrea, when clearly the name is Andra and shouldn't have been changed. Cmr08 (talk) 00:02, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

wrong info

he played for the colorado avalanche, the colorado rockies was a baseball team get it right please — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.62.48.101 (talk) 16:34, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

We did. Colorado Rockies (NHL). Resolute 16:46, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Lanny McDonald/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) 23:53, 2 December 2011 (UTC) I will do this review.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 23:53, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Toronto

revise "14 pgoals and 30 ppoints" and "17 pgoals and 44 ppoints".--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 16:48, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Ahh, whoops. Bad cut-paste error there. Fixed.

Do you want to mention that in Toronto he was often on a line with Sittler and Tiger Williams.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 16:53, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

I don't see a great need to. It would thus imply a need to note his common linemates in Denver and Calgary as well.

Calgary

When did you mention the first one prior to "named to the Second All-Star Team". You need to provide the proper link so as not to be confused with All-Star game.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:02, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Fixed.

Personal life

"His giant, walrus style moustache is McDonald's most defining characteristic" needs to be changed to "His giant, walrus style moustache is McDonald's most defining physical characteristic" since you previously mentioned personality trait characteristics.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:14, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Also is that a Canadian spelling of mustache?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:14, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Fixed, and yes, that is a Canadian spelling.

Great work. I am putting this on hold for 7 days. These issues should be easy to resolve in that time.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:25, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

All should be fixed. Appreciate the positive comments! Resolute 20:14, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

I am now ready to give it a pass.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 20:24, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Excellent, thank you! Resolute 21:04, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Recent reversion

1. What's "consistent" about a citation style that italicises the title of an article when it's from, for example, CNN/Sports Illustrated, but not a similar article from the Calgary Herald?
2. If you mean the infobox birthplace, what's the point of this ridiculously convoluted code?

[[Hanna Alberta|Hanna]] [[Alberta|AB], [[Canada|CAN]]

Chained links, piped abbreviations where no abbreviation is needed, and an unnecessary link to Canada (per WP:OVERLINK). How does this benefit the reader who just want to know where the player comes from?

[[Hanna, Alberta]], Canada

Colonies Chris (talk) 19:27, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

On your first question, you will have to take that up at Template talk:Citation, as the differences in italicization are built into the template. Regardless, mixed citation formats are discouraged. Changing some to the cite x format while the rest are in the citation format is not a desired thing, and I would appreciate it if you didn't do this. Resolute 22:29, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

It seems that the difference is caused by the presence or absence of the 'work' parameter. If, for example, a cite were to be coded as work=Hockey Canada website rather than publisher=Hockey Canada, the the title would appear unitalicised, consistent with other similar citations. In another example, publisher=CNN/Sports Illustrated would be better as work=Sports Illustrated, omitting CNN entirely, since knowing the owner/publisher of SI has no value to anyone checking the citation. Colonies Chris (talk) 10:00, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Yes. Written publications, such as books and newspapers are italicized. Websites are not. This is something that has consistently been done through many FA and GA nominations, and is consistent with the examples on the citation template itself. Resolute 16:12, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Oh, and since I missed part of your comment... CNN/Sports Illustrated (or CNN/SI) was not the same as Sports Illustrated. CNN/SI was a formal web partnership between CNN and Sports Illustrated. Though there may be merit to that change in this case, as the entire website has been rebranded to focus on SI, rather than both together. Resolute 17:13, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

On the second, the separate links to town, province/state, country in the infobox is an internal project standard, and is used on thousands of articles. If you wish to propose a change there, please bring it up at WT:HOCKEY to discuss changing for all articles, not just this one. Thanks, Resolute 22:29, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

I can see that this silly format is widely used in hockey player articles, but I can find no evidence in WP:HOCKEY that it's a 'standard'; can you give me a link to where this was discussed/agreed? Colonies Chris (talk) 09:44, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Couldn't tell you off hand, but that is immaterial. You are aware that this is the established standard as it is pretty much universally used. If you wish to change it, the burden to establish consensus is yours. I am not necessarily opposed to making a change, but I am opposed to doing it in a one-off fashion. I encourage you to open a discussion at WT:HOCKEY. Thanks, Resolute 16:12, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Images

Are there any pictures of McDonald from the '70s and '80s, when he was playing? Brutannica (talk) 18:57, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

I am not aware of any that are properly licensed and which we could use. This is, unfortunately, an ongoing challenge with players (people, really) from the 1950s up to the advent of digital photography. Resolute 20:59, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

What does digital photography have to do with it? Brutannica (talk) 17:50, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Made it incredibly cheap and easy to produce good quality images. The number of people who took their cameras to games in the 35mm photography era was far lower than today. That makes it harder to find images from that period of time that are licensed properly for our use. Resolute 18:12, 2 February 2015 (UTC)