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jlamberth
Posts: 445
Joined: Feb 2015
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Tuesday, April 26, 2016 6:59 PM | |
My wishlist (not that anybody but me cares that much):
- ability to add multiple aliases to a person's record so that you can input the name as it appears on the card and the autolink would still catch minor variations (helpful for guys with nicknames and suffixes that don't get treated uniformally)
- along those same lines, perhaps a place to include nicknames that would appear on the public page (unlike aliases). Almost all the old time guys had nicknames (new favorite: "Suitcase Bob") and I think it'd be cool to look at Randy Johnson's page and see "The Big Unit" or Calvin "Megatron" Johnson
- relationship linking (i.e. "Son of", "Brother of", etc)
- be able to input a player's high school (yeah, most people would probably ignore that, but I like being able to add a school, especially for people that skipped college)
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Turning off trading because my collection is in complete disarray after moving and I don't know when I can get it organized.
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skrezyna23
Posts: 145
Joined: Jan 2015
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Wednesday, April 27, 2016 7:41 PM | |
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jlamberth
Posts: 445
Joined: Feb 2015
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Thursday, April 28, 2016 10:40 AM | |
So, I just spent a good chunk of time trying to fix some of the mascot cards. One thing I've learned? Minor league teams are not exceptionally creative and that "Homer" is incredibly popular. And for some reason about 8 different Homer mascots were linked to "Chris Homer" whose card total went from about 30 to 5.
Anyway, could we come up with a way to input mascots as their own entity? that is, they are usually tied to one sport and team so they should be listed under their sport and they kind of straddle the line between a real and fictional person.
I think I'd probably redo the "Add a Player" screen that puts you into the correct category and give more flexibility in categorizing the entity:
First Drop Down: <select sport>
Second Drop Down: <real person, mascot or fictional character> (this would be useful for people like Crash Davis, Rick Vaughn, and Leon Sandcastle... fictional characters portrayed by real people)
Diff: <same as now>
Birthdate: <same as now, but probably generally used for real people only>
In the player edit screens, the Real Person would look the same as it does now (although, I'd still like a place for High School and relationship linking).
Fictional Character could have the Full Name and alias inputs but also a box for "Portrayed By" (if applicable) so you could have "Crash Davis" and then "Portrayed by: Kevin Costner". Or just make it so that individual cards for fictional characters have their own little links for Portrayed By (like team affiliates are now) (and then if you wanted to go really nuts, have one to list artists for art cards)
And then for the mascot entries, I'd include:
Full Name & Aliases
Team(s) Affiliation (yes, some of them have more than one)
Year Introduced
Year Retired
Okay, I'll shut up now
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Turning off trading because my collection is in complete disarray after moving and I don't know when I can get it organized.
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avsbruins65
Posts: 2,135
Joined: Sep 2008
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Thursday, April 28, 2016 1:03 PM | |
Suggestion but also I am assuming it has been brought up already.
Possibly having a function to drop a scan into the card front not available box instead of click here to add function?
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Trying to acquire one card for every for every set, insert, parralle, minor, euro, team issue, oddball etc sets produced for Hockey. Been an interesting project.
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switzr1
Posts: 6,332
Joined: Dec 2013
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Friday, April 29, 2016 12:47 AM | |
Holy cow, I'm looking over the change log, and I see Homer the Dragon, Homer Mustang, Homer Baseballhead, Homer D. Hound, Homer The Haymarket Hound, Homer The Pigeon, Homer the Heritage Hound, Homer the Baseball, and Homer the Brakeman, in addition to Homer the Brave, who is mascot of the Atlanta Braves. Great work there. I split up all the mascots named Southpaw a while back, though the nameless "Chicago White Sox Mascot" ones wouldn't have shown up on the list when I did that (Topps is weird about not always using the mascot's name). I see you got several of those fixed, as well as a lot of Oriole Bird and Ace, which often get entered wrong. I appreciate your work here, as mascot cards are some of my favorite cards!
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I'm going to reevaluate how I collect after the new year. It's just getting way too expensive for the new stuff. Sometimes I just want to buy a pack, not a whole box or even blaster.
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skrezyna23
Posts: 145
Joined: Jan 2015
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Saturday, April 30, 2016 2:49 AM | |
I just added four sets but two need to be deleted.
Please KEEP:
2015-16 KBO Super Star Baseball Gold Edition - All Star Sparkle Parallel
2015-16 KBO Super Star Baseball Gold Edition - All Star Waves Parallel
Please DELETE:
2015-16 KBO Super Star Baseball Gold Edition - Sparkle Parallel
2015-16 KBO Super Star Baseball Gold Edition - Waves Parallel
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skrezyna23
Posts: 145
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Saturday, April 30, 2016 10:03 AM | |
Also, how do I add to the Glossary of Abbreviations for a set?
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ranfordfan
Posts: 4,975
Joined: Jun 2014
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Saturday, April 30, 2016 6:41 PM | |
My first request/idea on here I think, on the overview page where the User Comments, etc is listed could we have a new one added or that one changed. Unlike the parallel and insert section where we can add release notes, there is not the same option for the main set. I have been adding set information under user comments which may not be the best place for it. If there was a Set Information tab at the top or even just make it the first on the lower list I think that would be helpful.
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C2Cigars
Posts: 11,342
Joined: Oct 2014
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Saturday, April 30, 2016 7:04 PM | |
Yes there is. Release Notes are added in the main set listings. There's an (Edit) next to each set. If you don't have permissons to edit sets, send a message to Admin and they'll add any Release Notes.
Here's what it looks like after Release Notes have been added.
ranfordfan wrote:
My first request/idea on here I think, on the overview page where the User Comments, etc is listed could we have a new one added or that one changed. Unlike the parallel and insert section where we can add release notes, there is not the same option for the main set. I have been adding set information under user comments which may not be the best place for it. If there was a Set Information tab at the top or even just make it the first on the lower list I think that would be helpful.
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Someday my cards may double in value and then be worth half of what I paid for them.
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ranfordfan
Posts: 4,975
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Saturday, April 30, 2016 7:18 PM | |
Thanks Cigars, I put the info where it belongs. I appreciate the help. =)
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