User:Paulmcdonald/old/userpage

{{Boxboxtop|My Userboxes}} {{service awards|year=2006|month=9|day=25|edits=12000|format=ubxmedal}} {{User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day!}} ---- <center><small>''Wikipedia stuff''</small></center> {{User Wikipedian For|year=2006|month=09|day=25}} {{user anti-anon}} {{User wikipedia/Reviewer}} ---- <center><small>''Projects''</small></center> {{User WikiProject CFB}} {{User WikiProject Big 12}} {{Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/Userbox}} {{User WPKansas}} {{User WikiProject PipeOrgan}} ---- <center><small>''About me''</small></center> {{user en}} {{user American}} {{User Kansas}} {{User Kansan}} {{User Irish}} {{User States visited DC|36}} {{User:EVula/Userboxes/countries visited|5}} ---- <center><small>''Go Cats''</small></center> {{User:Z4ns4tsu/Userboxes/NCAA-Kansas State}} ---- <center><small>''Education''</small></center> {{user degree/MBA}} {{user degree/BA}} ---- <center><small>''Interests''</small></center> {{User:UBX/cook}} {{User history}} {{user:UBX/World Wars}} ---- <center><small>''misc''</small></center> {{User:UBX/Rotary Dial}} {{user typewriter}} {{User:Djr xi/User no smoking}} {{User:Paulmcdonald/amfootsocbox}} {{Boxboxbottom}} {{service awards|year=2006|month=9|day=25|edits=12000|align=left}}Paul D. McDonald, MBA, DTM, and Grand Tutnum, (July 19, 1968– ), is an award-winning speaker, writer, and consultant.

• Wanna see what's in my sandbox?
• Wanna help resurrect some deleted articles?
• Wanna see a full list of my user pages (plus some others that sneak through on the search)?
• Wanna catch up on football-related deletion reviews?
• Wanna review my pages edited?
• Wanna help classify some Kansas Articles?
• Wanna collaborate on the User:Paulmcdonald/Mc-Mac Opposition Essay?

• A fact from 1921 Centre vs. Harvard football game appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on August 12, 2008.
• A fact from Robert Park (football coach) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on August 23, 2008.
• A fact from Francis Dunn appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on November 21, 2008.
• A fact from John McLean (American football) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on June 26, 2009.
• A fact from Jake High appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on June 20, 2010.

Paul has been actively participating in Wikipedia:WikiProject College football, creating and editing articles and stub articles about small college football programs and coaches. Here is a "very" partial list:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Images Comprehensive guidelines for images in the college football project
• Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Notability Comprehensive notability guidelines for the college football project
• Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Please Refrain from Spamming History AfDs during the season An essay resulting from a large amount of historical deletion nominations during the season. Hey, we're busy here!
• Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Reliable Sources Comprehensive guidelines for reliable sources in the college football project
• Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/West precedent A discussion about a specific series of articles deleted en masse -- I believe inappropriately.

you probably haven't heard of most of these!

• 1892 Wyoming Seminary vs. Mansfield State Normal football game The first night football game ended at halftime in a 0-0 tie after several players ran into a light pole.
• 1921 Centre vs. Harvard football game, called the "Game of the first half of the 20th century" by ESPN and a lot of others!
• 2008 Malone Pioneers football team summary of the season of play
• Boot Hill Bowl, a defunct NAIA college football bowl game
• Coca-Cola Classic (college football), regular season college footbal game played in Tokyo, Japan
• Missouri-Kansas Bowl‎, a defunct bowl game
• Sunflower Bowl, a defunct NAIA college football bowl game
• Toilet Bowl (game), 1987 K-State (0-8) vs KU (1-7) for the Governor's Cup (Kansas). A 17-17 tie (no, it's not a real "bowl" game...)
• Victory Bowl, NCCAA post-season small-college bowl game that crosses over between NCAA and NAIA schools
  • 2007 Victory Bowl
  • 2008 Victory Bowl
• Wheat Bowl, the only active NAIA sanctioned pre-season bowl game

• College of Emporia Fighting Presbies football for the defunct school's sports programs
• Malone College Athletics page for Malone College (Ohio) sports teams
  • 2008 Malone Pioneers football team
  • 2009 Malone Pioneers football team

KCAC Teams

• Bethany College Terrible Swedes
• Bethel College Threshers
• Kansas Wesleyan University Coyotes
• McPherson College Bulldogs
• Ottawa University Braves page for Ottawa University sports teams
• Saint Mary Spires
• Southwestern College Moundbuilders, the sports team of Southwestern College
• Tabor Bluejays, sports team of Tabor College (Kansas)

KCAC Conference Season(s)

• 2010 Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference football season

• Cessna Stadium, Wichita State University
• Great Bend High School Memorial Stadium, Great Bend, Kansas--used for the Wheat Bowl
• Joel Wiens Stadium, Tabor College
• Memorial Stadium, Kansas State University (it's haunted! ask anyone...)
• Peoples Bank Field, Ottawa University currently one of the best small college facilities
• Richard L. Jantz Stadium (previously Sonner Stadium), Southwestern College
• Welch Stadium, Emporia State University, named for coach Fran Welch

(my personal favorites... I've worked on well over 800 and maybe 1,000 head coach pages)

• Phillip Norris Armstrong early professional football player and college coach
• Joe Banks, Mr. Ohio Northern
• John W. Breen College coach in Illinois and Wisconsin who later was instrumental in the American Football League
• Wally Bullington Coach Bully led Abilene Christian University to the 1973 NAIA National Football Championship
• Samuel Colgate, Jr., only football coach whose school is named after his family. I think...
• Charlie Cowdrey, former head coach at Southwestern College. I remember him strutting around campus, bigger than life itself.
• Ken Crandall, head coach at Southwestern College
• Chris Creighton, head coach at Drake University, about to get his 100th coaching victory
• Oscar Dahlene, head coach at Ottawa University in 1910--an "epic discussion" of notability ensued...
• Harold Elliott (football coach), head football coach at six colleges in his career
• Ross Fiscus one of the first professional football players on record at the Allegheny Athletic Association
• Mike Gardner (football coach), head football coach at Malone College (Ohio)
• Ralph Graham, Kansas State and Wichita State, first to racially integrate football players in the Big 7 Confernece in 1949
• Bill Hargiss, one of the first coaches to use the huddle and forward pass--yes, several years before Knute Rockne did! And right there in Emporia, Kansas.
• Jim Helmer (coach), head Men's Track Coach at Southwestern, 27 consecutive conference titles
• Jake High, Who I once thought was the worst-performing coach in college football: in his one year 0-8 record, he was outscored 241 to zero. Poor guy. But even worse if you're...
• Ronald Beard, who lost 44 consecutive games and posted a lifetime record of 0-44 at Prairie View A&M University. But at least his teams scored some points once in a while, unlike...
• George Allen (Cumberland), whose 0-1 record was the result of lose to Gerorgia Tech 222-0 in one game.
• Forrest Craver "Cap" Craver was a pioneer in intramural sports
• Art Kahler, only person to be a head coach at two different colleges at the same time
• Jerry Kill (football coach), head football coach at Northern Illinois University
• Mike Kirkland (coach), head Women's Track Coach at Southwestern, undefeated by a conference team with well over a decade of coaching
• Eddie Kriwiel, coached at Wichita State University for one year and then made a huge mark at the high school level in Wichita, Kansas
• Charles R. Meyer, "Monk" Meyer was a US Army General and runner-up for the Heisman Trophy
• Alured Ransom, coach and later sports figure who helped develop physical education in Afghanistan
• Jack Sack cool name for a football player, but why was he on offense most of the time?
• Andrew Frank Schoeppel, one-year coach at Fort Hays State University... then he decided to be governor of Kansas
• Craig Schurig (football coach), head football coach at Washburn University
• Bill Snyder, coach of the century. When he took over at Kansas State University, only two people in the planet believed that K-State could ever have a consistent winning program.
• Ed Sweeney (football coach), four colleges, over 100 victories... and besides, he played ball at C.W. Post College--how cool is that?
• Walter J. West Player at Pitt, coach at Geneva, and fullback for the Cleveland Rams in 1944
• Hoover J. Wright, one of the long-time greats, that's for sure!

Paul also works on non-college football projects, primarily those centered around Concordia, Kansas. Paul has significantly contributed to and/or created the following Wikipedia entries (partial list):

Essays

• Wikipedia:Quote your own essay Editors should feel free to quote their own essay in AFD discussions.
• Wikipedia:WP Athlete is not exclusionary Abraham Lincoln doesn't meet WP:ATHLETE, but that's no reason to delete the article!
• Wikipedia:Avoid repeated arguments During AfD discussions, don't be Bugs and Daffy
• Wikipedia:Discriminate vs indiscriminate information discusses the difference between "indiscriminate" and "discriminate" collections of information as it applies to the policy at WP:IINFO.
• Wikipedia:Encourage full discussions If someone makes an argument in an AfD, it's okay if someone else responds to it.
• WP:KOOLAID Don't drink the consensus Kool-Aid
• Wikipedia:Liar Liar Pants on Fire During AfD discussions, please provide information instead of calling editors a liar or mis-informed: bring the truth, not the accusation.
• Wikipedia:Nothing A response to the WP:EVERYTHING argument
• Wikipedia:Pocket Consensus An essay about specialist topic consensus
• Wikipedia:Try another wiki An essay about finding an appropriate home for articles that may not be right for Wikipedia.
• Wikipedia:User pages make great bookmarks An essay to help teachers and presenters use Wikipedia for live lesson plan and presentation navigation.
• Wikipedia:Relisting can be abusive Re-listing is not a method of crying "sour grapes"

Articles

• Bankers Loan and Trust Company Building (Concordia, Kansas) a historic building in Paul's hometown
• Brown Grand Theatre a historic theatre in Paul's hometown
• Camp Concordia a WWII Prisoner of war camp near Paul's hometown
• Charles W. Van De Mark House a historic Queene Anne style building in Clyde, Kansas
• Cloud County Community College Paul is a 1988 graduate from Cloud County Community College in Concordia, Kansas. He created the initial page and welcomes relevant additions to the page.
• Cloud County Health Center, formerly St. Joseph's Hospital in Concordia
• Concordia, Kansas Paul grew up in Concordia, Kansas and added the references for education, attractions, and noted residents.
• Concordia Blade-Empire Paul created this page for the Wikipedia Kansas Newspaper Pages project.
• Concordia Junior - Senior High School Paul created the page for the Wikipedia Kansas High School Pages project
• Concordia Middle School
• County Line Bowstring a historic bridge in Cloud County
• Detroit, Kansas Paul's father grew up there.
• Frank L. Hagaman, former governor of Kansas
• Glasco Downtown Historic District the downtown shopping area of a small town in Cloud County
• George H. Hodges, former governor of Kansas
• Henry Buckingham (American publisher) The first to publish a newspaper in Cloud County
• James Manney Hagaman, Founder of Concordia
• Jamestown, Kansas Paul spent some early years of his life in Jamestown (near Concordia).
• Jamestown (Kansas) Wildlife Area A little bit of information about Jamestown Lake.
• KNCK, KCKS, and KVCO -- radio stations in Concordia
• May Louise Cowles pioneer and advocate of home economics education at the university level
• Napoleon Bonaparte Brown Paul created this page and welcomes contributions on this noted resident of Concordia, Kansas.
• Nazareth Convent and Academy a historic building and convent in Paul's hometown
• Orphan Train devoted to the history of the orphan train movement in the United States
• Pott's Ford Bridge another historic bridge in Cloud County
• Ray Murphy (Jr) Oklahoma State University standout wrestler and key developer of assisted technology
• Republican River Pegram Truss another historic bridge in Cloud County
• Rosedale, Kansas, a tiny lttle burg in Kansas City, Kansas, home of one of my favorite barbecue joints!
• Samuel J. Crawford, third governor of Kansas
• Sibley, Kansas a town near Paul's hometown that now does not exist
• Southwestern College (Kansas) Paul is a 1991 graduate from Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas.
• Union Pacific Railroad Depot (Concordia, Kansas) Historic railroad depot in Concordia
• Upland Mutual Insurance Company A small insurance company in rural Kansas
• Upland, Kansas Paul's grandmother once taught in a one-room schoolhouse there

Paul recieved a Master of Business Administration from Keller Graduate School of Management in Chicago, Illinois and a Bachelor of Arts in Physics from Southwestern College (Kansas). He also earned an Associate of Arts from Cloud County Community College and studied at Kansas State University.