The more I look, the more and more mistakes I find on the USCF website -
http://www.uschess.org
How long has the first name of Chouchanik Airapetian, the Armenian-born player
who has been in the USA since August 1994, been listed as Choucanian [sic] in
the Players' Gallery of Selected Players from the Top 100 US Women?
I realize that the website is a very low priority for the federation when
facing more pressing issues, but isn't there someone (on the payroll) who is in
charge of keeping the website up to date and correct? There is now so much
outdated material and incorrect data on the site that a complete overhaul is
now overdue.
Sloppiness on the website can be indicative of sloppiness in the business
office. I hope not. But if you look at the spelling (or more correctly
misspelling) of tournament names on the membership service site -
msa.uschess.org (when it comes back up after so-called improvements?!), you
will see names of tournaments that were certainly not submitted by TDs or
organizers. It is important that tournament names are correct. It is also
imperative that memberships and membership renewals be processed as fast as
possible and that rating reports be processed as equally as fast. Unless the
federation improves its customer service, it will continue to lose members,
especially adults - at a faster rate than it takes to process a simple
membership.

George Mirijanian

(Miriling) writes:

The more I look, the more and more mistakes I find on the USCF website -
http://www.uschess.org

do you send corrections to New Windsor, or do you just posture here?

--
Kenneth Sloan
Computer and Information Sciences (205) 934-2213
University of Alabama at Birmingham FAX (205) 934-5473
Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 http://www.cis.uab.edu/info/faculty/sloan/

(Miriling) writes:

The more I look, the more and more mistakes I find on the USCF website -
http://www.uschess.org

George, rec.games.chess.politics is not an official USCF forum. Rather
than post them in here, I suggest you e-mail any reports of web site
errors to Joan DuBois, who is now in charge of web content?

Her e-mail address is joandubois (at) uschess (dot) org.
--
Mike Nolan

Subject: Mistakes on USCF website need to be corrected

On 29 September 2003 Kenneth Sloan replied
Message-id:

(Miriling) writes:

The more I look, the more and more mistakes I find on the USCF website -
http://www.uschess.org

do you send corrections to New Windsor, or do you just posture here?

--
Kenneth Sloan
Computer and Information Sciences (205) 934-2213
University of Alabama at Birmingham FAX (205) 934-5473
Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 http://www.cis.uab.edu/info/faculty/sloan/


I have sent corrections to New Windsor in the past, but I stopped doing it
when I realized that they were being ignored. Maybe if enough people, including
yourself, sent them (the same) corrections, they would listen.

George Mirijanian

Worse than sloppiness the members only area is under repair (possibly until
10/02.

(Miriling) writes:

Sloppiness on the website can be indicative of sloppiness in the business
office. I hope not. But if you look at the spelling (or more correctly
misspelling) of tournament names on the membership service site -
msa.uschess.org (when it comes back up after so-called improvements?!), you
will see names of tournaments that were certainly not submitted by TDs or
organizers. It is important that tournament names are correct.

How would you suggest we check and correct the spelling of the names of
the 89,000 events and 169,000 sections that MSA can display?

Given that we have nearly 12 years of tournament data available, data which
was not collected with online retrieval in mind, complaints about
mis-spellings seem rather petty. Typos happen, and I've seen more than
my share of illegible reports to the USCF office.

MSA should be back up as soon as we can get some DNS changes made by the ISP.
There have been a few visible and even more behind-the-scenes changes made
to MSA in the past week. I'm also hoping to get links to it placed on the
USCF home page and on the ratings page sidebar.
--
Mike Nolan

Kenneth Sloan writes:

(Miriling) writes:

The more I look, the more and more mistakes I find on the USCF website -
http://www.uschess.org

do you send corrections to New Windsor, or do you just posture here?

I suppose we should be thankful that anyone's looking at the website.

BTW, I forwarded George's post on to Joan DuBois and have been advised
that the error George was concerned about has been fixed. (Errors that
involve changes to the data on Al Losoff's site or to MSA will take some
time before those sites show the corrected data. MSA membership updates
are usually done by about 8AM ET, I think Al's site is currently updated
about once a week.)
--
Mike Nolan

How would you suggest we check and correct the spelling of the names of
the 89,000 events and 169,000 sections that MSA can display?

Given that we have nearly 12 years of tournament data available, data which
was not collected with online retrieval in mind, complaints about
mis-spellings seem rather petty.

Yes, I think there are bigger fish to give CPR to.

Regards, al

AlforChess wrote:

How would you suggest we check and correct the spelling of the names of
the 89,000 events and 169,000 sections that MSA can display?

Given that we have nearly 12 years of tournament data available, data which
was not collected with online retrieval in mind, complaints about
mis-spellings seem rather petty.

Yes, I think there are bigger fish to give CPR to.

Regards, al

You need to quit carping about it here then. You are really bullheaded
and this is a really crappie thing to do, as you come down from your
perch in Largo. Bassically, we should do what we need to do for the
halibut if for no other reason. I cod hardly see any other reason to do
it.

Best Regards,

Bruce

"Bruce Draney" wrote in message AlforChess wrote:

How would you suggest we check and correct the spelling of the names
of
the 89,000 events and 169,000 sections that MSA can display?

Given that we have nearly 12 years of tournament data available, data
which
was not collected with online retrieval in mind, complaints about
mis-spellings seem rather petty.

Yes, I think there are bigger fish to give CPR to.

Regards, al

You need to quit carping about it here then. You are really bullheaded
and this is a really crappie thing to do, as you come down from your
perch in Largo. Bassically, we should do what we need to do for the
halibut if for no other reason. I cod hardly see any other reason to do
it.

Best Regards,

Bruce

Yer floundering around for a whale of an plaice in history, but I coelacanth
do a very good job. I'd let you skate, but it would be a fluke, as I'm hard
of herring. I'm not carping, honest! You pollack!

Anyway this silly thread (one could say it smelt) brings to mind the old
novelty song by Kip Adotta, called 'Wet Dreams.' Anyone remember it?