Talk:Attacker

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Matt, I appreciate your tidying up instincts, but must note that the sense you have condensed to a dab pointer has now been lost. Adversary speaks only of crypto usage, not computer security usage. As I review this in my mind, I don't think I've ever heard adversary used in computer security -- it's almost always attacker (or cracker, or hacker amongst the psuedo informed and law enforcement types). Although I do recall one use of 'enemy' (spoken, so I can't testify as to uc or lc).

I think this change has lost information for our Reader. ww 19:30, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * The information can be found at the Adversary page, which the disambiguation header links to. &mdash; Matt 16:52, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Football context
I don't think attacker and striker are synonyms, as this article implies. Attacking midfielders and wingers might also be classed as attackers (as might a marauding defender in a particular situation). Forward is closer in meaning, but still not perfect. Dave.Dunford 17:59, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Scoring Table
Is it really relevant to have this table in this article, which is about forwards in general, and not merely association football attackers? It's not sourced, and a non–registered user keeps changing the formatting so that it doesn't conform to wiki standards, and I don't think it's relevant; if anything it could be added to the article on strikers with 500 or more goals. I removed it but my edit was reverted. Could the page be protected? Thanks, Messirulez (talk) 23:37, 19 May 2021 (UTC)