Talk:Clinton Portis

HS Track
"clocking 10.6 in the 900 meters"

900 meters in 10.6 seconds (presumably) is inhuman. The time or the distance has to be incorrect here. I'm not too familiar with track and field events, but it would make sense if Portis ran the 100m in 10.6 seconds. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.113.129.178 (talk) 15:53, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

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Characters
Are these characters and all of these related links really encyclopedic? The guy is a football player with a below-average team. It just seems excessive and perhaps a bit psychotic. MiamiDolphins3 19:11, 10 October 2006 (UTC)


 * And I suppose the Dolphins are above average, which explains why they didn't go the playoffs last year and the Redskins did. It pertains to the man which this article is about, and I see no reason to change it; especially considering he's the only one I know of who does such things.


 * Furthermore, if you love Miami so much, I don't understand why you'd dislike Miami Hurricane Clinton Portis.JaderVason 23:10, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism by jmfangio
JMfangio is vandalising this article and removing nonbiased factual information about portis. He is violating wiki policy on revert wars:

"Be respectful to others and their points of view. This means primarily: Do not simply revert changes in a dispute. When someone makes an edit you consider biased or inaccurate, improve the edit, rather than reverting it. Provide a good edit summary when making significant changes that other users might object to. The revision you would prefer will not be established by reverting, and repeated reverting is forbidden; discuss disputed changes on the talk page. If you encounter rude or inappropriate behavior, resist the temptation to respond unkindly, and do not make personal attacks." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gtown05 (talk • contribs) 22:56, August 28, 2007 (UTC)


 * rv see: Suspected sock puppets/70.143.68.157 Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat 00:07, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Dogfighting controversy
How is this encyclopedic? An opinion he expressed? Did he commit a crime? Set a record? Get a new job? Violate a rule? Invent something? No, he stated an opinion. Why should an opinion he's stated carry equal weight to his time on an NFL team, as it does on this article? I challenge the notability of this handful of spoken sentences. I understand that it is sourced, but is it 'significant' (word used by The Fat Man Who Never Came Back)?

This has been going back and forth for months. Just because it has made headlines, does not make it notable enough for encyclopedic inclusion. This seems more like coatrack criticism than biographical. By my view, using WP:HARM, there is undue, harmful weight given to this inclusion. There isn't even a follow-up quote of his clarification and apology... which actually would continue to give this issue more weight.

There's no mention of every injury he's sustained, of every commercial he's been in, his other news-worthy quotes, not even the all records he holds. And that's fine, Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. WP:NOT WP:IINFO

This has seemingly escalated into a quasi-edit war. We should reach consensus (WP:CON) if we are to include this, instead of allowing the single active editor (User:The Fat Man Who Never Came Back) to revert the section back in without any discussion - much less reasonable discussion - from either side (the other editor who would include this section was User:Gtown05, who has subsequently been banned for sockpuppetry and edit-warring). Per WP:BLP, I'm removing the contentious section to allow for consensus to be reached. --mc machete 07:42, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

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This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot (talk) 18:30, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

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