Talk:John Starks

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John Starks also had surgery and recovered from testicular cancer. There is no note of that in the article, but I do not know the details. Still a worthy mention if one is searching for athletes with cancer. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.180.243.253 (talk) 21:52, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Wasn't Starks the coach of the Westchester Wildfire basketball team? Benje309 03:26, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

There is a whole bunch of wrong information in the NBA Finals section. It was game 3 where Cassell fouled Starks on a 3pt attempt and Starks could only take 2 FTs. He did not make both FTs, he had to miss the second so the Knicks could try and get the rebound, which they did not. This did not happen in game 6. Also Riley is likely misquoted about the whole "Starks was a huge mistake in games 6 and 7". Game 7 yes, but game 6 he had a great game, there's a reason he was taking the potential series winning shot, and there isn't any shame in it being blocked by one of the greatest defensive players of all-time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by John Markisch (talk • contribs) 09:13, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

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This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 17:53, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

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Requested move 13 January 2023

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: not moved. (non-admin closure) Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 02:49, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

– The basketball player's entry was created in February 2004 and, upon the creation of the John Starks disambiguation page, was moved to John Starks (basketball player) in January 2006 and then to John Starks (basketball) in February 2006. It remained under that header for 15 years, until January 2021, when it was moved to John Starks and the dab page to John Starks (disambiguation), both unilaterally. If there is no consensus for these moves, then the original headers should be restored per nomination and if there is such consensus, then there is no need to keep the dab page per WP:ONEOTHER and it should be either deleted or, to preserve its lengthy revision history, redirected to either John Starks or to the similar-sounding John Stark (disambiguation) page, whichever would seem to be more intuitive. — Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 07:20, 13 January 2023 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * John Starks → John Starks (basketball)
 * John Starks (disambiguation) → John Starks
 * Oppose I think the move by User:Bagumba was fair. Only one other "John Starks" is on Wikipedia and he doesn't even seem known as John Starks (in addition to this page having more pageviews). Nohomersryan (talk) 16:14, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose There are no explicit arguments in the nomination regarding WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Seems to be getting into WP:NOTBURO, if an otherwise correct bold move is forced to go through an RM, for no other compelling reason other than as a formality.—Bagumba (talk) 16:37, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Support per nom, no PRIMARYTOPIC.--Ortizesp (talk) 16:53, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
 * The nom made no mention of PRIMARYTOPIC. Do you have a compelling argument? —Bagumba (talk) 17:01, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose. |John_%22Jabo%22_Starks Pageviews indicate that the basketball player is the primary topic.  The dabpage can be deleted per WP:ONEOTHER. 162 etc. (talk) 20:32, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
 * The dabpage can be deleted per WP:ONEOTHER: But there is a third topic in the dab's "see also" entry to John Stark (disambiguation).—Bagumba (talk) 15:25, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
 * As it reads today, the hatnote at John Starks doesn't even link to the dabpage; this is exactly what a WP:ONEOTHER hatnote looks like. 162 etc. (talk) 17:13, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Actually, WP:TWOOTHER captures the case. FWIW, John Starks (disambiguation) is also linked at John Stark (disambiguation). Seems we create more potential for maintenance if the John Stark are not centralized in a dab and a new John Starks variant surfaces later. At any rate, deleting a page requires WP:AFD or equivalent.—Bagumba (talk) 00:59, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose. And move the drummer to Jabo Starks, the name by which he is commonly known. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:26, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

Dressage Champion?
No further information to support the claim in the header that he is also a dressage champion. 2601:800:C480:CAF0:FDD5:DF1C:60F3:7BA9 (talk) 02:46, 17 April 2024 (UTC)