Talk:Nik Stauskas

102 3-pointers in 5 minutes
Does anyone know how three point shot lines in U.S./Canada/International, high school/college/pros and within international play how they differ for U17/U19/open men? My guess is that those are a shorter distance than the NCAA 3-point line, but since he was in high school in 2011, his parents live in Canada and he plays international basketball, I don't know if it was some other official distance.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 16:43, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Wiggins an AAU teammate
When was Stauskas a teammate with Andrew Wiggins (http://m.si.com/3098376/trey-burke-not-hottest-name-in-draft-but-he-could-be-the-best-player/).--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 19:57, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

Dual citizenship
I have some concern about Stauskas' dual citizenship information and raised the issue on this discussion. Any comments and opinion are welcomed. — MT (talk) 04:52, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Trade to 76ers
I noticed that this article is tagged "The subject of this article is in the news regarding a reported trade. Information regarding the trade may be based on anonymous sources and/or awaiting an official announcement. Initial news reports may be unreliable.", but multiple reliable sources have reported the trade. At what point can the article be updated based on the new information? VeraBaby (talk) 20:19, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * The trade is not official. It has been reported that is being traded, but until the 76ers or the Kings announce it (which they haven't and can not until the moratorium ends on July 9), we do not update on this. Wikipedia is not a rumor mill, we update based off official sources i.e. NBA.com. DaHuzyBru (talk) 09:04, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Injured or suspended?
--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 05:01, 16 September 2015 (UTC) Stauskas did not play in the final game of the 2015 FIBA Americas Championship and given his stats from the first 9 games 12.3 ppg and 50% 3 point shooting in over 23 minutes per game, I doubt it was a DNP-CD. Does anyone know why?--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 23:53, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
 * He was dealing with food poisoning. Zagal e jo^^^ 05:23, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, looks like you already figured that out. Zagal e jo^^^ 05:24, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Nik Stauskas article mentioned as bloated in the press
has noted that this article has been the subject of media attention at here. I am the primary editor of this article and created it November 30, 2012 with this version. The following is written to the author of that article in the media. I create basketball bios for high school and college basketball players from the Chicago area and the University of Michigan. I have been through wranglings regarding articles deemed as bloated in the past. Both Jabari Parker and Jahlil Okafor have been chopped down in this regard. In fact, the Jabari Parker article was chopped down so far that when he returned from injury earlier this year to play his old crosstown rival, Okafor, and the Associated Press noted the rivalry in their summary, it was difficult even look at the WP articles and understand the rivalry. That being said, the articles may have had more detail than necessary.

Wikipedia beleives that notability is permanent. I.e., if you were ever notable enough to warrant a page on WP, you will forever be notable enough to warrant a page. However, it seems that when a person is having his day in the sun, the article may be deserving of more editorial focus than when he is not. I.e., when a player is a Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year and lottery pick, people may want to read a lot about a player and when he does not pan out as a pro, they may be less interested in extensive detail about his article. I don't think that in June 2014, the content was considered excessive, but it may now be.

As an editor on WP, I love to learn details about things and I put a lot of details in articles. WP has a feature called did you know which puts new and newly expanded content on the main page. One of the rules is that if you expand an article to 5 times its previous size, it is considered newly expanded. I have a skill that I could probably take any sort of ignored article and make it 5 times longer. The most recent example of this is Hayden Epstein, which is now scheduled to appear on the main page on 18 December 19:00 (New York Time). Is the current Epstein article more useful than when it was one-fifth as long with this version before I got involved on November 15? I don't know. Maybe I added a lot of unnecessary filler. Is Nik Stauskas' article 5 times as long as it needs to be? Based on your comparison tables and his current global encyclopedic merit (or lack thereof as you note he is a player "playing limited minutes for bad teams"), maybe his article should be 20% of its current size. I don't know. I am pretty sure I could make many of the comparable articles 5 times longer if I wanted to.

I edit with a fact by fact method. I add a fact and add inline citations immediately following that fact. The reason that his article has so many references is that each fact has an IC. I.e, almost every sentence has one. This enables the reader to verify every element of the article. There are not a lot of facts with 3 or 4 inline citations, so removing ICs, is probably only appropriate if you are going to remove facts. However, maybe you or someone else wants to remove a lot of facts. There are probably a bunch of other bios on WP that I have been involved in that could be shortened. I am not going to spend time pruning the article, but WP allows anyone to edit any article. So have at it if you think that is what is best for the reader.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 05:15, 16 December 2015 (UTC)