Talk:Tony Bennett (basketball)

Requested move
Tony Bennett (coach) → Tony Bennett (basketball)


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 * Support; All other basketball players/coaches with ambiguous names have just (basketball) to differentiate them from other similarly named articles (except in rare circumstances such as Mike Brown (the player)/(the coach) and Jerry Reynolds (the player)/(the coach)). The coach identifier, I believe, in this case at least, is describing that he's a coach of non-descript association (e.g. football, volleyball, basketball)? He was also a former professional player. As he is notable in this context as being both a player and a coach in the basketball world, cutting it down to just basketball only would be the consensus decision that could be agreed upon.

(And before someone plumbs the depths of stupidity and protests ungloriously with "But he's not an orange bouncy sphere!" will get an equally stupid response: "He's not an American-invented indoor winter team sport, either.")--Downwards 05:55, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Support convention in Category:American basketball coaches; more descriptive. –Pomte 06:44, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment. What's wrong with Tony Bennett (basketball coach), which doesn't have either of those problems? I know I've tried to express the thought before at Talk:Grant Hill (basketball), but I still don't understand the theory. There are many people with "basketball coach" as the parenthetical in the category Pomte noted. Dekimasu よ! 07:40, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. --Stemonitis 08:51, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

NPOV Issues
This article has a few WP:NPOV issues. The few that I'll list: (1) without source evidence, naming Bennett as "The Best defensive coach in college basketball" - a more accurate statement would be that Bennett is "one of the best defensive coaches in college basketball" (2) a claim stating that Bennett "always plays by NCAA rules" linking to a blog supportive of Univ of VA athletics

These aren't huge problems but the article should follow biography of living persons standards which means writing in a neutral point of view and include verifiable information. Darryl.jensen (talk) 16:37, 15 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Simply not true. There are two reliable sources cited for "often regarded" as the "best defensive coach in college basketball" though I don't object to the re-worded suggestion either. The (2) is no longer in the article but it linked to an ESPN poll of peer coaches, not to any blogs supportive of UVA athletics. I'm not sure why you'd (inadvertently) misrepresent that source here. Omnibus (talk) 14:35, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

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Tony Bennett - Professional
/* Professional */ Tony Bennett never played for the Sydney Kings in 1997. The Sydney Morning Herald article is incorrect. He played for a team in New Zealand called the 'Burger King Kings'. Bennett was cut in the 1996 preseason by the Sydney Kings and never played a game for the team. I am the official Sydney Kings historian and can confirm that he never played a regular season game for the team. The imports in 1997 were Melvin Thomas and Isaac Burton. Please adjust this entry accordingly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MattMc33 (talk • contribs) 07:45, 31 August 2019 (UTC)


 * The personal experiences you claim are not a reliable source while the Sydney Morning Herald is. Sorry about that! Omnibus (talk) 16:44, 11 April 2020 (UTC)