User:GU Stand Up/Subsect

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 * This account may have been recanted under the slight influence of Sicilian grown wine and records of the great Giuseppe Verdi, but i can assure you (with citations) that this account is accurate. 

Background
After finding Wikipedia in thanks to a search on Google i can to the site and started intense work on the Italian football articles, improving many from low quality to almost feature content, such as that of AS Roma. Over the months i did more and amassed many contributed documents to Wikipedia.

Football deletions
Here is the list of football related content which was deleted (Angelo.romano recreated many), is still deleted or has trollishly and inaproprietly been protected from recreation (more abuse). The "a" next to images provides a link of relating article, the "r" next to redirect links to its appropriate redirect location (all of them used in actual Wikipedia articles) and a lock sign if it has been unappropriately protected from recreation;


 * Articles: György Orth; Gustavo Giagnoni, Lajos Kovács; József Nagy (1892); Luciano Tessari; Giuseppe Bigogno; Guido Ara; Cesarino Cervellati; Luigi Barbesino; Géza Kertész; List of Salernitana Calcio 1919 players; Oronzo Pugliese; Rudolph Hiden; Imre Senkey; Alfréd Schäffer; Akragas Calcio; Alfréd Schäffer; Serie B 1964-65; Serie B 1999-00; Fortitudo-Pro Roma S.G.S.; Nicolò Nicolosi; Renzo Magli; Hermann Felsner; Ilva Bagnolese; Tony Cargnelli; Luigi Ferrero


 * Redirects: Geza Kertesz (r); Geza Kertész (r); József Nagy (football coach) (r); Gyorgi Orth (r); Jorge Orth (r); Gyorgy Orth (r); Alen Stock (r); Lajos Kovacs (r); Imre Senky (r); Adolfo Balonceri (r); Felsner Hermann (r); Ermanno Fellsner (r); Ermanno Felsner (r); A.C. Vicenza (r)


 * Images: DrughiSicilia.png (a); USDNovese.png (a); CyprusFA.png (a)


 * Templates: Template:Genoa C.F.C.

Community reaction
Understandably and in expected manner, the dragging of football on Wikipedia through the gutters was treated with outrage. Yamla's reversions are destroying a lot of seemingly good work, reducing the quality of wikipedia by erasing perfectly good images, undoing good edits and reinserting poor ones, destroying good information. I don't think its right to remove so much quality information and so many properly tagged images.

Indeed. I think the current wave of reverting edits will prove to be counter productive, as the bulk of the edits reverted seem to be good, constructive content.

I completely agree with you: Soprani has proved to be a good content editor, and deleting all of the images, templates and articles he worked on proved to be a vandal-like thing; however, I assume good faith in this particular case.