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Happy New Year, GiantSnowman!


Happy New Year! GiantSnowman, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Liz Read! Talk! 22:05, 1 January 2016 (UTC)


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Mark Duffy
Hello. Just a note about Mr Duffy's loan. It has ended (after yesterday's game): the expiry date is present and sourced in the article. Personally, I'd leave it there until we know what's happening. Don't think Birmingham want him back, so I'm guessing the loan will either be extended or made permanent. But the IP was technically correct in removing  trying to remove it. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 10:35, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

troublesome editor
Dear GiantSnowman, there is a troublesome editor I am having problems with. While the majority of this editors contributions are helpful for some reason this editor believes that references shouldn't be used and only uses external links, in clear violation of WP:PROVEIT, WP:LINKFARM and WP:SOURCE. This can be seen on these edits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 where s/he just randomly removes references. I didn't want to report this user for vandalism as most edits are constructive, but this tendency s/he has is really annoying. I left as message on his/her talk page but they never responded and haven't changed their behavior. Recently the editor once again 1 & 2 removed sources from articles, and while I undid these edits as well as leaving a message on their talk page they once again 1 & 2 removed the sources. I don't want to be drawn into an edit war so thought it was best to contact an administrator such as you to find a resolution to this issue. Thanks Inter&#38;anthro (talk) 16:53, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

Football articles
Hello Giant Snowman, I hope you've enjoyed the holidays and I simply wanted to remind (in case you forgot) about these articles. Cheers! SwisterTwister  talk  19:27, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

Stan Charlton (Sr.)
Hello GS, can you help with a source for information in respect of pre-war footballers? I am particularly looking for Stan Charlton, not the Arsenal & Orient one, but his dad who captained Palace in the 20s. Junior's obit in the Independent says dad played for 5 clubs, but I can only find three, been looking for ages... Thanks. Seasons & new year greetings. Eagleash (talk) 21:54, 3 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi, thanks, I probably should have mentioned this previously. Eagleash (talk) 18:58, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Do you mind if after I move mine to main (& possibly to Stan Charlton, Sr. per the Lampards) I merge your stub to it as I have more detail/refs and the correct info re. FA XI?(The Exeter site is ambiguous, the other ref confirms he went to Oz and the other player to Canada). Regards, Eagleash (talk) 22:13, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks, if IRC the senior Lampard was 'born xxxx' till recently (September) when it was changed to Sr. The current (sort of) player had no disambiguation, still doesn't. Do we need hatnotes for the Charltons or as it's clear in the lead, not? Eagleash (talk) 20:59, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

footballer
hi Giant snowman could you please email me regarding help in creating a page for a Scottish professional footballer? my email is declan-mcavoy@live.co.uk

many thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by DMcA1991 (talk • contribs)

Aziz El Amri
I got it from an article. However, I can't add it right now, as I Googled it from my phone and made the edit through a PC. I will add the sources later.

About the infobox: I don't see any differences in the final display, but if you want I'll revert the format. MYS 77 ✉ 18:50, 4 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Added it now. Cheers, MYS 77 ✉  18:57, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

Footballers
Ah thanks, I wasn't sure. Here are others if you wish to look at them: Nikolai Vdovenko, Ivan Castiglia, Daniele Mattielig, Jefferson Luiz Nascimento de Souza, Lanry Kahinda, Abd Al Naser Hasan, Tomy Adriano Giacomeli and Noelle Keselica.

It's worth noting I actually found Bryan Davis (soccer) months ago (now deleted) but was not aware it was finally nominated last month. Cheers! SwisterTwister  talk  06:55, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

User:SWASTIK 25
Hi. This user is really stubborn. I try to explain to him what the basis is for national team caps/goals on his talk page but all he does is delete it because he thinks he's right. I try to explain that even if a match is not FIFA recognized, the concerned FA in that particular match can still count it as a full 'A' international match and therefore players who appear in that match will get caps. In the case of SWASTIK 25, I try to explain that Maldives FA counts a match against Laos in 2014 as full international as it is not full FIFA. Therefore players like Ali Ashfaq who is Maldives all-time top scorer gets a cap for that match and his two goals are counted towards his stats which is stated by RSSSF. Yet he doesn't seem to want any of it and continues to think that only FIFA matches are "official" and just deletes anything I try say on his talk page. He also continues to undo revisions here to fit his wants/beliefs. GoalsGalore (talk) 10:19, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
 * You see. You posted a warning on his talk page but he deletes it right away.  Just as he has done with the things that I've tried to explain to him as if to show that he's right and he will get his way no matter what which is very arrogant of him. GoalsGalore (talk) 21:14, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Would you be able to fully protect the page in dispute? GoalsGalore (talk) 08:56, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
 * That's the thing though. User:SWASTIK 25 does not want to engage in any discussion.  I've been editing on that top scorers page which is mainly based on RSSSF files (meaning reliable sources) and along comes Swastik25 and starts doing things as per his own beliefs/wants.  I try to tell him otherwise but he doesn't want to listen and engage in any discussion.  He just ends up deleting anything I put on his talk page. GoalsGalore (talk) 18:17, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Ya I apologize about the the edit warring and I haven't touched the page since. Swastik is the main culprit, just saying. GoalsGalore (talk) 18:23, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

I would like to quickly share my view. I dont know who is "right" or who is "wrong" (probably neither/both), and I have had a previous encounter with SWASTIK25, but I must say that the behaviour from SWASTIK25 is not good. Everytime an attempt for discussion is made, he simply removes the discussion at his talkpage and he does dont seem willing to discuss at all. Qed237&#160;(talk)</i> 18:25, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you! There you go then, this SWASTIK25 is the disruptive one.  You can neutral on who is right or wrong, but as Ive said, I base what I edit reliable sources such as RSSSF.  So something needs to be done about this editor.  He even has that note at the top of his talk page about being civil and respectful as you try to work out a resolution yet he does not engage in any discussion.  Having said that, how am I suppose to take this to WP:DRN when Swastik won't even participate in a discussion. GoalsGalore (talk) 08:01, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I think you are missing the point, you are both disruptive. Even if is removing talkpage messages and not easy to talk to, you are still being disruptive as well and edit warring. You have tried his talkpage and that did not work, now try article talkpage or DRN to seek consensus and if he does not wish to talk there it is his loss. But dont put all the blame on him, you are both being disruptive. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 11:19, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks, for your neutral behaviour! &mdash; SWASTIK 25 (User talk)  11:37, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
 * @GoalsGalore & I have no intention to argue with my fellow users' editings, but my talk page is absolutely mine and Wikipedia allows every user the right to keep in or delete anything from his/her talk page. So, I have the right to delete whatever I want from my talk page. And User:GoalsGalore, I properly understand the basis for national team caps/goals & if you want any discussion relating to it, please use the article's talk page, not mine. Thank you. &mdash; SWASTIK 25  (User talk)  11:31, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

again, please take this to the article talk page. GiantSnowman 11:48, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your proposal, GiantSnowman &mdash; SWASTIK 25 (User talk)  11:51, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

IFFHS link
Official website breaks the link by adding "/en" to it (http://iffhs.de/en doesn't work). SLBedit (talk) 18:44, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

79.65.48.10
Just editing to add, that I agree with this post, I don't have an account, but I was editing a certain page to update the facts, when I was sent a message by this user. It stated that my editing was disruptive. The page in question was about a football club that I support, I was updating it, due to recent changes, now had this user researched the changes I'd made, he would have seen I was correct. So rather than just dismissing changes that have been made on a topic, which I'm almost certain he knows nothing about, he should actually do his job. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.65.48.10 (talk • contribs)

Footballers
Footballers articles: Ygor de Souza, Bruno Furlan, Yuki Stalph, Patrick Leonardo Carneiro da Silva, Filippo Chillemi, Felipe Cordeiro de Araujo, Moslem Tolouei, Cleiton and Éder dos Santos. Cheers, SwisterTwister   talk  21:24, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Re: Nicolas Šumský
Just a tweet from the Hamilton Accies Twitter account a few hours ago. Nothing more than that right at this moment. Exxy (talk) 13:04, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Racing Club de Bruxelles players
Can you restore your actions on the Racing Club de Bruxelles players? It is clear that Rhodienne-Den Hoek and Racing Club de Bruxelles are two different clubs. A Category of Rhodienne-Den Hoek players is complete nonsens, because this is an amateurclub on a very low level. It has no relevance that you played for this club. Racing Club de Bruxelles was a famous club with different national titles. Akadunzio (talk) 14:11, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Dragan Skocic removed content
Hello. I'm responding to your message about removal of changes made to Dragan Skocic page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragan_Sko%C4%8Di%C4%87

I also left a comment on my edit that changes are made because of clients (Dragan Skocic) instructions. Removed information was inaccurate or false.

You can contact him directly and verify this: official email: skocicri@gmail.com or over official web site - dragan-skocic.com

Please revert to my changes as soon as possible.

Thanks in advance

— Preceding unsigned comment added by IntrawebRi (talk • contribs)

Re: Career stats table
Hey GS. The reason I have the league cup before the domestic cup in the career stats table is because, at least for India, the Indian Super League is now divided into the league phase and then the league cup phase (finals) so when I make articles for Indian players, specially those in the ISL, it makes sense to me if the league and league cup are next to each other and then since the domestic cup (Federation Cup) is a completely different competition, it goes after the league cup. Again, this is just how I see it with Indian football player articles and if you want me to go with the MOS when I work on articles on non-Indian players or maybe just change to the MOS completely, I won't be against that. Cheers. --ArsenalFan700 (talk) 19:48, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
 * As for the 'international' part, I will change it to continental. My default table usually just links to the Asian Football Confederation and instead of international it just says 'AFC'. --ArsenalFan700 (talk) 19:49, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Awesome, should not be a problem. Cheers. --ArsenalFan700 (talk) 19:55, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

unblocking
Hi there,

I wondered if you could unblock me? I went through the rules on here and have noticed how me edits have been deemed unacceptable and now see that I was blocked for good reason.

I wondered if in retrospect I may now be unblocked?

Regards Salopian123 Salopian123 (talk) 00:37, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Possible sock in AfD
Hi, if you look at Articles for deletion/Kuwait Champions Challenge and the "votes" do you think is is enough for an SPI and if so should Checkuser be requested? A new account was created and edited both that AfD and Articles for deletion/2015 Kuwait Champions Challenge and the name and vote is similar to an other editor. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 21:43, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Seeking opinion
Hi! Will you kindly place your opinions regarding the deletion of this template? &mdash; Swastik Chakraborty (User talk)  08:54, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Shopping
Hi, is this kind of shopping allowed. One editor has apporached selected editors to make their article get more keep-votes in AfD. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 13:56, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Loads of editors too. Is he any relation to the Sadeq character do you think? -the one defending the Kuwaiti sub-league games? <sub style="color:green">Fortuna  Imperatrix Mundi  17:58, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I've warned them for canvassing, and then noticed had beaten me to it. Don't think they're a sock though, Inter&anthro has been around for a long time and is normally a fine editor. GiantSnowman 18:00, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Right, thanks. The other two look a dead cert but wouldn't want to tar anyone else 18:01, 12 January 2016 (UTC) <sub style="color:green">Fortuna  Imperatrix Mundi  18:02, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Agree on there being no link between inter and khalid. Like GS said, inter has been here a long time and does great work but barely ever on Kuwaiti football. And I don't think he would make an article about that celebrity match on a different account other than his own. Cheers. --ArsenalFan700 (talk) 22:03, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Draft:The Beating Band
Hi again, I just spotted Draft:The Beating Band and could not figure out it if could be subject for CSD, and if so what criteria? It has not been edited since its creation on September 2014. Any help appreciated. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 20:47, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

User:SWASTIK25
Hi again. I've already used up the 3 edits rule of undoing edits at List of top international association football goal scorers by country. I've already properly put references on the page and every player's stats are in line with reliable sources. Yet this user continues to change stats because of his wants and wrong/flawed beliefs. He has and still continues to become disruptive. GoalsGalore (talk) 13:14, 18 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi GiantSnowman, you blocked for 1 week and  for 2 days. I think that is not fair with both of them. It was just 2nd block of SWASTIK, his first block was of 31 hours, so his 2nd block should have been of 48 hours. And it is probably 1st block of GoalsGalore, so it should have been of 24 hours. I am saying all this because I myself got blocked 5 times for edit warring, but my longest block was of just 3 days. So I think you were very harsh on SWASTIK. It feels very bad when regular editor gets blocked for long period.-- Human 3015   It will rain    14:33, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * That just suggests that you were lucky. Perhaps too lucky <sub style="color:green">Fortuna   Imperatrix Mundi  14:47, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * What lucky? 2nd block of edit warring can't be of 7 days, here SWASTIK is unlucky. And I don't see GiantSnowman much on edit warring board, he may not much used to with blocking people for edit warring. Common admins at AN3 are Swarm and Ed. They block people for proper period. -- Human 3015   It will rain   14:57, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Really? Then I'm sure he will thank you for saying so. <sub style="color:green">Fortuna  Imperatrix Mundi  15:01, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Anyway, we never interacted before, but yesterday you were unlucky enough to report me. I know you are social worker who reports various edit warriors without getting involved in edit war, but be careful before reporting lucky editors. -- Human 3015   It will rain    15:41, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Of course I did. You're the one who wants to be an Admin don't you? Congratulations with augmenting your CV like this :D <sub style="color:green">Fortuna  Imperatrix Mundi  15:44, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I will be admin after 2-3 years, till then I hope you will forget everything. I just like to make some fun.-- Human 3015   It will rain   15:52, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Will you have stopped edit warring and trying to threaten people by then? <sub style="color:green">Fortuna  Imperatrix Mundi  15:56, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * It is not good to disturb GiantSnowman by unnecessary notifications, still, I already stopped edit warring, yesterday's edit war was unfortunate and came after long time and I myself imposed 15 days of article ban on myself. And I don't threaten anyone.-- Human 3015   It will rain   16:01, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

- I stand by my block length, Swastik has been blocked before for edit warring and clearly hasn't learnt from it, hence why he got a longer period. If he thinks it is unfair he can submit a block appeal. GiantSnowman 19:18, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Sergio Barila
Hi there GS,

about this matter, found these two sources (please see here http://www.livefutbol.com/cronica/wm-quali-afrika-2006-1-runde-aequatorial-guinea-togo/ and http://www.planetworldcup.com/CUPS/2006/caf1.html), seems his FIFA.com entry is dead beats me why. As you can imagine, of course, I am never going to insert anything in Mr. Barila's article regarding this subject, it stays like you want.

Attentively --84.90.219.128 (talk) 21:21, 18 January 2016 (UTC)


 * No reply, and the user after me received one... Was I aggressive or unpolite? Not my intention, but I apologize if you thought I was. Is any of the refs any reliable? If it is, I don't mind (in spite of previous promise) of adding it to article, but if it's not I stay pat of course. --84.90.219.128 (talk) 16:27, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

What about this, kind fellow user (and forget about most of my ramblings here)? Are those refs acceptable or not? You can reply here for more convenience. By the way, his FIFA.com entry is dead, second player I have "encountered" in such a state today. --84.90.219.128 (talk) 18:12, 19 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Hence my question, are those refs I presented as example good enough to be inserted? If you deem (at least one of) them so, i'll oblige of course. --84.90.219.128 (talk) 19:11, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Consider it ref'd! --84.90.219.128 (talk) 19:25, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Possible block evasion?
Hi GiantSnowman. I see that you have blocked SWASTIK 25 for edit warring. A new account User:ProudBengali created after that block has been editing SWASTIK 25's user talk and user page. The very first edit made by the new account was to add a barnstar to the talk page of a user they do not seem to have interacted with before, which is a bit unusual. Another edit added a "auto confirmed" template to the user page, which also does not seem like something a new account usually does. Same goes for copying and pasting all of the user boxes being used by SWASTIK 25 onto the new user page. I guess it could be a total coincidence, but I'm wondering if this is a case of WP:DUCK. -- Marchjuly (talk) 10:25, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but I didn't get you. ProudBengali. —Preceding undated comment added 10:34, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Luke Maxwell
Hello GS, could you please speedily delete Luke Maxwell, if you feel it's not A7 then please PROD. Thanks, JMHamo (talk) 16:31, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Ignore that, the speedy deletion tag was removed by another editor, sending to PROD myself now. JMHamo (talk) 16:36, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Youth/senior career
Okay, but isn't this an error? I think people may confuse the English youth development with the Spanish. I mean, in England, players who are returning from injury can play with the reserves and so on. But in Spain, this is completely different: you have to be 22 or younger to switch between both teams (and I think that if the player appear in more than 10 matches with the main squad, he can't play for the B-side), and those reserve teams actually play in a senior league, differently than England. Should we start a discussion at WT:FOOTY about this? Cheers, MYS <i style="color:red">77</i> <sup style="color:orange">✉  17:27, 19 January 2016 (UTC)


 * (TPS)Then, can we write just "2012 Athletic Bilbao" (meaning he can have played - wait, he DID! - for the juniors still in 2012 and then, still in that year, moved to the seniors) instead of "2012-2013 Athletic Bilbao" or that will be removed too? --84.90.219.128 (talk) 17:34, 19 January 2016 (UTC)


 * It makes no sense to remove these things when they're actually a correct fact. So, Antonio Sanabria did not win the UEFA Youth League because he was already a senior with the B-team of Barcelona? MYS <i style="color:red">77</i> <sup style="color:orange">✉  17:52, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
 * No, of course he did - we are talking about the infobox only here. GiantSnowman 17:53, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

So, GS, please do reply, can I write "2012 Athletic Bilbao" in Mr. Williams' youth infobox or not? --84.90.219.128 (talk) 17:54, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I think that is a fair compromise. GiantSnowman 17:56, 19 January 2016 (UTC)


 * also please don't forget that the years in the infobox refers to calendar years, not seasons. GiantSnowman 18:01, 19 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Sure, but sometimes (and it's not that rare outside UK) a player makes his senior debut and then shortly after is demoted back to the youth setup, to play for them during the season (and the year still). That's what I was asking before. MYS <i style="color:red">77</i> <sup style="color:orange">✉  19:13, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
 * It happens in the UK all the time, some youth player making a first-team sub appearance or having a Cup run-out (see e.g. Luke Freeman.) Nevertheless, once a 'senior' career has started it is extremely confusing/misleading to keep the youth career ongoing. That's why we have always done it that way. GiantSnowman 19:16, 19 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Ah, maybe it's because the youth system in the UK is very confusing by itself, TBH... But I'll accept this version, no worries. Cheers, MYS <i style="color:red">77</i> <sup style="color:orange">✉  22:19, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Uncivil edits made
Hi GS have a look at these IP edits. Regarding their original revision at List of cities in Germany by population, I'm not convinced they have technical reasons against it, but it seems more they are just making a point. My version of the article is directly cited to City Mayors and has far less of the other years (uncited). Also, see some further uncivil post at my talk page, though is a different IP. Thanks. Eldumpo (talk) 20:50, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Q
Do you know what User:FMUSAPyramid/sandbox/List of clubs in the FM USA Pyramid is? Some sort of game? Drmies (talk) 03:14, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Pending AfD for American assistant football coach
Hey. Could I get you to weigh in here: Articles for deletion/Simone Lucchesi? All of the usual suspects seem to be ignoring this AfD. Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 10:33, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

Poorly updated articles
Hi, just want to know what I should do with articles like 2013–14 Panetolikos F.C. season and 2013–14 RCD Mallorca season. They have been created and then not updated and I dont know if they should be deleted or what do be done? I think they are notable. I dont have the time or power or interest to update them myself. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 14:48, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that certainly seems likme the best option. Thank you. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 14:52, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

About Danilo
Please, not revert, if the source is citied in references number 4 (you can check). I won't to repeat the citation. Thank you--Noel baran (talk) 18:31, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Editor to keep an eye on
Hey GS, just thought I let you know about. An account that was created today and has been quick to make edits on the Mohun Bagan page and cricketing pages, pages that were of interest to User:SWASTIK 25. Not only is the article editing pattern similar but also the edit summaries like "corrected" and "modified". Cheers. --ArsenalFan700 (talk) 18:32, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
 * You're welcome, will do. --ArsenalFan700 (talk) 18:57, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Recent block
Hi, I think you know who I am referring to, but I don't want to add any more to that page. At first I thought the guy deserved a break so I went in to play devil's advocate, as reducing the block may have removed his temptation to sock further. But in the meantime he has just kept digging the hole deeper with his attacks upon you. You clearly made the right call. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 01:23, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

User move
Hi, I just spotted that seems to have moved their userpage (and talkpage) to User:Gpwns5277 and when I edited their latter talkpage I got a message saying that the username was not existing and if the editor wanted to change name they should make a request. Could you please take a look? <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 10:51, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Changes to Kevin Kewley bio
First off, I'm not sure I am in the correct place to communicate with you, so please let me know if there is a better avenue to discuss the edits to Kevin Kewley's page.

I'm not 100% sure what you are referring to about disruptive editing.

Kevin requested that his birth date be removed, so I posted that in the edit summary. I subsequently realized that there were other areas where it was posted, so I removed it from there too. Then I updated his profile to be current and added his coaching career and some references (since his page was lacking in that area). The birth year is not even correct.  I suspect that the people posting that information are getting it from the same source.

From what I read on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Privacy_of_personal_information_and_using_primary_sources, for living persons, birthdays are considered private information and unless widely reported should be removed when requested.

I'm not sure why you removed the specific years he coached professionally at each organization? I also think coaching collegiate teams to conference titles would be important from a biographical standpoint.

Is the primary way that I caused an issue, that I kept adding new content instead of doing it in one batch? Sorry, I don't have much experience at this and I don't want to do it incorrectly. I just want to help some professional coaches from the Wichita community update their bios, and I definitely don't want to be a nuisance.Alfreema (talk) 19:44, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Hello
Can you please stop deleting text on Wikipedia, is easy to delete, help find the reference for that text, think that maybe that text is true and the editor did not put the reference! Go on google and search for the website he provide the text. Thank you for listening my advice!--198.143.1.163 (talk) 19:54, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Try to imagine how Wikipedia pages will look if everyone would start to delete unreferenced content ? Mh... so help improve and find refs !--198.143.1.163 (talk) 19:54, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Brainfeeder
Template:Brainfeeder has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Rob Sinden (talk) 09:06, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Woodroffe-Hedley v Cuthbertson
<small style="color:#999;white-space:nowrap;text-shadow:lightgrey 0.3em 0.3em 0.15em;">&mdash; <big style="color:#ffa439">Coffee //  have a cup  //  beans  // 12:02, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Riyad Mahrez

 * Thank you for warring me, of caurse we need to add links. I will do that. Greetings. --Fayçal.09 (talk) 13:12, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

SWASTIK 25
Hi, I have not had the time to look in to it to much, but could you please have a look at and see if it is a sock of ? Or should I try SPI?

SWASTIK 25 created articles like List of international cricket centuries by David Warner and List of Big Bash League centuries (both now edited by My Motherland) and also articles like List of batsmen who have scored 50,000 or more runs in all forms of recognized cricket which seems like a similar article name created by My Motherland List of Indian batsmen who have scored more than 5000 ODI runs.

Both claims to be 19 years old from india (compare this diff from SWASTIK 25 userpage and this diff from userpage of My Motherland).

They both write in a similar way on their talkpages (see diffs above):


 * SWASTIK 25: Hi! everyone. I'm Swastik Chakraborty (...) I'm very much interested in sports, particularly, cricket and football. (...) Currently, I am pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in English at the Faculty of Arts, Banaras Hindu University.
 * My Motherland: Hi everyone! I'm My Motherland from India. I'm a 19 years old undergraduate student, (...) I'm very enthusiastic about sports, especially Cricket, Soccer and to some extent, the Olympics (...)

The final puzzle is the final edit of SWASTIK 25 on 26 January and My Motherland made his first edit 19 minutes after the last edit of SWASTIK 25.

It looks like WP:DUCK, but I am not an expert, you are the admin. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 21:45, 28 January 2016 (UTC)


 * I just realised GS may not be editing more today so I ping Bbb23 as the editor who tagged SWASTIK 25. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 21:55, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Gee, this is a funny place to have a mini SPI. Am I supposed to check GiantSnowman or My Motherland? :-) is ✅, blocked, and tagged. I've deleted the two new articles.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:13, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that and appologies to GiantSnowman as well for using his talkpage a bit to much. I did not feel like opening a SPI for this very clear case so thought I should talk to GS who had been involved in the past (I think). Next time I will do a proper SPI. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 22:59, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh, I don't think GS will mind at all. He'll focus on the prevention of further disruption. Take care.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:33, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

- no problems at all, good find! Thanks all. GiantSnowman 11:37, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
 * @GiantSnowman: It does not seem like they understand their block (diff). But then if I remember SWASTIK also denied being sockmaster and wanted his own SPI. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 11:37, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Outdated article
Hi, I contacted you before regarding 2013–14 Panetolikos F.C. season and an other article (see User talk:GiantSnowman/2016) and you told me to redirect them (see User talk:Qed237). Now an editor opposes the redirect (diff) and reverted my edit so what should I do now? It is notable (I think) so I dont think AfD is the right place (even if I could vote "redirect"), but the editor told me to go to AfD. Please advise. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 11:21, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Page protection
Hi there, could you please protect the Wahbi Khazri page? It's under attack from multiple users and IPs. -KH-1 (talk) 13:16, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Alberto Paloschi
Do not delete players honours or career statistics! this website is always a good reference! So please add it back I dont know how and add this reference!--86.121.110.76 (talk) 07:26, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

reply
In what way have I done any vandalism? I've never vandalised a page on here and cannot see why you have falsely accused me of such things. If anything you're more guilty of that by undoing a correction I made and made it incorrect again. Think before accusing. ThanksPawac (talk) 16:26, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Maybe you should try communicating with people and actually check what you're undoing before recklessly undoing and accusing. if you had paid attention to what you were doing you would not have undone an edit correcting wrong info (conveniently ignored that one) and removing a link. Then I wouldn't have undone your edit as all I could see was you undoing the correction and removing a link. Okay, good. Pawac (talk) 17:00, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
 * False. You did not re-format with the correct stats as you will see here and you did not clearly explain it. I did not blindly revert it, I actually DID explain in my edit summery that you removed the correct stats here Clearly only one of us needs to pay attention in the future. sad that you have to lie. chill & move on. Pawac (talk) 17:11, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
 * It's telling that you have to make things up, grow up. I never blindly edited and always explained why I was making the edits, the proof is there. Funny how it is only myself who is edit conflicting, especially as I "beat you to it" with the edit. Whatever. I think this all speaks for itself :) . Tatty bye.Pawac (talk) 17:22, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
 * lol. No YOU have to literally just look at the diffs and see that there is an explanation. Again, it's sad you have to make things up to have any sort of argument. So, so sad.Pawac (talk) 17:26, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Move help
Hi, I need help from an admin to move Yll Kaçaniku back to it's original name Uluğ Kaçaniku. It was moved by a now indef blocked sockpuppet, and the only ref on the article this from basketball.eurobasket.com) says his name is Ulug. I tried move it back myself but I was not able to since the target (currently a redirect) has been edited once (because it was a double redirect). <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 17:12, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
 * To add, this and other related articles has a lot of issues with a dynamic IP 46.99. What is the best cause of action, mass semi-protections or see if a rangeblock is possible? <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 17:14, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Racing Club de Bruxelles/K.F.C. Rhodienne-De Hoek
What about the correction of this articles? Akadunzio (talk) 22:39, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

January 2016
Be cool buddy, I have been adding loads of references to dozens of your stubs, do not just threaten to block people just like that. A thank you would suit you better. Gruesome Gary (talk)

Invitation to the Google Doodle task force
– Sent using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:54, 2 February 2016 (UTC) on behalf of WikiProject Today's articles for improvement

Speedy deletion nomination of Wiki (rapper)
Hello GiantSnowman,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Wiki (rapper) for deletion, because it seems to be promotional, rather than an encyclopedia article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Hama Dryad (talk • contribs • email) 20:29, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Tommy O'Hara
Hi Giantsnowman, I am trying to correct my dads page, Tommy O'Hara. He was born in 1952 not 1953 and he was 63 not 62. Please stop changing this back. Thanks Chloe O'Hara — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.242.180.251 (talk) 22:07, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Libra Legends
Hi, could you look at Libra Legends it has been edited by an IP that has edited only today and edited same articles as SWASTIK 25 and one of their socks. This article got AfD message on it, but I dont think it has been added correctly to the AFD process. The reason for AfD looks like similar to the one I had at Articles for deletion/Rabindra Jayanti which is one of the articles of SWASTIK 25. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 13:27, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Sure, not enough for DUCK, but how about the AfD. Has the article been nominated correctly. It does have it's own AfD page. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 20:16, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks I will take a closer look later. FYI, I have nominated related 2016 Masters Champions League just now in this AfD if you are interested. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 21:43, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Why was my edit on James Ward Prowse considered vandalism
I would like to request why my edit on James Ward Prowse was considered vandalism, what the article originally stated was false, i fixed it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AntiBadWolf (talk • contribs) 16:47, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Merla
Hello GS; can you advise how best to proceed with regard to above page. It was created out of a re-direct, relating to the surname 'Merla', by a very new editor who initially just blanked the page. That was quickly restored by another editor but the page was subsequently re-created by the 'new' editor as a page about a company named 'Merla'. It looks to me like promotional or advertising material and is without references. The new ed. also has only edited that page so possibly also COI. Can you help please? I did also raise the issue with the editor who reviewed the page but not had a response as yet. Thanks. Regards, Eagleash (talk) 10:58, 5 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Eagleash (talk) 14:18, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Antony1821
Hi, GiantSnowman. You recently blocked as sock of. It seems that the editor is back, this time as. Beagel (talk) 10:07, 6 February 2016 (UTC)


 * If I may add, I have also come across this editor and was about to inform GiantSnowman but it looks like Beagel beat me to it. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 16:55, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
 * - thanks guys, I've blocked. GiantSnowman 06:49, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

IP contributions
Hi GS, can you have a look at these IP edits. It's a possible sock of Alexiulian given the first page edited, and recently I'm finding a number of similarly-themed reversions of some of my edits by normally single-account IP's, usually with an uncivil talk page post (this one not as bad as some). I've reverted the Nacional edits. Regards. Eldumpo (talk) 10:22, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

DOB
Thank you for adding the month for Yvonne Ciannella and changing to European dates for Pierre Boulez, - I missed that ;) - You may have seen that it was more than the hardliners for "no infobox for classical composers" can take. As if he wasn't also a French person and a writer, - they believe we have to dance to their tune. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:38, 6 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Please don't do this again, while trying to claim you are acting within BRD. The recent addition was, as I'm sure you know, the Bold edit that was reverted. Please feel free to Discuss on the talk page to gain consensus. – SchroCat (talk) 08:03, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

Two wishes:
 * Please don't replace alt which should be used to describe any image to a person who can't see it. I am often too lazy to fill it right away, so need the reminder.
 * Please use image_upright, not image_size, because a factor reflecting the reader's preferences is preferable to a fixed size. More on accessibility on WP:QAIPOST, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:24, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi!
Homosexuality in association football contains the sentence:

On the case of Dinçdağ, The Board of Referees came to this conclusion by upholding the private statue of the association, which claims that people who do not complete their military duties due to a mental illness such as homosexuality are not eligible to be a football referee as well, although normally homosexuality is not considered as a disease by the Turkish constitution.

Do you know how to rewrite/improve that? The Quixotic Potato (talk) 10:08, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you! The Quixotic Potato (talk) 13:20, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

Swastik 25 duck
The IP is SWASTIK 25? <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 14:40, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Okay thanks, I just thought this was a bit suspicious as I left a message on SWASTIK 25 not to create more accounts after a new sock was blocked yesterday, and it is one of his created articles. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 18:35, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Carlo Annovazzi
Hi, It was not a test; Annovazzi was A.C. Milan's captain. You can actually check it here. -Bijak riyandi (talk) 12:35, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure you do. Every Milan captains' page (except for Annovazzi) and many other team captains has it. -Bijak riyandi (talk) 12:55, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Adnan Zahirović
So, I have found a source for his youth international career. This article on his signing for Israeli team gives a summary of his international career at the end, stating that he has made five appearances for the U21 squad and twenty for senior squad. www.sportsport.ba/ino_fudbal/adnan-zahirovic-novi-igrac-izraelskog-hapoela-akkoa/167554 HankMoodyTZ (talk) 19:56, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

FYI
|They're banned from WOP. Somebody else reverted you already but I'm not gonna argue. 74.205.176.200 (talk) 20:36, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Precious
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:22, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

QuickSilver95
Hi, you recently blocked LifesGood95 as a sockpuppet of Antony1821 (see User talk:GiantSnowman/2016). I just spotted QuickSilver95 at the same article DEPA and edit is similar changing imagesize to 280 (diff) and changing links (diff) as LifesGood95 (link diff and image diff). <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 17:20, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

Jeffrey Pino listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Jeffrey Pino. Since you had some involvement with the Jeffrey Pino redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. MSJapan (talk) 00:37, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

Ezzaki Badou
Like I promised... done, my eyes are burning after three hours searching. If you have any "beef" with any of the sources, well that would be a pity.

Attentively --84.90.219.128 (talk) 04:08, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Mahama Cho
<small style="color:#999;white-space:nowrap;text-shadow:lightgrey 0.3em 0.3em 0.15em;">&mdash; <big style="color:#ffa439">Coffee //  have a cup  //  beans  // 12:02, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Steve Brennan (footballer, born 1958)
Hello GS, I don't know if you remember the probs over the death of Danny Light where Ian King (author CPFC complete record 1905–2011) posted in the CPFC BBS forum that he had died. Similar situation has arisen with Brennan. Ian posted in the forum on 13 October and CPFC official twitter posted on 15 October. DoD at 15 October was added, by another editor, to both Brennan's page and deaths in 2015 using a scraper/mirror site (deadfamous) as ref. It was removed from 'deaths' as unreliable so I removed it from Brennan accordingly. I've now found details at Hugman's which gives the DoD as 13 August. Ian King just said 'recently'. CPFC tweet didn't give a date. Is Hugman regarded as sufficiently reliable? I've updated the page per Hugman but can easily undo it if necessary. Thanks. Regards, Eagleash (talk) 13:11, 14 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I'll use Hugmans' DoD (13 August). Eagleash (talk) 14:59, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

Alexiulian socks
First things first. Could you please block this IP: User:2a02:2f05:3f:ffff::5679:6d6a. That being said, I'd like a second opinion on this issue. I have been tracking this guy's socks for a while and more or less indiscriminately reverting his edits. For the most part, Alexiulian had let those reversions stand, until now. Most of the edits are inconsequential, but a few, like this one, would be basically constructive if they weren't in such obvious violation of a block. As result, I'm concerned that my edits are becoming pointy. Do grind my teeth and let him have this one? Do I keep reverting? Do I request semi-protection of all UEFA Cup articles (that seems excessive, but it would solve the problem)? Let me know what you think. Sir Sputnik (talk) 17:15, 15 February 2016 (UTC)


 * I am here to do constructive edits how I did with Uefa CUP seasons, by creating infoboxes! I want to improve Wikipedia not to damage the project ! Talk with me please ! I want to know what will happen with this notable and constructive edits ?! We are a team already, with my cousins, broathers, neighbours we can not use only one account ! What to do ? Thank you!--2A02:2F05:3F:FFFF:0:0:5679:6D6A (talk) 17:22, 15 February 2016 (UTC)


 * We are all ready to improve Wikipedia with infoboxes and constructive edits ! We read all the policies and we are prepared to not revert edits or involve in distuptive edits ! We will ask someone else all the time in this cases!--2A02:2F05:3F:FFFF:0:0:5679:6D6A (talk) 17:30, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Sorry to jump in here GS, but I have noticed you reverting his edits Sir Sputnik. Part of me thinks it is a bit pointy as a lot of what he is doing seems to be genuinely constructive (as noted in what he posted above while I was typing this), but I also understand that he has been blocked for serious socking and is trying to get around it. From this he is obviously prepared to enter into discussion. Is it worth trying to point him in the direction of WP:UTRS? A lot of socks are just a pain, but I can't help but feel that he is just trying to help out and that he is not going to stop using random IPs and so is never going to be unblocked. It might be harsh but I think that we should continue to revert all edits from him with boiler plate notices posted to IP talk pages explaining we know who he is and to remind him of this thread and that he will never get any worthwhile content to stick until, like everyone else he adheres to it. Fenix down (talk) 17:31, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Also, Alexiulian is decided to stay 6 months (5 months left) to be his punishment, but us, we are totally prepared and wait for your confirmation to can create accounts and start improve ! We also (the neighbour with his cousin and a part of gypsies nephew friends) start an English class and we are ready to improve Wikipedia and also we are ready to come to UK and to become ENGLISH citizen like you guys ! We should be all as a family!--2A02:2F05:3F:FFFF:0:0:5679:6D6A (talk) 17:38, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
 * So you should understand that we are a big family, 12 sibblings, 21 cousins, (and more then 10 interested to do constructive edits including a few neighbors) and we can not suffer all because of alex mistake!--2A02:2F05:3F:FFFF:0:0:5679:6D6A (talk) 17:42, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
 * You should appreciate that this is quite a serious situation (for WP at least), by continuing to edit when blocked, any substantial contribution you make will be reverted and until you stop this, you will never be unblocked. YOu are also mistaken in thinking that you have five months until you are unblocked. Re-read your talk page, you have been blocked indefinitely. The six month timeframe is the minimum you need to spend away from WP. As you have not stopped using sock puppets, this is still six months, and probably now much longer. Fenix down (talk) 17:47, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Also, please consider that we did not work and not afford to buy computers or laptops so we all share a small LAN ! But, we hope once we get to UK and claim benefits we will afford to buy more laptops and help you guys to improve this encyclopedia! And maybe we will be neighbors once we come in England! You should be understanding also and be our broathers too! We only have one queen !! God save the Queen !--2A02:2F05:3F:FFFF:0:0:5679:6D6A (talk) 17:49, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

- I have blocked and reverted per WP:DENY. Alex if you are reading this then the correct way to go about this is WP:OFFER. GiantSnowman 17:56, 15 February 2016 (UTC)


 * We are more person sharing a computer, we do not afford our personal computer, we live 4 in one room, is not an easy life in Romania! What do you suggest? To create separate accounts and specify which is which (cousin, nephew, neighbor) or ... ? We can use all the same account, because we can not edit in same time because we also can use the computer of the neighbor across the street. We romanians are more close to each other, we visit our neighbors and make friends with their kids, we are not distant with neighbors as you British are! We share everything, even food, clothes or computers!--2A02:2F05:F:FFFF:0:0:567C:FCB0 (talk) 17:58, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Please talk with us, or are you going to block all the street? Read to understand our culture first and you will see why we have more IP`s.--2A02:2F05:F:FFFF:0:0:567C:FCB0 (talk) 17:59, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
 * You're not helping yourself, you're just wasting your time editing as all that is going to happen is it will be reverted from now on. I did have some sympathy for you previously, but your comments here are not constructive, though they indicate you clearly understand what is going on. Fenix down (talk) 18:00, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
 * While we're discussing this, do either of you know if there's a way to easily track edits from an IPv6 range? I've been using xtools to track him, but that only works for IPv4. Sir Sputnik (talk) 18:04, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
 * OK I accept with a simple and easy condition, we will stop (even we can generate unlimited IPs for all of my broathers) and get the punishment and respect the law!!! (so it should be). And with this we save your time also!! THE condition: You set a CLOCK on my page with 6 months going down second by second to let anyone know (now, the majority knows about alexiulian) that I am coming back and I did not left forever! I will respect the punishment like in prison, and I will look forward in 6 months that we can edit again ! By then we will improve the English. OK ??--86.121.111.53 (talk) 18:18, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

And also GiantSnowman be attentive! Start add before to delete major content!! Give people a chance to find refs ! And also briefly describe your change!!! Otherwise I am going to revert all your edits by morning !! do not forget I have unlimited IPs!!!--2A02:2F05:3F:FFFF:0:0:567C:FCCE (talk) 18:27, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Is no point to block me! Do you understand ?? You have the choice to cooperate or to spend your life reverting edits!--2A02:2F05:3F:FFFF:0:0:567C:FCCE (talk) 18:29, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Alex, there is no ability for us to put a countdown on your user page - but if you come back on 15 August 2016, having not edited the English-language Wikipedia during that time, then WP:OFFER is open for you. However if you continue to make threats to mass-revert or mass-sock I will seek a site-ban and you will never be allowed back. OK? GiantSnowman 18:29, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I would argue a site ban is already in order, given the fairly extreme level recidivism. I'll work up an WP:AN post and let you know when I'm done. Sir Sputnik (talk) 18:33, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Do you think this is the only device (laptop / computer) I can use?--2A02:2F05:3F:FFFF:0:0:567C:FCCE (talk) 18:36, 15 February 2016 (UTC)


 * IT ALL DEPENDS ON ME GUYS !! and I will take the site-ban till 15 August 2016 (because I am a nice guy)! It will be the best option TO CAN STOP DOING CONSTRUCTIVE EDITS ! Do you guarantee that you will unblock me on 15 August 2016 ?--2A02:2F05:F:FFFF:0:0:5679:6D21 (talk) 18:41, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, it does depend on you. Do I guarantee that you will be unblocked on 15 August 2016? No, I cannot do that. However, if you are able to show that you have learnt from your block, i.e. that you are now able to edit constructively and in collaboration with other editors, then I see no reason why you will not be unblocked. GiantSnowman 18:44, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

OK ! DONE ! and also in that day I will revert all of my constructive edits, Sir Sputnik keep this list: User:Sir Sputnik/Socks and on 16 August everything constructive will be reverted! SEE you then guys! Bye!--2A02:2F05:F:FFFF:0:0:567C:FEDC (talk) 18:49, 15 February 2016 (UTC)


 * - I suggest you hold off on the ANI site-ban thread for now. It is unlikely it would pass and you would just be wasting your time. GiantSnowman 18:52, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I find that hard to believe, and very disappointing if it's true. I assume you've seen the personal attacks he's made against Eldumpo. He's made a few against me, including one that was apparently so egregious that it had to be removed from the public archive. He's made baseless allegations of misconduct against the two of us. And now he's threatening even more disruption. If that's not ban worthy, I honestly don't know what is. That being said I will hold of on the ANI thread. I'm not entirely sure if I believe hims, but if he's serious about accepting the standard offer, a ban motion would likely provoke more sockpuppetry. We'll find out soon enough I guess. Sir Sputnik (talk) 19:08, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Exactly - a user made threats to sock but has come to his senses and has agreed to go away for 6 months and then come back per OFFER? That won't pass. If he evades the block again, or makes more threats, then I'll start ANI thread myself. GiantSnowman 19:18, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Ok I see things are going to be left for now but it's not just 'threats to sock', he has already 'been socking'. Eldumpo (talk) 21:28, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Gaston Sauro
Please explain to me what 'constructive' is? Was my edit wrong saying 'in Major League Soccer'? Is the English wrong? is it supposed to say 'of Major League Soccer'? Ewyourfaceew (talk) 23:42, 15 February 2016 (UTC) ewyourfaceew

Pic vandal
Remember this situation (please see here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Struway2#Pic_vandal)? I only messaged User:Struway2 because he was the only one I remember having been directly involved in the first "situation", but now he directed me to you as the original "enforcer".

I think I have explained it all in the message of which I now send you a "copy", but feel free to ask further if you have any doubts. I leave it to your better judgement, best wishes --84.90.219.128 (talk) 15:44, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

TryYourBest88
A new sock of User:Antony1821? Looks like it if you look at article like Evangelos Mytilineos and DEPA. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 16:16, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

Moshe Dayan
Hi GiantSnowman I assume you didn't mean to break the two dates here - I guess you had just meant to just edit the birth_place but I wasn't sure - so I'll leave it for you to look at again. Regards KylieTastic (talk) 21:58, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

Broadcasting
That user added hundreds of empty broadcasting sections. How to deal with those? He was blocked before. -Koppapa (talk) 07:56, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

User preferences
My preference: respect for user preferences, shown in image_upright, as a factor of the user's image-size preference, vs. a fixed image_size which ignores the user's wishes. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:20, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

User HankMoodyTZ
Hi! User HankMoodyTZ is still adding unsourced content into the artciles, despite the final warning I gave him today:User_talk:HankMoodyTZ. He was warned several times in the past by other users ingluding you. I corrected today some stats is several articles in accordance with the sources, but he reverted my edits without any explentations like,, , and. Please help me to deal with this disruptive editor, beacuse since a long time he don't want to adapt to the rules of Wikipedia.--Oleola (talk) 19:26, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi! User HankMoodyTZ created a new profile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/GlabajteMiMuda

--Josepolivares (talk) 21 February 2016 (UTC)

New user posts
See these contributions, I think they might be Alexiulian, although in any case unlikely to be a completely new user. See also post they've made at ANI. My posts were reflecting the sources. Eldumpo (talk) 21:32, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I dont have much time to look in to it at the moment, but from what I can see it is not the typical articles edited by Alexiulian so I dont think it is him. But on the other hand you can never be sure. However, as you say it does not look like it is a completely new editor. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 21:42, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I think this editors contributions are suspicious enough that it might be worthwhile to get some CheckUser evidence in this case. That being said, I agree with QED. My gut reaction is that this is not Alexiulian. They're ANI post in particular lacks the language errors I would expect from him. Sir Sputnik (talk) 21:45, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Apologies...
...for mentioning you in User:Struway2's page in what seemed not the most favourable of lights. I hit the walls everytime I see you doing that which is mentioned in the text, but I know it's ALWAYS for the best of the project, the only compliment you need to hear from me surely. At least I had the courtesy of piping you, like I did to Struway here.

Best wishes (hopefully you'll accept my sincere apologies, if not, not much I can do sadly), from Portugal --84.90.219.128 (talk) 01:36, 23 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Welcome back! You don't accept them, I suppose? I also see you (and several others!) are having quite a handful with that sock extraordinaire, good luck with that. --84.90.219.128 (talk) 14:48, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

May all the corners of your new abode fit together in perfect harmony (or whatever that may mean, the "science" I mean, my words are from the heart!) --84.90.219.128 (talk) 20:06, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Alexiulian
Given that he's registered new sockpuppets, I should let you know that I've filed a WP:CBAN motion at WP:AN.

Timothy Fosu-Mensah
Hello GS, could you please restore the edit history of Timothy Fosu-Mensah prior to it being deleted by you earlier this month. Thanks, JMHamo (talk) 16:29, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

Greek verbatim IP
New address, this one has been (being) fairly used (please see here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/176.58.129.205). --84.90.219.128 (talk) 17:22, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

Starship9000BOT
I'm sure someone will grab it in a minute, but just in case the UAA gets overlooked, you were the last active admin in my watchlist, thanks! - --  samtar talk or stalk 21:57, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

George Harrison - Footballer
Good evening,

Thanks for your message regarding my updates to the George Harrison page and references. I recently discovered his grave and, working with Everton and the EFC Heritage Society, his grave was recently marked. The information that I am adding was compiled by the EFC Heritage Society in a booklet that they produced for the short unveiling ceremony, would it be possible for you to add this in the reference section. Most of what I will be adding is from the same source.

Best wishes — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thesouthderbyshirehistorian (talk • contribs) 19:01, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

George Harrison - footballer source of info
Hello,

The booklet was distributed to guests and is titled 'EFC Heritage Society, George Harrison, 1892-1939'. They researched George and included the information in the booklet (some contributions from myself also). There is no reference to any particular author as it was mainly put together by various people.

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thesouthderbyshirehistorian (talk • contribs) 19:06, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Vandalism by 163.47.15.143
User with ip-address 163.47.15.143 is adding a lot of unsourced content (most of which is obvious vandalism) to various Indian football pages, some of which have you been reverted by you as well. I have already left a warning message on talk the page, but he/she has not stopped. What's the next action that can be taken? Coderzombie (talk) 18:38, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Ilirsejdiu
Hi, could you please hide some revisions of involving threats at User talk:Ilirsejdiu? <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 23:18, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Done, by an other editor. Thanks anyway. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 23:24, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Greek IP nuisance
And another (please see here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/46.190.47.144), continues to treat WP as a sports newspaper!

Cheers (and are you done with your moving in? Hopefully) --84.90.219.128 (talk) 23:20, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Mahrez
Hi GiantSnowman, you undid an edit of mine on Riyad Mahrez's page citing that scoring a goal is not a notable achievement. However, if you go back to the edit you'll find that it not only refers to the goal he scored but a also to a personal seasonal milestone and the importance of the goal in the scheme of the season. Surely that's worth considering? Not making a thing of it but just wondering if that wouldn't make it notable enough. Cheers, Liam E. Bekker (talk) 20:32, 5 March 2016 (UTC)


 * I was asking. Similar references to seasonal landmarks are made on Wayne Rooney's page (see para 4 in 2009-10 season) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Liam E. Bekker (talk • contribs) 20:49, 5 March 2016 (UTC)


 * "While not a strict OSE reasoning, the overarching concept remains, that of precedent and consistency throughout the Wikipedia project." - that's what I took from all of that. Anyway, I don't mind that it was reverted. I just wanted to know your reasons for doing so. Thanks for all the changes to the Dennis van der Heijden page too. Liam E. Bekker (talk) 20:57, 5 March 2016 (UTC)


 * I was under the impression that personal milestones were worthy of inclusion. As you explained, this particular one is not and though I don't necessarily agree with you (as I don't feel it's just another goal as stated above) I've got no problem accepting it. Liam E. Bekker (talk) 21:10, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

Racing Club de Bruxelles
Why do you revert my corrections on the Racing Club de Bruxelles players? They never played for Rhodienne-Den Hoek and categorizing them as Rhodienne-Den Hoek players is incorrect? Akadunzio (talk) 13:05, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

Question about a userpage
Just a quick question about a userpage. Does User:Fabio Rafael Eidelwein comply with policy? I'm not quite sure whether it violates FAKEARTICLE. The person in question seems real, at least according to this source but hasn't played at a league level in Germany that would justify an article. Regards, Calistemon (talk) 23:38, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

I'm ready
After my TV/internet server overhaul, I have this IP (I have some concerns that it may be dynamic, at least it was after I shut it down/connected it the first time).

It will be much more practical for everybody overall (for contact purposes) if I just create another account, sick and tired of letting that Benfica punk think he won (and by the way he's till there, leaving summaries full of HATRED for Porto, Sporting and sometimes even Benfica coaches/president/players, and he even swears/taunts when presenting his unblock defence! Have a look at this one https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Mattythewhite&diff=705466698&oldid=705450652, if it's not the same person that nearly drove me away from WP, then there are TWO of them, "double" disgusting).

So, if you please, can you reinstate my previous user page "goodies" under WaxOnWaxOff, if no naming violations occur? A small tribute to Pat Morita, and the fact that we do a lot of "scrubbing" (updates, undoing idiocies) around here?

Regards --2001:8A0:7648:6001:78E8:BCD7:2FB9:C7D5 (talk) 21:49, 8 March 2016 (UTC)


 * So, what are the options? Can you create a new account with my suggestion then add just the basic technicalities. I remember you wrote something to the effect of "X is a Portuguese editor who... the beautiful game", then to the right we had a column with my language skills (LEVEL 4 English, 4 French, 4 Spanish), and the thing I now (I suppose) have to earn again, my reviewer rights. --2001:8A0:7648:6001:78E8:BCD7:2FB9:C7D5 (talk) 22:07, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

Okeydokey. What happens if the naming is not allowed? Will I receive a message notifying me of that sooner than later? --2001:8A0:7648:6001:78E8:BCD7:2FB9:C7D5 (talk) 22:09, 8 March 2016 (UTC)


 * This is me (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Be_Quiet_AL), nice to meet you :) --Be Quiet AL (talk) 22:19, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

Just a minute
Hi GS. I came across the following footballers who played less than half of a single match in FPL.
 * Artyom Vasev (90th minute sub on 7 July 2013), no appearances before or since
 * Artyom Pshenichnikov (23 minutes played as sub on 30 Oct 2010), no appearances before or since
 * Baba Ndaw Seck (90th minute sub on 16 November 2013), no appearances before or since
 * I'm sure there's more, that's just "A", but is there a precedent here? Batch AfD? Something else? Thanks, C<span style="color: #6A5ACD; text-decoration: inherit; -moz-text-decoration-color: #6A5ACD; text-decoration-color: #6A5ACD;">679 16:03, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Rules and copyright
Hi, look at 2016 UEFA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament and tell me if rules are copyright? It is not something we can change and modify of our own. The tiebreakers are a list of what happens, nothing we can change and it is used on so many articles. Please advice. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 22:24, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Account
Mighty GS,

1 - I have copied some basics from another fellow user's page, please add/correct anything if you see it fit; 2 - even with an account, I am still "forced" to enter the "letterage" whenever I insert a source to my edits, is this normal?

Attentively --Be Quiet AL (talk) 19:28, 10 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks are in order. Next question, has to be posed because it's been a long time (loooooong) since I first asked it: how do I operate to stop receiving message notifications on my personal e-mail? --Be Quiet AL (talk) 21:15, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Be Quiet AL, click on the Preferences link (upper right-hand corner of screen) and go to Notifications. Uncheck the email boxes that might be checked. Liz  <sup style="font-family:Times New Roman; color:#006400">Read! Talk! 21:20, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

Christos Mavridis AfD
I suspect this failed to ping you properly, since I misspelled your username. In any case, you may want to revisit your !vote in the AfD. Sir Sputnik (talk) 15:53, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Michael Beesley for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Michael Beesley is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Michael Beesley until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Uhooep (talk) 03:34, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

Re: Schönfeld
Hello, See also and. --Civa61 (talk) 09:57, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

User:Mattc123...
...has been evading his block using User:Mattcressey123, which I've indef blocked. Mattythewhite (talk) 17:05, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

Reverting shirt numbers
Hello,

I saw that you were reverting some edits of shirt numbers on some football pages I created. From what I've seen, the edits that the IP-logged user made was changes that also were on the only references given in the articles. I wonder why you felt the need to revert those edits. I'm going to revert back to the correct numbers given in the references in the article which is trustworthy. I wonder how you felt you contributed to the Wikipedia community by these reverts, thank you for reading. // Psemmler (talk) 21:12, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

Marcel Peeper
Welcome to WP, BQAL... I will reinstate it, believe me. --Be Quiet AL (talk) 22:05, 15 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Seems kind fellow user User:Drmies has picked up the slack, I tipped him because it would be, in all likelihood, very difficult to arrange sources in English (obscure Dutch player, albeit international, retired almost 20 years ago). I have already removed the second part of the previous message, it seemed like I was asking if you had anything against me and that is not fair to you. I do admit I was seething when I saw your removal, but I know (for the 1,000000000th time, I bet you are tired of hearing the same over and over again) it was for the good of the project. --Be Quiet AL (talk) 01:34, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

I also did a bit now, profitting from one external link as reference as much as I hate it tough. I have not reinstated anything about his Lokeren spell, and I have not touched the tags you inserted, not for me to do. --Be Quiet AL (talk) 03:48, 16 March 2016 (UTC)


 * - I didn't claim there was a BLP violation, I claimed there was unsourced content - and also POV, just look at "Peeper met diverse fates: after three solid years [...] one unassuming spell with lowly", completely inappropriate. Also we don't need English-language sources, you should know that by now. GiantSnowman 08:08, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I rewrote the somewhat flowery language, as you saw, and I know you didn't make that claim--I don't really like restoring unsourced content, so I thought I'd try to be comprehensive in my edit summary. Drmies (talk) 15:30, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

I understand. I have done more, are the tags good to go or not? --Be Quiet AL (talk) 16:07, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Looks good to me. What do you say, GS? Hey, AL, thanks for working on those little articles for minor players--they are also important. I feel for that guy, such promise. I wish you could read the (Dutch) article I added: he had a tough career. Drmies (talk) 16:32, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you both! Two more refs added, but I still ain't touching those tags until someone 1 - removes them; 2 - tells me I can remove. --Be Quiet AL (talk) 17:38, 16 March 2016 (UTC)


 * a lot better, cheers guys! GiantSnowman 17:56, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Jamie Vardy / BLP privacy
We had a message on Talk:Jamie Vardy asking us to remove reference to a Mail on Sunday article which named his biological father. As said Mail article has been deleted, I found it necessary to remove the link.

However, I am not sure about the BLP policy on this. The story has also been reported, not just in tabloid junk like the Star and Metro but in another Star, that of Sheffield which I am sure has higher journalistic integrity and through being based in the city would be instantly held accountable if breaking someone's privacy.

Do you have any ideas on the policy? &#39;&#39;&#39;tAD&#39;&#39;&#39; (talk) 23:20, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Racing Club de Bruxelles
Dear GiantSnowman, is it possible to give me an answer about my question? I have the impression that you block my corrections without knowing why. Akadunzio (talk) 23:30, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Rod Durham listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Rod Durham. Since you had some involvement with the Rod Durham redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Steel1943 (talk) 03:34, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

Greek verbatim punk
In Zeca (footballer), you can find their last two IP addresses (those right before my cleanup). I also have a hunch User:GEORGEKAL69 might be them, judging by the message they have received in their talkpage. The latter is just a (solid) hunch, but of the former I have ZERO doubt, continues to engage in WP:NOTNEWS, overlinking until the cows come home and language like "shock loss" (cause it's against THEIR team!) or "fortunately we did not lose", etc, etc.

Happy rest/Easter --Be Quiet AL (talk) 00:40, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Mike Rowbotham
Could you restore the article, providing it was about the South African footballer. As an international and having played in The Football League, he meets the criteria for WP:NFOOTY.  VEO one five 10:50, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Alex Iwobi
Hey, umm, Alexander Iwobi is his name according to both his Twitter and his Instagram. How does that constitute vandalism? 2001:1C00:1310:E800:BCF0:2E7F:2F57:EC79 (talk) 18:02, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Trevin Caeser
That wasn't vandalism. The reason why I did that was because he scored two goals at a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification match against St. Vincent and the Grenadines Proof: http://www.thegoatparade.com/2016/3/30/11332524/oc-blues-trevin-caesar-scores-two-trinidad-tobago-world-cup-qualifier   JerrySa1 (talk) 00:58, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Thamks
Hello Mr.GiantSnowman, Thank you for your notice, and I provided a reliable sources, Good luck. --MeeshQ8 (talk) 21:48, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

Edits to Dipo Akinyemi
Substantiation added. --User:86.9.102.180 12:54, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Edits to Ghassimu Sow
Substantiation added. --User:86.9.102.180 12:54, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Edits to Dulwich Hamlet F.C.
Squad changes all made in accordance with recent player moves - as such, your reversion has been undone: - Kenny Beaney in - http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/dulwichhamlet/news/kenny-beaney-returns-home-to-champion-hill-1587055.html - Roman Michael-Percil in - http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/dulwichhamlet/news/gavin-rose-adds-percil-to-the-mix-1587067.html - Dipo Akinyemi in - http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/dulwichhamlet/news/dulwich-hamlet-have-signed-stevenage-striker-dipo--1587001.html - Lawrence Yiga in - http://www.isthmian.co.uk/the-seasons-final-moves-30116 - Oshane Brown return from loan - http://www.isthmian.co.uk/the-seasons-final-moves-30116 - Dereece Thompson included in 1st team squad - http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/dulwichhamlet/news/dulwich-hamlet-2-0-bognor-regis-town-1590680.html - Albert Jarrett out - http://www.southlondonpress.co.uk/article.cfm?id=116980&headline=Dulwich%20Hamlet%20boss%3A%20Why%20duo%20had%20to%20be%20cut%20free&sectionIs=sport&searchyear=2016 - Dean McDonald out - http://www.southlondonpress.co.uk/article.cfm?id=116980&headline=Dulwich%20Hamlet%20boss%3A%20Why%20duo%20had%20to%20be%20cut%20free&sectionIs=sport&searchyear=2016 --User:86.9.102.180 12:54, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Userpage move
Hi, it looks like User:MarvinHumesMad has been moving his userpage around, for example to MarvinHumesMad and Bedclub FM Summertime Ball (both now deleted). His userpage now redirects to User:Bedclub FM Summertime Ball, but I want to check with you if that is okay because I can not see that he actually has changed username? If you could take a look and see if everything is okay, that would be great. Thank you. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 11:17, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

2016 Chinese Super League
Hi GS, can you have a look at the recent edits at this article relating to an attendance summary table, and recent posts at my talk page. As far as I can tell, the link being claimed to show this info just leads to a series of forum-type posts, whether it is the official Twitter/Weibo page or not. I can't see how you get the images he has posted at my talk page, but even if they are there (and the source is regarded as appropriate), is the presence of attendance info for individual matches per week enough that the summary attendance table should remain at the article? Also, when I last looked the positions by round source wasn't working for round 2 so not sure if that is ok to remain. Regards. Eldumpo (talk) 22:42, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi GS. Hours ago, you said that official twitter, the source of League attendance, is not a reliable source and it is illegal. But I want to tell you that those images mentioned in last paragraph are from official Super League Company and you can look at them carefully. More importantly, CSL(Chinese Super League) company decided that they are not going to set any official website. It is replaced by the official Weibo(Twitter) from sina.com. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zwq950117 (talk • contribs) 13:52, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Even if you think that those images are not reliable, I don't think so. You can check those 3 pictures. This is the only official site.

"Minor" edits and "clean up using AWB"
Hello. Please, in future, don't mark edits as minor when your edit doesn't satisfy the definition of a minor edit. As I'm sure you're aware, "A check to the minor edit box signifies that only superficial differences exist between the current and previous versions. Examples include typographical corrections, formatting and presentational changes, and rearrangements of text without modification of its content."

As to Fred Pentland, there's a difference between unsourced and un-inlinesourced. I think it's a pity that an editor of your experience should feel the need to gut a well-researched and well-written article about an interesting and important character in the history of football (nothing to do with me, so I can say that) just because whoever did write it didn't use inline sourcing. If it were a BLP, it'd be another matter. It does the encyclopedia no favours. Struway2 (talk) 09:43, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Scotland players
I know you went on a bit of a project about a year ago to prepare articles for every Scotland international. I have recently reconciled the category numbers with the list I keep in my own space. I think the total should be 1165. The category page says there are 1163, but in fact there are 1164 in the category (I don't know why this discrepancy arises). The missing article is William Fulton &mdash; the article it is linked to (William Fulton (footballer)) was taken by a different player of about 20 years later, prepared just before you prepared the other missing articles. Jmorrison230582 (talk) 09:57, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Fred Pentland
Why are you been such an arse about this article. Two editors have reverted your edits. That must say something. Your behavior is vandalism. I expect better from an experienced editor like yourself DjlnDjln (talk) 13:17, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
 * You have been around long enough to know better than to just remove a whole article. Your actions are very negative. I expect better from you. DjlnDjln (talk) 13:32, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Updates on Canadian Soccer Players
Hi, can you please not revert changes to Canadian soccer players? These changes are backed up by both and You are claiming vandalism when there is none.

Jack Baird
Recently you changed my edit of defender Jack Baird's wikipedia incorrectly I might add. He is in fact a defender and not a midfielder so I'd appreciate you left my correct changes alone — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.103.184.187 (talk) 16:37, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

Osas Okoro
Recently you undid edits I made on this page. Do not do this again. If you had taken the time to simply Google the player, you would see that he indeed does play for the team I had said he did. He moved clubs in 2015. If you oversee this page, it is your own incompetence which led to it being so out of date. Please do NOT undo edits without a source. national-football-teams.com is NOT a reliable source, it's as accurate as transfermarkt or soccerway, sometimes even less so. While those websites are helpful, you cannot base a whole page's information on them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidlofgren1996 (talk • contribs)

Pentland infobox
Hello. Just to point out that the club rows in the infobox have been consistent in the horizontal format ever since the box was changed from the linebreak-delimited format six years ago. WP:MOS says that where there's a choice of acceptable formats, which in this case there is, we're supposed to go with the original/established format unless we have a non-style-dependent reason for change, i.e. we're not supposed to change to our own preferred format just because. I hate scrolling down miles of vertical format, but I have to do it every week at Clayton Donaldson because that's the format it's stable in. The last time this came up at WT:FOOTY that I remember was Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/Archive 90.

And you've reinstated some of the mistakes from the original infobox, including Small Heath as youth rather than senior club, incorrect years for Halifax/Stoke, and omitted second Halifax spell. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 18:01, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what makes you think that the way the parameters are laid out at the documentation – I imagine vertical format is standard in that situation, for ease of seeing – makes that format in some way uniquely correct. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 18:33, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Some editors find one layout easier to work with, some prefer the other, and I daresay some don't care. But that's not what I'm on about. You seem to be saying that only the vertical format is correct, and therefore your changing horizontally-formatted boxes is justifiable because you're not imposing your own preference, you're correcting an error. Now if that's true, where would I find confirmation? cheers, Struway2 (talk) 08:32, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
 * The documentation sets out what the parameters are called, whether they're optional or compulsory, what they're used for, and what type of content they expect. That's the stuff we're supposed to follow. I've never seen anything, anywhere, to say that we're also required to follow the exact layout of the documentation, and if we don't it's an error and should be changed. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 17:48, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Of course I have: the note below the Usage heading says explicitly that I'm supposed to. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 19:20, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Fred Titmus
Is there any reason why you've decimated the copy on the cricketer, Fred Titmus, removing reference to most of his career aside from his Test seasons? Johnlp (talk) 23:04, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Most of the material you removed can be referenced and de-POV-ed. A better and more courteous way of proceeding might be to flag up the areas of concern, alert the relevant project (WP:CRIC) where this is an article of some importance, and then chase people there to improve it. I'm going to revert your edit and do just that, with the intention of returning myself to it at some point in the near future. I don't disagree that it's unsatisfactory as it is, but slash-and-burn is not improving it. Have you done this with other cricket articles? Johnlp (talk) 10:58, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
 * You might, however, consider using the Refimprove template rather than just removing content. WP consists of articles in many states of unfinishedness and need of improvement; your method may be bold, but it does nothing to improve anything. Johnlp (talk) 11:09, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
 * And I would disagree with you. You've been around for a long time (as I have) and you know that standards 10 years ago weren't as rigorous as they are today. The fact that it is unreferenced doesn't mean it is not true; merely that with today's tightened standards we ought to try to improve it with references. Can I just ask that if you come across cricketers in your trawls, you refer them across to me or to the cricket project rather than just sharpen your axe. We can't keep an eye on every article that's been created. Thanks. Johnlp (talk) 12:32, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Userpage move again
Hi, I talked to you about a user that moved his page to mainspace a couple of times in User talk:GiantSnowman/2016. You gave him a notification about change of user name and deleted his userpage, but now he has done it again (twice). Just letting you know. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 10:50, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

Dynamo Dresden
After the promotion of Dynamo Dresden to the 2. Bundesliga yesterday a sock puppet of User:Fox53 has returned to re-add large amount of unenceclopedic content on the club's Ultras to the article, as happened before in September 2013. I have started Sockpuppet investigations/Fox53 but if you could keep an eye on the IP's activities it would be appreciated. Regards, Calistemon (talk) 15:14, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you. The users usual pattern is to jump to another IP, get blocked there too, lay low for a while and than reappear. I think yesterday's promotion of Dresden got him interested in Wikipedia again. Calistemon (talk) 15:29, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

About Berardi's page
It isn't vandalism, the award name is "LeaderU21", the "Serie A young player of the year" is discontinued since 2010. This is a total different prize, they are also awarded by two different jury (player's association the old one, manager's association the new one) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.236.203.155 (talk) 19:24, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

Template:Largest cities of Paraná
Hi GS, do you know much about editing navboxes? I've edited the above template to reflect a reference which actually ranks the cities, not just lists them alphabetically. However, it's not formatting well. Is it supposed to have 10 entries in the template, and I'm not sure why the column between the city and the population is showing (Paranal). Can you help? Regards. Eldumpo (talk) 06:29, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for response. In the end I switched to an easier template which could reflect the available sources. Eldumpo (talk) 20:19, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Intervention needed
Can you do something about ? he's edit warring in List of S.L. Benfica players, saying there is no consensus when you can see by discussion at WPF, that both comments agreed with me. There and in the Featured list candidates/List of S.L. Benfica players/archive1. I basically can't make the changes suggested by reviewers.--Threeohsix (talk) 16:43, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

IFK Haninge
Hi. Could you please move IFK Haninge/Brandbergen to IFK Haninge? I did not work for me as the target was already existing (it is a redirect to IFK Haninge/Brandbergen). It should be an uncontroversial move as they are listed as IFK Haninge at Swedish Football Association and the official webpage http://www.ifkhaninge.se/ contains a logo without "Brandbergen" and all info I can see is just "IFK Haninge". <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 18:06, 21 April 2016 (UTC)


 * I just saw this article on the team webpage announcing that starting 1 January 2016 they will have a new name "IFK Haninge" and a new team logo and jerseys. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 18:13, 21 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 19:19, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Uploading images
Hi there, I was wondering if you would be able to help me upload images for the pages of Dennis van der Heijden and Tom Davies? I've read through all the information on the commons regarding uploading but I'm still not sure if I'm going to be using an image that infringes copyright or not. Liam E. Bekker (talk) 21:26, 22 April 2016 (UTC)


 * I was going to use images from Getty Images because they generally allow for their photos to be embedded in website articles etc. but I'm not sure if that applies here. Liam E. Bekker (talk) 22:14, 23 April 2016 (UTC)


 * I'll definitely have a look there, thank you. Liam E. Bekker (talk) 08:02, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Eurocup basketball Last 32
Hi GS, can you see how the text at the first part of this sub-section has been entered. When I go to edit the text is not there, and I can't see an obvious template. You can also see from recent edits there is some evidence of citation tags being removed without inserting sources. Regards. Eldumpo (talk) 20:08, 23 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Further to above can you have a quick look at this edit. Vasconia is re-adding uncited material, removing citation tags, re-adding material not as per sources, and re-adding cites which do not directly support the facts. It is also noted that the article is solely cited from a single (primary) source. I went back and added some cn tags for the infobox items, but there's no evidence at present that this info is being collated. Regards. Eldumpo (talk) 18:43, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

User:Football_Statistics
Hey GS, hope you are doing well. Just thought I inform you about the newly created User:Football statistician. Bit odd that this account was just started and went straight into the editing phase, esspecially on pages of a team our old friend SWAT edited and with some similarities. Not saying it is 100% him but surely is a user to keep an eye on. Cheers. --ArsenalFan700 (talk) 07:39, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello, User:GiantSnowman! I am the newly joined User:Football statistician, User:ArsenalFan700 was talking about to you. As I am just about 2 days old here in Wikipedia and used to edit pages previously, but without an account. So, one of the senior users advised me to open an account which I did. I also followed User:ArsenalFan700's profile very closely to decorate my own user page. And till now in Wikipedia and even in my personal life, I don't know any one named SWAT. If I have caused any problem, please let me know so that I can rectify. Thank you. You can find some of my edits without an account here and here. Football statistician (talk) 07:53, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Hey, just want to interject one more time, sorry if I seem to have accused you something here but there have been past dealings with a user and lets just say it got kind of ugly in the end. If what you said is true then welcome to wikipedia "properly" this time (anon to username) and hope you contribute well. --ArsenalFan700 (talk) 08:01, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for welcoming me, User:ArsenalFan700. I am a great follower of yours. Football statistician (talk) 08:04, 24 April 2016 (UTC)


 * if you feel we have a sock then please raise it at SPI, otherwise assume good faith. welcome! GiantSnowman 09:05, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I'll see where this goes... --ArsenalFan700 (talk) 20:01, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
 * / It will be useful for me, if amyone amongst you let me know of all the policies in Wikipedia in my talk page. Football statistician (talk) 20:07, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Riyad Mahrez - Constructive?
Hello, i saw you undid my contribution, could you please tell me why it is not constructive? I'm watching the game right now and all i did is +1 his stats after he scored.. which is mandatory. Thanks (I just started out so i don't know much but im pretty sure i was in the right xD) — Preceding unsigned comment added by GanjaCaliphate (talk • contribs) 15:59, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

2015–16 Eurocup Basketball


Please stop to vandalize the page. All the things that I have added come from the official website (I do NOT invent anything). I ask you to stop to add templates to add references, changes the name of the teams, delete references to add a new reference... If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. --Vasconia (talk)

Synne Jensen
Hello, can you restore or userfy Synne Jensen and Sarah Zadrazil for review? Though they were created by a blocked user, content was valid. Hmlarson (talk) 18:17, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Important topic


Please! Stop ignoring me and not listen me. I am not adding unsourced content, because the content comes from the official website and Wikipedia's internal links. I do not know how change this situation to improve the article, but with your attitude of threats and blocks as a gangster are not the solution to this small dispute.

In addition, Eldumpo is changing the links of the teams to redirect links and removing references and I am fixing up this mistakes, but you are blocking me.--Vasconia (talk)

Hendersons
I'll see what I can find, but just to confirm there were indeed two William Hendersons playing for Brompton around 1908, in fact they played together in the same team a number of times.... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 21:33, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Cherno More
Hi. I already contacted User:Dweller but you can give a hand, as well. Take a look at PFC Cherno More Varna article history and its talk page. This guy, User:Okalinov, is vadalising club history for a long time (here and bg wiki). You don't have to be too familiar with Bulgarian football to bind things together. Will need a help with cleaning up his previous edits.--Rebelheartous (talk) 13:26, 30 April 2016 (UTC) Hallo there, as you can see I have not "vandalized" the article. It reflects a short history of the club as it is in the club's history books given in the references underneath. The official founding year is 1913 as the former badge of the club says. The user above is trying to change officially acknowledged history. Best regards Okalinov (talk) 13:44, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Hallo, Sir. I see you took sides with guy who can't even put a decent argument on the Bulgarian talk page. I disagree with me being the disruptive one. I wrote this page a few months ago and everything was undisrupted until he came with his visions of writing a new history of the club. I did not remove any sources. I have added extra information which can be sourced from the Bulgarian books pointed out in the references. Best regards Okalinov (talk) 15:20, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your answer. I am using the talk page as you can see. The other guy isn't. He deleted my article without proper arguments relying on his acquaintances I suppose. Okalinov (talk) 15:52, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

2016–17 Eurocup Basketball
Hi GS, can you have a look at recent edits made by Vasconia to this article please. He continues to re-add information not supported by the sources. Regards. Eldumpo (talk) 16:59, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks, a pity in a way they've had to be blocked, but they just weren't understanding that items need to be sourced and notable, and there was probably some ownership issues as well. Eldumpo (talk) 18:56, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

"Daily Mail"
Daily Mail had nothing to do with it, it's a syndicated story by AFP. &#39;&#39;&#39;tAD&#39;&#39;&#39; (talk) 07:34, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

Errol Crossan
Thanks for gnoming! The death date you mostly fixed here isn't quite right though. Can you take another look please? --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 09:22, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

Wit Ronni
Hi GiantSnowman, sorry for the bother but as soon as you blocked The IPs I had mentioned on Bbb23's talk page a suspicious new user has sprung up called Jun Davidson. As you see their contributions here this user sprang up almost immediately after you blocked the IPs that were mentioned. Also compare Wit Ronni's edit to one of the IP's edit and now to Jun Davidson's edit. Not definitive but WP:DUCK they all look like the same user. Should a sockpuppet investigation or something of the sort be conducted? Thanks Inter&#38;anthro (talk) 16:03, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

Jeffrey Pino listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Jeffrey Pino. Since you had some involvement with the Jeffrey Pino redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. MSJapan (talk) 04:34, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2016
Hi, GiantSnowman. I saw you had reverted an edit by an IP editor who gave the name of the new First Minister of Northern Ireland following the election. You may be right that the First Minister is yet to be determined, but would you mind explaining your revert on User talk:92.31.121.17? It seemed to me that the IP editor acted in good faith. Thanks. --Wavehunter (talk) 18:11, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Jake Newton (footballer)
Hi, GiantSnowman. You reverted some changes I did to Jake Newton (footballer) and accused me of "vandalism". Can you tell me why? They were done in good faith and as far as I know were correct. Thanks 81.106.1.145 (talk) 14:47, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

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1997–98 La Liga
this article is damaged, repair it faster — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.150.35.182 (talk) 23:53, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

Danny Swanson
Why not try showing some patience, and letting users add citations, instead of immediately reverting? Just a thought... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.216.134.193 (talk) 13:54, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

2015–16 Iraqi Premier League
Hi, can you have a look at recent edits to this page by Hashim. Removing references and using team names not supported by the source. Thanks. Eldumpo (talk) 18:23, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

Adam Hobbs
I'm a bit unsure about the Adam Hobbs article. It clearly fails notability guidelines but am I right to prod the article or should it go to AFD? The article was nominated for speedy deletion by another editor but it was declined. Does this fall under has not previously been proposed for deletion mentioned in Proposed deletion and therefore disqualify it from being PRODed? Additionally, the same creator previously created Adam hobbs, which was nominated for speedy deletion by me yesterday after blanking by the creator and deleted. Is PRODing the article the correct thing to do or should it be AFDed? Your advice would be appreciated. Calistemon (talk) 07:05, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the clarification. Should the creator or somebody else object to the PROD I will probably take it to AFD. I checked the player up on Weltfussball and he is real but has only ever played at Regionalliga level which makes him non-notable. Calistemon (talk) 07:11, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

Erik Sommer
Hello GS, I wonder if you advise the correct way to deal with some low-level not very constructive editing on the above page. I stumbled on it yesterday and noted the over-sized image which disrupted the page and text. I reduced it and it was immediately reverted by an IP who seems to only edit that page (mainly) and is constantly changing the image size. I then left some advice on their talk-page whereupon the image size was increased still further. At that point I tagged it for image size etc. It has now been reduced by a small amount but still appears too big and in my browser (admittedly set to +10%) reduces some lines of squeezed text to one word only. (It has also been edited by a user calling themselves Eriksommer.) Thanks. Regards, Eagleash (talk) 13:53, 24 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Sorry, forgot to pop back to say thanks. In the meantime the page has been edited by a different IP (dynamic) which geolocates to New York, as did the previous one. The second IP has also edited the article previously and made few, if any, edits to other pages. Possible COI too? Eagleash (talk) 06:08, 25 May 2016 (UTC)


 * OK, thanks. The 'original' IP has now returned and removed the maintenance tags without making any changes. I haven't restored them or left any message as some of the issues were partly addressed earlier. Eagleash (talk) 12:05, 25 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I notice that the 'other' IP has also returned and removed the maintenance tags after you last restored them. Eagleash (talk) 06:55, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

190.150.35.182


I'm not really sure what to say about this IP. They are performing disruptive edits on the same articles that they were prior to your last block (3 months). Since you were the last admin to block them, you may know whether they should be blocked again or not. Regards, 71.237.141.40 (talk) 03:58, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

Future sports seasons
In regards to your edit summary, why doesn't WP:CRYSTAL apply here? The season hasn't started yet and there are no reliable sources discussing it. I don't see any policy-based argument why this article should exist. Chris Troutman ( talk ) 16:20, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

Jonas Martin
Sorry for my english. The data displayed on clubs and parties about this player are incorrect. Here you can check:mismarcadores.com and. In seasons 2012 to 2014, he didn´t played in Montpellier B.

Thanks

--Anual (talk) 17:16, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

Rollback
Please read this section during your holiday. --Leyo 12:33, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Something for the plane, perhaps... Muffled   Pocketed  12:36, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

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Dwayn Holter
With regards to Dwayn Holter, his soccerway profile is already a reference, so why do I need to add a new source? You've done this before on my page. I know what I'm doing, I always add sources when necessary, I don't need to add a source for every single player appearance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidlofgren1996 (talk • contribs)

Reverting Football Statistician's edits
I noticed that you reverted a lot of 's edits because the account is blocked, but some of those were valid edits. If you are still in the process, is it possible not to do blanket undoing of all his edits? Coderzombie (talk) 12:39, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Justin Evans
Just being thick I didn't realise it was the name of the Polish league. Red Jay (talk) 16:47, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Jambul Jighauri
Please can you remove the creation-block on this player. He is now a full international: &#39;&#39;&#39;tAD&#39;&#39;&#39; (talk) 10:49, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
 * (talk page stalker) It may not actually be necessary. There's a reasonable argument to be made that the common name is actually Jambul Jigauri, which is not currently salted. All the sources cited in the most recent version of the article spelled his name without the h. Sir Sputnik (talk) 16:13, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I am (goes without saying) not an expert on transliteration of the exquisite Georgian script. I think the title should be whatever the name was on his shirt when he played Spain last night. &#39;&#39;&#39;tAD&#39;&#39;&#39; (talk) 16:15, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

article restored at Jambul Jigauri with no comment on the correct spelling (though NFT has first name as Jaba) purely because that is the oldest version. Histories merged. GiantSnowman 17:05, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

About limit regarding offenses
Hi GS, sorry to bother you but I need some native-English speaker advice. I reverted one user and next thing I got was to be called fascist. That user also victimizes himself suggesting I am stalking him, but I only saw that edit on my watchlist and that is the only one I reverted. I had some encounters with hi, in the past, it is a problematic account with main intention of promoting Montenegrin nationalism in an anti-Serbian perspective and remove all mention of Serbia or Serbs (you can confirm his contributions). Now, the thing is that despite me knowing this, I never engage in PA's, while he called me intentionally "fascist" there, not in a "editing fascist" style, but he really means fascist as from fascism (he actually really wants to promote an immaginary relationship between Serbs and fascism as seen here for instance). I was personally attacked and offended (my family incudes various members victims of fascism during WWII), also offended racially (he highlighted my nationality for no reason) and all just because I made a revert of his edit claiming consensus from the respective WikiProject the article beloongs to. Till now I didnt reacted and didnt do anything besides coming here for your advice, but I feel very outraged.

The advice I need from you is the following, I noteced trough many years at ANI different approaches towards PA's. Sometimes I saw nasty insults being ignored but also slightest forms of subtile personal attacks being punished severily. From what I saw it all depends on the perception. In this case he calling me a fascist was done in the real insultive way, he did it surely thinking I wouldn't bother to report him, or that would fly as just "oh dont be a pussy, yu can handle being called a fascist cant you? Not a big deal". But actually it is a big deal and poisons the environment in an already sensitive area which is the Balkans. I certainly woudnt dare calling no one a fascist and if so I would expect a hard punishment. But how woulld it look to a normal Englishman? ANI? FkpCascais (talk) 16:43, 9 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Many thanks GS, FkpCascais (talk) 23:56, 9 June 2016 (UTC)


 * I accept the warning, as personal attacks do not have a place on Wikipedia. However, I would like to point your attention to my efforts to clear the articles from nationalist propaganda and historical revisionism are constantly undermined (hence the mention of stalking) by a group of editors (most notably Zoupan, 23 editor and FkpCascais), who are attempting to counter accusations of their political bias by accusing me of being nationalist or anti-Serb or whatever label they feel like attaching to me on a given day. I've been editing English Wikipedia for almost 10 years now, and I know this type of users and their modus operandi quite well, so please do not treat me as a villain and them as innocent victims of a big bad Montenegrin wolf, as that is as far as it gets from the truth. Cheers. Sideshow Bob 07:43, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I was pinged. ANI on the user here (February). It was archived without measures.--Z oupan 17:41, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

David de Gea
Because of recent news, this article is getting a lot of edits presuming his guilt, which is illegal. Please look at the history and erase the offending revisions. &#39;&#39;&#39;tAD&#39;&#39;&#39; (talk) 15:05, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

Bleiburg repatriations
Hi GS, can you review recent edits at this page, with regards re-insertion of uncited material, Burden etc. Thanks. Eldumpo (talk) 11:07, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

WP:FOOTY
Regarding this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football#Portuguese_Football_Federation) and your last input: yes, a very good idea, how do we go about requesting that? --Be Quiet AL (talk) 18:56, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

UNDUE
There is a difference between UNDUE and WP:UNDUE. The former provides no information; the latter a link to some more. It's helpful to explain changes, as you know. Thank you for the clarification and please continue to be clearer in future. Thanks. FunkyCanute (talk) 21:00, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

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About Yan Naing Oo (footballer)
Hi Gi Sniddy - may I call you that? Oops, already did - The SputMeister has tagged this article for WP:G4 deletion. What do you think about this?--Shirt58 (talk) 11:12, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

Glitch
You might want to check diff at Franck Durix. Note that  was removed from a height template, and that left the braces unbalanced. Johnuniq (talk) 02:28, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Milovan Rajevac
Hi According to serious sources, Milovan Rajevac was only tipped to manage Rudar Velenje. --Panam2014 (talk) 18:08, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
 * The source of the club was not provided initially. And being a director does not give you the right to abuse others by calling them vandal. By cons, you have violated the rules of etiquette. To return to the subject, even if the club confirmed the coach was not presented and has never led the team. So it is not appropriate to specify the infobox.--Panam2014 (talk) 18:25, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I do not agree with your argument. The infobox should summarize the article, it does not matter to specify all destinations of the coach, even when never led in the game. I ask that we discuss with other project contributors : football and see what is done usually with similar situations. --Panam2014 (talk) 08:47, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Category:Olympique Club de Khouribga players has been nominated for discussion
Category:Olympique Club de Khouribga players, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Laxnesh LOKEN (talk) 20:05, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

User:Farmnation
Would is your oppinion on the edits of User talk:Farmnation? Despite numerous warnings by a number of editors, including myself, the user continues to add external links to articles that, in my opinion, violate both WP:BAREURLS and WP:REFSPAM. Calistemon (talk) 09:20, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
 * No worries, thanks for the reply but I don't think I'm alone with my concern, PeeJay2K3 seems to have the same gut feeling about the additions here and here. Calistemon (talk) 21:40, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Copyright Violations
Hi! How long does it last to work on a copyright violation such as this one: St. John the Evangelist's Anglican Church, Izmir? Doc Taxon (talk) 19:31, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Kuwaiti Premier League
Hi GS, can you have a look at this recent (ish) edit, involving re-inserting tagged material. Thanks. Eldumpo (talk) 22:35, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Block Warnings Etc.
Hello GiantSnowman, i just wanted to say that almost none of my edits are false. They are based on true references such as like transfermarkt.com, soccerway.com, worldfootball.net and the official club pages. I got a a new message about Pim Bouwman and another block warning, here you can see (http://ermisfc.com.cy/eidiseis/nea/psiloni-to-kentro/) that the player got a transfer at the specific club. Thanks in advance for your time. Zecke1910 (talk) 13:53, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

FM2016
It is indeed a video game, but there's articles and even a documentary on how they source their stats - it's a lot better than Soccerway, etc. - they use club historians and reps at each club. Surely that's accuarate? All their other stats are and match up. Fair enough if you don't want to use as you can't add a "ref" next to it, but when has that ever been done on appearances and goals on Wikipedia? Better to have the 99% certain stat in there than a blank space in my opinion. UncleTupelo1 (talk) 14:04, 9 July 2016 (UTC)


 * It's not really a questionable source though, if you looked in to how they're sourced. Thanks for the block threat though! UncleTupelo1 (talk) 15:21, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

ultrAslan
Dear Giant Snowman,

I see you were part of the deletion discussion for ultrAslan in 2012. During new page patrol, I saw that it had been recreated. Since then, German and Turkish articles have been written, and it seems that the firm has become more notable. I translated the German article, so now there is more substance and better references. If you think it still needs a deletion review, feel free to submit it again. --Slashme (talk) 17:45, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

Mbamba
I took the liberty of expanding your article on C. Mbamba since I have access to Norwegian sources. Won't make a habit of sneaking around in your userspace, though.. Geschichte (talk) 20:55, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

AE Larissa FC
Hello, i need your protection as an administrator. Anonymous users keep editing and reverting the team's squad without reason and keep misinforming the users. They keep placing in players without official announcements or changing the nationality of some of them. Please help me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tsobek (talk • contribs)

Thanx a lot you are great. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tsobek (talk • contribs)

Mail
You have been mailed, please reply in the same fashion. --Be Quiet AL (talk) 00:07, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Rambe
I put sources for all the transfers on List of romanian football transfers summer 2016. I forgot to put a source on Rambe's page. Sorry. Rhinen

Protection of AE Larissa FC
Hi GS, did you intend to apply semi protection (rather than extended confirmed) protection to this article? Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 09:30, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

Axel Tuanzebe
If you agree with the PROD, why not just let it ride? There's no need to be a jobsworth. – PeeJay 12:42, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

First Professional Football League (Bulgaria)
Hi GS, can you have a look at recent edits at the above, including reinsertion of tagged and uncited material. Thanks. Eldumpo (talk) 18:07, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

UWCL
So Linfield are the first team qualified for 2017–18 UEFA Women's Champions League. I'd like to have that article restored by time. So if you as an admin can do that and feel it's enough info for a start that'd be cool. -Koppapa (talk) 05:51, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

Ulsan Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Dolphin FC
Hi, GS

Please check out the discussion at Ulsan Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Dolphin FC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ulsan_Dolphins#Requested_move_27_July_2016

Ulsan Dolphins is not common name.

I know some foreign football website use Ulsan Dolphins. But they use Ulsan Dolphins because of just convinience and simpleness.

I understand that name Ulsan Dolphins is very simple and convenient and more like sports club name in terms of foreigners. So foreigners prefer Ulsan Dolphin.

But To my regret, Koreans don't call this club Ulsan Dolphins and Dolphins is not important element in club name.

This club is traditional works team owned and controlled by Hyundai Mipo Dockyard company.

In club name. Most important element is Hyundai Mipo Dockyard.

Current consensus is very ridiculs and result of ignorance about South korean football club culture.

Please help to revert the ridiculus consensus.

Footwiks (talk) 02:22, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

Which edit
Which edit are you referring to on the Bradford City AFC page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Swanbiff (talk • contribs) 14:00, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

vandalism by IP address
This ip address is vandalizing Indian football related pages and football pages in general and continued after the warning. Coderzombie (talk) 10:41, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
 * then I would reccomend reporting them to WP:AIV. Looking through their contribs, I can't see anything which could be classed as vandalism. It appears to be a bit more of a content dispute more than anything -- samtar talk or stalk 10:46, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
 * , Not sure if vandalism is the right word, but edits like this and this are clearly hoax. Coderzombie (talk) 10:53, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
 * - revert, warn, report. The IP looks to have stopped, during the day (UK time) you will need to try AIV as I am offline, otherwise more than happy to help whenever I'm about! GiantSnowman 17:31, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

Move request
Hello.i tried to move new created page FC Ungheni to CF Ungheni and with no luck.it says i have to contact administrator regarding this issue.so i did :))i wrote first to your friend Sir Sputnik but he said he is not administrator and by this i'm writing to you.Remembered from the time you reverted some mine edits :))), and i really wanted you to help with this issue. CF Ungheni is a new formed club in 2013.the link confirming this had been provided on the created page (divizia-a.md).this website is actually sponsored by moldovan football federation,so the source is realible for sure.apart from this source, soccerway also confirms it somehow. The reason i can't move from FC Ungheni to CF Ungheni by myself i believe is because one team from Ungheni already exist CS Moldova-03 Ungheni. Few month ago one user tried to move this page to CF Ungheni but was opposed by another user and reverted.and probably he was right. This both clubs FC Ungheni and CS Moldova-03 Ungheni had also different profiles on soccerway and different logo's.i wanted to know what to do next.put the squad and update infobox on the page CS Moldova-03 Ungheni(in this case this page have to be renamed to CF Ungheni) or leaved with new created article.any decision is fine.thanks for your help.Kolya77 (talk) 14:20, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

First Professional Football League (Bulgaria)
Hi GS, can you have a look at this edit, mostly re-adding uncited material/tagged, further to your previous removal. Thanks. . Eldumpo (talk) 21:04, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

Move request
Hello ,i added the message in the place you said,but this message was deleted by a bot.have no clue why.the page acually have to moved,cause i can't add FC Ungheni to 2016–17 Moldovan National Division. It stays with the old club dissolved 4 years ago.what else i can do ?.this is not correct to have on current top league article a team that does not exist anymore..Kolya77 (talk) 10:54, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

James and Jimmy Randall
Why did you delete my (attempt at) a disambiguation statement on both of these pages? The footballer and the murderer both went by "Jimmy." When looking for the killer, all I got was the footballer. We can talk here, I have added this page to my watchlist. Paul, in Saudi (talk) 09:25, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
 * From Jimmy to (murderer) I added the correct formatted template; I removed it from (murderer) to Jimmy as nobody looking for the footballer would end up at the murderer in error. GiantSnowman 17:18, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Why not? (Although I did not. I found the sportsman while looking for the killer.) Both went by the name "Jimmy Randall." It seems to cost nothing to have one for each. (Many thanks for correcting the format.) Paul, in Saudi (talk) 00:47, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
 * But you wouldn't find the killer looking for the sportsman! See WP:NAMB for more info. GiantSnowman 06:49, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

Sock much?
Hi there GS,

this IP here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/190.150.35.182, remember them?) continues to apparently upload tons of copyrighted images to articles. I remembered the User:Fitozelaya account as a possible first, but apparently they have upped the ante, as seen in Sidnei (footballer, born 1989), Robinho, Patrick Kluivert, Andoni Zubizarreta and Dani Carvajal. Several accounts created in a row.

Attentively --Be Quiet AL (talk) 23:39, 2 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Now this, to lighten up your day (or not, depends on how much you have to dig!), a Bradford City man: Sérgio Pinto (footballer, born 1973), I do not know how the hell did I miss this since I follow this article regularly (or maybe they changed the URL, can't remember exactly), but his SOCCERBASE entry is not him, but Sérgio Pinto (footballer, born 1980)!

If you can't find a decent replacement - I tried browsing the site, under "All players", but came out empty - please "ice" the link. Thanks in advance --Be Quiet AL (talk) 01:00, 3 August 2016 (UTC)


 * do you have specific diffs? Have you reported to WP:AIV? GiantSnowman 06:52, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

Specific diffs? In those four articles there are tons of instances. Also, as customary, the last message on the anon's page was summarily removed as per use (please check it here https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:190.150.35.182&diff=next&oldid=732756927, it happened to you a couple of times in the past). In Dani Carvajal, two new accounts were created in a day or two, and it's not just me or User:Josepolivares reverting, User:Kante4 also seems to "know the drill" and reverts on sight. --Be Quiet AL (talk) 16:03, 3 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Newsflash: In Andoni Zubizarreta, two new/quick accounts from 24 JULY onwards, person also engages in overlinking, more news to me (and you possibly) --Be Quiet AL (talk) 16:15, 3 August 2016 (UTC)


 * - yes I need actual diffs, not just page numbers. Why do you think these are socks? Why not try WP:SPI if you believe multiple accounts are being used? GiantSnowman 16:56, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

I see where you are coming from GS, but I am actually growing tired of this, I'll do my humble part by reverting and ignoring. The User:Alexiulian25 situation is also so fresh on our minds, is it not? If this is to be another similar case, they can't be beat.

Sorry for any inconvenience (i.e. coming here and then not following through on your technical suggestions), keep it up --Be Quiet AL (talk) 17:10, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

Re: Lauri Dalla Valle
This was certainly not a test edit. Granted, I should've left an edit summary, but that border is needed due to so much whitespace on the image. I would ask that you revert. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 15:18, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I am, however, looking into other methods to display borders for images in various infoboxes, as in something like  rather than crudely tacking on  . I would treat that 'tweak' as merely an interim solution until then. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 16:17, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

I Am A New User Need Help
Dear User:GiantSnowman, I am a new user to Wikipedia. I was wondering if you could help me solve some problems that I am having on this website. The first problem I am having has to do with my signature, the signature does not link to my user page as stated in the dialog. I left it unchecked, since it next to the box, that if left unchecked, it would treat it as a nickname and link it to my userpage. It does not. My userpage is User:Aceing Winter Snows Harsh Cold. I actually signed of here with tildes and went to preview and it worked, but it does not work on my talk page. Should I wait for a while? Aceing_Winter_Snows_Harsh_Cold (talk) 17:07, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Roy Summersby
Hello GS,

Summersby has recently died and we have a similar situation as with Danny Light and Steve Brennan in that Ian King (author CPFC complete record 1905-2011) has posted in the Palace BBS forum and the club tweeted here, but nothing at the website AFAICT. There's already been a bit of to-ing & fro-ing again at Summersby's page. You did say with regard to Brennan that the Twitter post could be used but I am uncertain how to do that in such a way that someone else would not (quite reasonably) claim it to be non-RS. Any ideas? Thanks. Regards, Eagleash (talk) 19:00, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Oh yes, of course. That template slipped my mind. I've added the info back but the cite produced a ref error which I could not fix... not obvious to me. I've asked for help with it. Thanks again. Eagleash (talk) 20:17, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Adderbury Park F.C.
Hi GS, could you please revert Adderbury Park F.C. back to the redirect and protect the page indefinitely as there is no reason for it to be reverted again per the outcome of this AfD. Thanks, JMHamo (talk) 19:24, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

The return of User:Misiunea10
here Sro23 (talk) 17:02, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

Gregory van der Wiel
To answer your question here, I was removing Wikilinks that occured more than once. I am being a bit more careful at the moment. -- I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding to your message (talk to me) (My edits) @  10:31, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

AE Larissa FC
Hello Snowman. I need your help once more cause it's happening again. User 94.66.192.198 has messed up the club's roster and i am devastated. Can you please protect the page from all those @##$%^$@#@$???? Thanx again.

Non-existing categories
Although I'm busy, I'm working on them!--Maher27777 (talk) 20:36, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

Claude Jephcott
Hi. This article is in serious need of re-writing with a lot of uncited content removing, and better sourcing. Do you fancy having a look? Cheers. 77.130.196.20 (talk) 11:59, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Alex Kiwomya
Without ever being included in the first-team squad, it means nothing and pointless. He never even featured in the first team squad of any of those seasons. Same as players such as Jordan Houghton and Kasey Palmer.

In addition, it is not because he has 0 appearance in the infobox for the removal. It is because even the citations of the stats does not recognize those seasons as Chelsea first team. He has never been included in any first-team line of Chelsea. The only reason why Chelsea is under senior career of the info box is because of those loans. Any person for the reserves can go on loan but it doesn't mean he was included as a first team member of the parent-team.

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lin Liangming (3rd nomination)
Could you restore Lin Liangming's page since he has now played in a fully professional league (Segunda División)? AFCShandong (talk) 22:01, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

Alex Iwobi
Isn't Alex Iwobi a midfielder instead of a striker..I thought I corrected that page.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Debz6967 (talk • contribs)

Disruptive editor
Hello. As you're aware of Special:Contributions/2.25.97.25 already, I wonder if you might consider giving him a rest from editing. He reached a final warning yesterday for removing citation needed tags. Twice today he's changed one of Tommy Ring clubs from the correct Stevenage Town to Stevenage Borough, a club not founded until 10 years after he played for Town, and he's now changed the wording of a direct quote and removed the cited source at Don Roper. Etc etc. thanks, Struway2 (talk) 18:30, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 19:30, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

Infobox
I really don't get why you're insisting on implementing an infobox format that leaves far more white space than is necessary. Just put related facts on the same line, it makes sense. Just because it's shown one way in the template documentation doesn't mean it has to be done that way every time! – PeeJay 19:48, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
 * But my point is, why is the documentation like that? If I changed it, although I'm sure someone would change it back, what would then be the problem with putting stuff on the same line? It doesn't make the infobox work any differently, and it's easier to read as it groups the years, appearances and goals for each club together. I think the reason no other infobox works like that is because not many infoboxes include multiple columns of stats, but ours does. – PeeJay 18:34, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I guess it doesn't make it that much easier to edit, but it certainly doesn't make it harder. I'm not particularly familiar with politics infoboxes, but I'm pretty sure there's no policy that specifically goes against putting multiple parameters on the same line. – PeeJay 18:40, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
 * There doesn't have to be a policy against something for someone to think it's a bad idea, but just because one person thinks it's a bad idea doesn't mean it actually is. And I'm not saying my way is necessarily the best idea, but considering many people format infoboxes the same way, it can't be so bad that it's worth reverting? – PeeJay 19:01, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Sure, that's fair enough, and that's why I haven't reverted you back (also, that would be edit warring, which is bad), I was just trying to understand your objection. – PeeJay 19:08, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
 * And if the documentation were changed? – PeeJay 19:15, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

MoS on squad list in season article
As I saw in Chelsea and Real Madrid's season article. I want to seek comment on footnote in the squad list, as the leagues had some sort of "quota" system. See Wikipedia talk:Footy. Matthew_hk  t  c  00:38, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Wa Tashiro
Hi, just wondering why you created the redirect Wa Tashiro. I can't find any mention of it in any Kintetsu-related articles, and have no idea what or who that is. wbm1058 (talk) 18:18, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

AE LARISSA FC
GS Thanx anyway..

Block evasion
2.25.97.25 has a new IP address. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 07:51, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

Caolan McAleer
This heading wasn't really appropriate as there was no mention of his Junior stats in the table. Junior game stats are a nightmare to locate, and certainly wouldn't be available online.Salty1984 (talk) 20:42, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

2016 Chinese Super League
Hi GS, can you have a look at this edit which doesn't reflect the English sources and which re-introduces an unnecessary second column for teams, which is primarily a duplicate. Thanks. Eldumpo (talk) 08:04, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I didn't edit it as could be edit-warring, but accept I could've tried direct contact with them.Eldumpo (talk) 21:53, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
 * He's reverted you. I've left a message at his talk but not changed the article. Eldumpo (talk) 17:28, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Hervé Renard
May be need to be referenced, but it's relevant. Renard led a team again to an African title, but he failed again to led him to confederations cup. Unless a something changed, only winner of 2017 Africa Cup of Nations can participate in 2017 Confederations Cup.--Maher27777 (talk) 22:10, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

Pietro Ghedin
Hi, thanks for noticing, I forgot to put the source into the article. Sorry for that. Cassandro (talk) 20:14, 4 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Hmmm, interesting. Then there are some discrepancies in the Italian article. Okay, I leave it so for now. Cassandro (talk) 20:26, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

Automated edits
Hi, I'm wondering why you are making automated edits to change "nationalteam-update" to "ntupdate" in the infobox? The parameter was updated to the former quite some time ago. See Template:Infobox football biography. Mattythewhite (talk) 16:45, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
 * I feel discussing moving back to the previous parameter would have been the better course of action, rather than unilaterally changing a load to the former name. FWIW, I prefer the current title as it's more descriptive, which benefits the inexperienced users who frequently update stats. Mattythewhite (talk) 19:49, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

Development squad players
Hello GS, should the above, who have also played in the first team be included in squad templates? Thinking here of Jonathan Benteke who is not in the official Palace squad, I believe, but can participate as an "under-age" player. Thanks. Regards, Eagleash (talk) 02:13, 11 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Benteke minor now appears in both the CPFC and development squads and by your example Dreher, who was an unused sub yesterday, should also be included in squad list and template. Eagleash (talk) 12:54, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

Firmino
You just removed what I said about him scoring ten league goals without a source. The source about yesterday was not even marked as 'sports commentary'. Also this article is about the player. I simply re-added the BBC source about him scoring twice yesterday, notable for being the first goal scorer at the redeveloped Anfield. Are you only on here to obstruct constructive edits or what is going on???? Look at the source before you do these unnecessary obstructive things, please.

Lommaren (talk) 10:18, 11 September 2016 (UTC)


 * From the source "The game was played in front of Anfield's biggest crowd since 1977, with a 54,000 sell-out in the newly expanded stadium. Some 8,500 seats were added to the Main Stand this summer." Firmino was also mentioned as the first goal scorer in the match.

That renders him the first scorer in the redeveloped stadium. I can not believe we even have to have an argument about such an obvious thing. Like I said, you obviously did not read the article. Lommaren (talk) 10:23, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

Wit Ronni & Tristan Robert
Dear GiantSnowman, I don't know if you remember but a while back I complained to you about a recently blocked use (Wit Ronni) and a seemly new users having the exact same tendency to edit like Wit Ronni, aka removing sources of Thai football article.

It seems since ther might be a new one called Tristan Robert, who like Wit Ronni likes to remove sources (see here, here, and here). Moreover most of the pages Tristan Robert edits happen to be pages Wit Ronni frequently edit prior to being blocked. I left a message on Tristan Robert but the editor did not respond or change their editing behavior.

This user is more established than the previous Wit Ronni socks which might just make this a coincidence but still it looks suspicious to me. Should I contact another administrator over this? Thanks Inter&#38;anthro (talk) 16:54, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

Firmino
Hey, did you remove my re-order of Firmino's positional description? Since he's now Klopp's first-choice striker, it makes sense for his first position listed to be up front. When did he last play in midfield?

Best regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:664A:2900:3CB7:E1B1:FB7B:BAA7 (talk) 19:53, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

Category:Thailand youth international footballers
Hi GiantSnowman thank you for your effort against vandalism but would you consider undeleting Category:Thailand youth international footballers? While it may have been created by a dubious account it seems to have been a valid category. Thank you Inter&#38;anthro (talk) 05:02, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

Automated clean up
Hi, I've see you're using AWB to update reference lists to a width of 30 em. However, I the guidance at Template:Reflist is that we use this "Where there are many footnotes plus a page-width Bibliography subsection", and to use one columns when "there are only a few Footnotes". I don't know if the same occurs on your browser, but when 30 em is applied when an article contains one reference, I see a list that is unnecessarily split (e.g. this). Thanks, Mattythewhite (talk) 19:06, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

AE Larissa FC
Hello snowman.. Seems like the problem continues.. I keep reverting and warning (maybe the same person with different ip's?) that keeps vandalizing the page.. Maybe a semi protection could help? Also maybe you can help me with the club's logo that was deleted by commons without reason! The page now has not official emblem and i see no reason for the deletion. What's their problem anyway? It's just a logo and nothing else.

WP:DATERET
Regarding Alice Gray, are you interpreting WP:DATERET's "strong national ties to the topic" as anyone born in the United States (or perhaps an employer that has the word "American" in it)? I would typically reserve "strong national ties" for e.g. politicians and others for whom nationality is a key part of their identity. (As an aside, I am American and I prefer DMY in Wikipedia articles). &mdash; Rhododendrites <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk \\ 14:58, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Just to be clear, I don't care that much as long as the days in the citations aren't changed, but my impression was there are few times when it's appropriate to change date formats at all. &mdash; Rhododendrites <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk \\ 15:17, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

Cédric Makiadi
Makiadi's contract at Çaykur Rizespor expired 31 May 2016, see http://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageId=526&kisiId=1827282. Please restore my latest edit. Thanks, Kq-hit (talk) 18:45, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Cuco Martina
OK - I'll revert myself. Sussexpeople (talk) 11:33, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
 * All fixed now. Best wishes.  Sussexpeople (talk) 05:56, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

Raheem Hanley
Unless there are two footballers with this quite unusual name then this article can be restored. I'll then update the article. Thanks.--EchetusXe 09:34, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

Block requested
Hello. Can you block. Not only are they are repeatedly reinstating a cut & paste move, but it's also in a topic area that they are prohibited from editing in. Cheers, Number   5  7  20:21, 27 September 2016

uwcl again
So I ask about restoring that 2017–18 UEFA Women's Champions League again (better: moving the userfied version to mainspace). First big league, ENglish FA WSL has teams decided, so people will be interested in the article now. Changes to version mentioned in deletion review are +six teams, +final stadium known, plus UEFA is now writing about teams in next edition. It is definitely "going ahead". I've also asked fenix, but he has yet to answer. -Koppapa (talk) 06:41, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't think that's the way to go, as I got the following response in the last deletion review: "I can't imagine why the other admin recommended Deletion Review." :-) Fenix answered and and would give his go to the article, too. Hope he has the clearance to move back to mainspace. Thanks. -Koppapa (talk) 14:49, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

The 10,000 Challenge
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Eybler
You could easily have looked up Eybler's life dates yourself. Sincerely, Opus33 (talk) 16:04, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Queen of South players
Sorry for the confusion. I will unedit the other 7 players at Queen of the South that I had totals for also. Rusty1111 : Talk 20:59, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

That's all 8 Queen of the South players unedited. I will continue to update the remaining squad players' season totals to keep them up to date throughout the season. I can see the logic in not having the career totals on the page until their career is completed. Rusty1111 : Talk 21:22, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Harold Davis
I have updated the former Rangers player's page, as he was manager of Queen of the South for the 1970-71 season. Really just executed a general tidy up with some wording. I also amended the information box with a link to the Neil Brown UK transfers A to Z, as his career totals were missing and his East Fife totals were missing and the timescale there was also incorrect. Rusty1111 : Talk 21:22, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Scottish Football Projects
Are there any projects to be worked on that I could get involved in or any pages requiring a look at? Rusty1111 : Talk 22:26, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

I am already a member of both projects already. I was wondering if there were any specific pages that need amended or created? Rusty1111 : Talk 07:55, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Yes, these are the sort of articles I was looking for, thanks. I recently updated this; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Scottish_League_Cup_Final to include the time that the goals were scored, the referee and the match report. Rusty1111 : Talk 10:25, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

Oliver McBurnie
I noticed that you removed his name from the 'People from Garforth' category, due to insufficient reliability, which I understand. (he is Leeds-born). However, it is true that he is in fact from Garforth, so I'm curious as to what a reliable source is?? I could tell you his parents names :) I have noticed that Garforth Villa FC, describe him as a 'local' lad & his bowling (cricket stats) are on Garforth Parish C.C club page, does that suffice? Many thanks

Ruined article
What was the point of ruining the Alan McInally article? Now it just looks stupid. Aremsi (talk) 00:30, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

Rubbish. The bit you left (re Celtic career) is completely unreferenced and point of view (valued member, came into his own), so maybe you should be consistent. I guess it's always easier to destroy than it is to create. Aremsi (talk) 22:15, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

Ok Mr Snowman - the fact is your meddling has literally made this particular entry pointless. The entry was fine for years, with people adding bits and bobs until you decided to ruin it. When I have time, I'll put it back the way it was, and I'd ask you to leave it alone to the experts. Aremsi (talk) 22:49, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Matthew Cooper
Hi. I applied a category to match a statement that was referenced with a newspaper source on Matthew Cooper (footballer) relating to a school he attended. Following this you added a template to my talk page, suggesting that I was adding unsourced information. Would you please reconsider this and remove the template from my talk page? I have added a further link with recent newspaper coverage. Drchriswilliams (talk) 14:16, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for making those further changes. I'm glad you moved the early life information to a more standard location. I accept your advice about the brevity of my original edit summary, I realise that this may have contributed to a bit of confusion. Drchriswilliams (talk) 14:34, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

Template about european title
What's your opinion about a template I created back in 2012, see him here I created it to connect all the winners of the competition and was inspired by other sports like basket, they are common sight in those type of articles. I know this would not pass in football, but seeing that futsal kinda sits in the "grey area", what you think? After all, there isn't even a notability requirement for futsal players, so this must be ok. --Threeohsix (talk) 11:25, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Ben Tilney
Hi, he has made his debut tonight. Thanks.--EchetusXe 20:47, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Invite to the African Destubathon
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Juli Sánchez
All reliable sources are in this article: and. We don't need some new sources there. Just open and check. Wolfgang (talk) 20:57, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Regarding KiSharika
Just wanted to give you an FYI regarding their edits on Rehman's RFA (and apparently its talk page). In this edit, they claimed to have been nominated by PCruiser ... a WP:SOCK that has been blocked since the end of last month. According to the tag on that account's user page, that sock's master was, but I'm not convinced that editor and KiSharika are the same person, so I haven't filed a WP:SPI. Steel1943 (talk) 19:15, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Also, in that nomination statement above, it seems that "PCruiser" used 's signature formatting; Fastily is the nominator at Rehman's RFA. Something about all of this is fishy, but since I'm not convinced that KiSharika and Fixer88 aren't the same person, I'm not sure what the next step may be, but something's definitely not right. Steel1943 (talk) 19:18, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Mark Chamberlain
Why do you keep reversing my changes to the Mark Chamberlain page? – Jamie

It would be helpful if you could check the validity of the changes as if you did you'd see that I have now twice corrected errors. Stoke City and Sheffield Wednesday were both in the First Division when he signed for them. It should be obvious that there is an error given it currently implies Stoke went from the forth to second division which is clearly impossible in the 80s Jamie —Preceding undated comment added 16:25, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Please check these sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sheffield_Wednesday_F.C._seasons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stoke_City_F.C._seasons Jamie  —Preceding undated comment added 16:26, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Jamille Matt
Hi. I just saw a disruptive editor edit an article you created, Jamille Matt. When taking a closer look I saw that some editors has been attempting to change date of birth, but you reverted them (correctly) because the change was unsourced. Now I wonder if this is the footballer in the article, and if so please check the date of birth. Thank you. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 21:27, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Liz Armstrong for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Liz Armstrong is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Liz Armstrong until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. JDDJS (talk) 19:00, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

Kuwaiti Classico
Please note that an IP has edited my response to this AfD!  Eldumpo (talk) 12:53, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
 * - they were reverted by, I have also warned the IP. I have suspicions as to who it is... GiantSnowman 17:22, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

Page "Nach"
Hello, I have a request to release the lock to create the page "Nach", I have fully translated the original page in Spanish https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nach, and I will include all the references and sections, this is for a world wide known rapper from Spain, thank you very much Herrkhor (talk) 12:42, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

Myles Anderson
Hi GiantSnowman. It is not correct to say that the edit I made to Myles Anderson's page is my own opinion or personal analysis. The line I added was taken directly from source 15 in the article, the Barrow AFC website. As such, I think we can say it is the accurate view of the Barrow AFC manager. Please reconsider undoing my edit. Thank you. Chris7turner (talk) 10:08, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

So, would this be OK?: Barrow AFC Manager Paul Cox said "I'm delighted to have signed the central defender I've been chasing". Chris7turner (talk) 15:48, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your advice, I will make the change using this format.Chris7turner (talk) 14:25, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Edit
Hi! I received your message. This was not a test, although I am pretty new, so maybe my edit was not clear. I edited the name of the show, because the name of the show has changed. (see first sentence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voetbal_Inside ) — Preceding unsigned comment added by EriksenOn (talk • contribs) 17:12, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

A footballer I found on articles for deletion that is a orphan and a unsourced BLP
You might be able to tell is this guy is notable or not Mohsen Khansari, figured I ask! Thanks! Wgolf (talk) 02:46, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks-I would put up a BLP prod-but someone will likely remove it saying Facebook is a ref-so not sure what to say about that (maybe you could think of something then) Wgolf (talk) 18:16, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

Your AfD comment
I assume with this edit, you had meant to strike your comment, rather put it in a reference. I've taken the liberty of correcting it. I hope you don't mind. Sir Sputnik (talk) 14:27, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

Re: managers vs. head coaches
Okay, so that is the standard but I personally disagree. There is a difference between managers and head coaches. In India we have the technical directors, sporting directors, and then the head coach, who we literally call the head coach. In my opinion, because that is the way it is used mainly in India, and since most articles on India are done as "Indian English" we should have it as say "Bengaluru FC head coaches". It makes sense, at least to me. Also, while I understand WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS, we do also see this as a common occurrence for articles on "soccer" (a word which I believe can relate to our conversation here) in the US, like Category:New York Red Bulls coaches or Category:Major League Soccer coaches because that is the common way of things in the US. --ArsenalFan700 (talk) 01:25, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Okay, so if it should be the same for the US then you should do it. That is not fair that even though India does not use the term "manager" we have to use it just cause we only have a handful of active members while the US Soccer wiki has a lot more. --ArsenalFan700 (talk) 13:12, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Re Mukhsin Mukhamadiev
The link added showing Mukhamadiev's appointment as FC Istiklol manager, also shows his prior coaching history. Hence I added it to his infobox. --Dave logic (talk) 21:03, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

George Davis
Information on George Davis' career in Calgary has been added to the "Talk" section on his page. Cheers — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.185.242.69 (talk) 02:01, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

SLBedit warmongering
Please have a look at the recent edits of SLBedit on 2005–06 S.L. Benfica season and 2004–05 S.L. Benfica season. Been removing links to Porto and Sporting irrespective season because "they're not related". They're there because of MOS:SEEALSO. If the seasons of other Big Three are not related topic, what is? --Threeohsix (talk) 21:58, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
 * - I actually agree with 's edits, no need to 'see also' other club's season articles. What we really need is Portuguese templates similar to 2005–06 in English football which list all club and competitions season articles that season. 07:57, 2 November 2016 (UTC)GiantSnowman
 * I agree with the template, but it doesn't exist, and it doesn't fall on me to do it. If you're aiming to get the article to GA, so be as complete as possible, you don't think the seasons of the other two big clubs in Portugal are related to Benfica's, failing right in the requirements of what MOS:SEEALSO says? The links in the "See also" section might be only indirectly related to the topic of the article because one purpose of "See also" links is to enable readers to explore tangentially related topics. --Threeohsix (talk) 08:51, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Head coaches vs. managers
Hey, I don't think we finished our conversation on the issue of head coaches vs. managers from before. I know we want to keep things unified but again, we don't have "managers" in India. Thanks. --ArsenalFan700 (talk) 08:04, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Was going to but thought I ask again here first. Cheers mate. --ArsenalFan700 (talk) 08:12, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Edoardo Raffinerie Garrone - article
Hi GiantSnowman, two months ago I proposed an update in the Edoardo Raffinerie Garrone's talk page. However, I did not received any feedback since then. Therefore, I wonder if you could tell me what you think about it. Please find my update here.

Thanks in advance!

Elenina barberis (talk) 14:18, 3 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your feedback!
 * Elenina barberis (talk) 13:51, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

Europe 10,000 Challenge invite
Hi. The WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 08:55, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Ibou Touray
Why did you remove my Ibou Touray amendment?? This was not vandalism.. He has recently signed for Nantwich? 143.159.131.252 (talk) 20:13, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Why?
Hello. Why did you revert my recent edits? They were made in order to improve the articles by adding clarification. I am not a vandal. Thank you.Architect 134 (talk) 20:30, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your prompt response. I will do some research and try to do a better job in the future. Thank youArchitect 134 (talk) 20:36, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Footballer edits
A vastly imperfect way to get large numbers into the proper category. I don't especially like it, and I have some ideas about how to improve Cat-a-Lot so it doesn't happen, but it seems to have worked. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 21:36, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Cueva goal tally
Cueva most definitely did score last night, see 1, 2, and 3. I really don't understand your argument. Inter&#38;anthro (talk) 18:30, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Image syntax
Hello. I think you're probably unaware that the size parameter for images within the body of an article requires the px after the number of pixels. If you supply a bare number, it's just ignored and the image size reverts to the default. This is different from image_size in the infobox, which does require just a number. Examples below (please feel free to get rid of them once you've had a look): cheers, Struway2 (talk) 14:37, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

gives

without the px gives

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
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Soccerbase template
Hello. Where an article doesn't use any consistent style, it doesn't really matter: sticking an accessdate on the end of an external link, which is all that was done with soccerway, would be fine. Although we are encouraged to rationalise inconsistent styles. I wrote soccerbase season to be consistent in appearance with the style I try to use – cite web and cite news with parameters like publisher/website/newspaper present and filled in per documentation – and I've applied it to articles where I thought it wouldn't be out of place, but if it got reverted by a regular editor of an article, then so be it. If similar were done with soccerbase so the output looks like one of the major citation styles, it'd be better, but I don't think we can impose its use any more than we can with soccerbase season. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 21:15, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Roy Jennings
— Maile (talk) 00:02, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Reference errors on 13 November
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RE:William Rochford
Hi there,

Been meaning to get in touch for a while regarding your Wikipedia article. I would like to somehow speak about where you got the information. Bill Rochford was my father and I'm trying to collect information about him and collaborating with Pompey FC at the moment.

Any help would be great.

Thanks

Christine Money Christinemoney (talk) 22:52, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

This was an odd revert
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=LA_Galaxy&diff=749812314&oldid=749774568 Walter Görlitz (talk) 14:26, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Manjappada and possible sockpuppetry
What's really going on here? The AfD was created by Abdulla Sahil, but the Afd template was actually added to article by the author Ameer Abdullah. In fact the AfD template was added to article by author before Abdulla Sahil even nominated it. In the articles for deletion page the IP user commented that I "would point out the nominator here has repeatedly blanked it", but it was actually the author who blanked it. Therefore should it not quality for speedy deletion via G7? However, I think there's something more sinister going on here in the form of sockpuppetry. Look at Arun Muraleedharan an article created by Abdulla Sahil, it's similar to Manjappada in that it uses references in the middle of sentences and the hyphenated date format. Despite both users being able to reference properly they both add external links in same faulty manner see Abdullah and see Sahil. Rather more damning is that both users' edits are all tagged with visual edit and they both come from Kerala, according to their user pages. Under Abdulla Sahil's photo on his user page, is a caption which reads Sahil Abdullah the same spelling as User:Ameer Abdullah. Ameer Abdullah's first edit on Wikipedia (removing an Afd template) is to Kolumittayi a page created by Sahil, his second edit was to Arun Muraleedharan, also created by Sahil. Sahil also created Abdullah's talkpage and then awarded Abdullah a barnstar before he'd done anything. &#9733;&#9734; DUCK IS JAMMMY &#9734;&#9733; 02:50, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I'll open a case shortly. &#9733;&#9734; DUCK IS JAMMMY &#9734;&#9733; 12:03, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Not sure if you have anything to add, but I thought I'd link you the investigation anyway. &#9733;&#9734; DUCK IS JAMMMY &#9734;&#9733; 14:42, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Tagging removal of sourced content as a minor edit
Hello. Please can you not tag the removal of sourced (albeit not inline-sourced) content as a minor edit with edit summary of "clean up using AWB", as you did at Don Dorman. If you feel unable to assume good faith at an article containing several general references, by just tagging the thing for inline/refimprove or dropping a note to its creator (if they're still active) to get it sorted, please at least use an edit summary that accurately describes the nature of your edit. Thanks in advance.

As a matter of interest, what was the difference, sourcing-wise, between the content you left in place, which included dates of birth and death, birthplace, clubs played for with stats and dates, and post-playing employment, and that which you removed? cheers, Struway2 (talk) 12:39, 20 November 2016 (UTC)


 * WP:V explains quite clearly how to establish which bit is verifiable from which source:
 * The first sentence permits removal of content. What the second and third say, is that immediate removal rather than tagging of what many might see as both uncontentious and readily attributable material, what with there being that "bunch of sources dumped at the end", might well piss people off. Struway2 (talk) 09:46, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
 * One might think that no significant harm would come to the encyclopedia if uncontentious material with no BLP ramifications that had been there since 2007, and was actually remarkably well referenced by the standards of that time, were left for a few days to see if anybody would respond to tags. I've been here far too long to start taking personal offence, but I'm not convinced that an inexperienced good-faith editor would see it the same way, especially where content gets removed with no explanation beyond "clean up". Footnote 4 at WP:CHALLENGE is informative: it finishes up by reminding us that "it is advisable to communicate clearly that you have a considered reason to believe that the material in question cannot be verified." cheers, Struway2 (talk) 19:28, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
 * One might think that no significant harm would come to the encyclopedia if uncontentious material with no BLP ramifications that had been there since 2007, and was actually remarkably well referenced by the standards of that time, were left for a few days to see if anybody would respond to tags. I've been here far too long to start taking personal offence, but I'm not convinced that an inexperienced good-faith editor would see it the same way, especially where content gets removed with no explanation beyond "clean up". Footnote 4 at WP:CHALLENGE is informative: it finishes up by reminding us that "it is advisable to communicate clearly that you have a considered reason to believe that the material in question cannot be verified." cheers, Struway2 (talk) 19:28, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

James Ward-Prowse Headings
Hi GS, I see that James Ward-Prowse is a page that you created and have done a lot of work on. I didn't mean to offend your style by editing the headings/sub-headings. I have no issue with you reverting the edit given your work on the page. I just figured it looks neater with the main heading large and then the individual seasons forming sub-headings. I know comparisons don't bear binding weight but Francesco Totti's page is a good example of what I mean, especially given that he too is a one-club-man. Just thought I'd give an explanation. Cheers, Liam E. Bekker (talk) 12:20, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Persistent vandalism
Greetings, GiantSnowman. I notice that you are a contributor to the Margaret Rhodes article and also an administrator. Perhaps you could do something about the persistent and rather lippy vandal who keeps inserting some drivel about how Margaret Rhodes died "following a short illness, later confirmed as AIDS" — as if AIDS is ever a short illness. It might be helpful if the article's text can only be edited by experienced users. The users in question all seem to be anonymous. All that I can do is to undo their edits. Thanks. Kelisi (talk) 19:02, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

Referees stubs
Greetings! I notice that you've reverted all the edits I made to articles tagged with referee-stub, with the edit summery reading: "previous type more specific". Your summary is correct; however, the change from "referee" to "sports official" was discussed at both WikiProject Stub sorting - Proposals and Categories for discussion, resulting in the approval of sports-official-bio-stub and the deletion of referee-stub. is clearly tagged with a notice linking to the discussion, which also reports on the progress of the sports-official-bio-stub proposal. I will add a notice on the referee-stub for editors who don't check the category notices and may not be aware of the progress of the changes. Meanwhile, if you have a comment regarding the use of referee-stub, I suggest you take part in one of the discussions linked above. Cheers, Her Pegship (talk) 19:45, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi there! In due course, there might be a stub type required for referees specifically. Creating the sports official type is the first step toward sorting out how many articles will be tagged thusly, and once sports-official-bio-stub is used on 60 or more articles, by WPSS standards we can give it its own category and look into splitting it out if necessary. (At this time, sports-official-bio-stub doesn't even have a category, and the forms for both the category and template for referee stubs don't conform to WP standards.) tl;dr : Let's start with sports officials in general and move toward the specific later on, OK? Her Pegship (talk) 20:45, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

VisualEditor
Hello, Just a quick question. I was wondering do you use the VisualEditor to edit sections? Thanks --Skyblueshaun (talk) 16:44, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Histmerge request
Could you histmerge Anvar Ghofurov to Anvar Gafurov? There's been an undiscussed merge proposal sitting on these articles since April. The English sources in both articles use Anvar Gafurov so that appears to be the common name. Thanks in advance. Sir Sputnik (talk) 00:35, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Edit summaries
Hello. Aren't we supposed to use edit summaries that describe the nature of our edits? I undid yours, which both restored the full name – quicker and easier than having to type it in myself – and generated the first part of the summary, and then inline-sourced it. Didn't realise that'd come across as getting pissy. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 18:47, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Stephen Chow‎
I was confused before by the style layout on the page, so I made it easier by combining two tables into one. Yet someone in China keeps reverting, removing bits saying he wasn't a producer on Dragon ball film when he was. I requested page protect just now. I reverted a number of times, I just wanted to run the article by you. Maybe you can help, cheers. Govvy (talk) 14:09, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Tárik's edits
Seriously? Well, those articles that I've reverted you are correct, I checked them. Strange... MYS <i style="color:red">77</i> <sup style="color:orange">✉ 14:37, 9 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Okay, cheers. MYS <i style="color:red">77</i> <sup style="color:orange">✉  14:51, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

John Clark
Is there any reason you're being deliberately confrontational at John Clark's page? Kosack (talk) 10:26, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Hmmm, so I need a notification for you adding a category? The reference for those stats spans several pages so I included the book as a general reference. Kosack (talk) 10:50, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
 * So I needed a notification because I forgot to add a category? The page span covers several completely different subsections of the book so it seems considerable overkill for a single reference. Kosack (talk) 11:16, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Or you could reasonably assume I mistakenly forgot to add the category, especially more being a mobile edit (which I assume was tagged), and have simply added the category out of common courtesy? Kosack (talk) 11:34, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Keita Nakamura to Keitaro Nakamura ‎
Could you please take a look at this page move. Basically a long standing article with tons of incoming links was replaced by a far less notable stub causing all sorts of problems. I have no idea how to undue page moves. I chose you to go to since you have dealt with the user in the past. Ideally we could rename the new stub Keita Nakamura (footballer) and move the old page back. If you can't help can you suggest where to go.Peter Rehse (talk) 22:05, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Category:English people of Taiwanese descent has been nominated for discussion
Category:English people of Taiwanese descent, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Rathfelder (talk) 08:03, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Harry Hooper
Hello. For information, Hylton Colliery Juniors catered for boys from leaving school at 14 (later 15) to when they were old enough to go into men's football at 17-ish. They played in Juniors leagues, and contributed players to the Durham County youth team, the age group between U15 schoolboys and senior men's. Mr Hooper was only 6 when the 1940s began, and was at the club by 1949, so couldn't have joined it in any other decade. One good thing came of extra eyes on that article: the (reliably sourced :-) year of Hooper senior retiring as a player and both of them joining West Ham was a year out. I've fixed it on both pages. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 11:57, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

John Stones
Can you delete an offensive diff on the above page, the second of three edits by 86.173.91.202. &#9733;&#9734; DUCK IS PEANUTBUTTER &#9734;&#9733; 10:39, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
 * And the last edit to Oumar Niasse‎ as well. &#9733;&#9734; DUCK IS PEANUTBUTTER &#9734;&#9733; 10:47, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
 * In regards to Stones I was referring to this edit. &#9733;&#9734; DUCK IS PEANUTBUTTER &#9734;&#9733; 09:43, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I didn't want to bring further attention to the edits, hence I didn't link the diffs initially. &#9733;&#9734; DUCK IS PEANUTBUTTER &#9734;&#9733; 21:11, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Berardi
Please show me where it says we should have a different heading for the statistics section if the player has not appeared in the national team? I think it's ridiculous that we now have to differentiate on players that don't play in national teams.Danieletorino2 (talk) 10:13, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

Mail
&#9733;&#9734; DUCK IS JAMMMY &#9734;&#9733; 13:38, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
 * The IP is block evading already (31.200.133.77), which is what I suggested might happen in the third email. &#9733;&#9734; DUCK IS JAMMMY &#9734;&#9733; 13:44, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
 * He/She is also evading with this IP 178.167.200.31 and they also violated 3rr with above IP. &#9733;&#9734; DUCK IS JAMMMY &#9734;&#9733; 15:09, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

I also ask that Ronnie O'Sullivan's page be protected, please. &#9733;&#9734; DUCK IS JAMMMY &#9734;&#9733; 15:13, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for all the help. &#9733;&#9734; DUCK IS JAMMMY &#9734;&#9733; 02:52, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

Alan Pardew
Hi GS, please can you keep an eye on Pard's page (protect if necessary)...he's just been removed as manager CPFC and the page has already come in for some attention. Thanks. Season's greetings! Eagleash (talk) 15:28, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of List of footballers born in Argentina who have played for other national teams for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of footballers born in Argentina who have played for other national teams is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/List of footballers born in Argentina who have played for other national teams until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Spiderone 17:50, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

McMenemy sources etc
Look, I do get it. Wikis are not reliable because anyone can add any random thing. And that link just stayed because I copied them both over for quickness to try and end this, I'm on my phone so typing the coding symbols is tiresome. But to be honest, there are a number of reference books I've read where I have some knowledge of the subject and notice the author has stated something that is inaccurate or just wrong, albeit innocently and accidentally.

Likewise I see 'reliable' online databases referenced here a lot like London Hearts which has a lot of good obscure stats, but who's to say it isn't just one guy with some domain space who fills in some blanks randomly at times? It all looks fine to me, but who can be sure?

And this is the disclaimer from Toon1892.com: "In presenting this information I would like to point out that I have no connection with, or affiliation to, Newcastle United Football Club, or any other organisation. All research is conducted by myself and where evidence points to conflicting conclusions the decision of which to include is at my sole discretion.". Now that is one lone guy who is trying his best to present the information correctly, but ultimately he is the God of his site. And there is no-one helping him so it would be easy to miss stuff, like if a player has a brother and father who were both internationals, that's an interesting little note in my opinion but it wasn't on there. But again what is on there seems OK so great, let's quote it.

Contrastingly, yes any loony can add nonsense to the Celtic Wiki, but like Wikipedia it will be monitored and scrutinised vigorously by obsessives and the narrow subject range involved and their devotion to it, as well as the collective aspect of collating the information, presents a decent case for the majority of the stuff on there being right as far as anyone is able to investigate it, especially the crazy disorganised world of football from 100 years ago. Still not reliable but the best we can do in some circumstances.

So you can lecture me about this if you like, I realise I am a noob that needs to be reined in; obviously you are in the right as far as the guidelines are concerned, and I understand why they are there (we don't want crap being added and referenced from more crap and then it gets quoted by some lazy journalist and shared on social media and repeated on TV and suddenly the crap is almost fact), but in this instance I feel you're overemphasising it a wee bit. Cheers, peace Crowsus (talk) 20:29, 22 December 2016 (UTC) PS seem to have added this to the middle of the page instead of the bottom, apologies

Try reading
Instead of undoing edits (especially of information in the infobox), maybe try reading the existing references to see if the information is included. You are technically undoing referenced edits, as a mod, you know better .. TonyStarks (talk) 14:09, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Notice of Neutral point of view noticeboard discussion
Hello, GiantSnowman. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Neutral point of view/Noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Tapered (talk) 04:05, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Merry, merry!
From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 13:58, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

André Onana
I removed the Cameroon youth part on André Onana's article because what does Cameroon youth even mean? What age group even is that? And also, there is no year or appearance on the article and no reference provided for his supposed appearances for Cameroon youth. Perhaps I should have put this in the edit summary but I don't think my changes should have been reverted. Cam Melling (talk) 11:52, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

Happy holidays!
Hi GiantSnowman. Hope all is good. I've continued to follow the discussion on Chuck Blazer at the WP:NPOVN. It seems that Tapered is trying push all the wrong buttons, so it might be best to stop responding to him. I'm sure that other editors will also provide useful input to answer any of his questions or clarify any concerns. Happy new year!-- MarshalN20 ✉🕊 08:29, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Douglas Franco Teixeira
Hi Snowman,

Since you seem to be the expert on Douglas, and know much more than I do about this matter, why not be consistent and change the whole article, including the part where it says he had to revoke his Brazilian passport (don't forget to delete the footnotes/sources as well).

I quote: "On 2 November 2011, he received his Dutch passport. Douglas' passport was presented by Mayor of Enschede, Peter den Oudsten. As a result, Douglas had to revoke his Brazilian passport. Douglas received his first call-up to the Dutch national team in October 2012."

And while you're at it, please also correct the Wikipedia articles about Douglas in Dutch: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Franco_Teixeira and in German: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Franco_Teixeira and French: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Franco_Teixeira who all make the same and obviously wrong assertions.

Best regards from a Dutch football fan, living in the Netherlands and following both Dutch and Brazilian football very closely (I'm a native Dutch speaker and speak Portuguese fluently). But I congratulate you and bow for your immense knowledge.

KramerNL