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Johann Pachelbel
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Fair use
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Check this out Nortom --Bandurist (talk) 01:25, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Please share your opinion
Since you recently edited the Robin van Persie article would you mind commenting on another editing issue at [Talk:Robin van Persie#Nazi salute]]? --Walter Görlitz (talk) 16:19, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

"Hanging" hyphen
See Hyphen or books. Dicklyon (talk) 05:17, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

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Vilanova / Roura
Hi there RAUDYS, AL from Portugal here,

please don't remove the player position of these two (now) managers in their intro. It's more additional info. Their current situation (with the health issues and all) is very well explained in the body of article proper.

Happy editing - --AL (talk) 15:24, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

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Aluko's nationality
Hello, and thanks for asking. The history of the lead of this article went as follows: Up until he played for Nigeria, the opening sentence did read "is an English footballer". Once he played for them, it was changed to the rather messy form "is an English-born Nigerian international footballer", and then, to fit in with the relevant bit of the Manual of Style, that says "previous nationalities or the country of birth should not be mentioned in the opening sentence unless they are relevant to the subject's notability", changed again some five years ago to the current form, which has been stable ever since, with no nationality in the opening sentence but with his birthplace and change of international representation simply explained lower down the lead section.

The point is, if a subject is born in Fooland, and their only nationality and citizenship is of Fooland, and they've only ever represented Fooland at football, then there's no problem with declaring them in the opening sentence to be a Foolandish footballer. However, Mr Aluko was born in England and represented England at youth level, but later chose to represent Nigeria at full international level, so it'd be misleading to the reader to declare him unequivocally English. He's British by birth-nationality, "English" by youth-representation and "Nigerian" by senior-representation. It'd be just as accurate and just as misleading to declare him Nigerian, as people have tried to in the past and which has also been reverted, e.g. here.

Hope this clarifies the matter. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 13:51, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

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 * Manchester United: Louis van Gaal confirmed as new manager"/> Louis Van Gaal has named [Ryan Giggs] as his assistant manager, Marcel Bout as assistant coach, specialising in oppositional

Lionel Messi
The guy's full name is Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini, according to the official 2014 FIFA World Cup players' list published by FIFA. I don't get why you keep reverting this. Davykamanzi → talk • contribs • alter ego 21:24, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
 * It makes sense anyway since his father's name is Jorge Messi and his mother's name is Celia Cuccittini. Davykamanzi → talk • contribs • alter ego 21:27, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Kolarov picture
Please look at this picture, as you can see it is a copyrighted UEFA-sanctioned picture, from 2011 (so in fact it is older than the picture you reverted). The tags on Wikimedia Commons were false and it will very likely get deleted. That is why the other picture from 2012 was returned to the article. Zastavafan76 (talk) 21:43, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

Heights
Why are you removing referenced and valid content? What is the relevant Wikipedia policy which states that heights must be sourced to an 'official' reference? GiantSnowman 18:31, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Diff 1, Diff 2, Diff 3, Diff 4 - all showing you removing referenced and valid content. GiantSnowman 09:11, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Protecting pages
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missing edit summaries
Hi, gossamers if you could be so kind, can you toss in a small edit summary when you edit? I have nothing against your edits on cerebral palsy which I contribute to too, but an edit summary would facilitate working through my watch list a lot. It's a simple form of paying respect to others!--Wuerzele (talk) 15:35, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

Ethiopia
Reverted you as you may know, what in the world was that meant to be? Doug Weller (talk) 20:35, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Ah, total mistake. I was trying to fix the formatting mistake (an unnecessary space between the 2015 population estimate and the reference) by doing control+f to find the population section (hence the "pop"), and must have accidentally typed that without noticing it when I did the control+f. I will now fix the original formatting error that you also can see in your reversion. Thanks!

Gossamers (talk) 20:38, 25 September 2015 (UTC)


 * No problem, sorry I missed the formatting mistake! That sort of thing is all too easy to do. Doug Weller (talk) 05:56, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

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Joseph-Armand Bombardier
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Nominative determinism
Thank you for getting involved in the nominative determinism article. You mentioned with your edit of the lead where you removed the Splatt & Weedon example "Humourous but not necessary or appropriate." What do you think if we replace the Trench example in the next sentence with Splatt & Weedon? I think the Splatt & Weedon example is so often referenced, in the various news articles, that it probably should be in the lead. Being a double case it's also stronger than Trench. So it could be something like this:

Nominative determinism is the hypothesis that people tend to gravitate towards areas of work that fit their name. The term nominative determinism was first used in the popular science magazine New Scientist in 1994, after a series of observations of recent studies done by researchers with remarkably fitting surnames, including a book on polar explorations by Daniel Snowman and a urology article by Splatt and Weedon, raised suspicion of the existence of a psychological effect.

What do you think? Edwininlondon (talk) 07:13, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Professional footballer
Once again, can someone please add the word professional in front of footballer in the main page of Cristiano Ronaldo. It now reads: Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, ComM, GOIH (Portuguese pronunciation: [kɾiʃ'tjɐnu ʁuˈnaɫdu], born 5 February 1985) is a Portuguese footballer for Spanish club Real Madrid and the Portugal national team. It should read: Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, ComM, GOIH (Portuguese pronunciation: [kɾiʃ'tjɐnu ʁuˈnaɫdu], born 5 February 1985) is a Portuguese professional footballer for Spanish club Real Madrid and the Portugal national team.

It was there before and it was removed, which is not consistent with other players wiki pages. Here are some to name a few:

Lionel Messi: Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi[note 1] (Spanish pronunciation: [ljoˈnel anˈdɾes ˈmesi] ( listen); born 24 June 1987) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club FC Barcelona and the Argentina national team.

Sergio Ramos: Sergio Ramos García (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈserxjo ˈramos ɣarˈθi.a]; born 30 March 1986) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for and captains both, Real Madrid and the Spain national football team.

Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior (Portuguese pronunciation: [nejˈmaʁ dɐ ˈsiwvɐ ˈsɐ̃tus ˈʒũɲoʁ]; born 5 February 1992), commonly known as Neymar or Neymar Jr., is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club FC Barcelona and the Brazil national team.

All these contain the word "professional" in front of footballer. Please someone add that word. I wish I could do it but I am new to Wikipedia and don't have the authority to do so.

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Just FYI
That's your third revert on Taylor Swift in under an hour. If you make a fourth in the next 24 hours, you risk being blocked for violating the three-revert rule. I won't revert again, but somebody else might and if you make a fourth revert I will ask for an uninvolved admin to intervene. <b style="color: teal; font-family: Tahoma">HJ Mitchell</b> &#124; <span style="color: navy; font-family: Times New Roman" title="(Talk page)">Penny for your thoughts? 14:24, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

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Defining and non-defining relative clauses
Hi. A non-defining relative clause is used to add information that is not essential to know who or what is being spoken about. Let's say I have two brothers. 'My brother who is an EFL teacher is 35.' 'My brother who is a fireman is 32'. You need the information 'who is a fireman' to know which brother I am referring to. Now let's assume I have one brother. 'My brother, who is an EFL teacher, is 35.' Seeing as I only have one, the information 'My brother', is sufficient to understand who is being referred to. The information as to his career is additional, non-essential information. So a non-defining relative clause, which is separated by commas, is used. Michael Bisping is an actor and mixed martial artist. That is enough to define who we are speaking about. The fact that he competed in the UFC is not essential information. It would be if there were another Michael Bisping who were an actor and martial artist who didn't compete in the UFC middleweight division. In order for you to be right you would need to point out that another man with the same name and jobs existed who did NOT compete in the UFC middleweight division, which would make the fact that this Michael Bisping did essential. I teach this stuff every day. It is not a grammatical error. Please don't revert again without discussion. NEDOCHAN (talk) 12:06, 10 November 2019 (UTC)


 * In case you'd prefer an official explanation: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/relative-clauses-defining-and-non-defining NEDOCHAN (talk) 12:18, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

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Ochs error
Thanks for catching those 99999s - I don't know how I managed to do that. And I agree the sentence about his friends is redundant. Tvoz / talk 02:43, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

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