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Template:National sports teams of England
Hi Mike, you're incorrect to say "football's the sole form of football played in the UK". Rugby league and union are two other forms of football with a high profile in the UK. I'm happy to leave "football" as it is though, my edit was aimed at clarity for international readers and because perhaps in the future there could be entries for English teams in American football or Gaelic. Nothing major.  LunarLander  //  talk  // 18:10, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

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Catherine Walker
'Tis done, sir :-) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 19:59, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Eddie Oshodi
Hey there, I created an article for Oshodi. Just thought I'd let you know because a pop-up said you'd previously nominated it for deletion, so I thought I'd post to at least say I haven't ignored that. A quick check of the guidelines led me to conclude that he's played a professional game in a professional league, and so is now eligible (whereas North and Antal still aren't). Figured there was no harm in creating it, and deleting it again if that conclusion was wrong. WFCforLife (talk) 03:20, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

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Will Buckley
Nice work on the cleanup there, it looks really good! WFCforLife (talk), Help wikipedia. Make the pledge. 20:44, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

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Pictures
Hi there, hope you're having a good summer. I know this is a longshot, but I don't suppose you know anyone who might have free pictures of Gibbsy or Luther? In particular I've done a lot of work on Gibbs (and before you ask, my sleep pattern is work-related!), but I think it would be a crime to have a set of articles on Watford without giving Luther some sort of prominence. Regards, WFC (talk) 15:12, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I never replied to this! Sorry about that! In response, I'm afraid I can't think of anywhere that would. HornetMike (talk) 20:06, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

LMA list and our List of English League Managers
As already mentioned on talk on the article, and the footnotes, Mick Wadsworth (Hartlepool) is the other missing name on the LMA list. No apparent reason why they list Pitman but not Kean and Wadsworth, but should we consider LMA inclusion as the difference between a short appointment (to the end of the season) and a caretakership with an amdission that they are not hurrying over the appointment? Kevin McE (talk) 20:52, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah yes! I remember reading that wherever it was now. I wonder why they don't list Wadsworth, or Gradi for that matter. Like with Chris Turner a while back, it's pretty clear that they've got him in permanent charge again. They've listed Kean now, Adams is missing following his move but will presumably turn up, then it's Wadsworth and the 7 caretakers. I can't really decisively answer your question, as on the surface it would appear that the Kean and Wadsworth appointments are the same, at least according to our refs. I could mail the LMA, I suppose? We probably couldn't ref their response, but at least it would make things a bit clearer. HornetMike (talk) 20:06, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I think the LMA's webmaster is sometimes simply less than thorough: the page we reference is not necessarily the listing that they consider the most important, the priority for updates. I e-mailed them yesterday to point out that Micky Adams is not on "our" page on their site, but is on their historic list of Sheff Utd managers, and on their profile of Adams.
 * I was posting Dalglish as not a caretaker, as you did, on the same "end of the season" basis as has Kean and (finally) Wadsworth; "a 5 month agreement differs from a 4 year agreement only in duration" is, I suppose, the underlying assumption. Perhaps the key is what eventually appears here, the Liverpool managers list: will they log it as a caretaker appt (see Thompson on that page). Kevin McE (talk) 11:35, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

You beat me on an edit conflict by about 3 seconds
You must have BBC News channel on as well! I thought it must have been you, as it was done properly, rather than the botch job that occasional vsitors do (did you see the attempt at the Ipswich one yesterday?) Kevin McE (talk) 11:23, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Vicarage Road
Hi Mike,

I see you have been the main contributor to the Vicarage Road article. FYI I have blanked most of the page as per reasons in the edit summary and related talk page. Hope this can improve the quality. Regards Cloudz679 (talk) 19:36, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

List of Watford F.C. seasons
Hi Mike, hope you're keeping well.

Just thought I'd drop you a line to make you aware of Today's featured list, and more specifically, the first ever football list to go up. —WFC— 12:19, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Hey, well done (belatedly). And good work on sorting out the Vicarage Road stuff mentioned above. HornetMike (talk) 16:01, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

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Britt Assombalonga
I've restored this article - please update and improve as appropriate. Thanks, GiantSnowman 11:55, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Watford GA nomination
I've finally gotten around to putting the club article up for GA review. It usually takes several weeks before a reviewer takes an article on, but in the meantime I was wondering if you had any thoughts on things that could be improved? —WFC— 07:13, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Want me to take a look? The Rambling Man (talk) 08:04, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * If you wouldn't mind I'd be very grateful. —WFC— 08:37, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

England Cricket Team
Onions is an england international cricketer, who does play tests and ODIS. and is very much in the England set up. and he has the squad number of 90.
 * Yes, but he hasn't played in an international match in the last year, which is the criteria for making that squad list. HornetMike (talk) 13:54, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

did he not play a game in India at back end of 2012?
 * Nope, last Test v Sri Lanka in June 2012. Last ODI in 2009. HornetMike (talk) 22:45, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

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 * My fault! As you noticed, Sockpuppet investigations/HornetsMike/Archive was a sockpuppet investigation of HornetsMike, with an "s", not you.  For the record, you were not the target of my sockpuppet report. --Closeapple (talk) 23:53, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
 * No worries, honest mistake! HornetMike (talk) 15:25, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

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Hi Hornet Mike, Greetings to you. I would like to post a message on redirect for discussion with a series of pages without content and redirect to another general related page just as you have done The ABC Murders (TV series) - see here Redirects for discussion/Log/2017 December 31. There are many MMA fighters article without content and just put #REDIRECT to List of current UFC fighters by same User:Rickyc123 on The ABC Murders (TV series). I want to do the same, but after reading the redirect how to instruction I am confused and not sure how to do it. I would like to request your assistance by show me step by step how to do it. Thank you in advance.  CASSIOPEIA(talk) 22:00, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi, I found it a little complex at first and obviously they've deleted quite a lot of what I did anyway, but from what I can recall...


 * On all the redirects you want deleted replace: #REDIRECT Where the article points to to
 * Click  [ here]  to add the redirects you want deleted to today's discussion. Add a new section.
 * Add this text:
 * And underneath that:
 * Do that as many times as you need to and on the final entry replace the }} with |text=The actions you would like to occur (deletion, re-targeting, etc.) and the rationale for those actions.}} ~

That should do it, I think! HornetMike (talk) 18:34, 2 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Thank you HornetMike for the step by step instructions above. I tried and please see on February 3, 2018 and I failed miserably. Not sure how to rework to a correct version at the moment.  Just wonder you could help or pointed me to a admin who take care of redirect discussion?   CASSIOPEIA(talk) 15:31, 3 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi HOrnetMike, my mistakes were fixed by User:Dancter, and was told I added extra  on the title pages.  I will retry on other request for redirect and see it works.  Thank you.  CASSIOPEIA(talk) 19:08, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Everton edits
Hi.

The official site is not a great source of information. Like the club, it is horribly run. Please check the reference I have posted to the Premier League's submitted squads from 01/02/2018. Kinsella is not on it. He was released months ago. The players listed on that page are now 100% correct as is the small list of unregistered over 21 players.

Kind regards,

Chris ChrisCheekos (talk) 00:15, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

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Any chance you can pop in to Featured article candidates/Iwan Roberts/archive1? A number of queries, particularly with regard to the reliability of sources you suggested. Thanks. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 09:58, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

1999 Football League First Division play-off Final
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