User talk:Jonsarno42

Michael Johnson
Hello, and thank you for trying to improve the article on Michael Johnson (footballer, born 1973). There are a few things you won't be aware of about footballer pages, so I'll try and help.

The club stats in the infobox – the box at the top right – are for appearances and goals in the domestic league only, and shouldn't include appearances in cup competitions. Mr Johnson has more than 300 appearances for Birmingham City in all competitions, of which 262 were made in the Football League/Premier League, so the 262 figure is the one that should be used according to Wikipedia convention.

Similarly, in the first paragraph, it said he made more than 550 appearances in the FL/PL; "more than 650" would be for all competitions. There's no reason why that sentence couldn't be changed to reflect appearances in all competitions, but we can't just change the numbers without changing the words to match.

The international appearances in the infobox are for what used to be called FIFA 'A' internationals, and I think are now called Tier 1. We have to go by what the "reliable sources" say, and the standard sources such as RSSSF here and national-football-teams.com here both give Mr Johnson 13 appearances. The RSSSF webpage lists full line-ups for Jamaica's matches during the period that he was playing for them. Perhaps your figure of 20 includes appearances in matches that FIFA didn't recognise as Tier 1 matches?

As to your other changes: anything that appears in a Wikipedia article, particularly about a living person, should be verifiable from reliable published sources. Which means that we can't publish a list of the subject's qualifications or current activities without showing where we got the info from. And we have to try and avoid making the article look like the subject's CV.

I'm guessing you are Mr Johnson, or someone associated with him? If you are, you might want to read the "conflict of interest" guideline here and the guideline about autobiographies here. The pages Biographies of living persons/Help and FAQ/Article subjects might also be useful.

You can ask for more help or better explanations by posting at the WP:Teahouse or at the biographies of living persons notice board, or just by typing on this page, which should attract the attention of an administrator. Hope this helps, Struway2 (talk) 16:21, 12 October 2017 (UTC)