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Stats in football players' infoboxes
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Sourcing career stats table
Hi! To my knowledge career stats tables should be sourced just like other content in an article so I reinstated the reference at Frank Ordenewitz. Regards, Robby.is.on (talk) 11:32, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Okay, no problem. I thought that all the sources in the external links and the references already "confirm" this stats table so that an additional "reproof" to National Football Teams isn't necessary. But so another/second link to NTF is available too. Thank you for your edit. --MatthiasTheSoccerFan (talk) 14:03, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
 * External links are not sufficient, we need inline references. Readers should be able to (easily) verify the content. See WP:Verify, specifically: "Additionally, quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be supported by inline citations.".
 * As far as I can tell, the source you mention in your edit summary here didn't exist in the article at all. I have added it since. Next time, please add it as a reference. Robby.is.on (talk) 08:52, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot. I experience a different situation in the German Wikipedia where often references/external links I included (for East German players) are deleted later (from one specfic user; not because they have wrong data but he doesn't like too much links/notes in "his" articles he carefully "guards") but it's good to know that it's more favored here. :-) --MatthiasTheSoccerFan (talk) 09:17, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. In my view, the German Wikipedia is behind in many areas, I don't like to edit there even though Germany is where I live. If that editor wants less cruft he should start with the ridiculous WP:Overlinking – the German Wikipedia still seems to link everything under the sun, including dates of birth. ;-) Robby.is.on (talk) 09:44, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Capitalisation
Hi there, Matthias. I'm contacting you about the capitalisation issue at Maryan Bakalarczyk which is starting to annoy me.

The Manual of Style states: "Wikipedia uses sentence case for sentences, article titles, section titles, table headers, image captions, list entries (in most cases), and entries in infoboxes and similar templates, among other things. Any MoS guidance about the start of a sentence applies to items using sentence case." Sentence case means "a mixed-case style in which the first word of the sentence is capitalised, as well as proper nouns and other words as required by a more specific rule." (Sentence case) Playing positions are not proper nouns.

Hope this clear things up. Kind regards, Robby.is.on (talk) 10:13, 27 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi Robby. Okay. Thank you for the clarification. Cheers, Matthias PS And don't get annoyed for such bagatelle thing. ;-p --MatthiasTheSoccerFan (talk) 10:27, 27 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I know I shouldn't. ;-) Happy editing, Robby.is.on (talk) 11:04, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

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Jürgen Nöldner
Hi Matthias, thanks for your additions at Jürgen Nöldner. Please always cite sources inline in the article, mentioning them in your edit summary as you did in this change is not sufficient. Kind regards, Robby.is.on (talk) 13:37, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi Robby. Thanks for your valuable clue. Have a great World Cup. Cheers, Matthias --MatthiasTheSoccerFan (talk) 07:15, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Gerne. This is actually the first World Cup since 1998 I've decided not to watch but thanks. Happy editing, Robby.is.on (talk) 08:47, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Probably the smarter choice. ;-p Happy editing too. :-) --MatthiasTheSoccerFan (talk) 09:52, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

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