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DYK for People, Places and Things (short story collection)
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Saving Time with Speedy categories for discussion
Thanks for nominating all the wrestling categories for renaming. In the future, you can speedy nominate these to save yourself some time. See WP:CFDS. - RevelationDirect (talk) 11:38, 3 June 2023 (UTC)


 * - thank you very much, I will use that next time. McPhail (talk) 08:27, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

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Stable timelines
Hey there! Would love your input on this discussion on timelines in tag team articles. Thanks :)  Sekyaw  (talk)  11:30, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

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AEW All In 2023
I noticed your recent edits to the event section of All In (2023). Just an FYI, wrestling moves are not italicized. Also, you introduced some overlinking. JDC808  ♫  01:19, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

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question
Hello McPhail. I need your advice. You have more expertise in classic wrestling than me. Do you know the team of ? I don't know if it's notable at all, looks like a random independent tag team. But it says it's "One of the top tag teams wrestling in the Canadian independent circuit during the late-1990s". --HHH Pedrigree (talk) 12:49, 8 December 2023 (UTC)


 * - Hi. I have never heard of this team, and there don't seem to be that many sources on them. Cagematch.net only has seven matches on record for them. I suspect they are not notable. McPhail (talk) 13:55, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

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Question about Punk
Hello McPhail. How are you? I have seen you edited CM Punk's article. I have a suggestion. One of my last concerns about pro wrestlers is the amount of detail about the storylines. As you may know, the main complain about or articles is writing from an in-universe perspective, excesive details about fictional storylines. So, I was thinking about the OVW section. To be honest, I feel that it's overdetailed. It's just a year he spent on develoment. WP:PAGESIZE states that over 100 kb has to be trimmed or divided, Punk's article is 280 kB. Maybe, we can summarize it into "he was assigned to OVW, where he wrestled for a year, winning the 3 titles" or something like that. HHH Pedrigree (talk) 19:11, 13 December 2023 (UTC)


 * I am good thanks, sorry for the delay in responding. I agree it is probably overly detailed - I will try and slim it down. Ideally this section would not just discuss what Punk did as a character but also his experiences in OVW. McPhail (talk) 10:33, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

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Elizabeth and Sherri were MANAGERS not Valets.
Re this edit I have fixed it now but please do not ever call Elizabeth or Sherri "Valets". They were Managers! They were always portrayed - and referred to- as managers in the WWF and called such on screen and print. Sherri famously tore a strip off an announcer at AWA WrestleRock 86 who called her the valet of Doug Somers and Buddy Rose "I am not a valet, I am a Manageress!". Please respect this as the term valet was often used demeaningly by promoters to refer to female sidekicks who served as handmaidens, mascots and human ornamentation. Liz and Sherri were leaders not maidsevants. MANAGERS! Romomusicfan (talk) 01:16, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

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World Title
Hello McPhail. Happy New Year. I hope you had a wonderful christmas season. Maybe you didn't notice, but the World Heavyweight Championship (Los Angeles) is nominated for deletion. Since it's more like your field, classic wrestling, you have something to say. --HHH Pedrigree (talk) 21:04, 11 January 2024 (UTC)


 * - thanks for letting me know. It's an interesting article, but from a quick look there don't seem to be many sources out there, so potentially a challenging article to improve. McPhail (talk) 09:19, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

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Death of Eleanor de Freitas
Hi there. I noticed you are the creator of this Wikipedia page "Death of Eleanor de Freitas" page and are also main contributor. The section which is marked "Prosecution" omits almost all the details of this actual prosecution, which took place between August 2013 and April 2014. It mostly contains the reaction to the prosecution, but not the details of the actual prosecution. For instance, the CPS, took a very long time to consider all the evidence and public interest, and CPS kept asking the Judge for adjournments in September, October and November 2014, in order to properly consider the papers, but this is not mentioned on the page. The various checks and balances at the CPS, going through 3 vry senior officials, were not mentioned. The CPS kept asking the police to hand over the ABE tape during this period, but the police kept refusing. The deputy chief of the MPS Martin Hewitt had to order the officers to hand over the evidence to the CPS. This surely is of interest, no? The page states the officers didn't support the prosecution, in fact they were refusing to hand over the evidence, that's the reality. Why mention the CPS not handing it over, and then omit the details, which were the CPS didn't have it because the police were not handing it over. And that surely comes under the section of "prosecution"? That's what was going on. The CPS are criticized for not handing over the ABE tapes to her lawyers, but in fact it was the police who refused to hand to over to the CPS. This is documented, but not mentioned. It seems to me that most of the evidence from the prosecution and the procedure is being concealed by various editors on Wikipedia. Sorry to be critical, but this section contains almost noting of the prosecution despite having that heading. Why delete details, which balance out the criticisms? I note, that the main editors of this page have been Eleanor father, and also Lisa Avalos, who has speculated about the case, and is friends with Eleanor's family, and acting as their agent, in legal matters. 217.43.215.224 (talk) 15:29, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

- thanks for your message. The difficult with all this is finding a reliable published source. Outwith legal documents that the government publishes, we are largely at the mercy of what the media publishes; as with many such incidents, the focus is more on the lurid details than the legal processes. The article could definitely be greatly improved in many ways but the challenge is locating sources that substantiate everything. McPhail (talk) 19:01, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

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Jade Cargill
Thanks for editing and expanding the article plus converting many cited sources to WP:LDR. My concern is choosing better ref names; e.g if the source is about a PPV match, then "PPV name" is a much better name than using author last name and year. Actually we better avoid "Someone####" format as much as we can. Because with a better and proper ref name, you don't need to rename it if its citation changes. Best Regards. --Mann Mann (talk) 07:28, 18 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Surname and year of publication is the style I use as it's logical and systematic, and lends itself to the same reference being used as a source for multiple facts. Feel free to change though. McPhail (talk) 09:07, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

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