User talk:Sander.v.Ginkel/Archive 4

List of professional cyclists who died during a race
Many thanks for your additions to this article. I wanted to let you know that I have removed some of the redlinks from the cyclists' names, especially the early cyclists. It was quite difficult to find information on cycling's early days and the cyclists' deaths, I think enough information about their careers & lives to prove notability and to build articles about them would be almost impossible. (For instance, many of the names could only be found in single cites out of the German-language Sport-Album der Rad-Welt and so far as I can tell these were about the deaths not about the man or his career.) If you disagree with my removal of these redlinks I'd be happy to discuss that on the article's talk page. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 16:40, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for the message. I edited the page on the go to kill some time. I thought more names would already be blue, but I didn't have time to look properly. Thanks for your edit. I'll later look better and will keep red links for notable cyclists only (blue link, participant at Olympics or Worlds..). Thanks, Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 17:28, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Re: the Randall Fox edit - the way the article has been set up, it is for professional cyclists not collegiate competitors. I know you marked the Fox entry information as a university/college-level athlete but am thinking the information doesn't quite belong in this particular Wikipedia article... Shearonink (talk) 21:59, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, yes I agree. However, there is quite a lot of media attention for it, so he should be place in such a list. On the page there are many other cyclist who don't meet the content of the title of the page. For instance who died during a training. So for that reason I'll propose renaming the page. Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 06:04, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I think it would be better to possibly split the article. I proposed splitting it/renaming it/etc a while back but got no response.  Please discuss on the article talk page first before you move or rename any content.  Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 06:37, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

I would like to discuss with you some things Re: this list-article.


 * Honesty time: I am trying very hard not to verge into WP:OWN behavior but I would like for you to understand something here. When I came upon this "List" it was in terrible shape...no references at all, just a bare list of unreferenced names. [<-Please click on that link.] I and a few other editors, mostly German WP editor User:Nicola54 (who was able to find the physical Sport-Album der Rad-Welt refs in library archives) resurrected that sad-sack piece of garbage into the form you recently came upon.  I claim no deference but the massive amount of work I put into this List...you just came upon it a week or two ago...I've been working on it and keeping it safe from vandalism and unreferenced names for almost 6 years.


 * Also, you have been adding bare URLs as references. I know you are a long-time and experienced editor but I am going to be bold & place a referencing hint/tip on your page below.  If it is unwanted, don't get angry...just delete it.  I thought maybe it might help you easily slot in references - I know it helped me when I found the original version.  Please don't be insulted, I know you care about cycling very much and are a prolific editor, I'm just trying to help you out here.


 * The amount of names you are converting into redlinkfs in this List is troubling to me. Yes, these cyclists might have a VeloNews article and/or a CyclingArchive page, etc., but are there enough references to prove notability for having a Wikipedia article?  The early names especially...believe me, I have pored through many sources just to reference their deaths, finding citable information on their careers or to prove their influence on cycling and racing?...I think will be very difficult. Maybe you have access to better references than I do, if so more power to you.  I would just ask you to consider if you are going to write articles on all these various redlinked names..if not, maybe think about leaving them as plain text for now.
 * I appreciate all your work on the List. Thank you. Cheers, Shearonink (talk) 17:14, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

, bit of a third party comment here but red links places within the article, may, at the moment be useful. If any of those redlinks fulfil the notability criteria (WP:NCYC) then we need to keep them in. If this can't be resolved take discussion to WT:CYC and let a wider audience within the project comment directly. XyZAn (talk) 18:35, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
 * There is nothing here that needs to be resolved. I didn't say I was going to remove the redlinks, I just asked that some consideration be given to not redlinking so many of the cyclists' names.  I don't know, maybe create the article first?  But Sander obviously thinks that there is enough verifiable reliably-sourced content to prove notability to create WP articles for these people and that's great.  Shearonink (talk) 19:26, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi and thanks for your appropriate reply ! Yes, sorry for the references, I was in a hurry and so did it quickly... Will do it better next time.
 * But great work on the article, and I really appreciate that you maintain him so much! This is how it should be. And yes I know how it feels when people change things to your article. But on the other hand it feels good if people start adding content in the same style or when foreign wikis start copying what you made. I have for instance the same after I added 90% of the content, table layout with colors, images etc on Suicide by pilot. Keep up the great work.
 * About the red links, because you deleted in first instance some of the red links, I scanned them one by one. And I think all of the red links of the cyclists I added are notable cyclists. About half of them have a foreign wiki page, and of others I found notable info. Because of that it better to leave them red so people now that they can be created. Of course I'm willing to start creating some of them, so you can see they meet the notability guidelines :). Cheers for coming by and having a talk. Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 06:18, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

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Hannah Martin (volleyball) YOB-1900??
I'm pretty sure you put this wrong, but you put Hannah Martin (volleyball) as being born in 1900! Wanted to point that out as I'm sure this person isn't that old! Wgolf (talk) 20:58, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for letting me know! I, was a bit too fast and just saw the mistake after reverting your edit... Yeah indeed, she is not from 1900, but from 1990 :). I changed it. Thanks for letting me know. Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 21:22, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Welcome! If that was not a mistake that would of been in the news most likely and probably have a bigger article! Wgolf (talk) 22:02, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Overlinking
Hi, thanks for your work on Dutch sports articles.

Please note: en.WP doesn't normally link dates, years, or commonly understood words.

My best,

Tony  (talk)  03:08, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

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List of sailors at the Summer Olympics
Hi Sander,

This was in discussion in 2010 all ready. Please have a look at Articles for deletion/List of sailors at the Summer Olympics _/)_/)_/) ˷˷˷˷˷˷˷˷ _/) NED33talk 22:37, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for dropping a message. Yes saw that, but my proposal is merging, not deleting. Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 06:53, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

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"a" vs. "an"
G'day from Oz; yesterday I edited a bunch of articles, changing "a Australian" to "an Australian". All of the articles were created by you; I have just checked your edit history and went to some of the articles you have created the last few days, and I have seen "a Egyptian", "a Indian", "a Iranian" and "a Irish". It looks like you are doing a copy-and-paste to create these articles and I just wanted to draw your attention to this as a prompt to change "a" to "an" when necessary as you insert the nationality into each. Cheers YSSYguy (talk) 12:50, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Well I guess posting the above was a waste of my time. In English, words starting with "a", "e", ""i" and "o" are preceded by "an" instead of "a". So, to pick some of your more recent creations, "a Argentinian", "a Azerbaijani" and "a Italian" should be "an Argentinian", "an Azerbaijani" and "an Italian". Please be diligent, otherwise you are just creating unnecessary work for other editors. Cheers YSSYguy (talk) 17:16, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for your messages. As you notices, I haven't update the software yet, to take in account this issue. I'll do that, and untill that time I will try to think about it and adjust it manually :). Thanks, Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 18:44, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
 * G'day again, it seems that you are a much more sophisticated editor than I - I do everything manually. I did use AWB for a few days about five years ago, but I found it a bit limiting and I have seen people over the years tend to make 'corrections' with AWB that were wrong. I have also come across a stub Template that needs fixing, now to get that done... Anyway, happy editing! YSSYguy (talk) 23:56, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Andrés Pérez
I have reverted your move as unexplained, undiscussed, and unnecessary. Please use WP:RM in future. GiantSnowman 17:04, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I have again reverted your moved - as I have already told you it was undiscussed and unnecessary, not in the standard naming conventions, and you have not fixed any incoming/double links. I strongly suggest you please use WP:RM - if you move it again without a discussion then I will report you and seek a block for vandalism. GiantSnowman 19:43, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, you can also take it kind. You are acting hard. If you react to people like this, they won't like Wikipedia and will turn away. Try to help, do not go so fast threaten! To reply, I don't know if you do everything according to the policies. At first, according to the policies, you should get a few warnings before being blocked. I didn't get one yet.. Secondly, I'm working according to Disambiguation. If you see Disambiguation there is written
 * 'Move any page with a conflicting title (i.e., the same exact title) to its more specific name.
 * That is what I did, because there are conflicting titles: two footballers with the same given and surename: (Andrés Edgardo Pérez & Andrés Eduardo Pérez), so the name Andrés Pérez is ambiguous. So what did I do wrong? My 3rd point if you want to distinguis between the two football players, putting (soccer) behind the name what you did is not enough because they are both association football players, so year of birth should be added (what I did and you reverted..). My 4th point, as far as I know there are no different naming conventions of Colombian names and Puerto Rican names, so both they should be in the same style right? Because you reverted my move (see 3rd point) I changed the names to the same style. 5th point: Why are you using (soccer), as (footballer) is widely used for associotion football players on WP. 6th point, in your first message you are saying for a move, WP:RM should be used. For clear ambigious pages this is not needed, plese read Disambiguation. For the >10,000 articles I created, I had to create many disamb pages and moving pages. I'm not going to use WP:RM for every single move... Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 21:43, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Your move was unexplained, and so I reverted it - so you should have used RM rather than make a move again. Are they known by their middle names? No. Are the middle names similar enough to cause confusion? Yes. Does Puerto Rico use US-terminology (ie soccer)? Yes. Have you fixed the redirects and incoming links? No. These are all the things that you have still done wrong. GiantSnowman 07:07, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Lazaro Mangubat
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 * 1) Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made.
 * 2) Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

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Olympic progess
Thanks for the fixes! Usually if the number goes down by one (or two), someone has removed the category from the article, and it can take time to track down. In the case of the fencing, the total was one higher than the Sports Reference source, so I've fixed it. Thanks again!  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 13:02, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Not recommending creating templates for specific sports
Hi Sander.v.Ginkel, I see that you created FlagIOCvb and FlagIOCvbw for use on volleyball articles. Rather than make new hard-coded examples of existing templates with slight tweaks, please allow me to satisfy an edit request. I think the templates mentioned above may satisfy CSD T3. &mdash; Andy W. (talk · contrib) 19:54, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I implemented your suggestion. Followed up at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Olympics. &mdash; Andy W. (talk · contrib) 20:46, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Draw
Huh? Not sure what you mean. The templates were already there but not filled with the teams. Kante4 (talk) 19:42, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
 * No worries. ;) Kante4 (talk) 19:49, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Willem Janssen
Since you moved this page I assume you intend to fix the numerous broken links as a matter of urgency? GiantSnowman 15:17, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, and that is the same for the other pages I moved. When I get the disambiguation link notification I will fix them with dab solver. Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 15:33, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * You should not wait for a tool to notify you. You should fix the links straight away. GiantSnowman 15:34, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * doing them all one-by-one takes me too much time, while a few days later they are done with a few clicks. Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 15:37, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Not good enough. If you are creating broken links you have to fix broken links - straight away. Try using WP:AWB to fix the links, it's what I do if there are many. GiantSnowman 15:38, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I've never heard that there is a rule that you have to fix broken right away... If that are the rules I stop from now on with creating disamb. pages. Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 15:44, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * It comes under Moving a page where it clearly says "It should be done quickly." GiantSnowman 16:27, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

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 * * Robert Morris (Welsh footballer) born 1875, Welsh international

Footballer stubs
Wow that's a lot! Are you sure Ernie Bowdler and some of the others are England born though?♦ Dr. Blofeld  12:24, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, yes that are a lot :). It's a pitty I just saw the contest this morning, but it would be nice for the stats of the contest I can create them all before tomorrow :) Yes, he is born in England (and also some others are also born in England or Ireland). They are listed on List of Wales international footballers born outside Wales. Cheers, Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 12:43, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
 * That's OK. Impressive stuff. We'll need another contest dedicated to those alone now ;-) Hopefully they can be improved over time. I'd imagine there would be club info about some of them somewhere.♦ Dr. Blofeld  12:53, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
 * , thanks for the compliment. You thanks for the great contest! Yes there will be more information about most of the players. I just check via what links here if I can find some more information/clubs and add it. Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 13:25, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Feel free to improve any on the WikiProject Wales/Awaken the Dragon/Core articles or start further missing articles. Lots of missing articles on Grade II* listed buildings still Grade II* listed buildings in Wales. Sciences haven't been very well covered, the only subject really, so if you feel like improving a few over the next few days go for it! Remember to add new entries/improvements to the main WP:Atdrag page too at the bottom. ♦ Dr. Blofeld  13:46, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
 * , my main focus is on sports biographies. However, I'm always willing to help and what I'm doing is not rocket science. I see these are great lists, and even every building in a seperate template. If every building is notable enough to have its own Wikipedia page, there is indeed some work to do ;). What we can do: I can try to get everything into excell in the way that if you change 1 number somewhere that you have another article with all the info out of these lists. But I don't know if that is enough info for a stub. However, it might be a good starting point to get an article, and articles will be created faster. Maybe it would be nice for a next event that I can learn people to create articles in this way. Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 14:52, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Actually, after thinking of it, I might know a better thing. What if we create a new template, instead of Template:Cadw listed building row: Template:Cadw listed building createarticle. In the way that the template shows the text for a new article. So if you change into  of the lists, al the prose for substantial articles is given. Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 15:39, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
 * It's up to you. as the long as the starter entries are reasonable quality. It's not the article count which is most important with this contest though but core/quality expansions. We're encouraging stubs at the moment to get people into editing and going out with a bang! There's still a lot of important Grade I and Grade II* listed buildings needing starting, so anything which starts those is positive I think.♦ Dr. Blofeld  16:03, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Can you add your new entries direct to the list at the bottom of WikiProject Wales/Awaken the Dragon. I added the batch up until Archie yesterday but you'll need to add the latest ones. Add the articles to the list and make sure you add, stub created by Sander.v.Ginkel on the end of each one.♦ Dr. Blofeld  06:13, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Please put the articles at the bottom of WikiProject Wales/Awaken the Dragon not WikiProject Wales/Awaken the Dragon/Entries!!♦ Dr. Blofeld  12:06, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
 * , thanks for you work. I added the articles at both places. Let me know if I did something wrong. Cheers, Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 12:13, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Creating new articles
Hi, when creating new articles, please remember about guides such as WP:OVERLINK, WP:OPENPARA and WP:SUBCAT - see these changes. GiantSnowman 11:40, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
 * , thanks for letting me know. Just 2 questions, why deleting the see also section? And why deleting Category:Welsh sportsmen? Non from the other categories indicates that this is a man.. Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 12:19, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
 * See also not needed, Welsh sportsmen is SUBCAT. GiantSnowman 21:21, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
 * , but why is it not needed? I can give you >1000 articles that are created with these kind of see also Sections, footballers, cyclists, cricketeers, water polo players etc. And for the Cat, it deserves to be in that categorie, there are hundreds of more people in that Cat. If you don't like it you should create Category:Welsh men's footballers, like for females. Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 22:11, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Becaise it adds nothing to the article, because it is not standard for football articles, and because WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. As for the category, because the men's sport is far more dominant, there is no need to gender-fy the category. GiantSnowman 07:03, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

Stubs
While I appreciate the effort to up the article count figure, I'm getting a lot of complaints from people about your footballer stubs, as the contest was largely about destubbing and quality improvements and in effect you've nearly upped the figure of stubs back to where we started. It's a bit frustrating for people who've put the time and effort in bringing about quality improvement. Especially for the WP:Women in Red group, which I belong to and we're trying to increase the percentage of women bios vs men. Realistically, how likely is it that your stubs are going to be expanded? Do you think that it might be better to redirect a lot of them for the time being until somebody can create a proper biography? I don't want to offend you on this, but try to understand where I'm coming from, thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld  07:56, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for the message. I'm fine for the contest to leave me out, just a note is fine :). I don't think it a good thing to redirect these stubs. If you redirect them, also many of the 10,000 other stubs should be redirected. I'm creating stubs of sportspeople who meets Notability (sports). Both men and women. If there is a gender gap within these sports, I create more female articles. I'll also create the women's international footballer. In March I created all the missing women's footballers who participated at the Olympic Games, but later the year I will also create the international women's participated at other large international competitions (FIFA Women's World Cup, UEFA Women's Championship, Women's AFF Championship, AFC Women's Asian Cup, the different continental games, etc.). For this month I'm planning to create the notable Rythmic Gymnast at the World Championships and Olympic Games, and yes, they are all women. So I will also end May with more women's than men's articles! Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 08:26, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

I appreciate what you're doing, yes, ideally we want articles on all these subjects. The problem is when a lot of stubs are created we just lack the numbers committed to expanding them so a lot of people see them as a mess rather than a nett positive. Years back I mainly just created stubs, in fact I've created more of them than anybody on the site. But experience told me that a lot of the articles don't get expanded in years and it's frustrating for readers browsing categories looking for something decent to read and only coming across the cookie cutter ones like the generic xxx played one game on xxx. The real gold from content comes from the articles which people put the time into writing. It's not article count which really matters to the project, it's quality of articles and writing. One GA on a very notable footballer is worth so much more than dozens of stubs I think. So while I certainly understand the "we must have an article on every sportsman" view, we lack the numbers to nurture them into articles, so effectively the site becomes more like a database, which we're really not.♦ Dr. Blofeld  08:33, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
 * , yes I understand your point, I also take care of this issue. However of the Artistic Gymnasts I created last month, several other editors added the medal templates to all the infoboxes. Also when I'm looking on my watchlist, I see that many articles are expanding, see for instance from today and yesterday Julien Hoferlin, Sarah Holst Sonnichsen, Sarah Pavan], Rayderley Zapata. And what I know from myself, if I read something about someone, I only add it to WIkipedia when the person has a Wikipedia page. I also note that most of the edits by the volleyball articles is done by IP addresses. So to conclude, some of the articles I created might never be edited, but some others are expanding, while they wouldn't have exist if I didn't create them. Maybe it might be a good option that an article is flagged when it is after a few years still <2 kb. Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 09:01, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
 * , And regarding to the gender gap, you may like the discussion I just started at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football. Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 09:41, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

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Petro Poroshenko

One of your edits was reverted. I looked at it and it only needed an additional source. I added the source but the same editor reverted it again. I will start a talk page to establish consensus, if you would like to chime in (since it was your edit to begin with).Tbacon143 (talk) 23:59, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

Reverting vandalism
Just to say that you don't need to ask an administrator to do this, any editor can revert an article to an earlier version if there's a problem with it. Instructions are at Help:Reverting. --McGeddon (talk) 11:08, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks ! Didn't know that :) Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 11:15, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Also worth knowing that if an article is being vandalised by a lot of IP addresses, you can request that the article be protected (typically so that only existing, established users can edit it). I've already gone ahead and asked that the Omer Shacham article be protected for a while. --McGeddon (talk) 11:17, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

Aarhus
G'day again, just came across another little boo-boo of yours - Aarhus is in Denmark. Cheers YSSYguy (talk) 12:18, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
 * , Whoops, yes that's an error... Thanks for letting me know. I just fixed them all. Apart from this one List of shipwrecks in 1894 ;). Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 13:30, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Erandeni Nava and Maria Eugenia Nava
Are they related? I'm just curious. If they are siblings it seems unlikely that they would be born three months apart. Perhaps they are cousins? The Average Wikipedian (talk) 14:24, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, yes sounds plausible, and I think so! After a quick search I couldn't find however the relationship. But I found they are also both from Yucatán (see here for instane). Will search further later this week. Thanks! Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 20:06, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
 * , to be you a step ahead, the just created page of Jennifer Rokhman is the twin sister of Monica Rokhman :). Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 11:39, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
 * That was obvious ;) The Average Wikipedian (talk) 12:09, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I can't find a relationship. I found the complete names: María Eugenia Nava del Río and Erándeni Nava Galindo, but not a relationships. But I found another twin: Janette Salovaara - Jasmina Salovaara. Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 13:14, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

Vandalism
Saw your name on the vandalism Talk page and thought you might be able to take a look at this. I have a COI, so I am not suppose to revert it myself. It's been up for about 20 hours, so I figured it may not have been caught the usual way. CorporateM (Talk) 17:47, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
 * , thanks for letting me know! I reverted the edit and gave a warning. Cheers, Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 22:12, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

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 * , I understand your point, but it's the same with the startlist on the page Cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race and the lists of names at France at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Netherlands at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 19:10, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

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When mass-creating articles, it's important to get it right so as to not introduce errors on a massive scale. While there are obvious notability issues related to thinly-sourced articles, the source material you use is less than ideal as (the sole) reference for biographies for other reasons too: I've noticed that the participants listings for competitions you use do not always replicate the names of athletes correctly (I've fixed a few Finnish names lacking ä or ö). This is hardly surprising because the listings were made for a specific purpose where this is not the most relevant issue, but for an encyclopedia article it is.

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 * , thank you for your message. The gymnasts are known under these names. These are the names used during gymnastics competitions, so these names are not wrong. I adjust as many as possible names with certain naming conventions on Wikipedia, like Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, Dutch names etc. Now I created the pages and you moved some of the pages to the original birth names of the gymnasts these names can be found on Wikipedia. Otherwise only the names as used in competitions would be known. This is the essence of Wikipedia, that people can expand articles. People are more likely to add content of the person who have a Wikipedia page. Many of the pages I created are expanded and also many with IP address users. Indeed when I create the page there is not much info, but because these persons have a page, content is added. You say 'that the issue I presented at User talk:Sander.v.Ginkel/Archive 2 persists'. Have you looked at these 'old' articles? These are in the meantime all tagged on the talk pages after I let a bot to the tagging of all the volleyball articles. I will do the same with the gymnastics article after I'm done with creating them. Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 19:27, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

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Christina Tsoukala
In the above mentioned article you have added a second name "Chrysoula" to the athlete. Do you have any reliable source to support this? I couldn't find a single greek source -and hardly anyone in any other language- mentioning her with this (or any other) double first name, as she 's everywhere (websites of her team, the greek federation etc.) referred solely as "Christina Tsoukala". I 'd appreciate it if you told me where you found this info. --MedMan (talk) 12:17, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
 * , great you ask this kind of questions. But sure: 2010 European Championships, 2011 World Championships, 2012 European Championships, 2016 European championships. I noticed it after creating the "squad pages" of these championships. I checked the red links with existing articles. From the top of my head I also added several more second names to other water polo players. Cheers, Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 21:18, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
 * The site of the Hellenic Swimming Federation (KOE) shows a net.framework error and can't show details of its archived waterpolo athletes. Yet it does list that there exist three (!) athletes named "Christina Tsoukala" belonging to the federation, one of them with the mentioned middle name (Chrysoula) and her particular birthday does indeed fit to the one of the above athlete (8.7.1991). So I found out that you are absolutely right. Thanks for the links, which underline this fact. --MedMan (talk) 23:09, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

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Nice work with the images of cyclists! Hope you enjoyed the games.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 14:10, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
 * , thanks!! And yes, I did enjoy!! It was amazing :). I went to 26 events including of course the road cycling and track cycling events. These are just some images from my phone. Will upload many more image of the Olympics upcoming weeks!! Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 14:15, 23 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Superb! Will be great to enhance so many articles with pics. Nasty crashes in the road cycling aside, I enjoyed watching all the cycling I could. I'll leave you your uploading! :D  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 14:17, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

July Women in Red metrics
Hi Sander, We have a new tool by Earwig that's tracking Women in Red metrics in July but I'm not convinced it's catching all of our work. I remember that a couple of months ago, your articles didn't get picked up by AlexNewBot, so I'm wondering if there's a problem with the latest tool, too. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red. What I can't do is keep working on metrics by hand as it's a time sink but I also feel compelled to make sure that tools account for all of our articles. Any thoughts would be appreciated. --Rosiestep (talk) 13:34, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
 * . thank you for your message. Sorry for my late reply, I was a month in Brazil. Yes it is true that some of my articles were not caught by the AlexNewBot. However I didn't create that many articles in July. I think these are the women's articles I created in July. Does that help?

Thanks, Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 16:38, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Sukanya Srisurat
 * Kimberly Taguacta
 * Sofía Rito
 * Christina Ejstrup
 * Sini Kukkonen
 * Oyuuntungalagiin Bayartsetseg
 * Scarleth Mercado
 * Niulis González
 * Wioleta Jastrzębska
 * Aksana Zalatarova
 * Anna Govelyan
 * Basma Emad Gouda Mohamed Ibrahim
 * Yafreisy Silvestre
 * Giorgia Russo
 * Dewi Safitri
 * Atenery Hernández
 * Lola Kadirova
 * María Sierra
 * Génesis Rodríguez (weightlifter)
 * Rattanaphon Pakkaratha
 * Thelma Toua
 * Cándida Vásquez
 * Zhanyl Okoeva
 * Lee Seul-ki
 * Kathleen Winters (weightlifter)
 * Estefanía Juan
 * Eva Giganti
 * Tham Nguyen
 * Jenniffer López
 * Manon Lorentz
 * Ana Segura
 * Mónica Domínguez
 * Mikiko Ando
 * Gansereeteriin Baasanjargal
 * Syarah Anggraini
 * Sema Acartürk
 * Silviya Angelova
 * Alexandria Craig
 * Amanda Braddock
 * Monica Csengeri
 * Iana Diachenko
 * Julieta Jankunas
 * Eugenia Trinchinetti
 * Sofía Toccalino
 * María José Granatto
 * Gabriela Aguirre
 * Pilar Campoy
 * Lucina von der Heyde
 * Pilar Romang
 * Paula Ortiz (field hockey)
 * Thanks, Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 16:25, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
 * , with a quick search I see many of them are listed. But not all. For instance Génesis Rodríguez (weightlifter). Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 16:29, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
 * , And here the women's I created in August
 * 1) Eftychia Ananiadou
 * 2) Shalinee Valaydon
 * 3) Madeleine Yamechi
 * 4) Jenna Myers
 * 5) Anna Van Bellinghen
 * 6) Aleksandra Mierzejewska
 * 7) Sabina Bagińska
 * 8) Lisseth Ayoví
 * 9) Halima Abdelazim
 * 10) Tania Mascorro
 * 11) Alexandra Aborneva
 * 12) Nadezhda Nogay
 * 13) Prabdeep Kaur Sanghera
 * 14) Erdenebatyn Bilegsaikhan
 * 15) Sara Sigmundsdóttir
 * 16) Daysi Hutchinson
 * 17) Meri Ilmarinen
 * 18) Camilla Fogagnolo
 * 19) Ernestina Familia
 * 20) Batboldyn Enkhtamir
 * 21) Dina Ahmed
 * 22) Omadoy Otakuziyeva
 * 23) Tamara Salazar
 * 24) Hanna Kozenko
 * 25) Małgorzata Wiejak
 * 26) Ecaterina Tretiacova
 * 27) Crismery Santana
 * 28) Yao Chi-ling
 * 29) Monique Araújo
 * 30) Kang Yeoun-hee
 * 31) Olga Afanasieva
 * 32) Hung Wan-ting
 * 33) Karina Hauge
 * 34) Lenka Kenisová
 * 35) Andrea Miller (weightlifter)
 * 36) Kiana Elliott
 * 37) Aslıhan Ceyhan
 * 38) Sarah Davies (weightlifter)
 * 39) Emily Godley
 * 40) Maria Grazia Alemanno
 * 41) Diah Ayu Permatasari
 * 42) Mandy Treutlein
 * 43) Dayana Chirinos
 * 44) Mariya Khlyan
 * 45) Aremi Fuentes
 * 46) Carita Thorén
 * 47) Anacarmen Torres
 * 48) Sheila Ramos
 * 49) Mattie Rogers
 * 50) Anastassiya Ibrahimli
 * 51) Manzurakhon Mamasalieva
 * 52) Mönkhjantsangiin Ankhtsetseg
 * 53) Anastasia Romanova (weightlifter)
 * 54) Jennifer Piter
 * 55) Tatia Lortkipanidze
 * 56) Silvia Artola
 * 57) Clementina Agricole
 * 58) Alexandra Klatsia
 * 59) Ksenia Maksimova
 * 60) Hjördís Óskarsdóttir
 * 61) Ganzorigiin Anuujin
 * 62) Jessica Lai
 * 63) Irene Martínez (weightlifter)
 * 64) Pip Malone
 * 65) Anna Everi
 * 66) Bruna Piloto
 * 67) Mahassen Fattouh
 * 68) Mona Pretorius
 * 69) Patricia Strenius
 * 70) Akane Yoshida
 * 71) Sinta Darmariani
 * 72) Altangereliin Bum-Ayuush
 * 73) Aoife MacNeill
 * 74) Kristina Larsen (weightlifter)
 * 75) Emma Alderdice
 * 76) Jenni Puputti
 * 77) Thuridur Erla Helgadottir
 * 78) Sayli Valdespino
 * 79) Mouna Skandi
 * 80) Lacey Van Der Marel
 * 81) Veronika Ivasiuk
 * 82) Dora Tchakounté
 * 83) Kim So-hwa
 * 84) Jennifer Lombardo
 * 85) Muattar Nabieva
 * 86) Jessica Lucero
 * 87) Izabella Yaylyan
 * 88) Quisia Guicho
 * 89) Chiang Nien-hsin


 * Hi Sander. Welcome back from Brazil! I've copied over these articles to the Women in Red metrics pages. The bot will prune out any duplicates. Thanks for creating the articles. Appreciate your work. --Rosiestep (talk) 02:56, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

Malcolm Turnbull
Courtesy note: I've undone your edit to the Malcolm Turnbull article, which added in Category:People named in the Panama Papers. Unless one adds material pertaining to the mention – the category ought not to be added, per WP:CATDEF. This also applies to any other article you have, or will add such category to. Best, —MelbourneStar ☆ talk 04:19, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
 * , thank you for dropping the message. I don't see however your point. The Panama papers were huge news. He is listed on the special page List of people named in the Panama Papers with reference. When Google it, there are many articles about him related to the Panama papers. See the top 3 hits for instance (but can list many more) here, here and here. Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 06:00, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
 * I certainly don't disagree – I know he's in the Panama papers. However, the issue is: 1. Turnbull's own article does not mention this fact (it should if we are to add a category, per WP:CATDEF). 2. Whether or not it will be mentioned in the article's body, is a matter that has been up for discussion on the subject's talk page. The issue explored in the latter point, is that being implicated in the PP is something quite controversial – hence, WP:BLP requires that we add in the goods (plenty of WP:RS) to substantiate their involvement in the PP, which would allow for such category.
 * The aforementioned point I make, regarding PP and BLP, is something that ought to be considered carefully. Kind regards, —MelbourneStar ☆ talk 06:36, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
 * , I didn't know this (and related) discussions. Fair enough :). Thank you for your messages! Regards, Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 10:46, 3 September 2016 (UTC)