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2010 FIFA World Cup squads
Did you realise that your last edit to the 2010 FIFA World Cup squads completely reverted the edit that I made immediately before you? – PeeJay 10:44, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Please see WP:MOSHEAD for the reason why I have removed the links from the section titles. The page states, "to avoid accessibility problems, headings should not normally contain links". Furthermore, the section titles should not contain flags either as it stops the sections from being properly linked to in article histories. – PeeJay 06:41, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

"Bub"? Seriously? Who do you think you are: Wolverine? – PeeJay 20:59, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Well to be fair, you were the one who started the edit war. Strange that you later claimed you weren't going to get into an edit war with me, but it's funny how one's memory starts to fail when you find yourself in the wrong, isn't it? – PeeJay 01:07, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

2006 AFC Challenge Cup squads - Philippines
In the Philippines the surname "de la Cruz" has been "Philippinized". Therefore there are people whose last name is "dela Cruz". Although there are others with "de la Cruz". In the case of the Filipino player Wilson in the Challenge Cup squad, he's "Wilson dela Cruz" not "Wilson de la cruz." As for Andres Gonzalez, although there is no article for him, there's Andrés González with a page. Banana Fingers (talk) 20:44, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

"Some fixes, article is still pretty poor"
You visited one of the articles I am working on said the article is still pretty poor? I don't mean to be a jerk or combative about this but why would you even say that? Are you grading the article or just taking pot shots at contributors? I could just edit other people's work if I wanted but I am choosing to try to add something to the articles. I think you should maybe consider other people's time and work before flippantly degraded it. Morry32 (talk) 06:01, 22 July 2010 (UTC)


 * What suggestions would you make to improve the article? Thank you for the apology. Morry32 (talk) 15:22, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

2010 FIFA World Cup squads
Care you offer your opinion on this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:2010_FIFA_World_Cup_squads#Vladim.C3.ADr_Weiss_club_affiliation

Zzsignup (talk) 01:28, 14 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you. Zzsignup (talk) 00:34, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Lausanne-Sports
No problem. I've been trying to improve the coverage of Russian football and they just knocked one Russian team out and play another Russian team in the Europa League group. Geregen2 (talk) 19:53, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Philippines national football team
Your "clarification" is not constructive. For the current squad, nothing changed and you named it as the squad for the qualifiers even though the final squad hasn't even been announced yet! You also removed the "goals" column, and there are still a few players who's caps are wrong, when at this moment in time their caps are unknown. For the recent call-ups, you've completely changed it. As mentioned, it is a section for players that have been part of the FINAL SQUAD for a match or tournament within the last 12 months. Not for players that are part of a provisional squad. The template should also be "nat fs r player" and not "nat fs g player". Therefore, there should be no squad numbers and a column "latest call-up" would be there. Again, you also removed the "goals" column when it should also be retained. On top of all that, you also removed a completely different section I added called "Team image". Banana Fingers (talk) 18:39, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Proper protocol?? Show me the relevant discussion or the proper manual of style for the use of that template where this protocol is stated.  The pages for the national teams where there are specific wiki football projects don't seem to be following this supposed protocol.  Also, you changed the style and yet you didn't even maintain the correct number of caps for each player.  It's not the 19th anymore! Banana Fingers (talk) 20:03, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Those are for squad pages. This isn't a squad specific page but a national team page.  Other national team articles also list the squad by position which includes the caps AND goals count.   And for the recent call-ups section, like I've said before, that section is for players who have made it to the final squad for a match or tournament.  No players that have only been in the provisional squad should be listed. Banana Fingers (talk) 20:16, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Hey
What is it with you? So you don't list the attendance on 2010 AFF Suzuki Cup qualification because there is no consistency? Is this another one of your made up "protocols"?? Just as you have done for the squad for the Philippines national football team page? So what if the other match reports do not mention the attendance? If it's mentioned in the match report it should be listed. Unless you show me an actual ruling within wp:football that this new protocol of yours must be followed, it should be listed. Banana Fingers (talk) 17:15, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
 * So now you're labeling me as the know-it-all??? Funny!  Because I was thinking the exact same with you and you're also getting on my nerves.   You're the one trying to enforce self-made protocols that aren't even protocol at all!  By you doing that, that's also your way of saying that the standards/protocols that are in place aren't good enough, so you've taken the liberty and created and enforced your own.  That's a slap in the face to Wikpedia and a slap in the face to other editors/contributors such as myself.  So who's the know-it-all now?? Banana Fingers (talk) 18:55, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

So much for "letting each other be" huh?? This time it's the 2006 Challenge Cup. Have you actually had a proper look at the match reports?? Because in those match reports, beside each player's name is the name they go by in brackets which most likely would've been on the back of their jersey as well. And when listing the scorers, that's usually the name that is listed, right?? Eg. Palestine: Fahed Attall as a scorer would be "Attal" but the reports list him as "F. Attal", India: Vimal Pariyar would be "Pariyar" but they usually go with their first names and that's what the reports list him as, simply "Vimal". So tell me what I've done wrong now?? I also fixed pen takers for Sri Lanaka vs Nepal but you undid my revision. So....... Banana Fingers (talk) 18:08, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Oooohhhhhhh..... I'm so sorry your highness, it will never happen again. pfff. You and your "I really like cleaning up other people's messes". So you you're better than everybody else... whatever!! Piss off!! Oh and "messes"?!? lol!! Banana Fingers (talk) 16:51, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

2012 AFC Challenge Cup qualification
So what do you mean "why"? Banana Fingers (talk) 18:47, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
 * The note in Group B is redundant. Malaysia being the host for that group is stated at the top of the Group stage section.  The same reference is also used.  I was also the one who did that revision.
 * I'm guessing you're not familiar how the fixtures were drawn. MD1: 1v4, 2v3; MD2: 4v2, 3v1; MD3: 1v2, 3v4.  This would also be inline with the original draw of the groups as shown here.  Therefore I rearranged the teams in the groups to be inline with what I've just stated.
 * The times for Group A, it would look much neater if it was stated that all times were UTC+6:30 rather than actually putting UTC+6:30 after every kickoff time.

George Washington Carver Sr. High
If you are interested in creating a page specifically for George Washington Carver Middle, please create another page as I did this one. People put too much time into creating Wiki pages for folk to alter because they didnt take time as someone else did. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jayebook (talk • contribs) 14:33, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Unspaced en dash
Hi, could you explain why you're going against] just about every major style guide in English, and the WP house style? Please read WP:MOSDASH. Tony  (talk)  13:03, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Fabio Coltorti
Hi there SPARTAN, VASCO from Portugal here,

please stop reverting me here. Let's go bit by bit:

1 - the word "season" goes inside the wikilink, not outside; 2 - i added one link for Copa del Rey and another for the Copa season (the case being 2007-08), it's supposed to be that way, not just one link OK?; 3 - the birthplace is to be relocated from intro to the body of article, not REMOVED summarily; 4 - box compression please, LAUSANNE only in box my man, fullname appears in storyline; 5 - in links, the name of site followed by "profile" in ALL cases makes for a much more coherent approach; 6 - some corrections seemed a bit strange, for example in PERSONDATA - the last stuff below, before the categories - i had written "Swiss footballer", you "corrected" it to "footballerr".

Attentively, happy week - --Vasco Amaral (talk) 21:50, 29 January 2012 (UTC)


 * I think it's better to have only LAUSANNE, but if you must, go ahead and change it to LAUSANNE-SPORT, i won't "hold a grudge" :) However, i have to tell you that your source for the Santander stats is wrong, the BDFUTBOL.com link is in the right (Spanish website, as the Racing de Santander ballclub), he played 23+7+6+0 in his four seasons (36, not 39 as you insert); if you see closely, you'll see that NFT.com also gives him 36. Another thing to wrap it up: in the introductions, let's keep it simple: "...is a footballer who plays for X club in Y country (if the player plays abroad)...", no need to write "club" or "team", it's implied.

Cheers (and by the way, is it me or is User:Banana Fingers a bit on the aggressive?) - --Vasco Amaral (talk) 23:46, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

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User:Banana Fingers
Hi there SPARTAN, VASCO here,

If you want to participate in this discussion (please see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Incivility), as you are named there in one of the examples which are proof of his incredible incivility, please drop a line.

Attentively, have a good week - --Vasco Amaral (talk) 23:23, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

2012 Football match officials
Hello. With regards to the English match officials listed on Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament I lean towards putting the British flag next to their names, perhaps with the English flag in parenthesis after their names as a compromise. I believe that when LOCOG provides accommodations for them during the Olympics they will be with the British delegation, and if they are allowed to march in the Opening Ceremony it will be behind the British flag.--MorrisIV (talk) 20:26, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

OFC Nations Cup 2012
Will you please leave my work alone. I know what Im doing. Look at the Euro 2012 Squads. It is completly the same way I make the squads. So please. I dont edit your hard work?

Cheers

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Match officials
Why have you removed Allyson Flynn from the list? She is included in the PDF document file. Arbero (talk) 13:24, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I see then. Thanks! Arbero (talk) 16:02, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

Referee
Yes, I accidentally added England, but please do not use this kind of language again. Arbero (talk) 13:44, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

George_Washington_Carver_Senior_High_School
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