User talk:Swishymcjackass

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Comments left in wrong place by Swishymcjackass on April 4, 2016
I'll stop editing when you put up factual information. Check any recruiting site you want. Buddy Hield was not offered a scholarship by Kansas, and thus he could not choose Oklahoma over Kansas when Kansas never offered him. If you did a minimum amount of research you would know that this is true. I don't know why you insist on displaying factually inaccurate information, but I have a right to remedy that as a member of this site. If anyone is engaged in an edit war, it's you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Swishymcjackass (talk • contribs) 19:56, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

More comments left in the wrong place on April 6, 2016
Good to know you guys are committed to accurate articles. I even get shut down when I provided multiple links. Really mature. Oh and thanks for actually engaging in dialogue with me about this instead of being totally silent and dismissive. Again, bang up job. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Swishymcjackass (talk • contribs) 14:13, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Kansas University men's basketball program offered a scholarship to Buddy. The KC Star reported this: “We recruited him,” Self said, “but you go back and look at it, we’ve had some pretty good players here, too. And you say (during recruiting): ‘Buddy is good, he can come and make us better. But can he impact us like he (has) impacted OU?’ “The answer would probably be yes. But we probably thought, at the time, ‘We’d love to get him,’ but OU probably pressed him more and did a better job recruiting him. And they ended up getting him.” Kansas City Star, January 3, 2016.  In this quote, Bill Self flat out states that KU recruited him. As the Detroit Free Press states, "Some thought Hield was crazy for picking Oklahoma over Kansas as a high-profile recruit out of Sunrise Christian Academy in Bel Aire, Kan., in 2012." You can find that comment here: OU's Hield represent Bahamas, Detroit Free Press.--ML (talk) 15:09, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

You want to talk then make your comments here
You do realize that recruiting is not the same as offering a scholarship, right? Guys get recruited all the time without getting a scholarship offer. You're being obtuse.Swishymcjackass (talk • contribs) 15:20, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * You are demanding that we talk. And that's fine, but we are going to talk on your talk page or we don't talk.  Stop leaving your comments on my talk page.  Now, I have been doing all of the talking.  All you have been doing is reverting editing and putting in information without reliable sources.  You want to make the argument that KU did not offer Buddy a scholarship then provide a reliable source that states that.  Right now it is your word to support that contention.  But neither your word or my word is worth anything on Wikipedia.  Our edits must be supported by reliable sources.  Please provide a reliable source to support your claim that Self did not offer a scholarship.  I have provided a reliable source that quotes Self stating that Self and his staff recruited Buddy while he played high school basketball in Wichita. Please respond here, not on my talk page, so we can keep the discussion all in one place.--ML (talk) 15:35, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I gave two sources that showed Buddy Hield without a scholarship offer from Kansas. ESPN is a nationally recognized sports news source, as is Rivals.com. Both were deleted. If we have different opinions on what is or is not a reliable source, then I can just assume you are only interested in sources that support your argument.Swishymcjackass (talk • contribs) 15:50, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * There are quite a few incorrect comments wrapped up in your response above. First of all, I know who ESPN is, just like most of the known world so that was uncalled for.  I also know who Rivals.com is.  So I don't question who they are.  They are reliable sources.  I never questioned whether they are reliable sources.  That is red herring.  What I questioned is that either of those articles stated definitively that Buddy did not get a scholarship offer from KU.  I looked at both of them and neither of them said that.  If I missed something then I am more than willing to look at it.  Why don't you provide the exact wording to me that definitively states Buddy DID NOT get offered a scholarship from Bill Self and KU.  Now, while you have sending me messages which for the most part are rude and unproductive I took the time to look for more reliable sources.  I have found an article in Bleacher Report written by Jason King where King flat out says (word for word) that Buddy was offered a scholarship from KU.  You can review it here:  King states: "As the 86th-ranked player in the 2012 class by Rivals.com, Hield had been offered a scholarship by tradition-rich Kansas prior to his senior season. But he canceled his official visit and committed to Oklahoma following a trip to Norman, where Kruger had been hired to resurrect a dormant program."  Please find something that comes from a reliable source that is 180 degrees different than what I just quoted and then we will then have something to talk about.  Seriously, please track down the ESPN and Rivals.com quotes and bring them here so we talk about it.--ML (talk) 16:29, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Well, if you look at the link I attributed to my statement before it was removed, it showed definitively on his Rivals recruit profile that he had been recruited by Kansas but not given an offer. On ESPN, his profile doesn't even bother to list Kansas. Apart from Wikipedia and that one article about him, I can't find anyone alleging that KU offered him anything but perhaps a walk-on spot. I don't know where Jason King gets his information, but the fact that it isn't listed on a single recruiting site at all makes me question the veracity of his claim. -- Swishymcjackass  (talk • contribs) 16:56, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Signed your comments.--ML (talk) 17:40, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I am not going to go back and look up that link from Rivals.com and I am not going to go look up that like from ESPN. If you want me to review them then you back look them up and you paste them here for me to read. Otherwise, I am going to assume that my initial review of them was correct and that they do not state definitively that Buddy did not ever get an offer from Bill Self and KU.  If you want to change the consensus then you need to do the work to make that change happen.  And sign your comments.--ML (talk) 17:40, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

I've included 4 links. There may be more, but these were the first ones I found.

http://www.scout.com/topic/players?s=172&team=%2522Oklahoma%2522&minimumInterest=%2522SoftVerbal%2522&category=%2522Basketball%2520Recruiting%2522&league=%2522HS%2522&classYear=2012 (this link covers all recruits Kansas had interest in for the 2012 recruiting year. Buddy Hield is not listed)
 * We don't know that this link covers all recruits. These lists are not all inclusive.--ML (talk) 22:18, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

http://www.scout.com/college/basketball/recruiting/story/1110675-sunday-night-loaded-with-pledges (this article covers his commitment and makes no mention of Kansas)
 * Just because it makes no mention of Kansas do not mean that he did get a scholarship offer from Kansas.--ML (talk) 22:18, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/maple/119977 (Rivals show KU having recruited Hield, but no scholarship offer made)
 * Once again, just because Rivals show no scholarship offer does not mean that one was not offered. We have a reliable source that states that he was offered a scholarship from Bill Self.--ML (talk) 22:18, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/player/_/id/143036/buddy-hield (in this link, KU is not listed as having even recruited Hield)
 * Once again this does not prove anything. It only proves that these recruiting lists are inconsistent with each other.  As a matter of fact we have direct quote from Bill Self stating that they recruited Buddy, so that means this ESPN recruiting list is incorrect.  Who are going to believe ESPN (a reporter) or Bill Self the man that makes the recruiting decisions for KU?  I'm going with Bill Self.--ML (talk) 22:18, 6 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Those links do not prove anything. They are all inconsistent with each other.  They all list different information about Buddy and some of them do not say anything about Buddy Hield.  No one can draw any kind of conclusion about the scholarship offer from Bill Self from these sources, some of which I would not characterize as reliable sources.

correction to that first link: http://www.scout.com/college/kansas/2012-basketball-prospects?minimumInterest=None sorry about that. -- Swishymcjackass (talk • contribs) 16:56, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

look, man. you want to know what those links do? they present 4 separate sources that cast doubt on your one single quotation to which you are clinging, because you don't want to have to admit you might be wrong. keep on keepin' on, pal. at least i know what you're really concerned with here, and that's maintaining the status quo. - Swishymcjackass

Buddy Hield discussion has been moved
I moved the Buddy Hield discussion to his talk page so that other editors can chime in. Please comment on there going forward: Buddy Hield discussion.--ML (talk) 15:08, 7 April 2016 (UTC)