User talk:Unkledaddy2017

Replaceable fair use File:Kyle Snyder after winning his historic gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics.jpg
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Kyle Snyder, Plethora of issues
Greetings Unkledaddy2017. Your | edit to Kyle Snyder described him as "the best pound-for-pound wrestler on the planet." While I agree with the sentiment, for now it doesn't belong in the article. I'll explain the reasons that prohibit the claim with Wikipedia guidelines (and an essay) at each step. I strongly invite you to familiarize yourself with the guidelines.

Any information added to Wikipedia needs to be supported by a reliable source. "Eleven Warriors" is unlikely to be considered a reliable source—more likely a biased source. One of the Five pillars of Wikipedia is a neutral point of view: advocacy or bias on behalf of any person, ideology, concept, etc is a violation of NPOV—this edit qualifies as a violation. Along the same lines, you seem to be promoting Mr. Snyder's image, also in contravention of an important guideline. Which leads to another significant issue—at this point, you're a single purpose editor, as every edit you've done is for Kyle Snyder. SPA by itself violates no guidelines, but a look at the essay gives an idea of its potential problems. Along the same lines, the fact that you edit only about Snyder—and your handle "Unkledaddy"—gives at least a suggestion of a close connection to Mr. Snyder. As you'll see on the guideline page, it's a good idea to let Wikipedia and its readers know if you are connected to him. Let me say that I never would have noticed any of these issues, except for the unsupported claim about the champion's status as 'World Number One." The rest of the article is excellent in form and content. I hope that you'll consider editing lots of other amateur wrestling articles. There's plenty of work to be done.

Unfortunately, I feel compelled to raise one more very difficult issue. You've used relatively advanced methods to reference the article, unusual for an editor with only a bit of experience. If you've edited Wikipedia previously with another named or numbered account, it needs to be disclosed. If you're an IT professional, or just someone who learns IT related methods more quickly than a klunk like myself, please excuse my raising of the subject. Regards Tapered (talk) 05:35, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

@Tapered

I'm not sure if I'm responding to you or not, but here's a response I've put elsewhere:

Sorry if this isn't the proper way to respond, but as you can see I don't have much time to edit on here. I have no familial relationship to Kyle Snyder, my handle is just a goofy personal nickname. He wrestled in my area in high school and I followed his career, and thought it'd be nice to work on his Wikipedia page since I was so impressed by how he handled himself in the limelight and how amiable he seemed to other wrestlers. And I'm not an IT professional but at one point had enough time to learn Wikipedia's codes well enough I guess. I'm sure Wikipedia's editors can edit his page for accuracy and otherwise, sorry for any trouble.

And I agree that Eleven Warriors does seem biased upon further review, but I think their claim came from Flowrestling's analysis, which I think is pretty impartial and dates to the most recent World Championship:

https://www.flowrestling.org/rankings/6031553-international-rankings-mens-freestyle/16541-kyle-snyder-settles-p4p-discussion

But I'll leave it to you more experienced editors to decide what belongs and what doesn't - sorry again for the bother. Unkledaddy2017 (talk) 22:57, 13 February 2018 (UTC)