User talk:Wkoppel

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October 2013
Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Michigan Wolverines football, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you.


 * It's great that you've registered an account but if you continue to remove legitimate content as you did when you were editing as an IP, you will simply get blocked again. Please do not remove valid sources.  JohnInDC (talk) 10:53, 14 October 2013 (UTC)


 * As I am going through your edits as a new user I am disappointed to see that you are making precisely the same flawed ones as you did before, for example this one i which - as you did before, you update the football team's overall series record without fixing the table and thereby introduce an internal inconsistency in the article. Given that you were blocked previously for this very behavior, and persist in it, I am leaving a level 4 warning.  JohnInDC (talk) 11:01, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

This is your last warning. The next time you remove or blank page content or templates from Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. JohnInDC (talk) 11:01, 14 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Template messages can be quite impersonal so I will add my own personal plea that you please stop with your sloppy and disruptive editing such as 1) making questionable substantive changes without explaining them (e.g. removing Penn State's pre-Big 10 hockey record without removing other teams' pre-Big 10 hockey records, see here ); 2) stop removing legitimate, non-redudant sources for no stated reason, see here, and 3) making edits that create confusion within an article by causing it not to match up to itself, see here. I think it is self-evidenct why edits like that are problematic but if you would like to discuss any of them, I would be happy to.  On the other hand, if you continue, and particularly if you continue in them without discussion, the odds are high that you will simply be blocked again - and this time for a longer period.  Thanks.  JohnInDC (talk) 11:20, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * A similar problematic edit is changing the "first year" of the AP Poll in the Pac 12 article to 1936 when the AP poll article notes that the first AP poll was published in 1934. Link.  Do not make edits to articles that contradict information in other articles.  JohnInDC (talk) 12:49, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Wrong information again
Why do you persist in making sloppy, wrong edits like this one? The streak is the second longest in college football. Second longest, not third. You make these kinds of mistakes so frequently I am beginning to question your competence to edit the encyclopedia. As I've said before, if you can't edit correctly, then don't edit. It makes Wikipedia worse, not better. Thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 18:19, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

ANI Notice
There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. JohnInDC (talk) 11:40, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Link to "John Walker" dab
Your edit, wikilinking Michigan football player John Walker to a page listing a couple score of people also named "John Walker" is not helpful, and in fact makes things worse than no link at all. A person seeing the blue link would click on it and be taken to a page with a confusing plethora of "John Walkers", and have no idea whether any of them is the one he's looking for. Please either link to the right person, or don't link at all. Thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 11:54, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

Addition of unsourced material
I've just reverted a couple of edits you made to List of Big Ten Conference national championships, in which you changed the figures there to match championships "claimed" by the schools. You need sources for edits like that - if a school "claims" 32 championships instead of - say, 37 - provide a link to the claim. Otherwise 1) other editors can only take your word for it and 2) in a year or two there's no way of checking to see if the number should be any different. I have commented to you before on this. You must provide reliable sources for your edits, particularly ones that change specific figures or other detailed information in articles. Thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 11:59, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
 * This is especially important given that, in the past, you have substituted incorrect information into articles for the correct information that was already there. You must show where you are getting the information from.  JohnInDC (talk) 12:00, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

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 * Yes, which Nazareth College did Beilein coach at? Please fix it.  You must take greater care with your editing.  Your sloppiness is becoming an issue again.  JohnInDC (talk) 12:38, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Discussion at WP:EAR
I've raised concerns about your editing issues here. JohnInDC (talk) 14:06, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Unsourced substantive changes
Recently you made an edit to Ohio State Buckeyes football in which you, among other things, changed the name of the coach of the year trophy, the number of times Woody Hayes had won it, and the school's ranking in number conference titles. Link. You did not provide sources for any of these or your other changes. While sometimes your edits are well-informed, in other instances (as I've noted above), they're just flat wrong. Given the lack of sourcing for the foregoing edits, I've reverted them. Please feel free to reinstate them if you can provide proper sources. Thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 12:41, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

December 2013
This is your last warning. The next time you remove or blank page content or templates from Wikipedia, as you did at Michigan Wolverines football, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. JohnInDC (talk) 17:44, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

B1G
I reverted 2 of your edits on the Big Ten schools renked by revenues... The spending per student athlete was for 2011 because that is the latest available data; Iowa's profit/(loss) was in parentheses because it was a more than $6 million (LOSS)... GWFrog (talk) 23:18, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

March 2014
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did at Michigan Wolverines football, you may be blocked from editing. Thank you. JohnInDC (talk) 11:11, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * This is the fourth time (at least) that you have, without explanation, removed the same valid references - which do not appear elsewhere in the article - without explanation. See one, two and three occasions before this.  Knock it off.  It is disruptive and calls into question your competence and good faith.  JohnInDC (talk) 11:16, 25 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Ditto your removal of Big Ten Conference references. UW Dawgs (talk) 17:40, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed your recent edit to Big Ten Conference does not have an edit summary. Please provide one before saving your changes to an article, as the summaries are quite helpful to people browsing an article's history.

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. Thanks! UW Dawgs (talk) 02:16, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Hi Wkoppel. You seem to be an active editor of Big Ten-related content. Your edits would be even more impactful if paired with citations where appropriate. Not sure if this is obvious to you or not, but your (recent) edit history has some examples of content changes where a citation would be very helpful to the reader. While your edits might be entirely correct (they're beyond my understanding of the specific content), they are even better when paired with verifiable sources. See WP:Cite and WP:V. Note, it is poor form to remove tags intended to flag content for improvement, as you did here and here without either fixing the issue or engaging in some discussion. Cheers, UW Dawgs (talk) 16:03, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Please provide edit summaries. Please provide citations for your edits.  Please stop removing content without any explanation.  These are disruptive behaviors, they make unnecessary extra work for other editors, and do not improve Wikipedia.  Why do you not even acknowledge these concerns?  JohnInDC (talk) 11:29, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

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 * This kind of mistake is also frequently the result of slipshod, hasty editing wherein the editor does not take the time to check that his edits actually accomplish what he intends them to. I have noted several instances in the past where you added incorrect information to articles - if it weren't for bots double-checking your work, these errors would likely go entirely undetected.  Again your sloppy editing does not improve the encyclopedia and I ask, yet again, that you take greater care, and pride, in your work.  JohnInDC (talk) 11:05, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

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May 2014
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June 2014
Note, your ongoing refusal to use Edit Summaries, or citations, makes your good-faith content edits indistinguishable from vandalism.

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. Thanks! UW Dawgs (talk) 15:46, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

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June 2014
Per OVERLINK, please don't link every occurrence of a name or thing in an article.

Also, while it is probably pointless to ask yet again, edit summaries are very helpful to other editors in understanding what you are doing. They would, for example, be very helpful to me now as I go back over your recent edits to remove all of the extraneous links you've introduced. Thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 10:31, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Do you read your Talk page? I've again removed the multiple links you first introduced here and then again here.  Please stop.  Thanks.  JohnInDC (talk) 13:51, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Big Ten Conference. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been reverted or removed. Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive, until the dispute is resolved through consensus. Continuing to edit disruptively could result in loss of editing privileges. Thank you.
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 * Please use Edit Summaries. UW Dawgs (talk) 13:42, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

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August 2014 - not paying attention
I have asked you repeatedly in the past to pay attention to your edits to ensure that they do not introduce misinformation into articles. With this edit, you changed the Michigan Wolverine's no-shutout streak to an incorrect number, removed an explanatory footnote, mischaracterized the edit in your edit summary - and did not comment on the article's Talk page, where the very issue had been thoroughly discussed previously. This is irresponsible editing. You make far too many edits for any one person to double check (I quit quite some time ago) and changes like that last one do not inspire confidence at all. Youi have got to do better. Thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 15:13, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

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 * After all this time you should have learned to double check your wiki links. More sloppiness and cluster for bots and other editors to tend to. JohnInDC (talk) 15:28, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

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September 2014
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did at Big Ten Conference, you may be blocked from editing. Thank you. UW Dawgs (talk) 12:10, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

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Michigan Wolverines football - October 2014
Do not remove valid references from that article any more. Stop. Just stop. You've made that same edit literally 6 or 7 times, each time without any meaningful explanation why the references are incorrect, or duplicative. The references directly support the text to which they are attached. They are legitimate and necessary. Stop removing them. Honestly. JohnInDC (talk) 23:45, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Michigan Wolverines football - January 2015
You just removed two Billingsley championships from the article, when this source - link - lists them. Please stop removing information from articles without a proper source for your edits. This is, what, the 15th time I've asked you to follow this basic rule of good Wikipedia editing? JohnInDC (talk) 12:02, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

January 2015 - unsourced and wrong
This edit. Please do not make unsourced edits to articles. Please do not make incorrect edits to articles. Please take greater care in your edits. I am only aware of the mistakes you make on the very few articles that you edit that I happen to have watchlisted. God knows what other errors you are introducing to the encyclopedia with your prolific and persistently sloppy work. JohnInDC (talk) 12:05, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

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January 2015 - please stop making unsourced and incorrect edits
Please check your sources before you make edits. Here, you changed the total number of Michigan championships from 36 to 34 when the NCAA itself lists Michigan as having 36. NCAA source. Again God only knows what kind of misinformation you're inserting into the encyclopedia - I am tempted to begin reverting your unsourced edits on sight. At least then we could be confident that you are not making the encyclopedia worse. JohnInDC (talk) 15:08, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Etiquette
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January 2015
Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits, such as your recent edits to 2014 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. —Bagumba (talk) 06:20, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

February 2015
You have been blocked from editing for a period of 60 hours for continued unexplained blanking, poor WP:ETIQ in failing to acknowledge talk page concerns, and continued misuse of WP:MINOR edit flag. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the following text below this notice:. However, you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. —Bagumba (talk) 08:08, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

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February 2015
You have been blocked from editing for a period of 2 weeks for contentious editing that continues to consistently be marked as minor per https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_College_football&diff=646434418&oldid=646427408 Still no talk page usage.. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the following text below this notice:. However, you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. —Bagumba (talk) 01:52, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
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March 2015
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Vote on removing/keeping CFDW
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