Talk:Tarick Salmaci

Lots of unsourced content

The article says that Salmaci was scheduled to fight Joe Calzaghe for the WBO Super-middleweight championship, but that the fight was cancelled due to an injury Calzaghe suffered during training and never rescheduled. I've been looking for something that might be a reliable source for that statement, but have not had any luck so far. I did, however, find this BoxRec page on Calzaghe which shows that he won the title by beating Chris Eubank in October 2011 and then defended it twice in 1998 and twice in 1999. There is a bit of a gap between his second and third title defenses. The BoxRec page on Salmaci that he fought once in 1998 and twice in 1999. Salmaci was 20-0 after his first in 1999 so a title shot does seem sort of plausible, but I cannot find any mention of it anywhere. There's quite a lot of unsourced content in the article that has been that way for quite a long time. Maybe it's time to start removing some of this content per WP:BLPSOURCES and WP:V until proper sourcing can be found? -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:58, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

I've done a bit of clean up and removed some of the unsourced content and added Template:citation needed to some items as well. I initially added a "cn" tag to the statement about being inducted into the Arab American National Museum, but ended up removing that as well because I'm not sure how someone get's inducted a museum. Perhaps it is supposed to be the "Arab-American National Hall of Fame", but I couldn't find anything on that at all online so I decided to remove it. If it can be properly sourced, then it can be re-added. I also removed two categories since I cannot find anything that connects Salmaci to them. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:30, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Professional record

@Taricksalmaci: The BoxRec page cited in the article lists Salmaci's (your?) professional record as 19 wins and 3 losses, so another independent reliable source is needed to show that the final record was actually 20 wins and 3 loses. If you know where such a source can be found online, please add the link here and I'll be happy to add that to the article. Please note it needs to be something which is not WP:UGC, but it could be something that Salmaci (you?) has published if the conditions of WP:BLPSELFPUB are met. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:07, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

Protected page

I've protected the page for a week to deter edit warring from the new account. I'm aware that it's been blocked, but if he does get unblocked before the week is up, this should hopefully encourage him to discuss edits on the talk page. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 09:02, 2 December 2016 (UTC)