User talk:Robby.is.on/Archive 1

Revert

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Christie Brinkley

You're welcome for the help with the article! Yeah, I did get that Efsawyer is actually Errol Sawyer, but the question is how legit is what he says? I read a few of the bios provided as references and none mentioned the photographer who discovered Brinkley by name, and it doesn't seem like anyone has read the book he's supposedly mentioned in. Adding to that his apparent need to be recognized, and I'm a little suspicious (and you were right to put up the COI tag). But even if his claims are true (which is certainly plausible), the fact that he's not mentioned by name in the refs the article has would demonstrate who he is - and what race he is - isn't notable enough for inclusion in the article, which he might not be so happy to hear judging from his comments on the talk page.  Mbinebri  ^{talk ←} 16:11, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

AfD debate

As the person who first questioned (at least that I saw) Errol Sawyer's notability and the whole COI thing, you might be interested in participating in this discussion.  Mbinebri  ^{talk ←} 23:31, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the pointer! --Robby.is.on (talk) 00:18, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Sandi Thom

Thankyou for keeping this page correct. A new editor who has alrady stated on the discussion page that "only they know the truth about sandi thom" and is determined to remove any thing they see as detrimental about the subject is removing whole paragrpahs at a time. Thanks for restoring article. Skinnylizzy (talk) 13:33, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Hey Skinnylizzy,

you're welcome, I think this is in fact a case of COI.

The article has become quite a mess but to be honest I'm not interested in Sandi Thom enough and have too little knowledge to really do something about it. -Robby.is.on (talk) 14:19, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Hurricane Festival

http://www.hurricane.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16837 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.27.180.38 (talk) 01:19, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Where did any of the officials (Marc etc.) confirm that timetable? -Robby.is.on (talk) 03:27, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

The same timetable format was in place last year, and was exactly correct. Only a few bands have been confirmed where they are playing in this timetable - mostly the headliners of the maion stages. It gives people a chance to see what days the bands they want to see are playing, giving them an oppertunity to plan their weekend around this. It is DEFINATELY much more helpful having this timetable, rather than deleting the whole thing, implying that either nothing has been announced for this years festival or that it isn't even happening! The timetable should remain up so that people can see who is playing and when, it can easily be changed if there are any slight mistakes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.13.22.95 (talk) 12:13, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not an information page for festival-goers. I think this timetable is inappropriate. You could just list the bands like in the German article. I'm a bit disappointed you just added this back in without us having finished the discussion. -Robby.is.on (talk) 12:24, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

hi guys - i deleted the first timetable of the IP, cause it was easy to see, that it was false. Nine Inch Nails would never play again the co-slot for Die Ärzte because this constellation was on a festival a few years ago and Trent R. of NIN was very pissed because the ärzte fans did not actually listened to his music. So I knew, that the timetable cant be true and deleted it. The timetable in its current form is in any case better, because its based on the information that are sure. if something like this belongs to an encyclopedia is another question. IMO it does not hurt anyone when we include it. But if we include it, then only if its based on reliable sources and not like in the first version. Tmv23 (talk) 13:06, 15 March 2009 (UTC) PS: sorry for my english - not my mother tongue.

Clayton Donaldson

Hello. Just to say thanks for spotting and fixing the mistake in the career stats totals. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 21:33, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

You’re very welcome. :-) Robby.is.on (talk) 21:38, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Safari

Even Safari support is discontinued for Windows, you still put Microsoft Windows on it. --Garris6699 (talk) 02:30, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Can you back that up? Template:Infobox_software#Parameters → operating system does not explicitly state but I would assume that only operating systems currently supported are meant be listed. For example, versions of OS X older than 10.8 ("Mountain Lion") aren’t supported either anymore. Robby.is.on (talk) 14:15, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Stats tables

Hello. As to layout, it might be worth following the example at Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Players instead. There are FAQs here. Not sure there's agreement on everything, as the talk page shows, but e.g. row-by-row referencing is becoming increasingly common in preference to a link or row of links above the table that may but often don't cover everything therein. Apart from removal of assists, the table at Thierry Henry has been set in stone since it went through FAC in 2007, before such tables were widespread, and there's no way of telling which figures came from where, apart from presumably the Barcelona source covered his Barcelona stats.

As to what to include: any first-team competitive match, in general. An example is Chris Burke, a player who also played qualifying rounds of European competitions for both Rangers and Birmingham. A different example is Matt Green, who has played at a rather lower level of football, so there's no need for a continental column but there are lots of notes about what the "other" competitions are. Thanks for asking. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 13:06, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

Aritz Aduriz

Hi there ROBBY, from Portugal,

I think there is really not a big difference, and I also think with "publisher" the field is better displayed. But no worries, I have already reverted myself and more in Mr. Aduriz's article.

Attentively --84.90.219.128 (talk) 19:02, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

• About Iñaki Williams, I have not removed anything to respect your work, but we are not to write about EVERY goal he scores, especially since he's a forward, it's expected to happen. Attentively --84.90.219.128 (talk) 22:27, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you. --84.90.219.128 (talk) 14:05, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

You're not bothering me with these messages. Communication is welcome. :-)

Regarding "work vs publisher", it's not something I feel strongly about, just something I picked up while editing.

Regarding Williams, yes, I agree, generally speaking not every single goal is noteworthy. However, for a player at the very beginning of his professional career scoring in three successive matches seems quite remarkable. I think we're okay for now. Robby.is.on (talk) 14:53, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! And yes, I see your point, three goals in a row (FOUR in three games, that is) for such a young player is of note indeed. But not more, even if he was to score 20 :) --84.90.219.128 (talk) 16:27, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

;-) Happy editing, Robby.is.on (talk) 18:17, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Óscar de Marcos: thanks for reverting me, I did not read sentence "at full attention" and did not realize the error in which I was incurring. Sorry for my actions. --84.90.219.128 (talk) 18:47, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Alrighty. Robby.is.on (talk) 00:46, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

44 + 36 + 48 + 55 = 183 matches / 18 + 18 + 16 + 36 = 98 goals--P Arank (talk) 22:26, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

191.7.157.249

We have to revert, warn, and then we block once a final warning has been issued. GiantSnowman 09:03, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

If you look at the IP's Talk page, you will find that there have been warnings aplenty and the IP has been blocked before. In fact, the IP has made another disruptive edit since having been warned yesterday. Robby.is.on (talk) 12:39, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

I've issued a final warning, if they come back please let me know. No edit for about 15 hours. GiantSnowman 13:07, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. :-) Will do! Robby.is.on (talk) 13:08, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

I'm afraid this is still happening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/191.7.157.249. Robby.is.on (talk) 04:25, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

I've blocked for 1 week. GiantSnowman 12:42, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

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Goikoetxea - Reply

Hello there,

I did not feel a STYLE OF PLAY section was warranted in this person's case, because all it refers to is his aggressiveness, I don't see how is that referring to his playing characteristics (heading ability, skills, etc). But OK, it stays your way.

Regards back, happy week --84.90.219.128 (talk) 15:02, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

• Sorry, missed that bit on the original message. I now will proceed to make minor adjustments to your additions (for example coherence in publishers of refs), no contents will be hurt this time. Thank you for your great efforts, much appreciated as always. --84.90.219.128 (talk) 16:10, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

Reinstate it, if you must. --84.90.219.128 (talk) 18:07, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

• I have already done it myself. --84.90.219.128 (talk) 19:05, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

Likewise, I will be all ears should the occasion arise :) --84.90.219.128 (talk) 19:38, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

• My reasoning was the following: since the "butcher" part already appears in a section of its own, and it's in no way all this historical player did in his career (even though he was a bit of a thug, yes sir, and I'm all for Athletic Bilbao, only team I could ever support in this age of Arsenals, Cities, Portos, Inters, Real Madrids and whatnots!) it striked me as strange it should appear in intro. However, since your opinion is as valid as my own and you presented valid arguments, I reinstated the bit without hesitation.

All's well that ends well, take care --84.90.219.128 (talk) 20:02, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

• My kind fellow user, I had to reinstate the former version, and now i'll explain why, step by step: 1 - no need for just one line to say "Born in Alonsotegi, Biscay, Goikoetxea began his playing career as a youth with Arbuyo", it can perfectly go alongside his Bilbao spell; 2 - storyline sections should be divided into CLUB CAREER and INTERNATIONAL CAREER, or PLAYING CAREER and MANAGERIAL CAREER, not CLUB, INTERNATIONAL and MANAGER; 3 - again, I don't see the error in a run-on sentence when it's so small. Why can't we say "In his debut season in La Liga he scored four goals ("four", not "4", we only starting writing in numerals after "10") in 27 games, being somewhat absent in the following years with only 26 appearances combined from 1976 to 1979.", having to resort to full stop after full stop ("In his debut season in La Liga he scored four goals in 27 games. He played a lesser role in the following three years with only 26 appearances combined from 1976 to 1979", and by the way, I think "three" followed by "1976 to 1979" is redundancy, I tried to reach a compromise with my new version of the sentence); 4 - the reference you added for his 27 appearances in those three seasons is only a link and not a ref, but I guess it will have to make do. I will browse the web for more possibilities, also trying to get more for his playing ability.

Regards, sorry for any inconvenience --84.90.219.128 (talk) 13:16, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

(Replying here so it is easier to follow the discussion.)

Thanks. My thoughts:

1. I am fine with changing back the headings. You're right that when there's a "Managerial career" heading, there needs to be a "Playing career" heading for differentiation. The reason I wanted to add an "Athletic Bilbao" heading was that I thought be good to make it clear he mostly played there.
2. Connecting Arbuyo spell to time at Bilbao: Okay!
3. I'm sure we can agree that using "before" twice in one sentence isn't very elegant.
4. "four goals in 27 games": For a defender goals aren't of a major importance, so I think we should mention the number of appearances first.
5. "established himself in the senior team squad" versus just "senior team": seems more accurate with "squad" seen has he didn't play that much in the three seasons after his debut season. The following paragraph ("During the 1980s"…) makes it clear he was a regular starter from then on.
6. "played a lesser role" versus "was somewhat absent": I feel "absent" suggests he was away whereas in reality he just didn't play that much (or was he in fact injured?).
7. "four goals" vs "4 goals": MOS:NUMERAL does state "Integers from zero to nine are spelled out in words". However, it also mentions "Comparable quantities should be all spelled out or all in figures" (example: "five cats and thirty-two dogs, not five cats and 32 dogs"). Isn't a comparison between the amount of goals and the number of appearances implied here? Goals/matches ratios are frequently discussed in the media, although admittedly that is more the case for forwards than for defenders.
8. Agreed, both "three" and "1976 to 1979" is redundant.
9. More on his style of play would be great. :-)
10. I agree that text references are preferable to tables (that's how I look at them) but is there some Wiki policy that differentiates between "only link" and "ref" like you do?

My latest edit is another attempt at a good compromise. Regards, Robby.is.on (talk) 17:16, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

FINALLY! After four hours browsing the web I have improved the article dramatically, and now I can reply to you... Let's go bit by bit then:

1 - check; 2 - check; 3 - my bad, never noticed in all these years I had written "before" twice, nice catch; 4 - can not say that I agree, goals, especially in a "good supply" (four is "good" for a DF) are definitely worth mentioning, but either order is fine; 5 - check; 6 - check; 7 - please see my thoughts on 4, anyway is fine, I just happen to like writing words more than numbers, that is all; 8 - check; 9 - I browsed the web like crazy, found nothing. I know he had a very powerful shot and was a no-nonsense defender, one of the best of his age (when he did not resort to violence that is!), but of course I am not a source for any encyclopedia :); 10 - found a ref that states that he was a starter by then (1976/79, see right column of text found in reference #2, there it is clearly stated that Javier Escalza and Agustín Guisasola were the starting stoppers). Nope, not a guideline saying that tables should not be used to reference bits of text, just a personal preference mate.

Unrelated (or maybe not) to the topics we discussed, I also added tons of refs for his coaching career, WP wins of course, that's the most important. I will try HARDER for refs for his playing style. Regards back, take it easy and sorry for any inconvenience --84.90.219.128 (talk) 18:42, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Okay, I'm fine with how it is now. :-) About 3.: I wasn't aware that you had previously written those bits. Actually, I'm not sure I'd remember things I'd edited so long ago, heh. Great job on digging up all those references and correcting the details (years, stats, etc.). The article is shaping up nicely. Cheers, Robby.is.on (talk) 22:13, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Stats in football players' infoboxes

Hi, when you update the stats in football players' infoboxes please remember that you should also update the |pcupdate= (or |club-update=) parameter. This shows when the stats were last updated and prevents editors from accidentally updating the stats again. Thank you. --Jaellee (talk) 20:57, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

Heh, I've been around here for a while. Just forgot it in the last edit. Thanks for cleaning up after me. Robby.is.on (talk) 21:00, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't recognize you as regular user. --Jaellee (talk) 07:09, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

No problem. Robby.is.on (talk) 12:39, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Wiki editing

I'm sorry. You may revert all the edits I had made. I am in the wrong Tvilaysack88 (talk) 03:00, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Revert

Please report my edits and request a mass revert as I have violated Wikipedia policies. Though I only had positive intentions, I was not right in my edits . Tvilaysack88 (talk) 03:17, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Bits and pieces

Finally, finished composing Mr. Goikoetxea's article, only thing now missing is more to the STYLE OF PLAY section. On an unrelated note (an article where I also worked extensively, now added +2 refs, one is more interesting than it seems, how can a poor club like Rayo reject such an offer from Borussia then let the player leave for FREE? I think it should stay), two favours and a tip in Álex Gálvez if you please:

1 - seeing that you speak German much better than me of course, do you think you can find a proper ref to say he was a starter for Werder in his first year instead of just a link with stats (which by the way does not prove much, for example a player could miss five or six games and it's not because of injury ("fit"), but because manager does not find him to be good enough at the time or the player has been punished for something)? I'm sure you can; 2 - let's go 50%-50% on this one: in the chart of statistics below, we write the club's season (in this case "2015-16 W.BREMEN SEASON"), but in storyline please allow for the general season ("2015-16 BUNDESLIGA SEASON"); 3 - last but not least, in storyline, when you start a paragraph you mention the subject's name ("Galvez" in this case), subsequently "he" suffices very well, no need for name again until the start of the following paragraph. Just my two cents.

Always a pleasure, I sign off now --84.90.219.128 (talk) 20:51, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

• I "defended" myself above man, like I said, I think we can have the CLUB's seasons in the chart, and the OVERALL seasons in the storyline, I feel everybody should be wiki-happy that way :) --84.90.219.128 (talk) 23:16, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

I reckon they considered being able to play Gálvez the following season to be worth more than the €2 million offered. Can't blame them: I followed Rayo that season, their results went down the drain whenever Gálvez was unable to play.

I've found a decent reference allowing me to more precise about his first season at Werder. Thanks for giving me a nudge there, I was lazy with my initial edit.

Regarding "2014–15 Bundesliga" versus "2015–16 SV Werder Bremen season": I'm not too invested in what we put there. I'd just like to establish a good policy to go by for future edits I make. I mentioned an argument in favour of the club season page and I haven't been able to come up with one in favour of the league season page. That's why I would lean towards the former. That is all…

By the way, I came across this edit summary of yours: "Composed the habitual appalling rubbish by "user" ALGRIM". What happened to civility and assuming good faith? :-P

Robby.is.on (talk) 00:26, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

HORRIBLE summary I know, I apologize to you and the community in general :( This person has been here for give or take the same time as me (so, eight or nine YEARS!), writes no summaries, talks to no one, and ALL his creations are like this: player plays ONE MINUTE in a competition that passes WP:NOTABILITY (for example, Fábio Sturgeon stood like that for one or two years), he gets article with the same storyline (example being the "storyline" you found in Alexandre Nascimento Costa Silva before I stepped in), and it never gets updated again, NEVER, unless someone else works on it.

Very frustrating indeed (ah, and not only that, he created/creates tons of articles that never passed WP:NOTABILITY, quantity over quality for this chap any day of the week, it seems), but am not excusing myself here my kind fellow user, merely stating the facts so that you are able to think for yourself, I know that summary was very uncivil.

Thank you for your kindness and patience, keep it up --84.90.219.128 (talk) 00:35, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Ah. Yes, frustrations sometimes gets the better of me too. Robby.is.on (talk) 14:52, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

• Done with Gálvez, I have now matched the display of all the references so that it looks more tidy, thanks for your efforts! I am now going to work in the "article" of Sofyane Cherfa (have a look to see what battle is ahead of me, but please don't edit there for the next hour, as to avoid edit conflicts), wish me good luck... --84.90.219.128 (talk) 01:06, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the clean-up. All the best, Robby.is.on (talk) 14:52, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Career stats appearance

They actually weren't zeros. They were actually dashes. Dashes actually look better. Kingjeff (talk) 22:53, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

It does relate to you because you put zeros where dashes should be. Kingjeff (talk) 04:07, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Also, you don't need a total row when a player has been at a club for one season. Kingjeff (talk) 04:19, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

I see you're clearly not understanding the problem. The dashes in the totals prior to my recent edit is better than your zeros in the totals. The dashes from the table I put in from my recent edit is better than your zeros in the table. A third option is to put a dash over two column in those same columns. I'm simply telling you that dashes, regardless of how you include them, is better than putting zeros in those columns. Another flaw with your tables is that you don't need to put in a totals row like you did here Kingjeff (talk) 05:23, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

You will never come to a consensus when you're not respecting other users opinions and showing youtube videos stating that it's "only your opinion" to other editors and calling other editors edits an "abomination." Kingjeff (talk) 06:50, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Riyad Mahrez

Thank you :-) Best Regards. --Fayçal.09 (talk) 17:23, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Reverted edit on Felipe Pardo

Hello,

The edit by CarryOn95 (talk · contribs) was reverted as that account was a sock-puppet of a banned user. The edits of this banned user are routinely reverted per WP:BANREVERT, even if they appear to be constructive, in order to deter further ban evasion. It is also often the case that edits from this person that appear to be helpful actually aren't, hence why they are banned. I have no objection to yourself or other editors reinstating edits on a case-by-case basis, though I must ask that any changes are checked carefully before reinstatement as policy states,

"Editors who reinstate edits made by a banned editor take complete responsibility for the content."

Thank you. CT Cooper · talk 19:47, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Understood. Thanks for explaining. :-) Cheers, Robby.is.on (talk) 19:49, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Your username strikes me as familiar

We ever collaborated on some article or project? Best, Doctor Papa Jones • (Click here to collect your prize!) 21:21, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

I don't believe so but maybe in the future? :-) Robby.is.on (talk)

Yea, why not :) Doctor Papa Jones • (Click here to collect your prize!) 21:42, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

My current aim is to improve articles related to Murdoch Mysteries and the History of cardistry, something for you? Best, Doctor Papa Jones • (Click here to collect your prize!) 21:43, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

To be honest, my interests lie elsewhere. But thanks! Cheers, Robby.is.on (talk) 12:28, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Ah, okay, no problem. You're welcome! Best, Doctor Papa Jones • (Click here to collect your prize!) 15:15, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Ager Aketxe - Reply

Hi there ROBBY, all well?

Situation is as follows: I heard of the news today, and thought it would relevant for Aketxe's piece. So, I contacted User:The Almightey Drill because 1 - his Spanish is quite good; 2 - mine is too, but I don't feel very comfortable translating the legal bits (what the player is being charged with, for example), so I asked him to help out.

Received no reply at all, if your Spanish is at our level you can "replace" TAD if you want. Regards --Be Quiet AL (talk) 13:11, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

• Situation kindly completed by the aforementioned user. --Be Quiet AL (talk) 19:06, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

Agustín Sauto Arana: I left that stuff in shabby display (of course, less shabby then it was before!) because I planed to work on article extensively today (still do), of course you had no way of knowing that :)

Give me a couple of hours, then revisit the piece to tell me what you think. --Be Quiet AL (talk) 14:51, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

• Done, here are some "pointers" and akin: 1 - no need for Barakaldo sub-sections because they consisted of only one line without refs, this way I feel it "gells" better; 2 - I only use links (BDFUTBOL.com, official club profiles, etc) as refs as a last resort, as you can see I added many refs more, including one that replaced that you added for his Pichichi victory; 3 - incredibly, found no news on his death, and both Mundo Deportivo (newspaper) and ABC (newspaper) have a search engine that allows you to browse through their historical archives, came out empty :(

Well, nice teamwork I'd say, now I'm off to dinner. Speaking of Bilbao players, great Aduriz, oldtimer is not dead (football-wise) not by a mile! Cheers --Be Quiet AL (talk) 19:03, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

• Thanks for that extra ref, Mr. Bata is looking down from the heavens proudly! --Be Quiet AL (talk) 20:59, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Darlington Nagbe

If something is covered in reliable media, it is worth mentioning. It doesn't matter that he was only out for two weeks if the tackle was as covered as it was. '''tAD''' (talk) 22:47, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

Aaron Ramsey

Who need source, Arsenal official twitter said that Ramsey will wear number 8 for next season. THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED ??? Usman afif (talk) 01:14, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

Merger discussion for List of sons of King Abdulaziz ibn Saud by seniority

An article that you have been involved in editing—List of sons of King Abdulaziz ibn Saud by seniority—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. 62.64.152.154 (talk) 14:19, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

WP:OWNTALK

WP:OWNTALK. I do not appreciate to you reverting comments I elected to delete from my own talk page. If I wanted to extend the discussion there, I would have left the comments in-place. I'm sorry you take offence at the term "talk page stalker". I don't mean it in a negative sense. It's anyone who watches someone else's talk page and adds input to threads in which the stalker is not directly involved. Wikipedia:Talk page stalker. I fully understand you put my talk page on your watch list, again ignoring the edit notice where I stated that I would respond with a {{talkback}} template if I responded. The revert made it clear I wasn't responding to your original comment and I have responded on the talk page of the article in question. Walter Görlitz (talk) 14:55, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

Mahmoud Hassan

Hey Robby! I was searching the internet for a reference for his permanent move to Andrelecht and i managed to find only one on KingFut here; I've searched in Arabic, English and Dutch but i couldn't find anything except one on KingFut. Ben5218 (talk) 00:07, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Rony Lopes - Reply

Please accept my sincere apologies Robby, I was trying to reinstate some storyline (not the wording per se, more its display) and did not notice I reverted that (very) correct stuff you added. Thanks for reverting me, I have already added more storyline to it.

Sorry for the inconvenience --Be Quiet AL (talk) 13:47, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

• Like a powerful (and harmless) drug, can't get it out of my system... --85.242.133.151 (talk) 19:09, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

Newsflash: i have reached a compromise with you in the display of refs in Enrique Sola, hopefully that'll be neat. --85.242.133.151 (talk) 19:34, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

Thank you

Hello,

Thank you so much for your contributions of the article I've made for Ludwig Augustinsson. I have wanted to receive feedback and contributions from others, since the text is all by myself. I'm glad I finally got some and especially good ones. // Psemmler (talk) 02:30, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

Hi. You are very welcome. You did a great job on the article, my changes were minor. Might be a Good Article candidate sometime? ;-) Regards, Robby.is.on (talk) 10:21, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

I've wanted it to get reviewed for almost a year now, but they never look at it :( // Psemmler (talk) 12:29, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

Found it. That's disappointing. :-/ Maybe try again and let some of the experienced football editors know? Robby.is.on (talk) 15:38, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. Yeah, maybe. // Psemmler (talk) 23:16, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

Nicola Falasco

Most extended loan were grouped together in Italian player infobox, especially it was renewed in July, not interrupted by returning to mother club and few friendly for them. Matthew_hk tc 11:03, 26 August 2016 (UTC)

Daniel Levy (businessman)‎

hiya, I don't know if you're a Spurs fan or not, but I noticed a few ppl have vandalised Levy's article recently, maybe you want to add it to your watchlist. Regards Govvy (talk) 16:50, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

comment left on my page

Thank you for fixing Oliver torres's page. It was giving me error and i was confused on what i had done wrong. On the issue of vandalism, the correction made in People Party had nothing to do with vandalism. I was simply correcting information that was outdated (2004). If you notice i put a link to more accurate information from the year 2014.

thank you

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Selke

"There is no need to include a blank line between a heading and sub-heading" it says on MOS. All other things are optional. So, the edits from bots which add spaces are not my "problem". Just odd to add them imo, but just a small point. Only remove them when editing an article... Kante4 (talk) 11:13, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Aduriz (others) - Reply

Really too much that summary, and for that i apologize to the WP community and the user in particular. However; 1 - a quick (and erroneous!) glance on my part to the aforementioned edit made me perceive it as vandalism; 2 - previous display was fine as it was, no need for changes (imagine if Aduriz or any other player had TEN Europa League-related accolades, would we list "UEFA Europa League" ten times in the honours? Certainly not, i believe.

Have a nice week --85.242.133.151 (talk) 18:32, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

1 - quite right, could not agree more; 2 - i am not "all that jazz" on a personal level right now (not WP's fault of course), and if you couple that with the fact i have ZERO tolerance for vandalism, you get these idiocies from my part. You can report me if you want, i will not protest because i know i was in the wrong. --85.242.133.151 (talk) 23:03, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

• Appreciate the empathy, sorry for any inconvenience --85.242.133.151 (talk) 15:38, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Timestamps

Hi , Mohannad Abdul-Raheem played 29 matches Yasteray palyed with Iraqi team vs UAE Omar Abdulrahman played 57 matches Thank you Kurdistantolive (talk) 03:26, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

OK Kurdistantolive (talk) 14:10, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

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Reserve stats

Hi, you removed the reserve stats from the Ricardo Kishna article. Just to be clear, those are for the professional 1st division in the Netherlands, the Eerste Divisie, where Jong Ajax is playing against professional teams. Seems like it's relevant. Gman83 (talk) 20:19, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

I hope you realize...

...that whether the code says ==Subject header== or == Subject header == makes absolutely no difference in the way the page is rendered. Both versions look precisely the same on the rendered page, so your making edits such as this one is a total waste of time. My suggestion would be that you spend your Wikitime making changes which are substantive, and not completely unnecessary. Beyond My Ken (talk) 13:46, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

Kasper Dolberg

Imagine a player who spends 2010–2013 with the youth team. From 2013–2015 he is a first team player. But in 2015 he goes back to the youth team, until he gets another chance in 2017. Are you really going to have multiple different entries for this? What about if it's different teams? Same thing. Well no, you're not; partly because of WP:COMMONSENSE and partly because there is long-standing WT:FOOTY consensus that once a senior career has started, the youth career in the infobox has ended. GiantSnowman 07:56, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

RE:Popa

Oh, I am sorry about that. I thought it means to agree the terms of a negociation.8Dodo8 (talk · contribs) 12:51, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Grieg's music in popular culture

Thanks for reverting my change to the above article due to the missing reference. I have added my reference and re-edited the article. This is my first time adding a reference, so I'm learning. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Devoidzer0 (talk • contribs) 15:53, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Re:Advisor.js

Unfortunately, for some reason, the script does not factor in the dashes in titles - may be worth raising with the script's creator. However, with so many incorrect dashes within the article texts, I simply do the page as a whole with the script, factoring in the titles on cites. I think it adds only a few bytes for each instance, but I have no qualms in reversions for the cite titles... Craig(talk) 22:08, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Gabi (footballer) - Style of play

Hi there ROBBY, longtime no see,

they did it again, i tried to clean it up as much as i could, and additionally i removed the unref'd bits (still ripe with poetics!) and the Atlético Madrid official profile (which was also filled with verbatim plus some wording that was not in the ref/link).

If you want to/can add more to the section, go right ahead. I'll try and search for some more. Take care, from Portugal --85.242.133.151 (talk) 14:11, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

T Smith

Dear Robby, Thank you so much for your message. Re T Smith, PLEASE do change the date when he died. Toby died on Wednesday the 12th of April 2017. I am the part of his family and with big sadness we said final good bye to him on Tuesday this week. If you would like to wait until the official information, read the Daily Telegraph for the next two months. Memorial ceremony in June... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Psiulka (talk • contribs) 08:57, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Please can you give me your email address. Many thanks Psiulka (talk) 22:01, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

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The Original Barnstar

Robi, Thank you for going over so promptly on my editing of "Holocaust." I am 70 years old and not a digital native. I was asked to add citations - I don't know how to follow instructions and do it. My statements and additions are based on very reliable sources, and I feel frustrated that I don't know how to correct and add to original article "Holocaust." Thank you again, Rachelle Perlman Rachelle Perlman (talk) 23:50, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Jamie Maclaren

Thank you for your feedback regarding Jamie Maclaren's page. To address your points you made on my talk page:

• Thank you for correcting my error regarding the length of contract. It's definitely three years.
• Apologies if you felt I implied that it was you that entered the shirt number, I attempted to make them different clauses in my brief note summarising my edits.
• I do defend my language of "announced that they had signed" as the most accurate and encyclopaedic wording, given the club did indeed announce the signing; we have no idea when it took place behind the scenes. It definitely was a third person sentence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paladisious (talk • contribs) 11:15, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

Gerhard Tremell

Thanks for adding a citation - I forgot to add it when I made the change. 86.185.127.76 (talk) 19:41, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Reliable citation in Holocaust article. Help

Pleas, can you tell me which edtion you took out so I can find a reliable source?

It seems that somebody took out my bio in user. Can somebody delete my biography in 'user? Somebody told me that some changes are hidden - can somebody interfer with my history? Thank you for your help in both instances.Rachelle Perlman (talk) 05:50, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

Islam Slimani

The current version of Islam Slimani looks better the way you did it so thanks. I was thinking that using the same image twice in an article would be unusual. 81.135.134.227 (talk) 11:24, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Serero

Medical for Thulani Serero was done this morning. He has signed with Vitesse. Serero woensdag gepresenteerd Cheers, (Subzzee (talk) 09:29, 14 June 2017 (UTC))

Robbie was geht ab? Vitesse haben den Spieler bereits praesentiert. Da sind bereits zwei referenzen, dazwischen auch eins von Voetbal International. Der Junge spielt jetzt fuer Vitesse, du kannst die Seite ruhig so lassen. Es is geklaert. Gruesse (Subzzee (talk) 14:51, 14 June 2017 (UTC))

Afonso Figueiredo

Apologies for the reversion, it's just i feel the birthplace should be mentioned when there is no storyline, as is the case in this article. Don't worry, i'll get to it (the storyline creation, that is)! Regards, sorry for any inconvenience --Quite A Character (talk) 15:24, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

• Done! --Quite A Character (talk) 21:01, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Play-offs ≠ league matches

Please do not add play-off matches to a player's statistics in the infobox like you did here as per Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/Archive 31#Play-offs ≠ league matches --16:24, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Kalifa Coulibaly

Per WP:BRD, please do not re-add once you have been reverted. Make your case at the article talk page. GiantSnowman 20:10, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

and your response to that should have been to ask me for more info - not to blindly revert, especially as you then had to partially self-revert cos your edit was rubbish! GiantSnowman 20:16, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

Yes, that's why I've invited you to go to the talk page - something you seemed to have no intent in doing! GiantSnowman 20:22, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

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McBurnie

Fair enough, but the references should not have been removed. GiantSnowman 10:10, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

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(talk page stalker) German Wikipedia says that he was a youth player for Saarbücken, but they don't provide sources for this. I can only find something football related about a football manager called Willi Schäfer, but that is a different guy. --Jaellee (talk) 17:52, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

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Daily Mail

You reverted the addition of a reference, claiming "Daily Mail is not a reliable source". Whatever the decision of a group of Wikipedia editors may be, apparently motivated simply by left-wing dislike of a conservative newspaper, the Daily Mail is an award-winning newspaper and just as reliable as any other British tabloid. It is still relied on with good enough reason in tens of thousands of Wikipedia articles. Most of its writers have been published in other media and no doubt are looked on as reliable sources there. A reference from an article in the Daily Mail is better than no reference. The Mail's reply here is a little overstated but makes some telling points. If you are going to join in efforts to remove all citations from the Daily Mail, but not (say) from various propaganda organs of totalitarian states where there is no reliability in the media at all, then at least be aware that you're joining in a politically-motivated leftist movement and not a properly encyclopaedic one! Moonraker (talk) 08:16, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Daily Mail has been deemed unreliable for a while and we shouldn't be using them for sourcing if others are available. Govvy (talk) 11:20, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

@Moonraker: What Goovy wrote is accurate. In the discussion about prohibition of the Daily Mail many salient arguments were made which put your assumptions of bad faith ("motivated simply by left-wing dislike of a conservative newspaper", "politically-motivated leftist movement") to shame. See also the "News media" section at "Potentially unreliable sources". Robby.is.on (talk) 11:56, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Robby.is.on I don't agree with that, and neither does the Daily Mail itself, if you take the trouble to read the article I linked. With all its good and bad points, Wikipedia is far too much under the control of social justice warriors who talk the way you talk. Whether you are one of them I do not know, but talk of putting people's opinions to "shame" may be a clue. Moonraker (talk) 11:34, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Well, it would be quite a surprise if the Daily Mail admitted to being an unreliable news source, would it not? :-) Robby.is.on (talk) 14:20, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

Re:Transfermarkt.de

OK, I'll pay more attention in the future. Could you please link me a page in which this community decided to consider Transfermarkt as an unreliable source? Maybe it's a restrictive rule only for the English Wikipedia, but for sure it isn't so in the German Wikipedia (where I found that reference) or in the Italian one (where that source is massively used as external link). Best regards. --Mess (talk) 14:20, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

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Pape M'Bow

Yes - it's unreferenced. GiantSnowman 16:02, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

So where was the height cited to L'Equipe? GiantSnowman 16:19, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

Height format

Hello. Just to let you know that per WP:UNITS, the correct primary usage for personal height of UK-related subjects is feet and inches. So if an article about such a subject already uses ft/in-first for their height, please don't change it to metric-first, as you did at Martin Kuhl. thanks, Struway2 (talk) 12:30, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

Romanian IP nuisance

Hi there ROBBY, longtime no "see",

thanks for helping out stopping this punk in their tracks (for example, at Cristian Săpunaru), keeps changing the correct name of the club/article FC Steaua Bucuresti to FSCB among other actions (at Sapunaru, no PC update)! However, unfortunately I found out (judging from what I see in Olimpiu Moruțan, where I already had to revert them over and over again) they seem to have access to a vast array of IPs, a lost battle maybe?

Any suggestions? Happy 2018, from Portugal --Quite A Character (talk) 14:01, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

• Did you think you were getting a response from the chap above, mate? Unfortunately, I had a hunch you would not, it turned out to be right (but of course, if we revert them, the hysterics begin again in summaries)... --Quite A Character (talk) 23:20, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

5.15.11.185

 Done GiantSnowman 15:17, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

January 2018

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Gregory van der Wiel, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. GiantSnowman 09:07, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

You have added unsourced content about a living person. You should know better. GiantSnowman 10:45, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Well it is, given that the height added first of all was incorrect. Height is constantly vandalised, hence why explicit sourcing is essential. GiantSnowman 12:44, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Apologies

1 - for what i wrote mentioning what you had done regarding a said user in this WP:FOOTY thread (please see here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football#Masoud_Shojaei), i have already mended it.

2 - is what i am expecting from said user regarding this all mess, they removed sourced content and have the nerve to call me an uneducated vandal! Oh well...

Regards --Quite A Character (talk) 18:04, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Left-back

I actually looked it up and while both Left back and Left-back are used, the former looks more common. But I will leave it that way if you wish.8Dodo8 (talk · contribs) 21:00, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Edit summaries

Although it's not a very descriptive edit summary, it's precise, since I've fixed the page to his correct current club, right? :) Cheers, happy weekend! MYS77 ^✉ 12:03, 2 February 2018 (UTC)