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• the Cleveland Browns in the NFL and AFC championships never won the Super Bowl directly afterwards (The [[Baltimore Colts]] lost [[Super Bowl III|III]], the [[Minnesota Vikings]] lost [[Super Bowl IV|

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Game summaries

I'm sure I've said this before, and if so, I apologise, but I feel it needed saying again. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the work you put into writing the Vikings game summaries, but the tone of your writing doesn't really feel appropriate for an encyclopaedia. I know you've noticed some of the changes I've made to your work in the past, and I wonder if you might start emulating the style that I use in my game summaries. I'm not saying my style is perfect – in fact, it's probably a little bland – but it's worth looking at if you get the chance. – PeeJay 20:54, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

I'd be a fool to say the criticism was unnecessary. It's actually helped me out a lot since having started editing here. Noticing some of your additions to what I've written go in-depth and are more descriptive of each scoring play or other big plays, I've tended to go the simple route with a more brief description that while pretty good for adding upon, in and of itself may not be the description to stick by in the long run. This being said, I'll take the time to look at some of your game descriptions as an example, and maybe take some other appropriate examples as well where they fit. It's good to be a contributor, yes. But obviously to yield more ideal results a deal of insight is necessary. — Bill Mach – contribs - talk – 21:49, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Agreed. To be honest, some of your insights are pretty useful too, such as Green Bay's record on 3rd and 4th down in the game you did a summary for earlier. Or Ponder's only turnover-less game. I guess we could both do with taking some inspiration from each other, and from other sources. – PeeJay 21:59, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Metroid II: Return of Samus

Sorry to bother you, but concerning with your edit, the "reference error" that you fixed is not a reference error. It's actually a "ref name" footnote that connects to a Dan Owsen interview (found in the third paragraph of the Development section, ref #12). Just a heads up. -- Hounder4 21:24, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Packers

I added that Rodgers threw an interception at home into the 2015 Green Bay Packers season. Thank you for adding it into the 2012 Green Bay Packers season. Go Pack Go! --74.130.133.1 (talk) 17:56, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

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