User talk:Daemonic Kangaroo/Archive1

C B Fry

Thanks for sorting out the reference, and the reorganising of the article. JoeBlogsDord 10:48, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Persondata

Please do not remove {{Persondata}} templates, as you did from the Gareth Bale article: this is metadata which can be automatically used to generate biographical queries, and all biographical articles should contain one. See Wikipedia:Persondata. Thanks. -- Arwel (talk) 21:37, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Hughie Fisher

I got the information from the Southport F.C. official website's history page [1]. Having checked out the Scottish FA's records of players, it appears that he never played for Scotland. I will change the info on the Southport page. Number 57 16 October 2006

Nir Berkovic

I don't have any problem with your removing this page. He is not an international player, and is currently playing in the second division. His only claims to fame are his family links and the fact he was at Arsenal for three months when he was 16.

• Just realised he is playing in the top division, but still not of much importance! Number 57 30 October 2006

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Please be nice!

It is important to keep a cool head, especially when responding to comments against you or your edits. Personal attacks and disruptive comments only escalate a situation; please keep calm and remember that action can be taken against other parties if necessary. Attacking another user back, as you did on User_talk:86.6.47.178, can only satisfy trolls or anger contributors and leads to general bad feeling. Please try to remain civil with your comments. Thanks!
(P.S. I know being a Southampton-related issue it must have hit a nerve, but that's exactly what the vandals want! In future, try using the {{test1-n}}, {{test2}} or {{blatantvandal}} tags ^_^)
(P.P.S. I'm also from Southampton and support Saints. Heh, small world!) ShakingSpirit^talk 22:50, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Pronunciation of "Marseille"

I saw you edit the article Olympique de Marseille. So I guess you might be able to help me. I'm wondering what the pronunciation of the team is, Mar-say [maʀsɛj] or Mark-say [mɑxˈsɛjɐ], thanks --Manop - TH 22:14, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Kenneth Monkou

Monkou is known as Kenneth in the Netherlands from his time when was playing at Feyenoord. You can change it back to Ken with a redirect from Kenneth, although in my opinion it should be Kenneth with a redirect from Ken. I will however not revert you if you decide to revert me. SportsAddicted | discuss 13:41, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Footballers who died tragically young

Hello! Thanks for your note. No need to worry about doing anything to the existing category, my robot will depopulate it very shortly. On reflection I wouldn't replace the category at all, myself, but for your convenience in case you want to do so I have listed the old category's articles: they are Geoff Bent, Roger Byrne, Eddie Colman, Duncan Edwards, Aaron Flahavan, Austin Hayes, Mark Jones (footballer), Steve Mills, David Pegg, Tommy Taylor, Liam Whelan. I have no strong preference for the name you choose for the "replacement" category, but "Footballers who died during their playing careers" is perhaps marginally better: use whatever you think best. Best wishes, RobertG ♬ talk 17:39, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Replacing [Football Club F.C.|Football Club] with a template

Hi,

I noticed that you replaced the [Football Club F.C.|Football Club]'s with a template in the article on Kyle Critchell. Could you explain why as I've always assumed that the full way of doing this is better than a template (that usually is only used when editing and has subst: as part of it to make it into the full version). Makes it quicker as well. WikiGull 11:51, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Hello again, thanks for your reply. I agree about the fewer keystrokes the better, so maybe you should use the template subst:fc|Southampton which with brackets around it will give you [Southampton F.C.|Southampton]. That way you get it looking how you want, but the link is straight to the club's proper page without having to diverted via redirect pages. My question was raised because you actually replaced the full link with one that goes via a template. the subst: bit replaces the template with what the template creates.

Anyway, yes I am a Torquay fan so hopefully we'll play Saints in the cup (though doubt it with our current form). WikiGull 19:08, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Sunderland AFC

I have requested the article Sunderland AFC to be protected. As it has been persistantly vandalised over the past month by various Ip addresses and users. I wish to thank you for helping revert vandalism on the article. Sheogarath 18:58, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Bulova (Hong Kong)

Hi. I have read your message and I have just created a short article about Bulova (Hong Kong). As the club has been defunct for many years, I do not know much about that. Hikikomori.hk 11:18, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Re : Toyworld Cup & InterCity Cup

I'm unable to clear them together since they are not part of the AfD, but I've prodded them for you. - Mailer Diablo 16:21, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

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RE: George Kay

Hi Daemonic Kangaroo, I did so because the user that added them has only ever contributed to Wikipedia to add links to his own personal website (generally frowned upon), and the pages contain little else that other than a couple of pictures and a referral link to Amazon, which I suspect is the main reason for the additions. If the pictures are not copyrighted, then maybe they could be included here, along with an attribution to the site. If they aren't, then we shouldn't be linking to them anyway. Of course, this in an open site, and you are free to readd stuff if you wish. I personally would rather you didn't though. All the best, Happy New Year. - Nzd (talk) 21:13, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Allfootballers.com

I noticed you mention this site in an AfD discussion. Do you have an account there? I've been trying to fill out the missing details on List of Manchester City F.C. players, and it keeps coming up in searches for early players. I've been wondering what its like, but the fact that it isn't up front about how much it costs makes me wary. Oldelpaso 22:21, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Luis Boa Morte & West Ham squad template

Thats okay. But thats where most of these bullshit numbers come from, unregistered users. I just want to know what sort of satisfaction they get from adding untrue numbers... it seems pretty sad to me. -- Mattythewhite 15:58, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Plagiarism and copyright infringement

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions to the Keith Cassells article, but for legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted.

Feel free to re-submit a new version of the article. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must include on the external site the statement "I, (name), am the author of this article, (article name), and I release its content under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later."

You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here. You can also leave a message on my talk page. Jkelly 00:31, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

George Curtis (footballer born 1919)

Just thought you might like to know I managed to beef up the George Curtis article a bit. Good luck in getting all those Saints articles onto Wikipedia - I know how much of a slog it can be from my experience with the Arsenal ones. Qwghlm 00:31, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Do not redirect (soccer) articles to (soccer player)

"(soccer player)" is too specific; you redirected some articles for people who are now better known as coaches. For US/Canadian players, the standard disambig is just "(soccer)"; it also helps in the long run if a player goes into coaching, which often happens. DR31 _(talk) 05:00, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Football biography

Hi Daemonic,

(Restore Apps (goals))

Here the heading "Apps (goals)" is considerably wider than most of the numbers I've seen below it, causing the table's column widths to appear unbalanced. If you're not keen on "A (G)*" plus explanatory footnote as a solution, does anything else come to mind...?  (Just seems a pity to have a good template compromised by a single factor...)  Regards, David Kernow (talk) 18:37, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

I can see what you are trying to achieve and the other changes you made definitely improved the appearance of the infobox. My problem with A (G) is that I have an aversion to abbreviations, but also the change hasn't really made the problem go away. The A/Apps is in the same vertical column as the first digit of the appearances (caps) and the (G)/(goals) follows straight after - this means that the (G)/(goals) is not centred over any particular column...

I hadn't realized that was the intention, but...

...this would mean that every single player article incorporating the template would need to be amended to fit [a] new layout.

Yes... I imagine it's a task that could be given to a bot in lieu of a simpler alternative...

...Perhaps we should ask the members of Wikipedia:WikiProject Football for their opinion. I'm not sure how you could compare one against the other though - this would probably mean creating a dummy template and adopting it on a few players articles just to see what it would look like.

I set up a couple of pages for this purpose – User:David Kernow/Test template and User:David Kernow/Test page – so will now copy the previous version and a few examples there. Feel free to tinker if you wish and/or provide a link for the WikiProject. Thanks for your reply, David (talk) 20:12, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Page nos in references

There's a "pages" attribute in {{cite book}} so it's dead easy to do - see the footnotes in History of Arsenal F.C. (1886-1966) for how I have used it. If it's a direct quote then you might as well make it explicit in the article: e.g.

Parker was described in Holley & Chalk's The Alphabet of the Saints as "never the fastest of players, but he had wonderful positional sense and his tackling was always well-timed".^[1]

with an appropriate footnote at the end. Qwghlm 14:37, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Albert Hoskins

Hi, Thanks for your message - and yes, great win v Grimsby, still think we're doomed, but some hope again. Anyway, re Hoskins, I've got two books that I used on that article for his non-Torquay stuff, the 'Football League Players' Records 1988 to 1939' by Joyce, and a book called 'Football Managers' by Turner and White.

Both have the H as Hubert, and have him being born in Tettenhall in 1883. The managers book has him as joining Wolves in 1900 and joining the office staff in 1904. Doesn't say anything about him playing for any other club. the players' book (which I trust more than any other source I've found so far) has him playing for Freemantle, Southampton, Wolves, Dudley and Shrewsbury (in that order), with him playing in the league in the 1908-9 and 1909-10 seasons, which ties in with what you're saying. I'm inclined to think that the managers book is slightly incorrect and that he would have joined the Wolves office staff after his playing career was over, so will change the text to so that and add a reference. I'll also add a note to the talk page about the discrepancies we've identified in the books (I'm assuming it is the same person, particularly with him playing for Wolves around the right time for your book to be right (about that bit anyway). As for his managerial career, that's in lots of books with lists of managers and I wouldn't necessarily trust soccerbase for everything (they have no missing code, so just make up dates for sometime around then (otherwise you have lots of people moving on the 1st of the month!).

Look forward to working on some more joint Gulls-Saints articles with you in the future! WikiGull 16:59, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Football AID 28 Jan - 4 Feb

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Football player infoboxes

Thankyou for your input into the football player articles, but please do not amend the infoboxes to show season by season appearances & goals - this is not appropriate. The infobox is only a summary of a player's career. If you want to show season by season details, you should include these as a table in the body of the article.Daemonic Kangaroo 17:39, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I think, than better see, in witch season footballer played good or bad. My english knowledge isn`t excelent, because i am making these infobox with stats. Ok, in future, i don`t write stats season by season. Treisijs 17:54, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

That was quick! Thank you for fixing the ambiguous link in Peter Sillett. CarolGray 17:00, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

David Freeman Armstrong

A tag has been placed on David Freeman Armstrong, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page (below the existing db tag) and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Caerwine Caer’s whines 19:10, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Deleting

Hi Daemonic

Thanks for your message on my talk page. It seems that the article you refer to has already been speedy deleted (as is appropriate for a straight recreation of a deleted article), but for future reference, if you do want to add a nomination to the football project page, all you have to do is edit the "Nominations for deletion and page moves" section. At the bottom of the list of current nominations (immediately above where it says <!-- Deletion review -->, just add this text:

|-

|[[Name of the article you are nominating]]:

|[[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Name of the article you are nominating|AfD]]

|[[nomination date in the format yyyy-mm-dd]]

Then copy this text onto the AfD page:

• *<small>This discussion has been included in [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Football|WikiProject Football]]'s list of football (soccer) related deletions. ~~~~</small>

Hope that makes sense! ChrisTheDude 14:42, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Hampshire clubs (as per your request on my talk page)

Hi - I would keep all of the clubs concerned with the exception of Warsash - for the following reasons

• Ex Southern League clubs - Canterbury, Eastleigh, Road Sea Southampton & Thornycrofts
• Ex Wessex League clubs - Sholing, Wellworthy, Ryde & Portals
• Ex Hellenic League club - RS Basingstoke
• Ex Hampshire League top division - Mayflower, AFC Basingstoke, Bass (Alton), Awbridge and Pirelli General
• For FA Amateur Cup exploits - RMLI Gosport (winners) and Bournemouth Gasworks (runner-up). Hope this is sufficient information - fchd 20:07, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

George Lowrie

I agree George Lowrie needs to be recognised on Coventry City international section. I have added him in. I have knowledge of most Coventry players for the last 40 years, but I must admit I was not aware of George Lowrie. Thanks for the heads up --Aleaf.biz 19:22, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Soccerbase

Hi, Thanks for sorting out the additional 's on the soccerbase links. I guess the template must have changed as it never used to do that automatically. WikiGull

On second thoughts - I see you just changed the template. I don't think that's a great idea it will be incorrect in certain situations that we can't fix manually (e.g. see what it's done to Matthew Villis. My view that it would best to change it back, but welcome your thoughts. WikiGull 09:00, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Just seen what you mean about Akinfenwa- no idea what's happened there! WikiGull 13:35, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

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Peter Crouch

Do you think it's worth asking for the page to be protected against anon and new account edits? Angmering 08:57, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I requested it yesterday after further vandalism. Hopefully it should help to prevent much further anon vandalism to the page.Angmering 07:40, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

RAYMI

80.68.39.212 17:08, 21 February 2007 (UTC)RAYMI It's pretty much my name; I can't get a user name as I don't own a PC, and I barely get away with using this one at work! I am possibly the most impoverished Hampshire-based user of Wikipedia!Ta 4 the msg. More power to Saints!!!

Samuel Upton

This article appears to be either a hoax or about an alleged comedian who has no claim to notability. (Google produces no hits.) From a review of the talk page for User:John baptiste it appears that this article has been deleted twice already, but has been re-created. The present version was created by User:Leemyster. I have tagged the article for a "speedy" delete, but the tag was removed fairly quickly. Can you have this article deleted and prevent its re-creation. Daemonic Kangaroo 12:59, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

done Gnangarra 13:36, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

My Saints edits.......

Why have my Saints edits disappeared? These were the corrections regarding Branfoot, and the noting of Iwan Thomas' support. Please let me know. RAYMI.80.68.39.212 10:42, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

apologies

I clicked on an earlier version of the article...oops! I have an additional list of 5 'celeb' supporters of Saints to add soon, including Holly Valance. Her mother, allegedly comes from Southampton. Odd!? Mind you, she wore a Ramones t-shirt in a pop vid once................ 3 POINTS 2MORO!!!!!80.68.39.212 14:31, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

William Morris

Good work on the ref... and fixing the bracket at FA Cup Final. I'd missed that, obviously!  Sʟυмgυм • т • c  19:12, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

AFC Bournemouth

Thanks for the help re the above. I will try to mop up any pockets of resistance over the next few weeks. You know I only replied to get the club's name on your page, right? (LOL). Britmax 11:33, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Segar Bastard

Shhhhh. Or they'll find out :) Qwghlm 21:21, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

an idea.....

Although I'm still in mourning over last night's efforts, I have had an idea this a.m on entries. Player who played for reserves for Saints, but not first team who played league football should be included. I mean, Gareth Taylor's in the article, isn't he???? Suggestions:- (or to add form already existing articles), Peter Ward, Lawrie Sanchez, Chala the Ecuadorian guy, Ron Futcher, John Filan, Frank Talia. Erm, this is very difficult to do when half asleep. In That Number has an awesome list, worth looking toward the back. I'm giving a few examples off my memory, here......that's also why this is lacking in cohesive punctuation and not flowing...probably...anyway back to work....RAYMI.80.68.39.212 08:28, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Salisbury

Thanks for your kind words on my talk page! ChrisTheDude 08:52, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

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{{helpme}} The picture referred to above is of a long-deceased footballer. Judging by his age in the photo, it was probably taken before 1900, and the photographer is presumably unknown. The photo appears to be the only none available for the subject as it appears on several other websites and is used as part of a book-cover illustration. In view of the age of the picture, can we assume that it is out of copyright? If so, what tags can I put on it to indicate its copyright status? Daemonic Kangaroo 14:23, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

I'd say this is a reasonable assumption. Try {{PD-because}} with this reationale, or you might want to upload it to Wikimedia Commons. Sandstein 15:21, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Height template within Infobox Football biography

Hello... I saw you added {{height}} to the example usage of {{Infobox Football biography}} on Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Players. I've reverted the change, as I don't think this has been discussed anywhere. Personally, I'm against the use as it adds unnecessary wikilinking of m and in... I'm happy to go with the consensus if it goes against me, but I think it should be discussed first. robwingfield ^«T•C» 11:28, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Jack Reynolds (1869-1917)

The opening paragraph should feature an overview of all his life. Your edits buried several of the key facts of his life and death, e.g. his early death, his heavy drinking and his status as a player at the bottom of the page. It is common practice for articles to feature on overview and then expand on the highlights with further sections. That way it encourages readers to read further. Djln--Djln 17:51, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Notability (people)#Regarding notability of Football (soccer) players

Hi, seeing you have been involved in previous Afd debates on the subject I invite you to contribute to this discussion to clarify certain issues about football player notability. I think clearer guidelines are needed to avoid repeated inappropriate nominations for deletion and time consuming discussions. Cheers! StephP 20:41, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

England player list

Hi (ou Bonjour - I lived in France for a while myself), thanks for the message and offer of help. I've got most of the list sorted in terms of names and debut dates, just need to wikify it and add in the flags - and then think about a good way of referencing it. Doing it offline (particularly as broadband down at home at moment), so would probably be best to wait till I upload most of what else I've done. Could definitely do with some help sorting out the links though. Bonne vacance WikiGull 14:03, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Harold Fleming

Thanks for the message. I'm stupid. I didn't think about it. I'm rather new to Wikipedia, you know, so, sorry for the problems I've caused. I'll try to solve them as soon as possible. --Pet'usek [petr dot hrubis at gmail dot com] 22:08, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

British Home Championship

Hi - I see that you have reverted my edits to the style in which the seasons are shown both in the text and in the table from the style 1983-84 to 1983-1984. I take your point that the MoS is more or less silent on this matter, although there seems to be a general concensus that 1983-84 is preferable. Rather than get involved in a disagreement, I have posted a comment for discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football#Football_seasons_-_Style and I would invite you to add your thoughts.

Best wishes and happy editing. Daemonic Kangaroo 18:52, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi - I really don't know why I changed it back. Perhaps it was because I originally wrote the article and don't want to see my finely crafted digits go! Thanks for letting me know about the discussion. I have added my thoughts. - Green Tentacle 19:25, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

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Player infobox tag

Nice work, sir. Just letting you know before you get too far that it isn't indexing the player names as it should. - Dudesleeper · Talk 15:39, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

It doesn't appear to be out of the ordinary. Also, you've put the tag on the main page of some articles, as opposed to the talk page. I did the same for a couple of them but have reverted them accordingly. - Dudesleeper · Talk 15:49, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Derry City F.C./archive2

Would you be willing to add your support to the nomination of Derry City F.C. for FA status? Cheers. Danny Invincible^Talk|Edits 18:13, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Gordon Watson

Thanks for your vast improvement to this stub I started aaaaaaaages ago, it is looking really good! GiantSnowman 18:53, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Mark Bowen

Hiya. Just seen your edit to Mark Bowen - are you sure he won the UEFA Cup in 1984? I didn't think he was part of the team or on the bench. If you've got a source that confirms it, fair enough! All the best - --EH74DK 18:14, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for your note. No worries - that seems like a good enough source. I thought it was Ian Culverhouse (another ex-Norwich player, which is why I spotted the edit) who got a medal and not Bowen. Obviously I was wrong! --EH74DK 18:24, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Harold Gough

Hi, I noticed that he's been given a rugby league box. Do you have anything to suggest he was also a rugby league player? WikiGull 15:58, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Re: Dave Hockaday

It seems I don't have all that much to add to his article - probably just his debut for Blackpool - but I'll look into it. - Dudesleeper · Talk 10:38, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Some of it may be superfluous (exact dates, for one), but I figured I'd add more than is possibly necessary. - Dudesleeper · Talk 12:26, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Re: Jim Barrett

Hi, I got the names from the West Ham Player List, but it's possible they got it wrong. If you've found any better references I'd love to see them. I'll do a bit of digging and see if I can come up with some more info myself. I've added my other ref for now. All the best. - Nzd (talk) 11:16, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

List of England international footballers (alphabetical)

Following discussions on Wikipedia:WikiProject Football it was decided to convert List of England international footballers (alphabetical) into a sortable table. I have started to build the table, but seem to have hit a limit on the number of templates that can be included. If the whole list was to be included in the table, there would be 1150+ entries in the list, each of which will have three columns sorted by date using the {{Dts}} template plus the subject's names being sorted using the {{sortname}} template.

I have read the article Wikipedia:Template limits but I must confess that most of it went straight over the top of my head! Am I attempting the impossible or can the limit be changed? If not do you have any suggestions?

I would appreciate any help or advice you can give. Thanks. Daemonic Kangaroo 04:49, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

You could try substing the templates by adding subst: just after the opening {{; this reduces the server load and therefore the problem due to template limits. (It makes the articles less readable though.) This might reduce the template limits enough for the article to work. --ais523 10:47, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

TdF stages

Great work: thanks Kevin McE 16:47, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Port de Pailhères

Hi, thanks for your article, i just have a request: as the following picture Image:Pailheres.jpg has a free licence, can you upload it on Commons, then other wiki projects could use it. In general, can you upload all your free pictures on Commons, then they could be used on en.wikipedia and all others wikipedia projects. Thanks a lot. Guérin Nicolas 15:36, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Antti Niemi

Hi. Do you mind telling me why you reverted a valid, referenced edit with no explanation? Furthermore, could you explain why you used an automated tool intended solely for vandalism reversion to do so? Neil ╦ 18:00, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Southern Football League

I have now removed Slimbridge from the table of clubs (though perhaps this table is now redundant with the templates at the bottom of the page), and made the necessary statement on the Slimbridge F.C. page. - fchd 06:07, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Le Grand-Bornand

was going to get in touch, thanks for adding categories, pin-pointing location on map (how do you do that?) and tour de France stuff. Hopefully this article will prove useful as the Tour rolls into town. looked-up ballades de cavalles and can't find much that's useful. ballades doesn't appear to be in the dictionary though it was the title of a French film in 1983 [2]! Cavalle looks it's used to be the name of a place or person, probably best to delete. were you doing up at 5am in the morning?! Tom 12:16, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

You may want to add some tour material to Tallard. Also I'll try and start on Marcoussis at some point (start of final stage) [3] Tom 14:49, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

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Richard Chaplow

What was written appears to be valid (see here), albeit that it was done poorly. I'll add it back in with the reference. --Jameboy 16:31, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Blackpool F.C. season 1896-97

Thanks for the full names. You obviously have the book to get! It's odd that Connor's first name wasn't in there, since the rest of that season's squad was.

If you ever get bored, there are one or two others... - Dudesleeper · Talk 08:34, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Template:Nft

My mistake. I didn't really consider what would happen if it were subst'ed (despite it being in the instructions) that it would make a huge garbled bit of text. Thanks for reverting the changes to the template. If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 21:11, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

One thing I just realized was the possibility of subst: the #switch, thereby eliminating all of that crazy text, but I don't know how that would work in a real situation, nor if it'd work in a template or not. I'll be doing some testing somewhere, and if I find a fix, I'll change the template. Another possibility is the tag. I'll test that also. If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 21:15, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Robson revert

Hey, thanks for spotting that. Nastiest form of vandalism out there...! The Rambling Man 12:27, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Albert Arthur Alfred etc etc Brown

In my attempts at simplifying the complicated dab page that is Arthur Brown i have confused myself. Would you disagree with moving Arthur Brown (footballer) to Albert Arthur Brown given that is his real name. I have come across several sources that call him that and frankly it is confusing. Any comments, suggestions, objections welcome! Woodym555 17:39, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Yes, i noticed as most of them are in my watchlist!! Your changes look good. I was amazed at the number of Arthur/Alfred Browns who played for Villa in the late 19th Century. It is all cleared up now though. Thanks Woodym555 20:00, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Gary McAllister

Can you tell me why since his name is spelt McAllister and its pronounced Mc not Mac (like Macdonald) that the default sort has been set to Macallister? Chappy ^T_C 11:22, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Template:Carlisle United F.C. managers

Cherrs for adding the template on the rest of the articles as my broadband connection suddenly cut out. Kingjamie 14:48, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Eddy Brown

Hi, regarding the linked £ sign, I was sure i'd read somewhere that the first occurrence should be linked, but just checked WP:$ and was delighted to find it shouldn't. Thanks for that, cheers, Struway2 | Talk 16:06, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Flagicon

Does anyone know what has happened to the flagicons. All I can see, both in IE7 and in FireFox, is an empty rectangle where the flag should be. Some flags such as Wales & Northern Ireand seem OK but most of them have gone. Any ideas? Daemonic Kangaroo 10:23, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I've noticed this problem on nearly all the flagicons I've seen, too. Jordan5001 10:36, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

I think the flagicons are being restored one by one. Jordan5001 11:17, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Southampton template

Is it OK now? Kkkc 10:42, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Mike Keeping

Hey. Seeing you're the expert on Southampton, I thought I'd ask you a question on something I've been wandering about. Can you tell me anything about a player called "Mike Keeping", who played for Southampton in the 1920's? I'm trying to find out if he's the same person as Michael Keeping, a former manager of Real Madrid. Thanks, Mattythewhite 11:12, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Does your book give him as "Mike" or "Michael", too? Cheers, Mattythewhite 11:22, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Southampton template

I have fixed the width of the template... I just don't know how many caretaker managers the Saints have, since I am just a poor Sunderland fans, so I don't add many... (if you have the list, I dont' mind adding them), just like Sunderland and Leeds...

Btw, are you from Hong Kong, updating the Bulova article... It seems quite difficult to find old defunct teams logo and other lower tier teams... :) Kkkc 09:41, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Ryan Wallace

The suspiciously named User:Wallace40 keeps adding in claims that a Southampton youth player called Ryan Wallace is on loan to Salibsury City. I can't find any sources to confirm this fact, or even that the Saints have a youth player by that name - can you shed any light........? ChrisTheDude 09:02, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Will Scott

Hi. Used my old football managers book, will try and remember to add the reference at some point. I noticed the Walter Scott as well, but think it might be someone different (and that maybe Walter Scott didn't play for South Shields really). The years of birth are quite different, so I think that rules them out as being the same person for sure. WikiGull 12:09, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Honours won

Hi, I was wondering what reason you had for changing "Honours" sections to "Honours won"? The layout of the articles followed Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Players which just has "Honours". Also, it seems a bit excessive to me adding a sub-section "As a player", even when there are only a couple of lines, as diff for example. Or is this yet another MoS standard that I've missed? cheers, Struway2 | Talk 07:11, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply, and sorry if my edit summary to Eddy Brown came over a bit aggressive, I do have a bit of an obsession with readability. People won't bother with expanses of unrelieved prose, but they're equally put off if what they're presented with looks excessively broken up. I very much agree with the Guide to layout, where it says The number of single-sentence paragraphs should be minimized, since these can inhibit the flow of the text. ... Just as for paragraphs, any sections and subsections that are very short will make the article look cluttered and inhibit the flow. The Brown article is quite short, too short really even for the number of headings (5) left in there, e.g. for context the Broughton quote obviously has to be in the Broughton para, but what it illustrates is the man's personality.

Pompous rant over ;-)

Scarborough - in 1963 he was definitely player-manager, 1964 probably still playing, I'll try and look it up. And the Broughton honours mentioned in the article should go in. Also, I might move the quote out of the lead (where it shouldn't really be anyway) and into the Personality section and call it Style and personality. cheers, Struway2 | Talk 08:48, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Lucien Mettomo

Have you seen this BBC article? I'm pretty certain they used the Wikipedia article for their research. Its an error they made that gives it away - saying he made 23 appearances for Manchester City, when our article states "23 league games that season". Oldelpaso 13:06, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I've noticed it a couple of times before, only rarely though. The style of BBC articles tends to put some background details after the meat of the story, and once or twice some of that bit has seemed familiar, not plagiarised by any means, but you could tell where it was from. I think one of them was a story about the City of Manchester Stadium (which I was intimately familiar with the content of through getting it to FA), though to be fair our article is probably the most comprehensive about the ground available online. Nice to know our work is appreciated! Mettomo was solid enough from what I remember. He played on the right of a back three in a wingback system. Keegan fell out with him after he arrived back late from the African Nations Cup (ought to find a cite for that and put it in the article), and he rarely played after that. Oldelpaso 14:38, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 28 September, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Scotland v England (1872), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Elkman ^(Elkspeak) 15:56, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Move of Woolston to Woolston, Cheshire

Hi! I've noticed that you've moved the above page. I can seee that there are quite a few links that refer to the Woolston in Cheshire which are now incorrect. Can I ask whether you will be correcting those as well? It would certainly help if you would do that. Thanks.  DDStretch  (talk) 18:38, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the message. There's already a disambiguation page at [[Woolston (disambiguation), and so Woolston should just redirect there after all the existing links have been properly disambiguated to Woolston, Cheshire or Woolston, Hampshire.  DDStretch  (talk) 19:43, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure your latest edits fit in with what is recommended (see WP:MOSDAB.) my reading of this is that the original disambiguation page (Woolston (disambiguation) should be used as the target for a redirection, and not the other way round. In doing what you have done, you have also potentially destroyed the ease with which the editing history of the disambiguation link can be found, which is definitely to be avoided if possible. I would change it back if I were you.  DDStretch  (talk) 21:43, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Saints badge 2.gif

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Eddie Anaclet

Yes, but as WP:BIO states, he has to have played in a fully professional league - which the FA Cup isn't. It includes amateur and semi-professional teams. And it's not a league either. Mattythewhite 19:10, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

I wasn't really very clear on guidelines and policies and the such back then, and to be honest, it doesn't matter to me who removed the prod, as they seem to be wrong! Mattythewhite 19:12, 4 October 2007 (UTC)