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"That year, he beat his father in one-on-one basketball games for the first and last time."
So, I take it, he isn't expected to ever beat his father again in one-on-one basketball games? Have his skills digressed? If so, why would Duke and other universities even recruit him? 198.212.237.48 ( talk) 19:18, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
Why is vague, unsourced speculation about Okafor's height more important than the fact that he was named the sole representative of his sport in a small list of athletes aggregated by one of the most prestigious sports publications (Sports Illustrated)? That beats me. -- bender235 ( talk) 12:21, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
This article needs to be trimmed. It is way too long. There is no reason why an 18 year olds article needs to be 142.000 bytes. ~ EDDY ( talk/ contribs)~ 15:28, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
I took ~40Kb off. My rationale is in my edit summaries. Ultimately it wouldn't be the worst thing if all of his HS career were in one bit, but at the same time championships and nationally-ranked opponents are prima facie notable, like Long Beach and Oak Hill. But the stat-lines are tedious. I can't believe I thought above that the stuff I thought was HS was middle school and the HS career was his college. I removed dozens of references as well, both because there were so many wikilinks in every sentence and the paragraphs were so dense there was almost as much blue as black text, but as an editor, it was just too much to skim through. Plus, a huge amount were continually just a local sports writer who was making audacious and unfounded claims, "experts say". Quote the experts! Took out the most boring photos I noticed as well. JesseRafe ( talk) 17:24, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
Ok, now we know how to pronounce Jahlil (/ˈdʒɑː liːl/). But how do you pronounce Okafor? I honestly need some guidance here. Please add pronunciation of the rest of his name. werldwayd ( talk) 07:53, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
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Please comment at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_National_Basketball_Association#Removal_of_dunking_and_frontal_face_pictures_from_Jahlil_Okafor_except_the_main_image.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 02:43, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
Based on discussions at WP:ANI, WT:NBA, and above an admin has reverted this to a 6-image version (down from 15 images prior to recent editing) with the expectation of discussion on further tweeking here. I don't think that the best images from Commons:Category:Jahlil Okafor have been selected to illustrate the article. The current version omits two images ( File:20120919 Jahlil Okafor.JPG and File:20140221 Cliff Alexander and Jahlil Okafor.JPG) that were at issue in an edit war between JesseRafe and myself with my proposed 8-image version. This leaves three issues: Is 6 preferable to 8? Should either of the contentious images be restored to the article (potentially in place of images currently in the article)? I think these are three separate issues. Epeefleche, Rikster2, Handpolk, Editorofthewiki, DangerousJXD, JesseRafe, BU Rob13, Bagumba and Ricky81682.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 04:44, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Support 8 images It seems to me that important images are being omitted and that sufficient text exists to space them out. Furthermore, the layout of alternating side imagery in the proposed 8-image version is superior to the current layout, which I believe is against MOS by not alternating sides.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 04:44, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Support including Based on the most recent commentaries, there was a majority in support of this inclusion of this image in the prior discussions. Regardless of whether we go with 6 or 8 images, this is probably the first or second best picture that we have of him. I feel this should be restored, but if image density remains an issue, remove either of the other two junior year images that are from the same game against Jabari Parker.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 04:44, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Support including The senior season subsection has over 4000 characters of readable prose. With that much text, it seems if the article is stable with that much prose, that three images can fit in this section. This image represents a high school basketball game that was the lead story on SportsCenter. I find it difficult to imagine we don't want to represent this in his biography. I am not sure which image to remove if we are limiting this to 6 because the two senior season images both represent important points in his career. However, the McDAAG image will eventually be in competition with the current main image when we have a new main image. We could remove it now to make way for this image.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 04:44, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Support including in an 8-image version if we go with an 8-image version, this is a better inclusion than having two images from the same junior year game. It is not common for us to share with our readers the two highest paid coaches in college basketball recruiting a player. The caption at this version was "On the first day after the 2012 Chicago Public Teachers Strike, Tom Izzo and John Calipari, the two highest paid college coaches in 2012, [1] were at Whitney M. Young Magnet High School to recruit Okafor." There were some complaints about the strike, but that could just be change to "On the first day of the 2012&ndash13 school year, Tom Izzo and John Calipari, the two highest paid college coaches in 2012, [1] were at Whitney M. Young Magnet High School to recruit Okafor."-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 04:44, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Support removal. This image is low quality, and does not show the subject's face whatsoever. Parker also looks exceptionally awkward in it. Given that there are other extremely similar images in the article of a higher quality, such as File:20130126 Jahlil Okafor jumps for a rebound at Simeon-Whitney Young game.JPG, we don't need this in the article. This would make way for another better image, such as File:20140221 Cliff Alexander and Jahlil Okafor.JPG, proposed above. ~ Rob Talk 13:29, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Support removing this, as it's only "notable" in that his opponent is Jabari Parker. That makes it kinda interesting, but it's still a lousy photo and doesn't illustrate the subject well. JesseRafe ( talk) 13:55, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_National_Basketball_Association#Jahlil_Okafor.27s_ancestors_by_way_of_a_non-WP:RS. Should he be categorized as Igbo? Thanks. —
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Every indication that he was born in Fort Smith seems accurate. Only his father was from Chicago, and his mother had strong roots and family in the Arkansas and Oklahoma area. Why would she, as a college student, travel to Chicago to have her son away from her family? Yes, this is all conjecture on my part, but as the sources seem split on saying "Chicago" and "Fort Smith" using inferences seems to make the most sense. The source for many of his childhood details in the personal life section, Chicago Magazine, seems to suggest he had not been to Chicago until he came to live there with his father after his mother died, and that Ckukwudi moved there away from Fort Smith after the relationship with Dee ended. It seems that the young family was always Fort Smith based until Chuck left and Dee took the kids to Oklahoma. He might consider himself "from" Chicago, but that is not where he is born necessarily. A definitive source needs to be found to change status quo on infobox. JesseRafe ( talk) 22:59, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
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Emeka Okafor and Jahlil Okafor are not related. Okafor is a common Nigerian name, and the two have no relation. YourAsianBuddy ( talk) 17:40, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
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FIBA Americas Under-16 Championship, totalling 18 points? |
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"That year, he beat his father in one-on-one basketball games for the first and last time."
So, I take it, he isn't expected to ever beat his father again in one-on-one basketball games? Have his skills digressed? If so, why would Duke and other universities even recruit him? 198.212.237.48 ( talk) 19:18, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
Why is vague, unsourced speculation about Okafor's height more important than the fact that he was named the sole representative of his sport in a small list of athletes aggregated by one of the most prestigious sports publications (Sports Illustrated)? That beats me. -- bender235 ( talk) 12:21, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
This article needs to be trimmed. It is way too long. There is no reason why an 18 year olds article needs to be 142.000 bytes. ~ EDDY ( talk/ contribs)~ 15:28, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
I took ~40Kb off. My rationale is in my edit summaries. Ultimately it wouldn't be the worst thing if all of his HS career were in one bit, but at the same time championships and nationally-ranked opponents are prima facie notable, like Long Beach and Oak Hill. But the stat-lines are tedious. I can't believe I thought above that the stuff I thought was HS was middle school and the HS career was his college. I removed dozens of references as well, both because there were so many wikilinks in every sentence and the paragraphs were so dense there was almost as much blue as black text, but as an editor, it was just too much to skim through. Plus, a huge amount were continually just a local sports writer who was making audacious and unfounded claims, "experts say". Quote the experts! Took out the most boring photos I noticed as well. JesseRafe ( talk) 17:24, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
Ok, now we know how to pronounce Jahlil (/ˈdʒɑː liːl/). But how do you pronounce Okafor? I honestly need some guidance here. Please add pronunciation of the rest of his name. werldwayd ( talk) 07:53, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Please comment at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_National_Basketball_Association#Removal_of_dunking_and_frontal_face_pictures_from_Jahlil_Okafor_except_the_main_image.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 02:43, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
Based on discussions at WP:ANI, WT:NBA, and above an admin has reverted this to a 6-image version (down from 15 images prior to recent editing) with the expectation of discussion on further tweeking here. I don't think that the best images from Commons:Category:Jahlil Okafor have been selected to illustrate the article. The current version omits two images ( File:20120919 Jahlil Okafor.JPG and File:20140221 Cliff Alexander and Jahlil Okafor.JPG) that were at issue in an edit war between JesseRafe and myself with my proposed 8-image version. This leaves three issues: Is 6 preferable to 8? Should either of the contentious images be restored to the article (potentially in place of images currently in the article)? I think these are three separate issues. Epeefleche, Rikster2, Handpolk, Editorofthewiki, DangerousJXD, JesseRafe, BU Rob13, Bagumba and Ricky81682.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 04:44, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Support 8 images It seems to me that important images are being omitted and that sufficient text exists to space them out. Furthermore, the layout of alternating side imagery in the proposed 8-image version is superior to the current layout, which I believe is against MOS by not alternating sides.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 04:44, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Support including Based on the most recent commentaries, there was a majority in support of this inclusion of this image in the prior discussions. Regardless of whether we go with 6 or 8 images, this is probably the first or second best picture that we have of him. I feel this should be restored, but if image density remains an issue, remove either of the other two junior year images that are from the same game against Jabari Parker.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 04:44, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Support including The senior season subsection has over 4000 characters of readable prose. With that much text, it seems if the article is stable with that much prose, that three images can fit in this section. This image represents a high school basketball game that was the lead story on SportsCenter. I find it difficult to imagine we don't want to represent this in his biography. I am not sure which image to remove if we are limiting this to 6 because the two senior season images both represent important points in his career. However, the McDAAG image will eventually be in competition with the current main image when we have a new main image. We could remove it now to make way for this image.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 04:44, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Support including in an 8-image version if we go with an 8-image version, this is a better inclusion than having two images from the same junior year game. It is not common for us to share with our readers the two highest paid coaches in college basketball recruiting a player. The caption at this version was "On the first day after the 2012 Chicago Public Teachers Strike, Tom Izzo and John Calipari, the two highest paid college coaches in 2012, [1] were at Whitney M. Young Magnet High School to recruit Okafor." There were some complaints about the strike, but that could just be change to "On the first day of the 2012&ndash13 school year, Tom Izzo and John Calipari, the two highest paid college coaches in 2012, [1] were at Whitney M. Young Magnet High School to recruit Okafor."-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 04:44, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Support removal. This image is low quality, and does not show the subject's face whatsoever. Parker also looks exceptionally awkward in it. Given that there are other extremely similar images in the article of a higher quality, such as File:20130126 Jahlil Okafor jumps for a rebound at Simeon-Whitney Young game.JPG, we don't need this in the article. This would make way for another better image, such as File:20140221 Cliff Alexander and Jahlil Okafor.JPG, proposed above. ~ Rob Talk 13:29, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Support removing this, as it's only "notable" in that his opponent is Jabari Parker. That makes it kinda interesting, but it's still a lousy photo and doesn't illustrate the subject well. JesseRafe ( talk) 13:55, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_National_Basketball_Association#Jahlil_Okafor.27s_ancestors_by_way_of_a_non-WP:RS. Should he be categorized as Igbo? Thanks. —
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16:38, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
Every indication that he was born in Fort Smith seems accurate. Only his father was from Chicago, and his mother had strong roots and family in the Arkansas and Oklahoma area. Why would she, as a college student, travel to Chicago to have her son away from her family? Yes, this is all conjecture on my part, but as the sources seem split on saying "Chicago" and "Fort Smith" using inferences seems to make the most sense. The source for many of his childhood details in the personal life section, Chicago Magazine, seems to suggest he had not been to Chicago until he came to live there with his father after his mother died, and that Ckukwudi moved there away from Fort Smith after the relationship with Dee ended. It seems that the young family was always Fort Smith based until Chuck left and Dee took the kids to Oklahoma. He might consider himself "from" Chicago, but that is not where he is born necessarily. A definitive source needs to be found to change status quo on infobox. JesseRafe ( talk) 22:59, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
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Emeka Okafor and Jahlil Okafor are not related. Okafor is a common Nigerian name, and the two have no relation. YourAsianBuddy ( talk) 17:40, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
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