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I read the first seven paragraphs of this article without finding out that basketball, rather than, e.g. chess or bowling, is what this is about. And I was not able to find that out without clicking on a link to another article. So now I've inserted a link to basketball in the first sentence. Common sense, please. Michael Hardy 19:40, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
I tried to use this page for a college essay I have on the World Basketball Championship.
But the tables are full of errors which mislead the reader. It's a shame and I propose for this page to be fixed asap or removed completely. Erodotos5 18:57, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Some mistakes I found: It lists the USA as first appearance in 1954. But the States won the Silver medal in 1950! Also USA has 18 appearances and not 17.
In the table with all the countries results, in the 2006 WC it lists 21 nations. But 24 took part. Same with the 1998 and 2002 competitions, it lists 15 nations instead to 16. Erodotos5 18:57, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
"Notes" section after "Comprehensive team results" has this: Teams that failed to qualify to the semifinal round at the 1986 championship were ranked tied for 13th.
However, only one team is listed as 13th. Also, [
[1]] has no tied rankings either.
85.217.41.106 (
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11:30, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
A fact from National team appearances in the FIBA Basketball World Cup appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the
Did you know column on 11 October 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:
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This article is rated List-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||
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I read the first seven paragraphs of this article without finding out that basketball, rather than, e.g. chess or bowling, is what this is about. And I was not able to find that out without clicking on a link to another article. So now I've inserted a link to basketball in the first sentence. Common sense, please. Michael Hardy 19:40, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
I tried to use this page for a college essay I have on the World Basketball Championship.
But the tables are full of errors which mislead the reader. It's a shame and I propose for this page to be fixed asap or removed completely. Erodotos5 18:57, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Some mistakes I found: It lists the USA as first appearance in 1954. But the States won the Silver medal in 1950! Also USA has 18 appearances and not 17.
In the table with all the countries results, in the 2006 WC it lists 21 nations. But 24 took part. Same with the 1998 and 2002 competitions, it lists 15 nations instead to 16. Erodotos5 18:57, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
"Notes" section after "Comprehensive team results" has this: Teams that failed to qualify to the semifinal round at the 1986 championship were ranked tied for 13th.
However, only one team is listed as 13th. Also, [
[1]] has no tied rankings either.
85.217.41.106 (
talk)
11:30, 23 July 2014 (UTC)