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Why did you remove my line, cited to NBA.com, that Ball was offered a contract? ~ EDDY ( talk/ contribs)~ 14:33, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
Hey. The same IP from User talk:Bagumba/Archive 22#IP needs a timeout is back doing the same exact thing [1]. Is this grounds for a further block? Thanks. DaHuzyBru ( talk) 02:59, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
On March 1, the semiprotect that you applied at Michigan–Michigan State football rivalry expired. Three days later, the IP users were at it again. Consistent with the prior patter, the new IP user (registered in Lansing, Michigan, the home of Michigan State) reverted to an outdated version that existed several months ago. This is part of a pattern of similar vandalism by IP users in the Lansing / East Lasing area. The IP users have been eradicating substantial improvements that have been made to the article. This includes (i) addition of citations to previously unsourced material, (ii) addition of working urls to citations having dead urls, (iii) adding descriptions of several games from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s (decades previously overlooked), (iv) trimming some of the game summaries that were overly wordy, (v) trying to inject a more neutral tone (some of which previously had a pro-Wolverine or pro-Spartan tilt), (vi) applying standard practice for rivalry articles in which the teams are listed in alphabetical order (the Lansing IP users seek to have Michigan State listed first in all charts, etc., despite standard practice), and (vii) general cleanup and copy editing. I have left notes on the talk pages of each of the involved IP users -- not surprisingly, the never respond. The IPs continue to revert all of this work and restore the poorly sourced and non-neutral version that existed several months ago. Would you please be willing to reapply the semi-protect to address this ongoing problem? Cbl62 ( talk) 04:26, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
Hey I see it looks like you might be online currently. I made a request at WP:RPP hours ago but no response. Can you protect Kansas Jayhawks men’s basketball? IPs keep adding a 2020 National Championship. As much as I’d like my team to be named the champs it hasn’t happened.--Rockchalk 7 17 00:55, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
IPs keep inserting the Florida State legislature naming Florida State national champ. Thanks. Rikster2 ( talk) 22:52, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi Bagumba - you've protected this article numerous times before. Every single time the protection expires it gets blasted with vandalism of people thinking the official score is 253–141 when, according to the NCAA, it's 258–141. Considering the edit requests in the talk page, and the persistent edit wars of the article itself, can you please put permanent edit protection on this? SportsGuy789 ( talk) 04:07, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
Regarding this and this, I repeat that I know how to handle sock issues. Also, per Wikipedia talk:Sock puppetry/Archive 15#Guidance about whether to simply ask them, querying if an editor is a sock is allowed. In this case you took issue with, I didn't query if the editor is a sock. I did note that I hope that the editor is not this IP, but that's because I do hope that. That IP was trolling, pure and simple. And this new account is arguing in a similar way. When an editor is using Wikipedia in a way that goes against WP:Not a forum and the other editor is arguing based on Wikipedia's policies and/or guidelines, that is not truly a content dispute. And per WP:Talk, WP:Not a forum posts can be removed or archived at any time. That stated, I will try to be more mindful of not biting supposed newbies. Flyer22 Frozen ( talk) 06:49, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
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Holy COW! Did you hear the news? Brady signed with the Bucs?! What was he thinking? Mk8mlyb ( talk) 23:54, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
On 27 March 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Mike Stratton, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. — Amakuru ( talk) 13:43, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
MOS:JOBTITLES is very clear, "* When followed by a person's name to form a title, i.e., when they can be considered to have become part of the name: President Nixon, not president Nixon". The case is {(xt|U.S. Vice President Al Gore}} and that is the exact case. The one you claimed is not present at JOBTITLES. Walter Görlitz ( talk) 05:06, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Would you mind undeleting Nick Babb to draftspace? He has played in the German Bundesliga and I intend to work on it. ~ EDDY ( talk/ contribs)~ 15:36, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
@ Editorofthewiki: I'm not too versed on undeletion or non-NBA pros, which is why I redirected you. If you are creating new content and are confident he's now notable and the AfD no longer applies, I think you can be bold and create it. DRV seem like if you want the old content revived. What I can do is give you the sources the old version cited (they only used bare URLs). There doesn't seem to be a lot of text in the old version (1300 bytes readable prose), so it's your prerogative if you need a DRV still.
Best. — Bagumba ( talk) 02:36, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
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Hey mate. Hope you're keeping well! Any chance you can semi-protect Illawarra Hawks? The team is in the news regarding LaMelo Ball possibly purchasing them, but it not a done deal. Thanks. DaHuzyBru ( talk) 07:18, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
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User keeps deleting college and women’s data. Seems isolated to one person (but multiple IPs). Ideally blocking the person would be better, but not sure that can be done. Rikster2 ( talk) 12:04, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
The Talk pages are still messed up between the 2 articles after all the moves Rikster2 ( talk) 11:48, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
On 5 April 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Tom Dempsey, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Step hen 23:25, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
On 6 April 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Bobby Mitchell, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Black Kite (talk) 12:54, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
Iowa fans are mad he won most national player of the year awards. Rikster2 ( talk) 02:00, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
This page is receiving a fair amount of IP vandalism lately. Perhaps a semiprotect is in order? ~ EDDY ( talk/ contribs)~ 00:11, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
Do you have a good idea of where to put these? I’d like to maybe put the 2020 ones in but it feels like these articles are short on good places to insert pictures. Maybe an infobox could be created for these? Thoughts? Rikster2 ( talk) 14:25, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
IPs keep adding a person who I can’t find even exists, let alone has declared for the draft from reputable sources. Rikster2 ( talk) 21:18, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
I need to move it to Greg Brown (basketball, born 1972). The page shouldn’t need to be protected anymore as the vandalism had to do with overwriting the article with the information of the current high school player & no he has his own article. Thanks. Rikster2 ( talk) 12:24, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello, can you please protect Jalen Green? The page is constantly being edited by different users to say Green is Filipino-American, even though there is no evidence that he has Filipino citizenship. Sportzeditz ( talk) 16:19, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
Just a question, do you think the word tackle sounds funny to you? NicholasHui ( talk) 22:54, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
On 26 April 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Grandma Lee, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Spencer T• C 01:00, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
I see you have closed the discussion on ANI that I opened. I was hoping to get an answer to my final question before you did, so perhaps you can help me out here. You noted in your closing comments that there was a slow burning edit war. If I was at fault, what should I have done better? Thanks. -- Slugger O'Toole ( talk) 14:14, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Joe Colomb is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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IP keeps adding “Nigerian” as split citizenship but Adebayo plays for Team USA and I agent seen that he has ever pursued or holds Nigerian citizenship. Victor Oladipo is another similar case. Thanks. Rikster2 ( talk) 21:50, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
On 8 May 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Natalie Chou, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that UCLA basketball player Natalie Chou said that the use of a slang term for COVID-19 created "unnecessary xenophobia for people who look like me"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Natalie Chou. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Natalie Chou), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 00:02, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello!
Please, read my updated version of the background section on the 1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team page. I removed unreferenced information, while adding more sources about the USSR and Yugoslavia, and mentioned Borislav Stankovic's contributions. If you believe that my version is now acceptable, please approve it. I think that current JimKaatFan's version is incomplete. Thank you! 89.113.98.96 ( talk) 11:12, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
Bagumba, do you think it's strange that a piece appeared yesterday on The Sporting News that mimics exactly what this anon IP is trying to add to the Dream Team article? JimKaatFan ( talk) 14:24, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
Spotted this discussion while I was cleaning up after this IP. It is very clearly Max Arosev and he has been blocked. Just thought I would mention it. - DJSasso ( talk) 19:59, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
Edit war on Janel McCarville - combo of false info and dispute over formatting of a retired jersey note in infobox. What’s your advice for solving it? Rikster2 ( talk) 10:40, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
If you're going to remove the NBL point totals and other information from the Mikan infobox, you should at least note that action at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Basketball Association/Archive 39#NBL stats, partial total and averages and not hide the change behind a minor edit marking and a misleading edit summary.— Myasuda ( talk) 13:02, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
On 16 May 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Pepper Rodgers, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. qedk ( t 愛 c) 11:41, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
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Vandal is back at Irm Hermann as user:94.10.22.141. Philip Cross ( talk) 19:19, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
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Not sure if you can edit block summaries (not being a mop-holder and all,) but I think you left a typo in the rationale: "Mass changes with responding to concerns" should I think be "Mass changes without responding to concerns". The typo changes the context of the block rationale? Chaheel Riens ( talk) 13:26, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
I invite you to move the page back, but leave the discussion open, per my reasoning at Talk:8′46″ § Requested move 10 June 2020. Psiĥedelisto ( talk • contribs) please always ping! 16:25, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
You banned Sorcererzthunder ( talk · contribs) as being a WP:DUCK of KillerGho$t ( talk · contribs). It appears that he is back with a new sockpuppet account – MagicGlide32 ( talk · contribs). A quick look at Sacramento Kings page history and the overall editing pattern gives a clear indication that it is the same person as Sorcererzthunder. – Sabbatino ( talk) 10:49, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
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There is a new user repeatedly updating an unofficial transaction at this article. I doubt he stops changing the article despite warnings and a transaction note at the top. Rikster2 ( talk) 01:31, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi Bagumba. My mistake. Is there a way to incorporate the navibar into the actual template itself so that the "V", "E" and "T" don't just to appear to be stray characters in articles like 2010 FIBA World Championship squads#United States? -- Marchjuly ( talk) 06:36, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
To Bagumba - Thank you for the reminder/tip that you left on my talk page [6]. My mistake. BetsyRMadison ( talk) 13:01, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
I actually knew that Max Tuerk played only one snap when I did my edits. (They are not that easy to find online, but the NFL posts a "GameBook" for every contest which includes, alongside all sorts of other info, a count of how many offensive, defensive, and special teams snaps each player played during the game. Tuerk did indeed play exactly offensive snap during his exactly one game.) I thought about adding that detail myself but I thought I was piling on to a guy whose life was disappointing as well as short. But now I think it's a better story with that detail. RIP Max Tuerk. Timothy Horrigan ( talk) 18:50, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi Bagumba. As the previously blocking admin, just thought I'd mention that I've filed another at SPI. Any idea whether there have been more socks between June 16 and now? Rob van vee 09:04, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
Are saying that I am piling on too much info in my report: Not necessarily. It varies by admin, both by preference and depending on their famiiarity with the area.
Should I make these changes you suggest or leave it as is?: It's up to you. It couldn't hurt if you have them. Otherwise, another admin besides me could look at it and think differently.
Would this be a suitable case to request a ChechUser check: Another "it couldn't hurt". Though if I remember correctly (perhaps a comment from Bbb23), the user probably changes IP addresses often, hence we've never blocked the underlying IPs. However, CU might be able to say "it's likely" the same if they detect similar devices/OSs being used. Regards.— Bagumba ( talk) 12:45, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
Pending deal with 76ers Rikster2 ( talk) 00:58, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
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You recently moved Anne-Marie to Anne-Marie (given name). My view is that Anne-Marie (singer) is the primary topic. What do you think?-- Laun chba ller 18:48, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
Would you be able to evaluate and, if necessary, implement consensus in a discussion to modify the wording of the sports-specific notability guideline, as discussed at Wikipedia talk:Notability (sports) § Guidance for creating sports-specific notabiity guidelines (reprise)? It would be appreciated. isaacl ( talk) 01:22, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
Hey, hope all is well. I'm not up on how the bots work. One of the bots archived three citations in the Roberte Clemente article and marked the url-status as dead. I checked all three citations and they are live, so I changed this in the citations. The bot came behind me and changed them back to dead. If the url is live and healthy, why does the bot mark it as dead? Thanks! PhillyHarold ( talk) 01:00, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
Hey. Perhaps a flat indefinite block for this user adding blatant promotion to articles with content that has clearly got nothing to do with them. Cheers. DaHuzyBru ( talk) 04:06, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
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Why did you remove my line, cited to NBA.com, that Ball was offered a contract? ~ EDDY ( talk/ contribs)~ 14:33, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
Hey. The same IP from User talk:Bagumba/Archive 22#IP needs a timeout is back doing the same exact thing [1]. Is this grounds for a further block? Thanks. DaHuzyBru ( talk) 02:59, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
On March 1, the semiprotect that you applied at Michigan–Michigan State football rivalry expired. Three days later, the IP users were at it again. Consistent with the prior patter, the new IP user (registered in Lansing, Michigan, the home of Michigan State) reverted to an outdated version that existed several months ago. This is part of a pattern of similar vandalism by IP users in the Lansing / East Lasing area. The IP users have been eradicating substantial improvements that have been made to the article. This includes (i) addition of citations to previously unsourced material, (ii) addition of working urls to citations having dead urls, (iii) adding descriptions of several games from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s (decades previously overlooked), (iv) trimming some of the game summaries that were overly wordy, (v) trying to inject a more neutral tone (some of which previously had a pro-Wolverine or pro-Spartan tilt), (vi) applying standard practice for rivalry articles in which the teams are listed in alphabetical order (the Lansing IP users seek to have Michigan State listed first in all charts, etc., despite standard practice), and (vii) general cleanup and copy editing. I have left notes on the talk pages of each of the involved IP users -- not surprisingly, the never respond. The IPs continue to revert all of this work and restore the poorly sourced and non-neutral version that existed several months ago. Would you please be willing to reapply the semi-protect to address this ongoing problem? Cbl62 ( talk) 04:26, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
Hey I see it looks like you might be online currently. I made a request at WP:RPP hours ago but no response. Can you protect Kansas Jayhawks men’s basketball? IPs keep adding a 2020 National Championship. As much as I’d like my team to be named the champs it hasn’t happened.--Rockchalk 7 17 00:55, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
IPs keep inserting the Florida State legislature naming Florida State national champ. Thanks. Rikster2 ( talk) 22:52, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi Bagumba - you've protected this article numerous times before. Every single time the protection expires it gets blasted with vandalism of people thinking the official score is 253–141 when, according to the NCAA, it's 258–141. Considering the edit requests in the talk page, and the persistent edit wars of the article itself, can you please put permanent edit protection on this? SportsGuy789 ( talk) 04:07, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
Regarding this and this, I repeat that I know how to handle sock issues. Also, per Wikipedia talk:Sock puppetry/Archive 15#Guidance about whether to simply ask them, querying if an editor is a sock is allowed. In this case you took issue with, I didn't query if the editor is a sock. I did note that I hope that the editor is not this IP, but that's because I do hope that. That IP was trolling, pure and simple. And this new account is arguing in a similar way. When an editor is using Wikipedia in a way that goes against WP:Not a forum and the other editor is arguing based on Wikipedia's policies and/or guidelines, that is not truly a content dispute. And per WP:Talk, WP:Not a forum posts can be removed or archived at any time. That stated, I will try to be more mindful of not biting supposed newbies. Flyer22 Frozen ( talk) 06:49, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
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Holy COW! Did you hear the news? Brady signed with the Bucs?! What was he thinking? Mk8mlyb ( talk) 23:54, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
On 27 March 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Mike Stratton, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. — Amakuru ( talk) 13:43, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
MOS:JOBTITLES is very clear, "* When followed by a person's name to form a title, i.e., when they can be considered to have become part of the name: President Nixon, not president Nixon". The case is {(xt|U.S. Vice President Al Gore}} and that is the exact case. The one you claimed is not present at JOBTITLES. Walter Görlitz ( talk) 05:06, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Would you mind undeleting Nick Babb to draftspace? He has played in the German Bundesliga and I intend to work on it. ~ EDDY ( talk/ contribs)~ 15:36, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
@ Editorofthewiki: I'm not too versed on undeletion or non-NBA pros, which is why I redirected you. If you are creating new content and are confident he's now notable and the AfD no longer applies, I think you can be bold and create it. DRV seem like if you want the old content revived. What I can do is give you the sources the old version cited (they only used bare URLs). There doesn't seem to be a lot of text in the old version (1300 bytes readable prose), so it's your prerogative if you need a DRV still.
Best. — Bagumba ( talk) 02:36, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
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Hey mate. Hope you're keeping well! Any chance you can semi-protect Illawarra Hawks? The team is in the news regarding LaMelo Ball possibly purchasing them, but it not a done deal. Thanks. DaHuzyBru ( talk) 07:18, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
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User keeps deleting college and women’s data. Seems isolated to one person (but multiple IPs). Ideally blocking the person would be better, but not sure that can be done. Rikster2 ( talk) 12:04, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
The Talk pages are still messed up between the 2 articles after all the moves Rikster2 ( talk) 11:48, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
On 5 April 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Tom Dempsey, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Step hen 23:25, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
On 6 April 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Bobby Mitchell, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Black Kite (talk) 12:54, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
Iowa fans are mad he won most national player of the year awards. Rikster2 ( talk) 02:00, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
This page is receiving a fair amount of IP vandalism lately. Perhaps a semiprotect is in order? ~ EDDY ( talk/ contribs)~ 00:11, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
Do you have a good idea of where to put these? I’d like to maybe put the 2020 ones in but it feels like these articles are short on good places to insert pictures. Maybe an infobox could be created for these? Thoughts? Rikster2 ( talk) 14:25, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
IPs keep adding a person who I can’t find even exists, let alone has declared for the draft from reputable sources. Rikster2 ( talk) 21:18, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
I need to move it to Greg Brown (basketball, born 1972). The page shouldn’t need to be protected anymore as the vandalism had to do with overwriting the article with the information of the current high school player & no he has his own article. Thanks. Rikster2 ( talk) 12:24, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello, can you please protect Jalen Green? The page is constantly being edited by different users to say Green is Filipino-American, even though there is no evidence that he has Filipino citizenship. Sportzeditz ( talk) 16:19, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
Just a question, do you think the word tackle sounds funny to you? NicholasHui ( talk) 22:54, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
On 26 April 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Grandma Lee, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Spencer T• C 01:00, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
I see you have closed the discussion on ANI that I opened. I was hoping to get an answer to my final question before you did, so perhaps you can help me out here. You noted in your closing comments that there was a slow burning edit war. If I was at fault, what should I have done better? Thanks. -- Slugger O'Toole ( talk) 14:14, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Joe Colomb is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joe Colomb until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Clarityfiend ( talk) 07:05, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
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IP keeps adding “Nigerian” as split citizenship but Adebayo plays for Team USA and I agent seen that he has ever pursued or holds Nigerian citizenship. Victor Oladipo is another similar case. Thanks. Rikster2 ( talk) 21:50, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
On 8 May 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Natalie Chou, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that UCLA basketball player Natalie Chou said that the use of a slang term for COVID-19 created "unnecessary xenophobia for people who look like me"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Natalie Chou. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Natalie Chou), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 00:02, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello!
Please, read my updated version of the background section on the 1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team page. I removed unreferenced information, while adding more sources about the USSR and Yugoslavia, and mentioned Borislav Stankovic's contributions. If you believe that my version is now acceptable, please approve it. I think that current JimKaatFan's version is incomplete. Thank you! 89.113.98.96 ( talk) 11:12, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
Bagumba, do you think it's strange that a piece appeared yesterday on The Sporting News that mimics exactly what this anon IP is trying to add to the Dream Team article? JimKaatFan ( talk) 14:24, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
Spotted this discussion while I was cleaning up after this IP. It is very clearly Max Arosev and he has been blocked. Just thought I would mention it. - DJSasso ( talk) 19:59, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
Edit war on Janel McCarville - combo of false info and dispute over formatting of a retired jersey note in infobox. What’s your advice for solving it? Rikster2 ( talk) 10:40, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
If you're going to remove the NBL point totals and other information from the Mikan infobox, you should at least note that action at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Basketball Association/Archive 39#NBL stats, partial total and averages and not hide the change behind a minor edit marking and a misleading edit summary.— Myasuda ( talk) 13:02, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
On 16 May 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Pepper Rodgers, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. qedk ( t 愛 c) 11:41, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
On 18 May 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Tony Yates, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Step hen 01:50, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
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Vandal is back at Irm Hermann as user:94.10.22.141. Philip Cross ( talk) 19:19, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
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Not sure if you can edit block summaries (not being a mop-holder and all,) but I think you left a typo in the rationale: "Mass changes with responding to concerns" should I think be "Mass changes without responding to concerns". The typo changes the context of the block rationale? Chaheel Riens ( talk) 13:26, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
I invite you to move the page back, but leave the discussion open, per my reasoning at Talk:8′46″ § Requested move 10 June 2020. Psiĥedelisto ( talk • contribs) please always ping! 16:25, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
You banned Sorcererzthunder ( talk · contribs) as being a WP:DUCK of KillerGho$t ( talk · contribs). It appears that he is back with a new sockpuppet account – MagicGlide32 ( talk · contribs). A quick look at Sacramento Kings page history and the overall editing pattern gives a clear indication that it is the same person as Sorcererzthunder. – Sabbatino ( talk) 10:49, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
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There is a new user repeatedly updating an unofficial transaction at this article. I doubt he stops changing the article despite warnings and a transaction note at the top. Rikster2 ( talk) 01:31, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi Bagumba. My mistake. Is there a way to incorporate the navibar into the actual template itself so that the "V", "E" and "T" don't just to appear to be stray characters in articles like 2010 FIBA World Championship squads#United States? -- Marchjuly ( talk) 06:36, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
To Bagumba - Thank you for the reminder/tip that you left on my talk page [6]. My mistake. BetsyRMadison ( talk) 13:01, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
I actually knew that Max Tuerk played only one snap when I did my edits. (They are not that easy to find online, but the NFL posts a "GameBook" for every contest which includes, alongside all sorts of other info, a count of how many offensive, defensive, and special teams snaps each player played during the game. Tuerk did indeed play exactly offensive snap during his exactly one game.) I thought about adding that detail myself but I thought I was piling on to a guy whose life was disappointing as well as short. But now I think it's a better story with that detail. RIP Max Tuerk. Timothy Horrigan ( talk) 18:50, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi Bagumba. As the previously blocking admin, just thought I'd mention that I've filed another at SPI. Any idea whether there have been more socks between June 16 and now? Rob van vee 09:04, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
Are saying that I am piling on too much info in my report: Not necessarily. It varies by admin, both by preference and depending on their famiiarity with the area.
Should I make these changes you suggest or leave it as is?: It's up to you. It couldn't hurt if you have them. Otherwise, another admin besides me could look at it and think differently.
Would this be a suitable case to request a ChechUser check: Another "it couldn't hurt". Though if I remember correctly (perhaps a comment from Bbb23), the user probably changes IP addresses often, hence we've never blocked the underlying IPs. However, CU might be able to say "it's likely" the same if they detect similar devices/OSs being used. Regards.— Bagumba ( talk) 12:45, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
Pending deal with 76ers Rikster2 ( talk) 00:58, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
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You recently moved Anne-Marie to Anne-Marie (given name). My view is that Anne-Marie (singer) is the primary topic. What do you think?-- Laun chba ller 18:48, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
Would you be able to evaluate and, if necessary, implement consensus in a discussion to modify the wording of the sports-specific notability guideline, as discussed at Wikipedia talk:Notability (sports) § Guidance for creating sports-specific notabiity guidelines (reprise)? It would be appreciated. isaacl ( talk) 01:22, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
Hey, hope all is well. I'm not up on how the bots work. One of the bots archived three citations in the Roberte Clemente article and marked the url-status as dead. I checked all three citations and they are live, so I changed this in the citations. The bot came behind me and changed them back to dead. If the url is live and healthy, why does the bot mark it as dead? Thanks! PhillyHarold ( talk) 01:00, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
Hey. Perhaps a flat indefinite block for this user adding blatant promotion to articles with content that has clearly got nothing to do with them. Cheers. DaHuzyBru ( talk) 04:06, 14 July 2020 (UTC)