User talk:ChrisTheDude/Archive 27

Latest comment: 1 year ago by Joseph1891 in topic Reverting edits

Arsenal F.C. Featured article review edit

I have nominated Arsenal F.C. for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:54, 29 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

Promotion of List of Harlem Hit Parade number ones of 1943 edit

Congratulations, ChrisTheDude! The list you nominated, List of Harlem Hit Parade number ones of 1943, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.
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Merchandise giveaway nomination edit

 
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Deprecation of little tables for awards edit

Hi. You've mentioned here that "the "lots and lots of little tables" format for awards lists has been deprecated for a long time." Would you be able to provide me a link to that deprecation discussion for my future use? Thanks! — DaxServer (talk) 19:26, 4 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

@DaxServer: - not readily, it must have been at least three years ago. I'll have a dig and see what I can find...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 19:51, 4 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thanks! Please ping me if you find it! — DaxServer (talk) 19:54, 4 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Refs directly below peaks edit

In response to this edit summary, even though I was not the editor who placed it there, citations placed directly below the peak are common all across Wikipedia, especially in longer wikitables and particularly when they're only intended to serve as a temporary source until the citation in the column header updates with the data (as those are usually links to permanent archives). If you find this a mess, just saying, you're going to be very debilitated perusing a lot of other discographies of artists currently charting... in my opinion it's totally fine. Ss112 17:09, 7 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Source review/Gills/Evans edit

Hey Chris, sorry I didn't get to the source review, I've had a real shit-ton of personal stuff going down since Xmas and it's really limited my availability and enthusiasm, but glad it's been addressed. I hope you didn't even look at the highlights for yesterday's game, if this is a "new era" of ITFC then I'm already sold. It was men vs boys etc etc. And as for Evans, well I suppose good riddance... Hope all is well with you. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 19:12, 9 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

@The Rambling Man: sorry to hear you've been going through some rough times, hope there's a positive end in sight. I've seen the goals from yesterday and could not believe the quality of the defending. It reminded me of the standard of play the year we came second bottom of the whole Football League. Coincidentally I've just put that season's article up at FAC if you had the time to look at it. If not don't worry, I totally understand. All the best -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 19:23, 9 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

TFL notification edit

Hi, ChrisTheDude. I'm just posting to let you know that List of Harlem Hit Parade number ones of 1942 – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for January 28. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 22:37, 10 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Promotion of 2000–01 Gillingham F.C. season edit

Congratulations, ChrisTheDude! The article you nominated, 2000–01 Gillingham F.C. season, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.
This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Buidhe (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:05, 16 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Copyright issues edit

Hello! I copied an image you uploaded to the file namespace to the Commons, but it was subsequently nominated for deletion. Would you be able to confirm to the people at the Commons that you did in fact take the image and release it under CC-BY-SA-4.0? Thanks! HouseBlastertalk 18:39, 17 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

@HouseBlaster: I am not sure what I need to do. The page you linked just says "This page does not currently exist. You can search for this page title in other pages or create this page." Can you be more specific as to what I need to do? Thanks! -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 19:19, 17 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Sorry about that! My guess is that wikilinking directly to a wizard is not supported by the software, but I am not sure. Try going here and clicking on the button labeled "Use the Interactive Release Generator!". HouseBlastertalk 20:53, 17 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

FAC review edit

Hey ChrisTheDude, hope all is well! I was wondering if you have some spare time to provide your review on a current FAC I put up? Totally understand otherwise if you are busy these days. Thanks! Pseud 14 (talk) 20:17, 21 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Smile :) edit

Table sorting edit

Hi,

I noted that you provided your support for my recent FLC (thanks!), although there was the outstanding point of the table not sorting correctly. I am not sure if that corrected itself via the edits I made, or if it is still an issue. If it is, can you advise how to fix it?EnigmaMcmxc (talk) 14:54, 24 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

@EnigmaMcmxc: - whoops, I missed that that was still outstanding! I've put in a fix for it now. It's no perfect because of the fact that the order goes 2 > 3 > 2 > Acting > 2, but I think it's the best possible option..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 19:21, 24 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Promotion of List of Billboard number-one R&B songs of 1945 edit

Congratulations, ChrisTheDude! The list you nominated, List of Billboard number-one R&B songs of 1945, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.
This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, PresN (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:26, 29 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Promotion of List of Harlem Hit Parade number ones of 1944 edit

Congratulations, ChrisTheDude! The list you nominated, List of Harlem Hit Parade number ones of 1944, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.
This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, PresN (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:27, 29 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Gillingham edit

Seems to be a rough time there. I've done my time in suffering, so here's hoping for a turnaround. Hoping it's nothing to do with criminal owners... Seasider53 (talk) 16:13, 29 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

@Seasider53: - no, he's a bit of a geezer, as befits a former photocopier salesman from south London, but he's on the level. Whether he still know what he's doing is a different matter...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 19:25, 29 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Commiserations. Was hoping you'd send the cod-heads of Fleetwood down. Seasider53 (talk) 13:34, 30 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
@Seasider53: - c'est la vie. At least it means the team will be playing a game in my hometown next season....... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 19:42, 30 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

Question edit

Hi. Do lacks of information impact to a GA/FA/FL review if it's not possible to find the lacking information? Dr Salvus 08:36, 30 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

@Dr Salvus: - what do you mean by "lack of information"? Can you give me an example of an article and the information that is lacking? -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:39, 30 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
For example, List of Coppa Italia finals hasn't got any information related to the attendance of many finals but I didn't manage to find it at all. Would it impact to a review? Dr Salvus 08:49, 30 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Well, that article has already been unsuccessful at WP:FLC three times, and last time one reviewer specifically mentioned the lack of attendance data as a problem, so I think that answers the question...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:57, 30 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Oh right... I must've got confused by other reviews Dr Salvus 09:06, 30 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

TFA nom for Brownhills edit

I have nominated Brownhills to appear as WP:TFA today's featured article for a non-specific date. If you would like to join the discussion, please click here. Z1720 (talk) 22:47, 5 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Thank you today for the article, introduced (in 2007) sweetly: "My normal area of operations is football articles, but my wife made me promise to work on the article on her hometown in exchange for spending so long on the computer!"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:53, 3 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

Nomination for deletion of Template:Arsenal F.C. hit singles edit

 Template:Arsenal F.C. hit singles has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Nigej (talk) 15:25, 7 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Regarding Caister FC edit

Listen Chris, I’m sure you’re a very nice man. Please could you ensure that my article remains on wikipedia as I am mainly doing this for my son out of all honesty. He is autistic and we are both very passionate about Caister FC. He would be devastated if the article got deleted and rightly so. If it can’t be kept, please can you help me modify it so it can be kept. Many thanks. Trudigator (talk) 15:38, 7 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

No one can ensure your article remains if the topic is not notable. Please stop cross posting this everywhere and let consensus develop. Star Mississippi 19:39, 7 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Promotion of 1992–93 Gillingham F.C. season edit

Congratulations, ChrisTheDude! The article you nominated, 1992–93 Gillingham F.C. season, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.
This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Gog the Mild (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:05, 14 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

WP:FAR edit

Hello Chris,

I have qustion to you beause of I found you as editor who constribute "about football" on Wikipedia and has experience about "FA/GA". I had on my mind to report into WP:FAR but unfortunetly I found point in regulamin Before nomination, raise issues at talk page of the article. Attempt to directly resolve issues with the existing community of article editors, and to informally improve the article over at least a two-week period. Articles in this step are not listed on this page., what that excatly means? I did not tried correct the article except two small changes, but I think this article is too bad for FA and I would prefer to controversial topic does not be marked as featured on Wikipedia. Based on what I can see I believe featured article does not meet WP:FAC's criteria: comprehensive: it neglects no major facts or details and places the subject in context;, and based on what Length. It stays focused on the main topic without going into unnecessary detail and uses summary style. means I think this article could at least include: 1Info about criticism of Ballon d or after 2007 by Cruyff (It is not detail. Ballon d or is France football, Cruyff was first who won the award three times and regarded as Eurpean player of the century by UEFF, not?) 2 Info about criticism by Philip Lahm (Philip Lahm won 2014 World Cup as captain during middle of Messi-Ronaldo rivalry so it is not detail of random journalist or random great player, not?) 3Perhaps something more about criticism of canceling Ballon d or in 2020 due to Covid Pandemic? what do you think? 4Perhaps few more other details, for example I found interesing fact Bobby Charlton won Ballon d Or in 1966 despite fact Eusebio was first player in history of football who won British award BBC Sports Personality World Sport Star of the Year and ahivemented record which Critiano and Messi never did (top goalsscorer at either of World Cup and Champions League). Dawid20095 Perhaps information about criticism of !voting by sport-related personalities from small countries (like coaches of national teams from Oceania and such). This stuff of course is too long to we include every single opinion on that but I think we could add at least info about 2015 controversy when FIFA Ballon d'Or changed back into Ballon d'Or, this year Cristiano,Messi,Neymar combinetly got 77,1% of all "points of !votes". (talk) 09:48, 24 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Probably both, Ballon d'Or and Ballon d'Or Féminin needs some work. For eample featured article Ballon d'Or does not include information about additional awwards "stricker of the year" etc. Cheers. Dawid2009 (talk) 10:16, 24 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
@Dawid2009: (talk page stalker) no doubt Chris will have some advice for you too, but I can respond a bit here - first of all, the page Ballon d'Or is actually not a featured article, it's a featured list. This is quite confusing actually, as in many ways with the history section as it is, it's more of an article than a list and the golden star looks like it could make it an FA. But anyway, the procedure for Featured List is slightly different and probably simpler than FAR - details are at Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates. I do agree that it seems to have quite a few issues, and I'm wondering if the lists are even properly referenced at the moment. Secondly, for future reference, on your query about FAR and resolving issues on the talk page (even though it doesn't really apply here) - the procedure is pretty much as written - before starting an FAR, you should first start a section on the talk page of the affected article, listing all your concerns about it. This gives users watching the talk page a chance to respond, either defending the article or promising to make improvements, before the formal process of FAR begins. If you follow this step and there is no response within two weeks, or you're not satisfied with the response, then that's when you go on and open up a FAR. Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 10:22, 24 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Chris, @Amakuru: after more than one moth there is still no answers on talk page. What do you think to I start my suggested version tenatively at my sandbox or Polish Wikipedia. It is also noteworthy meanwhile time (just eighteen days after I posted on Chris' talk page!: [1]) Frane Football made reformation at criteria (one season is counted, instead one year, only top 100 ountries from FIFA ranking can !vote and team achivements are less significant than individual statistics). I think it is time to create "controversy/criticism section" in that article. At very lesat sources which claim that Cruyff supported Xavi over Messi at 2010/2011 and Toni Kroos ahead of Cristiano in 2014 IMHO should remain. Info about plans also should be mentioned in that article, excatly next to the thing which remind about Cruyff's criticism that Ballon'dOr owdays do not consider team chivements and is not cultivative continuation (There are sources that Cruyff said, Ballon d Or should not be award fr currently the best player on the planet but cultivatively for player with most achivements like in 1956-2006). What do you think? Can you help? Dawid2009 (talk) 15:06, 8 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
I already dit it here, feel free to give me feedback. I hope you could help on ENwiki one day. Best regards. Dawid2009 (talk) 12:21, 9 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

2020 Summer Olympics medal table FLC edit

Hi there,

I have read your comments regarding the 2020 Summer Olympics medal table regarding its pending featured list promotion and have made the necessary adjustments based on them. Please cap the comments if you feel they have been addressed. Thanks.

--Birdienest81talk 09:56, 2 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

Orphaned non-free image File:TauntonLeague.jpg edit

 

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Maile has only left a drive-by-ish comment so far, but he's done a lot of reviewing and that might easily turn into a support. And you've got two other supports. So I'll take this off my watchlist, but if promotion gets delayed for one reason or another and you need an assist here, let me know. - Dank (push to talk) 15:47, 5 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

58th Academy Awards FLC edit

Hi there,

I was wondering if you could proofread the 58th Academy Awards for featured list promotion. I would appreciate your feedback.

--Birdienest81talk 09:10, 10 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

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Promotion of List of Billboard number-one country songs of 2021 edit

Congratulations, ChrisTheDude! The list you nominated, List of Billboard number-one country songs of 2021, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.
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Promotion of 1994–95 Gillingham F.C. season edit

Congratulations, ChrisTheDude! The article you nominated, 1994–95 Gillingham F.C. season, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.
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Promotion of List of Most Played Juke Box Race Records number ones of 1946 edit

Congratulations, ChrisTheDude! The list you nominated, List of Most Played Juke Box Race Records number ones of 1946, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.
This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, PresN (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:26, 25 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

Capping comments for 2020 Summer Olympics medal table and 58th Oscars edit

Hi there,

Could you kindly cap the comments for the featured list nomination of the 2020 Summer Olympics medal table and the featured list nomination for the 58th Academy Awards so that the comments don't overflow and indicates that the comments were resolved? I would greatly appreciate it.

--Birdienest81talk 09:19, 25 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

Prepositions at the end of a sentence edit

I saw you changed that sentence back; it's fine if you really prefer it that way, but take a look at this if you get a chance. It's not an English grammar rule; it's almost impossible to find a style guide that says you should not end a sentence with a preposition. I know people will sometimes revert it if they see it, because they think it is a rule, but I wouldn't allow that to get in the way of readability. Congratulations on a pretty impressive set of Gillingham related FAs, by the way. I saw you've run out of Rothman's yearbooks -- surely someone else in WP:FOOTY has some they can help out with? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 19:18, 25 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

@Mike Christie: - I've just bought another one second-hand off Amazon :-D -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 19:46, 25 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

I'm wondering if this one needs an additional review of some kind. You did a review back in December, and indicated you were waiting to see how other reviewers felt about the tables. Were your questions resolved? - Dank (push to talk) 02:31, 1 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

@Dank: I'd quite forgotten about that one. I'll take another look...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:34, 1 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

Promotion of 1993–94 Gillingham F.C. season edit

Congratulations, ChrisTheDude! The article you nominated, 1993–94 Gillingham F.C. season, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.
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New administrator activity requirement edit

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Capping comments for WP:List of Robin Williams performances edit

Hi there,

Could you kindly cap the comments for List of Robin Williams performances in regards to its featured list nomination so that the comments are indicated to be resolved and that it does not create a mess on the nomination page? I would appreciate it.

--Birdienest81talk 09:48, 20 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

Promotion of List of Most Played Juke Box Race Records number ones of 1947 edit

Congratulations, ChrisTheDude! The list you nominated, List of Most Played Juke Box Race Records number ones of 1947, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.
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In appreciation edit

  The Reviewers Award
By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this award in recognition of the thorough, detailed and actionable reviews you have carried out at FAC. This work is very much appreciated. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:39, 22 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

Promotion of 1985–86 Gillingham F.C. season edit

Congratulations, ChrisTheDude! The article you nominated, 1985–86 Gillingham F.C. season, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.
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Disruptive editor edit

Hi Chris, hope you're well. There's a volatile football editor (this one) going around making big changes, tons of which had to be reverted; also nominating 'Derby' articles for deletion (i.e. rivalry, not 'the Rams'), rarely adding sources, and causing hours of extra work for editors. They're new, haven't read any guidelines and seem to be seeking confrontation.

Some of the weirdest is detailed below – that I wrote on User talk:Seany91. I'm too mentally fragile a.t.m. to handle conflict, and it might be above my pay grade anyway, but HiddenFace had a couple of warning-type posts already. Would you be able to figure out the appropriate step to take?

(quote) 'Is there an administrator warning they can give, along the lines of, "Cool Your Jets"? This person had dozens of Women's World Cup edits removed, then added the nonexistent "2027" tournament to dozens of women's national team articles. Combative attitude on them, too. I reverted some of that but it was so much. They're also categorizing players' heritage and other people's heritage seemingly based only on their surnames, no sources. The edits to Léa Khelifi and Jada Mathyssen-Whyman I'm certain were untrue, and reverted Łukasz Bejger, Romāns Kvačovs, Vasily Potto, Ivan Bakanov and Oleksii Reznikov – these last two are active politicians in Ukraine, so, it's important not to spread dubious information, one would think...' – Thank you, Demokra (talk) 08:35, 29 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

@Demokra: - the editor seems to have calmed down a bit now but I'll keep any eye on them..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 20:26, 29 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

Lee Palmer refs edit

Thanks for making the two refs more descriptive (and different) in the Lee Palmer article. Truthanado (talk) 15:45, 30 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

1989–90 Gillingham F.C. season edit

Hi ChrisTheDude. This article popped up on the "no target errors" list. You added a reference to Rollins 1991, but there's no cite for Rollins 1991. Would this be "Rothmans Football Yearbook 1989–90"? - LCU ActivelyDisinterested transmissions °co-ords° 20:58, 6 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

List of UEFA Europa Conference League hat-tricks edit

Thanks for catching that on the UECL hat-tricks list. Ridiculous to have an article at this stage, but I guess we'll have to go through AfD. – PeeJay 16:00, 9 May 2022 (UTC) @PeeJay: - I concur. At best it should be a section of the main article -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 16:01, 9 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

Promotion of List of Billboard number-one R&B songs of 1948 edit

Congratulations, ChrisTheDude! The list you nominated, List of Billboard number-one R&B songs of 1948, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.
This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, PresN (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:26, 14 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

Some baklava for you! edit

  Thank you for helping Total Recall become a Featured Article. Taking the time to review it really helped keep it from being delisted and I appreciate your help! Darkwarriorblake / SEXY ACTION TALK PAGE! 13:21, 17 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

GKN Sankey F.C. players edit

As you are the user who removed the list of Notable Players from the article on GKN Sankey F.C., better say I didn't know until tonight there existed a longish category list of players for the club. Thank you, I agree replacing them with a direct to the category list is an improvement except it would be appreciated if you had made sure that all three were already in the category list - two names are on the category list (I made sure one, Johnny Hancocks, was) but I wasn't able to check if the other one was as I lost memory of his name.Cloptonson (talk) 20:12, 18 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

Promotion of 1991–92 Gillingham F.C. season edit

Congratulations, ChrisTheDude! The article you nominated, 1991–92 Gillingham F.C. season, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.
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+1 Good job! Atsme 💬 📧 13:06, 19 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hoping A7 will fix the problem edit

Again, thank you for your input at Andrew Murphy (Scottish footballer). Atsme 💬 📧 13:05, 19 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

List of accolades received by If Beale Street Could Talk FLC edit

Hi there,

I was wondering if you could review List of accolades received by If Beale Street Could Talk for its pending featured list promotion. I would appreciate the feedback. Warning: I will not be able to respond to your queries until May 23 because its my birthday.

--Birdienest81talk 07:08, 21 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

A bit of a mess at John McKnight (English footballer) edit

I did some further research and found that McKinght did not actually join Darwen until March 1893; prior to that (and in the reports of his play referenced in the first paragraph), he was with Middlesbrough Ironopolis F.C.; the article cited in the first paragraph, while mentioning Darwen earlier on, is discussing Middlesbrough in the part where McKnight is mentioned. I wanted to be very sure that this was the same person, and found two papers reporting the connection: "McKnight, the centre-forward of the Middlesbrough Club, has been engaged by Darwen", "Sports and Pastimes", The Nottingham Evening Post (27 March 1893), p. 4; and, most intriguing, "McKnight, ex- Grimsby, ex-Aston Villa, ex-Middlesboro, ex-nearly everywhere, is likely to leave Darwen for Ardwick", "Bravities", The Walsall Advertiser (28 October 1893), p. 4. BD2412 T 17:43, 27 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

  • I think I have it sorted at this point. BD2412 T 19:40, 27 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

Promotion of List of Billboard number-one R&B songs of 1949 edit

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Hi there, I hope you're fine! I have just now seen your comments on the article above, and I have solved them. Just writing you this message in hopes of getting a support in case you support my nomination, since it may be crucial in whether this article gets passed or now. Article's been up for quite some time but didn't attract too many comments :/ Greets; Cartoon network freak (talk) 18:38, 1 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

Promotion of 1990–91 Gillingham F.C. season edit

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Request for input edit

Hey Chris. Apologies for the random request, but may I ask for your input here? I'd be happy to review an FAC/FLC of yours in return. FrB.TG (talk) 19:42, 17 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

@FrB.TG: WRT the above, if you had the time to take a look at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/1989–90 Gillingham F.C. season/archive1, which looks like it could do with a bit of s kickstart, that would be great! If not, don't worry. All the best! -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:53, 23 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
For sure. I was planning to review it the last few days anyway. FrB.TG (talk) 09:13, 23 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

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Brimsdown Rovers edit

I was just about to add citations to the David Beckham paragraph when you deleted it. ;) Way too many articles on Wikipedia in need of sources... Cielquiparle (talk) 08:40, 14 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

Promotion of 1989–90 Gillingham F.C. season edit

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Promotion of List of Billboard number-one R&B songs of 1950 edit

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Promotion of List of Billboard number-one R&B songs of 1951 edit

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A.C. Monza FA candidate edit

Hey, how's it going? I see you've reviewed football-related articles for FA in recent years. A.C. Monza has been a candidate for over three weeks, and there are almost no comments. I would really appreciate it if you took some time to leave a comment (it doesn't necessarily have to be a full review) :) Nehme1499 21:09, 16 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

@Nehme1499: - surprised I missed that one. I'll take a look -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 20:57, 17 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

A barnstar for you! edit

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For your work this morning on Radio 1 Breakfast. Good effort! Harrias (he/him) • talk 09:30, 20 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hashtag edit

Hey, thanks for the clean up here! I thought I was keeping on top of the disruptive changes yesterday but I missed that one. Schazjmd (talk) 16:36, 22 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

How far back edit

can you go with the Gillingham seasons? I'm curious. You have a great production line going, but presumably you'll run out of sources at some point in the 70s or 60s and have to do decade summaries or something like that? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 12:55, 4 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

@Mike Christie: - I think it probably hinges on the quality/amount of information available in digitised newspapers. I've got stat books which give all the bare facts of results, attendances, goalscorers, etc all the way back to when the club was formed in 1893, but for a FA I think people would look for quite a bit more depth than that. I have the club's official centenary book published back in the early 90s, which gives a 2-3 page prose account of every individual season, but that's a primary source of course. Having said that, the next one I have ready to go is from the early 60s and I was able to use an absolute ton of sources from newspapers for that...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 13:00, 4 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
BTW @Mike Christie: if you were by any chance able to spare the time to look at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/1963–64 Gillingham F.C. season/archive1, that would be wonderful. If not, no worries -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 15:47, 17 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
I'm on a GA reviewing spree at the moment and will probably keep on with that for now, or at least till I put up another FAC. You have two supports so you should be safe against archiving for a while. If it's still sitting there needing reviews when I get back to FAC I will be glad to review it. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 16:18, 17 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
@Mike Christie: no problem :-) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 16:21, 17 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
@Mike Christie: hope you are well - in response to your question about how far back I can go with Gillingham season articles, I have an update - I hope to soon nominate 1905–06 New Brompton F.C. season for FA (New Brompton was the name of the club until 1912) :-) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 13:00, 3 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
Outstanding. It would be quite a feat to get all of them to GA; getting them all to FA would take years, but you can probably get 10-15 promoted per year, so maybe 8 or 9 years? That would be extremely cool. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 13:19, 3 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

List of Best-Selling Music Artists edit

Hey, could I ask for your input in the talk section of the List of Best-Selling Music Artists? It seems like there are a lot of pretty fundamental issues with the list, and you had commented on some of them when it failed to become a featured list candidate. I would like your input, because I'm not a very experienced editor, and I don't really know how to proceed.

Thanks. Pacack (talk) 09:03, 11 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

94th Academy Awards FLC edit

Hi there,

Could you proofread the 94th Academy Awards for featured list promotion? I would greatly appreciate the feedback.

-- Birdienest81talk 07:20, 17 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
@Birdienest81: - sure, I'll try to take a look today -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:22, 17 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

Promotion of List of Billboard number-one R&B songs of 1952 edit

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Review edit

Hey Chris, I hope you’re well. I was wondering if you could conduct a source review (for formatting and reliability) for my FAC. I’m not sure how often or if you generally source-review FACs, but I requested one at WT:FACSR almost 20 days ago and no response yet. If you have any ongoing FAC/FLC, I’ll happily do a source/image/content review. FrB.TG (talk) 14:04, 22 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

@FrB.TG: - I'll try and take a look. I am by no means an expert on source reviewing but I will do my best :-) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 15:00, 22 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
@FrB.TG: just to let you know I haven't forgotten this, I just haven't been able to block out a big chunk of time to do it. I'll try and do it this evening as my wife will be out so I will be at a loose end :-) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:41, 24 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
Take your time. There's no rush. :) FrB.TG (talk) 08:15, 24 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

Promotion of 1988–89 Gillingham F.C. season edit

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Hello Chriss, I have some quotions reltd with that page:

1Would you mind to remove from that template: { { historical } }

2This list is very helful in terms of regarding notblity at Afd. Would you mind to create wieder tble which would also include 'seprate column for sources', 'separate column for "best achivement at IFFHS ranking of the leagues"' and separate sections for: 1Proffesioonal leagues at national level 2Lower divisions which are considered as proffesional 3Leagues at national level not considered as proffesional (currently thre is 1st and 3rd option but no 2nd)

What do you think? I would also like to very slightly change/update guidelines for notablity of football players but firstly I would like to correct this xtremally long (453 references) page, would you able to help me? It is very big. Cheers Dawid2009 (talk) 14:39, 26 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

@Dawid2009: TBH I wouldn't bother spending time re-arranging that page. The "played in a fully professional league" defence is no longer valid at AfD so I think making changes to that page would be a waste of effort -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:29, 27 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
OK. I understand (BTW, out of curiosity where was that discussion when "fully prffesionall argument" was declined?). So what do you think to add into "infobox about league information about "highest IFFHS ranking"? I am pretty sure that would be helpful at Afd to judge how strong is league. At infobox about national teams we have info about "highest ranking FIFA". Which page I would have to edit if I want inroduce that parameter into infobox? I do not think it would be waste of time because of it is much easier than re-arraging that page, in fact that would be pleasure to edit every artile about league and add that info. I am not great fun of IFFHS but I am alo not great fun of "ranking FIFA" and at last for now IFFHS is the only ranking from global perspective which judge level of leagues. Here is example of last update. Cheers. Dawid2009 (talk) 06:40, 28 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
@Dawid2009: - see Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Sports notability for the discussion about sports notability (including the arguments about "fully pro leagues"). If you want to amend an infobox you really need to start a discussion at WT:FOOTY. I can't make that decision by myself..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:57, 28 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
Frankly I have ambivalent thoughts about new guidelines about notablity, especially in terms of believing that Google/Internet is so strongly focussed on significant coverage. Look, what if Stuart Cash will be obscure in next dozen years after retirement of Matty Cash (his son), meanwhile Kendall Velox will be remembered at legacy of his country for most appearances? Regardless of what Internet say (not everything is findable on the Internet, at least not all books), I believe our guidelines are not lenient for international players and not strict for plauyers from lower legues. What I could find so far on other Wikipedias (for example Polish and Spanish) every footballer who played 'one international match is more notable than star from lower leagues who never played international match or at top division level. Out of curiosity what is your subjective opinion aout that ?(I did not start discusssion at wikiproject as I am not going to ask that in near fitire but I am curious what you think about it personally, frankly you can of curse diasgree with me). Have you ever wondering about such "boardline of notablity accidents" a ka "player from lower legues which meets significant coverage but not wp:anybio" vs "topplayer from very small country which does not meet signifiant coverage but of course meet wp:anybio"? Cheers Dawid2009 (talk) 06:38, 3 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

Just to make sure you know I have addressed your comments :) Ippantekina (talk) 02:10, 2 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

FA research - 20th century association football edit

Hi! After you thanked me for my 1923 FA Cup final edit I took a look at your user page and see you have a lot of experience doing early 20th century association football article research. I'm currently working on the 1919 Copa del Rey Final article, which I hope to take to FA at some point. Right now I'm working through the archived newspapers at the Spanish National Digital Library but was wondering if you knew of other places I can find sources. — Ixtal ( T / C ) Non nobis solum. 14:38, 7 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

@Ixtal: TBH I am not familiar with sources from outside the UK. I have a Newspapers.com account so I will look later and see if there are any Spanish papers on there..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 14:40, 7 September 2022 (UTC)Reply
Ah, fair enough. Thanks anyways. Hope you enjoy the rest of your week :D — Ixtal ( T / C ) Non nobis solum. 11:03, 8 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

Promotion of 1963–64 Gillingham F.C. season edit

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Promotion of List of Billboard number-one R&B songs of 1953 edit

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List of Coppa del Rey Finals edit

I am planning to nominate List of Coppa del Rey Finals for WP:FL. Being a veteran in the nomination process, could you give me a feedback on the article before i nominate. The complication on the years one issue that i must highlight. Some years, the tournament was held for a period covering 2 years, while it ended in just 1 year at times :- which is why some years are written as 1946 while others are written as 1947-48. Expecting great suggestions. Have a great day. Atlantis77177 (talk) 01:01, 23 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

@Atlantis77177: - sure, I will take a look over the weekend. Hope you also have a good day :-) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:43, 23 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

Promotion of 1997–98 Gillingham F.C. season edit

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Promotion of List of Billboard number-one R&B songs of 1954 edit

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I have sent you a note about a page you started edit

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Promotion of List of Billboard number-one R&B songs of 1955 edit

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1963–64 Gillingham F.C. season scheduled for TFA edit

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Reverting edits edit

Sorry Chris, but why you do you and Number57 care so much about the honours page when I provided more information: The season that was played was linked The appropriate tiers were shown

For example for teams like Dartford you realise you realise how big the trophies that they won were.

I’ve tried to make it more like that of Manchester United and Liverpool and other big clubs I’m sorry I was genuinely trying to make the pages look better You and Number57 have been extremely uncooperative and actually quite unfriendly.

Sorry for wasting you time. Joseph1891 (talk) 11:29, 15 October 2022 (UTC)Reply