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January 2018

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September 2018

Please do not add or change content, as you did at John Terry, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Mattythewhite (talk) 17:21, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Where someone currently plays is NEVER sourced in the opening of an article, only in its body. If you doubt, you can look for sources yourself. It's called WP:Be bold. You're welcome. WikiArticleEditor (talk) 17:27, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

WP:BURDEN. You're welcome. Mattythewhite (talk) 17:31, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

I'm not interested in that. Enjoy outdated information in your articles, then. WikiArticleEditor (talk) 17:36, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

No wonder you're reluctant to add a source; none actually exist. Fake news is not welcome on Wikipedia. Mattythewhite (talk) 17:41, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

[1], for one. Oh, you actually looked. Great. WikiArticleEditor (talk) 18:28, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

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WP:INTDABLINK violation

Please do not make direct links to disambiguation pages, as you did here. This creates false positive alerts of errors needing to be fixed, which wastes the time of editors who repair such links. bd2412 T 02:03, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Change at Yuriy Maksymov

Hi. Your change at Yuriy Maksymov doesn't seem to do anything else than remove non-problematic whitespace or am I missing something? Regards, Robby.is.on (talk) 16:24, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

If the statistics look like this, they're easier to check and edit. WikiArticleEditor (talk) 16:58, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

I actually tend to agree but I don't think there is a consensus so I would suggest avoiding these changes. Robby.is.on (talk) 17:07, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Vladimir Beschastnykh

You shouldn't remove references as you did at Vladimir Beschastnykh without any explanation. Robby.is.on (talk) 08:19, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

I've never seen a reference in the statistics table before. It looks ugly, and should be included in the text. WikiArticleEditor (talk) 17:15, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, I somehow missed your reply. At least for footballer articles, single facts in the infobox, such as height and playing position, are frequently referenced. To me, superscript numbers seem harmless visually. Robby.is.on (talk) 09:49, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

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wiktionary link removal

For example, re this edit. Could you clarify why the wikt link should be removed? Reading WP:SISTER it says: "WP encourages ... when such links are likely to be useful ...". -DePiep (talk) 12:33, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

I wrote about it on the talk page. WikiArticleEditor (talk) 01:27, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion of Aleksandr Yerokhin (disambiguation)

The page Aleksandr Yerokhin (disambiguation) has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it was an orphaned disambiguation page which either

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