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Can You make a wikipedia page for this former Australian player Nelly Yoa who played with Chelsea FC and Wolverton town FC and trial with Queen Park Rangers Football Club

Flags

Please see WP:MOSFLAG. I believe the consensus is that flags should not be used for managers. GiantSnowman 09:28, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

ISL

 Done GiantSnowman 20:38, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Fixtures on 2014 Indian Super League season page

I started a conversion here on this section in the 2014 Indian Super League season article. Participation would be welcome. Coderzombie (talk) 04:07, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

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Official sources for Indian Super League from now on.

Hey, as a regular editor of not just articles pertaining to the Indian Super League but also Indian football as a whole I decided to send you this message. Recently, I have noticed that many sources which, in the past, we called reliable are now a bit off in terms of their reporting. For example, the Times of India reported that Robert Pires and Freddy Ljungberg had signed for both FC Goa and Mumbai City respectively, however, that very same paper, reported that Anelka is in negotiations with Mumbai City. This has lead to days of anons added Pires, Ljungberg, and Anelka as marquee players for these teams on ISL pages, despite the conflicting reports. Meanwhile, Sky Sports, had an article about Peter Reid joining Mumbai City but instead said he signed for Mumbai FC.

This is not the type of reporting I expect to see done and it is because of this that I would like to see us only use official sources. These sources would include the official website of the Indian Super League, the official facebook page (with link), and any of the verified Indian Super League facebook or twitter accounts. So, for example, the Times of India reported that Marco Materazzi had signed as head coach of Chennai but instead of adding Marco like we would with say an TOI article on the I-League we will instead wait till the news is officially verified by the league or team. It is these methods we must use to protect wikipedia's goal in terms of accuracy. Cheers. --ArsenalFan700 (talk) 04:01, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles - GA Cup

WikiProject Good articles is holding a new competition, the GA Cup, from October 1, 2014 - March 28, 2015. The Cup will be based on reviewing Good article nominations; for each review, points will be awarded with bonuses for older nominations, longer articles and comprehensive reviews. All participants will start off in one group and the highest scoring participants will go through to the second round. At the moment six rounds are planned, but this may change based on participant numbers.

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Viale (footballer)

Sincerely, what made you think this guy is a FULLY-PRO footballer? MYS77 ✉ 05:32, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

And can you please create pages with a better level of English. Your Spanish creations were not that good, mate. Thanks, MYS77 ✉ 05:41, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
Well, it's better having the FULL NAME instead of using a short name! VIALE has a brother, LUCAS VIALE, whilst a French forward, Julien Viale, also exists! THREE Viale who are FOOTBALLERS! Don't you think this is too much? I'll move this page to Juan Manuel Viale. MYS77 ✉ 14:11, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
And also, please do not use "footballer playing...". It is disjointed. Use "footballer WHO PLAYS..." Cheers, MYS77 ✉ 14:45, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
Could you make sure you take this advice on board? I've improved the language of the Pol García, it might be of benefit to take a look. Cheers, Mattythewhite (talk) 19:21, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

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André Martins

1. neither I nor the reader should be expected to trawl through external links to verify the content of the article. That's what references are for;

2. you left the article saying he had 11 appearances for Sintrense: he hasn't;

3. the name of the as-of date infobox parameter is |club-update=; just because |pcupdate= still works now, it won't forever, and we should use the current name;

4. MOS:BLPLEAD, the section of Wikipedia's Manual of Style that deals with the opening of an article, says at bullet-point 5 that the opening paragraph should include why the player is notable;

5. if we're talking creating decent small articles, as opposed to doing it in a sloppy manner, I suggest you go back to the André Martins page and add some references, fix the Soccerway template call so it just includes the name and not the disambiguation bracket as well, and remove the "simply known as" bit: if the player were David Richard John Beckham, you wouldn't add simply known as David Beckham, nor do we for Portuguese players using their first name and surname.

You've been here long enough to have seen short footballer biographies created by others, and you're intelligent enough to be able to tell that some of what they do is better than some of what you do. Please take note of this, and take a bit more time over your work. I see the administrator Mattythewhite has mentioned something similar above. You really would do well to listen. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 07:42, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Sinan Bytyqi

The article Sinan Bytyqi has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

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Proposed deletion of Hugo Meira

The article Hugo Meira has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

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Nomination of Hugo Meira for deletion

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Proposed deletion of Bruno Wilson

The article Bruno Wilson has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

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Patrick McNair

Hi there. I just deleted Patrick McNair as it was created just a little earlier as Patrick McNair (footballer). I hope that's okay. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 14:29, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

GA Cup - September 2014 Newsletter

WikiProject Good Articles's 2014-15 GA Cup - September 2014

Welcome to the GA Cup! In less than 72 hours, the competition will begin! Before you all start reviewing nominations we want to make sure you understand the following:

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WikiCup 2014 September newsletter

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Nomination of Namiq Yusifov for deletion

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Proposed deletion of Şähriyar Äliyev

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Category:Indian Super League players

Hey, just want to know if you understand this category can not be added to player articles until they play in an ISL game, not just if they are in the squad. Cheers. --ArsenalFan700 (talk) 03:52, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

GA Cup -Round 1 Newsletter

WikiProject Good Articles's 2014-15 GA Cup - Round 1

As we move into the middle of Round 1, we wanted to report some of the lessons we've learned thus far, as well as announce a major rule change going into Round 2, which begins November 1. Remember, sign-ups for this year's Cup ends on September 15.

Thus far, we're very happy with the results of the competition. One of our major goals, reducing the long backlog at GAN, is well on the way to being accomplished, mostly due to the enthusiastic efforts of Jonas Vinther, who has earned over 250 points. Over 80 reviews have been made thus far. Thank you all for your efforts and for your part in making the GA Cup a success.

However, this is the inaugural year of the GA Cup, so there have been some unforeseen circumstances that have come up. One has been a glaring inadequacy with the rules, which the judges feel makes the competition unfair. As a result, there will be a major change in the rules, starting at the beginning of Round 2:

  • Your review must provide feedback/suggestions for improvement, and then you must wait until the nominator has responded and all issues/suggestions have been resolved before you can pass the article. Failure to follow this rule will result in disqualification.

What this means is that you must provide some feedback to the article's nominator, and must wait for him or her to respond before passing the article. If the nominator has not responded in the standard 7 days, you can fail the article. We're instituting this rule change to prevent the possibility of competitors passing articles for the sake of passing articles (or failing them) and to gain more points. We believe that the change will make it more fair to all competitors in the GA Cup.

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GA Cup Newsletter Correction

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It was brought to the attention of the judges that there was an error in the newsletter sent out earlier today.

Sign-ups for the GA Cup will close on October 15, 2014, not September 15, 2014 (as mentioned in the newsletter).

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GA Cup - Round 1 Newsletter #2

WikiProject Good Articles's 2014-15 GA Cup - Round 1

Hello GA Cup competitors!

The judges have learned a great deal in this first part of the competition, and we appreciate your patience with us as we've figured out what works and what doesn't work. As we reported in our last newsletter, an inadequacy in the scoring system has been illuminated in the past 15 days, which has resulted in a major change in the rules. It has also resulted in one withdrawal.

To ensure fairness, we've decided to further increase the number of participants moving onto Round 2. Everyone who has reviewed at least one article will automatically be moved forward, and will be placed in pools. You have until October 29 to take advantage of this opportunity. It is our hope that this will make up for the unforeseen glitch in our scoring system.

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Category:CFR Cluj players

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Some comments after peer reviewing your article

See the Peer Review page. Friendly regards, Kareldorado (talk) 15:55, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

October 2014

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October 2014

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GA Cup - Round 2

WikiProject Good Articles's 2014-15 GA Cup - Round 2

Greetings, GA Cup competitors!

Wednesday saw the end of Round 1. Jaguar took out Round 1 with an amazing score of 238. In a tight race for second, Peacemaker67 and Ritchie333 finished second and third with 152 and 141 points, respectively.

Two users have scored the maximum five bonus points for article length (60,000 characters+). Anotherclown reviewed Spanish conquest of Yucatán (77,350 characters) and MrWooHoo reviewed Communist Party of China (76,740 characters). The longest review was by Bilorv who reviewed Caldas da Rainha. The review was approximately 22,400 characters which earned s/he two bonus points (20, 000 - 29, 999 characters).

In Round 1, 117 reviews were completed, making the first round of the GA Cup a success! A total of 86 articles were removed from the backlog during the month of October! We hope to see all remaining users fighting it out in Round 2 so we can lower the backlog as much as possible.

To qualify for the second round, one completed review was needed, which 28 users accomplished. Participants have been randomly put into 7 pools of 4; the top 2 in each pool will move onto Round 3. There will also be one wildcard. This means that the participant who comes in 15th place (all pools combined) will also move on. Round 2 will start on November 1 at 0:00:01 UTC and end on November 29 at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about Round 2 and the pools can be found here

Also, remember that a major rule change will go into affect starting on November 1, which marks the beginning of Round Two. Round 1 displayed a weakness in the rules, which we are correcting with this new rule. We believe that this change will make the competition more inherently fair. The new rule is: Your review must provide feedback/suggestions for improvement, and then you must wait until the nominator has responded and all issues/suggestions have been resolved before you can pass the article. Failure to follow this rule will result in disqualification. The judges will strictly enforce this new rule.

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Proposed deletion of Ben Litfin

The article Ben Litfin has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

hasn't played a professional senior game. fails WP:NSPORTS & WP:GNG

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Stub attack

Hey mate, I see all the articles for players you are creating and it is cool and all but honestly at this point in your wiki career you should probably add more to these articles instead of leaving them as just stubs and stuff. Like, you have the template on my page for example which has a table and everything... you need to make the next step and really put some time into these articles because remember, it is not just WP:NFOOTY these players need to pass but also WP:GNG and that means more than just one sentence. Cheers. --ArsenalFan700 (talk) 22:46, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014: The results

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Re: Stub attack (Second notice)

Mate, come on, seriously now? Christos Wheeler, Andrea Palazzi, Fábio Virginio de Lima... I mean, creating because you want to or because you might get the next big guy is cool, hell, I did the same with many MLS guys and players like Kristoffer Olsson but please, try to add more to these articles or eventually they might be deleted for failing to pass WP:GNG... that is still a major player here. Cheers. --ArsenalFan700 (talk) 20:25, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

True man... btw ArsenalFan, you're a big man because you can admit you did exactly the same.. You didn't really add anything on Olsson's page... so i posted "please add at least something" haha. I still rememeber that one. Now Royroydeb is doing the same.. come on mate, make yourself useful here. We won't fix your mess, it's your article. Poor Andrea Palazzi and more. Cheers Eden10Hazard (talk) 23:27, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

@ArsenalFan700: @Eden10Hazard: @Royroydeb: Sorry for "reviving" it now, but seeing (and knowing) Hazard and RRD's contributions here I don't think they'll improve what they currently do, ArsenalFan. Both create pages very quickly just to get the credit (and hoping maybe someday the guy will become a world class player). I'll ask you both to improve your storyline (which is very poor and disjointed). However, I'll give Hazard some "benefit of the doubt", because he once explained me how his contributions work.
Ah, and Hazard and RRD, please do me a favor: when you BOTH create ANY Spanish player, please, in the edit summary, include this: [[User:MYS77|MYS77]] just to notice me about the guy and I'll improve the page (as I did with thousands and thousands of articles you both created). Cheers, happy weekend. MYS77 ✉ 17:57, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

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