User talk:Eggman02

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Giant Snowman 19:24, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

February 2024

Hi there - Wikipedia relies on reliable sources to verify information, especially about living people. You didn't provide a source for your changes to the Ruben Kristiansen article, and I couldn't find one either. If you have a reliable source please let me know and we can change the article. Please let me know if you have any questions. Giant Snowman 19:24, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My changes were made using two different sources for the specific changes. Both these sources were given within the article. I hope you will have another look and recognize that the changes in fact were sourced. Thank you. Eggman02 (talk) 19:46, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think it looked OK and not unsourced, just note that we are trying to avoid sponsored names of the Norwegian leagues, both in prose and in tables. They should be named as Eliteserien, 1. divisjon, 2. divisjon and so on. We didn't write Barclays Premier League either. And by the way, welcome! Geschichte (talk) 15:03, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for the welcome. It’s good to hear that you found the edit OK, I’ll probably change it back again then.

When it comes to the sponsored names, I can only apologize. I thought it would represent the leagues in a better way, but if that is not the case, then of course I’ll be changing my approach to this. Thank you for the input! Eggman02 (talk) 11:16, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name (see the help page).== April 2024 ==

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Sigurd Grønli (footballer), 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. Giant Snowman 08:21, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I used the same source to find the youth games as I used in the career statistics part but didn’t think to show this is where the information came from, a mistake on my part that I will fix as soon as I can.

However, I hardly see how reverting the whole edit would make the article better. If you thought that the youth part specifically was unsourced, then why did you still remove the categories that was added, or the correct new source used in the career statistics, which replaced a dead and unusable source? Maybe there is a reason, but to me it would make more sense to just remove the part you deemed unsourced and not everything else. Eggman02 (talk) 11:24, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

To Eggman: I have fixed the above article. Feel free to return :) Geschichte (talk) 09:39, 3 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

September 2024

Please stop. If you continue to add unsourced or poorly sourced content, as you did at Jakob Dunsby, you may be blocked from editing. Giant Snowman 19:24, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again. This is now the third time you have had a problem with my sourcing (maybe you’ve had more problems, but at least these are the ones you have let me know about). Let me be the first one to admit that I’m definitely not without my mistakes, and that I try to make as few as possible. Again though, I struggle to see what the problem is. At least with the specific edit you are mentioning.

His middle name is mentioned in both the sources that's already in the article that are used to present who he is and where he plays, so it makes sense that I would include his full name, as it wasn’t there already. I don’t really know what else you want. I feel like if you had used the minute you used to write this message to check this instead, we would have been without this discussion. Maybe there is something I’m missing, and if that’s the case, I would love for you to enlighten me.

I’m hoping you’ll answer this time, as it is a question directed directly at you, but based on my previous attempts to engage in a conversation with you, I’m not holding my breath. Eggman02 (talk) 23:09, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GiantSnowman's warning is probably unnecessary but you need to explicitly cite the full name. I've done that in this change. Kind regards, Robby.is.on (talk) 10:21, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for the reply! Glad to hear you fixed it, and that the warning was unnecessary.

I’d still like to ask one thing though, if you don’t mind. My understanding was, that infoboxes should only include footnotes if the info isn’t already presented in the article itself (as per the Help:Infobox). As his full name was referenced in the article already, I didn’t add a footnote in the infobox, or, add one for his date of birth, for that matter, which would be the same thing. Have I misunderstood the help page?

As I’m not a veteran editor, I would love to hear what you have to say, as if I’m wrong, or if I’ve misunderstood the help page, I would like to do the right thing in the future, thanks! Eggman02 (talk) 14:06, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, it's good that you ask. There are a lot of conventions on Wikipedia to figure out. infoboxes should only include footnotes if the info isn’t already presented in the article itself Yes, I believe that's correct. From my experience at WikiProject Football, we usually reference the full name either in the article body – which Jakob Dunsby doesn't have, yet – or in the infobox. @GiantSnowman: Could you expand on the difference between how we reference a subject's full name and their date of birth? Robby.is.on (talk) 18:28, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A full name is usually viewed as potentially contentious; a DOB is not. If it is, it needs to be explicit referenced. Giant Snowman 20:28, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]