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February 2017

Hello, I'm Mattythewhite. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Paul Barnes (footballer), but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Mattythewhite (talk) 18:37, 16 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

August 2017

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Rodney Kongolo, 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 19:42, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox dates

Hi, when updating infobox stats you should update the |club-update= or |pcupdate= parameter for club stats, or the |nationalteam-update= or |ntupdate= parameter for international stats, by adding five tildes (~~~~~), which generates the specific time the update was made. Thanks, Mattythewhite (talk) 22:09, 10 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please keep this in mind. Mattythewhite (talk) 17:47, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Table stats

Hi, please bear in mind you should update *all* the necessary fields in career stats tables when updating stats, not just the league appearance field, as well as the date above the table. Thanks, Mattythewhite (talk) 20:56, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Re: James Deane (drift driver)

Hello MotorsportFan2012 I have added projects Motorsport, Ireland, Biographies, to your article. You may wish to join them, check their to-do, and meet new people with interest in these topics. Cheers, --Gryllida (talk) 04:32, 5 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Jamille Matt

We are an encyclopedia, not a sports almanac. We do not need to include details of every goal/game, just notable ones. I see media talking about the result, but not so much the individual goals. Giant Snowman 15:21, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. Giant Snowman 19:27, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Mark Jenkinson

Hi, you've changed the place of birth for Mark Jenkinson from Whitehaven to Workington, is this correct? It's unlikley that he was born there, most people of his age were born at Whitehaven. Where are your sources? Regards --Devokewater @ 20:56, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for your edits here, but please take more care - 'football' in the USA is not the same as 'football' in England, so I have had to fix loads of links that pointed to the wrong sports team. Please also see WP:SUBCAT, a person should not be in both Category:English expatriates in the United States and Category:English expatriate sportspeople in the United States, just the latter. Giant Snowman 21:10, 15 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Yesterday's vote

If you are adding a note to every article about an MP who voted for the bill, presumably you will also be doing so for those who voted against? To do otherwise would be a breach of WP:POV. PamD 23:45, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I will be. I have been reading through the list alphabetically, first from the ayes and then I will get to the noes. MotorsportFan2012 (talk) 23:57, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I would recommend against including this without a secondary source which shows that there is some non-routine reporting on the way that a particular MP voted. Otherwise, if we are only sourcing to parliamentary record, their would be no reason not include the 50 or so votes we've had this parliament. Cakelot1 ☞️ talk 10:31, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

But unlike the other 50 or so, this was a free vote with no whipping, therefore how each MP voted reflects their personal view on the matter of this high profile bill which is notable enough to have its own article. Anyway, if I'm going to have my edits reverted and people implying that there is some sort of bias to me simply adding how an MP voted I won't bother, there's a lot of MPs to get through and I'm not going to waste any more time, nor can I really be bothered having a back and forth debate with you about whether it is notable enough. You win, have it your way. MotorsportFan2012 (talk) 11:32, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Cakelot1 There has been plenty of coverage - things like this. My concern was over whether only one side of the vote was going to be recorded, and I'm happy with @MotorsportFan2012's assurance that they're just working through the lists in order, the logical way to proceed. I agree that this vote is probably significant enough to be worth adding to MPs' articles.

I spotted the addition to my local MP Lizzi Collinge's page (and a few others), and as I'd already seen her speech and noted the URL I improved the article further by adding a link to her contribution to the debate. PamD 12:24, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@PamD, There is such routine coverage for many votes (such as, from this parliament, the winter fuel cap, two-child benefit cap), and I expect there to be many more. No doubt the votes/opinions of some MPs will specifically covered in RSs but I think there's serious WP:DUE concerns with listing every vote that gets a bunch of Reach PLC articles of the form "List of Fooshire MPs who voted for the Bar bill" that are nothing more than a copy pasted list from Hansard, which would quickly fill biographies with a series of one sentence voting records. Cakelot1 ☞️ talk 12:46, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]