User talk:Rugbyball

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Welsh rugby union internationals

I see you're busy writing articles on Welsh rugby internationals. I made some slight changes to Mefin Davies (like linking Wales national rugby union team and his current team). It might be worth doing the same with the rest. For the categories, you could copy Davies as well. Hope this helps, Angus McLellan (Talk) 16:22, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Martin Johnson

Hello. Im guessing you are new here. At Wikipedia we dont remove citation needed tags, we either add the citation or we re-word the sentence in question. Your removal of the citation needed tags I placed in the Martin Johnson article needs to be addressed. He might be the best thing since sliced bread (and for the record I agree with much of what has been written) but Wikipedia is an encyclopeida. If we say 'he is considerd one the best' then we need to find a reliable source to quote. I'll stop by the article in a week, if you havent had the time to address the citation tags Im about to place back into the article then let me know. But the article as it stands doesnt meet wikipedia NPOV guidelines. Cheers Adam777 22:35, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I see that you have once again revereted the citation needed tags and chose to leave unsubstanciated material in the Martin Johnson article. Im going to remove the offending sentence as you dont seem to want to work within wikipedia guidelines. Take a look at the info above and read though the 'Five Pillars' information. It will highlight the point I am trying to get across. I hope you enjoy Wikipedia and add to it constructively.Adam777 13:07, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the message on my talk page. So we are to compile an encyclopedia based on the fact that you've seen the Tigers play (so have I mate). I've read through a few of your past edits and you know full well what citation tags are for as you've added them yourself. Now for the benefit of people that may not have seen Johnson play how about citations are added to the article to substanciate the Jonno-be=praised sentence. Im going to put the citation needed tags back, Im sure you can find articles to back up those statements. I'll remind you again that we DONT remove citation tags in wikipedia - thats TWICE you've been told that now okay. Adam777 02:10, 28 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I just noticed you removed that parapgraph on the 2003 incident at Lansdowne Road - please dont remove paragraphs of text from an article, particulary text that has been in place for some time, without reaching a concensus on the articles talk page. Don't get me wrong Im not having a dig at you but there are guidelines we are expected to adhere to in Wikipedia and the citations tag removal and the paragraph removal dont follow those. Another editor took the time to place a help template on this page, you can find most everything you need to know there. Adam777 02:36, 28 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Gibraltar

well spotted, not gib-er-ish more a spaniard in the works. --Gibnews

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I hope you know that I was talking about Ryan Dollard! —EdGl 16:49, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

License tagging for Image:Rugby ball.jpg

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Images

Why are you mistagging images? I tagged Image:Rugby ball.jpg as "wronglicense" as it was listed as uncopyrighted with a deprecated / outdated tag but appears to have been lifted from a website. This is quite different to promotional images. You can read more at Wikipedia:Copyright. If you are making a WP:POINT you can stop now. Thanks, Deizio talk 18:00, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Govt. image - In which case it would certainly help if you mentioned this as part of your rationale on the image page, and used a modern, appropriate tag. You do realize this overwrote a previous image with the same name? Deizio talk 23:25, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Disruption

Please stop your disruptions to Wikipedia. Any further disruption will lead to a block. Your recent disruptions include:

Retaliatory tagging of licenses as wrong license [1] [2] [3]
Continuously posting the same question to the wrong section of reference desk even though it was already answered.
Uncivil comments at AFDs including [4] [5] and [6]

Please consider this a final warning. Any sysop can block you if he or she feels you are further disruptive. Metros232 18:21, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked for continuing AfD disruptions. Quote an explanation on my talk page by User:Tubezone:

He [Rugbyball] didn't like my comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hemmings Motor News and related Hemmings publications that he put up for AfD, so he's been running around posting copies of my comments and making opposing votes to mine at AfD's I participated in, on top of other nonsensical edits.

You have been temporarily blocked from editing Wikipedia as a result of your disruptive edits. You are free to make constructive edits after the block has expired, but please note that vandalism (including page blanking or addition of random text), spam, deliberate misinformation, privacy violations, personal attacks; and repeated, blatant violations of our neutral point of view policy will not be tolerated.

Femto 20:10, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No, this and especially this are not constructive edits.

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 week for vandalizing Wikipedia. If you wish to make useful contributions, you are welcome to come back after the block expires. Femto 13:20, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Herminio Barrera

If you want to dispute the prod, fine, remove it and state your reasons, but don't remove valid categories. Valrith 19:45, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not modify the above image again, unless you have a valid reason. The image is used on the userboxes and the image you upload does not look good in the box. If you wish to upload it for other reasons I suggest you do so under another file name. Regards Khukri ^{(talk . contribs)} 16:50, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

October 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to Tom Croft has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. Thingg ^⊕^⊗ 19:30, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The recent edit you made to Tom Croft constitutes vandalism, and has been reverted. Please do not continue to vandalize pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thank you. Thingg ^⊕^⊗ 19:30, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not vandalize pages, as you did with this edit to Tom Croft. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:31, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Rugbyball! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 2 of the articles that you created are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 3 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

Richard Metcalfe - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Christian Loader - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 06:17, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Steve Mafi

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If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners or ask at Wikipedia:Help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Epbr123 (talk) 17:41, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Bob Rowell

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Proposed deletion of Dave Sims (rugby player)

The article Dave Sims (rugby player) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

From talk page: "A former rugby player and the only source is an ESPN "External link" showing just one event that does not advance notability.". Otr500 (talk) 17:17, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Otr500 (talk) 17:17, 30 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]