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Table dates

Hi, please remember to update the dates accompanying career stats tables. Thanks, Mattythewhite (talk) 01:41, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Cheers! Sorry about that. I've been going through a few pages. It must have slipped through. Thanks for the reminder.

Republican party Liberia

why am i not getting my text and i own the copyright to the name and opened this as a business as wayne fondren i dont understand

@Bai society: A historical political party that no longer exists cannot be "owned." You allegedly own the copyright to a brand new organization that has nothing to do with the historical Republican Party that existed in Liberia until the 1890s. Your organization's name may have been taken from that of the original party, but it is not the original party. So everything you have been adding is both grammatically senseless and historically inaccurate, not to mention the fact that you cite your own website, which is hardly a reliable source. There is no historical record of anything you have added to the page, and the format you use to add that information is incomplete and incorrect. The Republic Party that existed in Liberia until the 1890s, which this page refers to, is categorically not your organization. Anwegmann (talk) 23:32, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

June 2018

Hello, I'm not sure what you were intending with this edit, but you have restored a link to a disambiguation page (I.e. this page) which lists out all the people named John Donovan, whereas the link should go to a page for the specific player, if it existed, which would be John Donovan (footballer). In any event the name needs to be disambiguated so that it does not point to the disamb. page. If the fact that it produced a redlink has misled you, then please note that redlinks are perfectly acceptable for topics with the potential for a Wikipedia article, and Donovan as an international footballer (even if only currently a squad member) clearly fits that criterion. Cheers. Eagleash (talk) 17:39, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

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Sub Headings

Hi Anwegmann,

Yourself and many disagree with my use of subheadings. Let's talk about it, and feel free to bring on anyone else. I choose you because your reason was different than other is worth listening to your argument. In my favor I'd like to point out that some these subheadings have been tweaked for typos and trimming reason, hence this proves to me that there is a minority that weren't bothered to least of the presence of the subheadings.

I understand why my work on Jean-Claude Van Damme was questionable. The article was very dire when I first saw, and even if I like some of his work a lot, I wasn't very eager to go any further. I didn't feel the need to get involved deeply. So even if I made his career in chronological order it was dire when I left it alone for a while. I was still working on it when you showed up so some of them where a meh in my opinion. But I was trying to reducing them and had the intention still trimming them.

Yes, I think that the subheading clearly points out the milestone being accomplished by the performance artist at that point. This helps as an editor to click directly at the section that needed work and be on it right away.

Second as reader, it allows me to click on the event that interest me and skip directly to it. Why I did it in the first place.

Lets look at the Leonardo Dicaprio, and Chuck Norris pages where I did some heavy work. This is the pages before one deleted all subheadings. I think in these articles they are spotless. I feel they point out the milestone strait to the point. They are as short as they can be. In the case of Dicaprio many films are a current milestone. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leonardo_DiCaprio&diff=852669599&oldid=852669549 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chuck_Norris&diff=852817267&oldid=852814017

In the case of Dicaprio one reader may like to jump Romeo and Juliet or First Oscar win. In the case of Norris one reader may like to jump to Meeting Bruce or Cannon Group year.

I find them easy to read and find in TOC, and makes for as easier read.

ThanksFilmman3000 (talk) 00:35, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

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) 19:49, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

Yes, I try to, but I must have overlooked one today. My apologies.

September 2018

Information icon Please do not add or change content, as you did at Scott Wara, 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. GiantSnowman 08:42, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

The source originally cited for Wara's loan to Leek Town FC is the very source that explains that said loan was a one-month loan. This is drastically different than a season-long loan, and so clarity is needed. I explain that in my first edit today. As for Wara's appearances for Leek Town FC, I have provided references to Leek Town's official match reports showing his only two appearances for that club. He made the bench for a third match, on January 1, 2018, but did not make an appearance. So, to save space, I did not provide a reference to that match report. Here is the link if you're interested. http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/leektown/teams/17802/match-centre/1-2864547.

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November 2018

Information icon Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Oscar Dorley. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. GiantSnowman 18:24, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

But your edits were not correct. Dorley, for example, has 10 caps (as confirmed by NFT), not 9. GiantSnowman 18:33, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

So why did you "revert" my update to an even more incorrect stat? If I was one off, add another appearance. For that matter, too, describing a good faith update as unproductive is obnoxious and itself unproductive. If Dorley has 10 appearances, put 10. I counted 9 that I could confirm. If you count ten, that's fine. The key is that before I updated the page, it said eight. That, we can both agree, was incorrect. Yet you reverted my edit back to eight. Why? Stop being malicious and start being productive. That's the beauty of this thing—if someone is mistaken, someone else can come along and update it. Reverting a good faith edit, especially one that moves away from the actually correct information, is pointless.

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The source says he has 10. You have edited it to state it is 9 or 11. Stop. GiantSnowman 19:02, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

He has featured 11 times for Liberia. I just checked. NFT lists 10 appearances but has not updated that number to include his appearance yesterday. So, 10+1=11. It's that simple. You're being malicious and aggressive. I am trying to update this player's page correctly.

Maybe if you knew how to edit proprly (using edit summaries; citing reliable sources; signing talk page posts) people would take you more seriously. However, the fcat remains that by saying Dorley had 9 caps you were wrong. GiantSnowman 19:20, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
I reverted your edit as wrong and seemingly disruptive; I then edited it citing a reliable source. PS sign your talk page posts. GiantSnowman 19:31, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
Also see WP:WALLOFTEXT. GiantSnowman 19:40, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
It's not rude at all. Your rambling, overly and unnecessarily long posts are not helpful. I pointed you to an essay explaining why. GiantSnowman 21:04, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

Joel Johnson’s Categories

Sorry to butt in, but the following regarding Liberian football(ers): twice, you removed Spanish football-related categories in Joel Johnson (footballer). Those are not to be removed EVER please, the player was born in Spain (and one of his parents was from that nation as well) and played football in the country until the age of 24, he has double nationality so he will ALWAYS be a Spanish footballer and a Spanish expatriate footballer. Do not remove them again, if you please.

P.S. You can ask the administrator above these lines or here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football) to see that I am not lying, it's WP guidelines and not a mere editorial whim from me. Attentively --Quite A Character (talk) 23:59, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

No problem. Sorry about that. I will keep that in mind in the future. Anwegmann (talk) 00:05, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Oh, and I don’t assume that people are lying about correcting me. As I’ve mentioned before, I, like anyone, make mistakes. If you are willing to take the time to shoot me a message and explain why I was wrong, I trust that you did so in good faith. Thanks for the heads-up, again. Anwegmann (talk) 00:13, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

  • No worries, thanks for the quick and kind reply. Happy editing, from Portugal --Quite A Character (talk) 00:25, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Geoffrey Kondogbia

Dude. Got to WP:Footy and read or participate in discussion. Geoffrey Kondogbia is born in France, represented in France (youth team still a national team), so for these kind of dual internationals, we don't list his nationality. Or CAR-French / French-CAR were misleading and confusing. Matthew hk (talk) 04:26, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

Joel Johnson (footballer)

Hello there,

i sincerely do not understand. Can you please leave article the way it is? Both Real Madrid C and Jaén were in the third level/tier (i did not write Segunda División B again because it was already linked/mentioned in his Valencia B career), and CD Buñol was in Tercera División (fourth division/tier); if you click the seasonal wikilink for Buñol provided in the paragraph, you will see just where Buñol competed (Tercera División – yes, literally it means "Third Division" in Spanish, but it is the fourth tier/echelon in importance – group VI).

Hopefully this will not escalate (nor does it need to, i am right in this instance and you are wrong. I write summaries for my changes, you do not provide any). Attentively --81.193.141.118 (talk) 18:08, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

Ha! Okay. Calm down, bro. Anwegmann (talk) 18:35, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

  • Sorry if i seemed aggressive, not my intention whatsoever. Yes, text looks 100% fine now :) --81.193.141.118 (talk) 18:52, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

Filip Nguyen

Hello. A question regarding Filip Nguyen's international status. I'm no expert when it comes to these things, hence why I'm discussing with you before making any dumb edits. I get what you're saying about the two statements potentially contradicting each other, but Nguyen is eligible for Vietnam despite the need to be naturalized. As he can play for Vietnam due to his roots, as opposed to it being a footballer who plays/lives in a country for a number of years before applying for citizenship; à la Emerson Sheik. Perhaps better wording is needed? I could be missing something obvious, which would make my arguments here irrelevant - but wanted to verify. R96Skinner (talk) 23:57, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

I hear what you're saying, and I agree with the issue at hand. I suppose my point is that he does not currently have a Vietnamese passport—at least as far as I can figure out—and so he is not technically eligible to play for Vietnam. Being eligible to receive a passport from a country doesn't necessarily make a player eligible to play for that country. The passport/active citizenship makes that player eligible to play for the country. Does that make sense? Gedion Zelalem comes to mind for me. He was born in Germany to Ethiopian parents but grew up in the United States. He was eligible to receive a US passport, but he was not eligible to play for the United States until he received that passport. It might just be language semantics here. So maybe we're talking in circles. Ha! I think in any case, we should hold off on stating his full eligibility until he either receives a passport (which would obviously be difficult verify) or gets a call-up from Vietnam, which should be relatively soon. I'm open to other ideas, though, and I don't fully disagree with you. Thanks for the comment. Anwegmann (talk) 15:40, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Yeah, I think it's fine as it is. Appreciate your response! R96Skinner (talk) 17:08, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

No problem. I in turn appreciate your message. Keep an eye out for any announcements concerning Nguyen. I'm sure something will come up soon. Thanks! Anwegmann (talk) 18:25, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

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March 2020

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Why do you think I stopped at three reversions? I figured it was no use. And given that the person who as changing it is not a registered user, I just let the issue go rather than bringing it up in the Talk page. Anwegmann (talk) 17:53, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

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SK Slavia Prague

Dear Anwegmann,

Please let me share my thanks for the 104-thousand bites of information that you have deleted from the SK Slavia Prague wiki-page. Even though you have commented that "You were not doubting that the information was decent or even good, but the number of edits and amount of revision required to make them sensible required a restart", I would like to leave a comment about my feelings on your talk page. Thank you once again for a nice comment, it really was a chunk of hard-work to produce this.

It really does make me proud that you had appreciated research that I did, but I do also feel an underestimation when you said that "nearly all edits made after this version of the page (more than 1,500 edits) were by a single user, and nearly all of them were either unsourced, poorly written, excessive, or unclear."

I do understand why: 1) the language might have been unclear - perhaps for the fact that English is not the first language here, 2) the sources have not been cited adequatelly - perhaps for the fact that some citations do not have sources in english media (but this is not an excuse, I promise that I will do a research on this), 3) you claim sensibility of the content - because I would like to challenge you as a football fan on building a content together, 4) why you are commenting on a single-user-edis - is that a problem?? and 5) that you call this excessive, because I think that a football fan like you might be able to restructure the sections on the page, and 6) that you have freaked the most on the formatting of the page - feel free to leave a remark.

I do understand that wiki-beginners should be watched, commented and corrected, but instead of this, you have decided to delete all the content. As a SK Slavia Prague fan I would like to challenge you to build the page, to make the site's information up-to-date and relevant and transform to a english-friendly for all readers and much relevant compared to other top-european football teams.

I sense that your edit brought the SK Slavia's Prague page 20 years into the past, please do not destroy, try to build-up and share information..

Thank you and with all the respect, WeqweEwrer (talk) 19:16, 13 August 2020 (UTC)WeqweEwrer (PB)

I appreciate this message, and I want to make clear that I am not trying to silence you or diminish in any way the clearly vast amount of research you have done on Slavia Prague. The issue is that the page to which you have added so much content is the English-language page for the team. The language you use in writing your content absolutely must be clear and grammatically correct. I understand that English is not your first language. I am sympathetic to that. But contributing to the English-language page of a major European club requires the ability to write clearly and correctly in English. The problem at the heart of many of your contributions is that they are not grammatically correct in English. As a result, other users become tasked with editing you writing, which is burdensome and, given the amount you have added to the page, extremely time consuming. You may absolutely cite Czech-language material, but your written English needs to be clear and concise. If you want to add material, use Slavia Prague's talk page to suggest changes that you may not be able to add yourself in a clear and concise manner. This is not an attack on you as a person or a researcher in any way. It is simply to say that an advanced working knowledge of written English is required to add as much information as you have previously added to Slavia Prague's English-language page.

Anwegmann (talk) 19:24, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Marlon Fossey

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I've merged at User:GiantSnowman/Marlon Fossey and expanded. GiantSnowman 20:56, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
Thanks, @GiantSnowman:. This is great. Anwegmann (talk) 20:57, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

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Your recent bold edit has been reverted. Per the bold, revert, discuss cycle, after a bold edit is reverted, the status quo should remain while a discussion is started instead of edit-warring, and it should be resolved before reinstating the edit, after a needed consensus is formed to keep it. Vaselineeeeeeee★★★ 20:25, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

I'm not exactly sure to what you are referring. Is it the Weston McKennie thing from the "Personal Life" section? The only reason I reverted it was because someone else had already reverted your deletion of it early in the day, and that section had been part of the page for months. So my assumption, along with those of several others, it would seem, was that the burden was on you to explain why it was/is irrelevant information. The truth is that I don't care very much, in all honesty. Anwegmann (talk) 21:50, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

October 2020

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 Allen Njie 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. GiantSnowman 19:52, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Just added two sources. Thanks, man. Let me know if that looks alright. Anwegmann (talk) 22:32, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
You need a better source than Facebook! GiantSnowman 09:28, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
It's the team's official Facebook page, though. To my knowledge, the team does not have a standalone website and, as far as my searches have turned up, it also doesn't have Twitter. This is the Swiss second division and Israeli Premier League we're talking about here, not quite the sort of leagues Sky and the BBC bangs down doors to report on. I'm all ears for other options, but I can tell you, based on these two sources and the photos they have, that Allen Njie plays for Bnei Sakhnin and no longer plays for Grasshoppers. Anwegmann (talk) 18:37, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Question

Hey, Ohnoitsjamie, firstly, I appreciate your help both earlier this week and today. Secondly, if the IP who is disrupting Will Donkin continues to disrupt the page after the one-week ban, is there a better place for me to make an appeal than the Wikipedia:Requests for page protection page? Anwegmann (talk) 21:09, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

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Thanks for the welcome

Calm down mate. I’m a new editor who misunderstood some total columns on player’s statistics. No need to try and tell me to not ever edit, try and be more welcoming to new editors in future and give them advise on how to improve rather than act as if you with your less than 3,000 edits makes you big ErraticDrumlin (talk) 22:41, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

Firstly, @ErraticDrumlin:, I never told you to stop editing or to never edit again. I suggested that if you plan to edit, you should do so "appropriately, correctly, and completely." A number of your edits have been haphazard. So, secondly, we all make mistakes, which is totally normal and forgivable; but you need to practice before you jump into everything. For example, when updating a player's stat chart, update everything in one go rather than in 5, 6, or 7 separate actions. If you use the "Preview" button at the bottom, you can see your work as it will appear when you publish it. That way you can check your work, update multiple stat lines at once, and avoid consistent mistakes. Also, always make sure that you update all stats—infobox and stat chart—when necessary, and dates, of course. There are standard practices that make everything easier for all of us if we all follow them. If individuals do not follow them, they create more work for those who have to fix repeated problems. There's your advice. I'll go back to working on my edit number to better justify how "big" I think I am. Anwegmann (talk) 01:35, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
@Anwegmann:, it's not appropriate to state that my edits are "rubbish". Also, instead of just instructing me to stop updating pages either incorrectly or haphazardly and to maintain standard practices in edit summaries(!), why not just post a message to my talk page giving me some guidance on what the standard practices are? Have a look at Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers please. It clearly states: "New members are prospective contributors and are therefore Wikipedia's most valuable resource. We must treat newcomers with kindness and patience—nothing scares potentially valuable contributors away faster than hostility. It is very unlikely for a newcomer to be completely familiar with Wikipedia's markup language and its myriad of policies, guidelines, and community standards when they start editing." I can see that, if I have a lot to learn about editing, then you too have a lot you need to learn as an editor. I can see that you have had prior warnings about edit warring and the addition of unsourced content, so perhaps you need to work on your own edits before you describe new users' contributions as rubbish. ErraticDrumlin (talk) 08:43, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
You have got to get over yourself, mate. Stop expecting me or anyone else to hold your hand and treat you like some kind of mentee, writing caring notes on your talk page when you edit improperly. The offense you've taken from this is stunning. If grammar can be rubbish, as you stated, edits can be rubbish, as I stated using the same word(s) you used. Lighten up, calm down, get over yourself, lower your expectations, keep learning, and keep editing. But as you continue editing and learning, try to do it appropriately and correctly, expecting it to be changed, reverted, or otherwise corrected if and when you don't. That way, we won't ever have to interact with each other again, which would be ideal, at least from my perspective. Again, we all make mistakes, get reverted, and get weird little messages on our talk pages that we find more annoying than instructive. Most of us just get over it really quick, take it as a learning experience, and move on to the next page we want to edit, trying each time to do it better than the last time. Correcting someone is not "biting" them, just as molehills are not mountains. Best of luck. Anwegmann (talk) 22:40, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
It does not surprise me at all that you aren't aware that Wikipedia instructs you to comment on content, not on the contributor. My comment describing grammar as rubbish described content, your comment describing my edit as rubbish was a comment on me as a contributor. So it's clear to me that I am a much more competent editor than you are and are much more clued up on "standard practices" than you. I don't expect anyone to hold my hand and treat me as a mentee, but what I do expect is that other editors treat newbies with respect, and do not attempt to discourage them at editing. If you have a problem with me as an editor, you can come and say what you have to say on my talk page, rather than hiding away in edit summaries like a coward.
I'm not sure why you are telling me to calm down when this tread started with a warning for you yourself to calm down, try not to be a hypocrite as an editor in future please. If you feel you have to resort to insults and patronising childish language to assert yourself as an editor, then what does that say about your strengths as an editor? Using this language doesn't make me scared, it just makes it look like you are the one who's trying to look big. As well as having had warnings over edit warring and adding content without sources, it's clear that you have several other limitations as an editor. ErraticDrumlin (talk) 23:02, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
This all sounds about right and is not much beyond what I expected. All of my points still stand. Indeed, they’ve become more prudent and reinforced. Anwegmann (talk) 00:39, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Timothy Weah

As far as I know there is no rule that one have to update both infobox and career stats at the same time. Let me know if there is such a rule! If there is no rule like that, you can't revert a right edit like you did last time. It is my choice to update only infobox. You can update career stats section without bothering others as well. Cheers! Kokoeist (talk) 06:07, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

To update only the infobox is a disservice to everyone who you are forcing to complete your update to keep the player's stats up to date. Simply put, only updating the infobox is tantamount to providing an incomplete update. There is no written "rule" to my knowledge. It is rather an expression of good faith and recognition that updating a player's stats only partially is counter-productive. Anwegmann (talk) 14:21, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Folarin Balogun

To answer your question in your edit summary - appearance(s) for U17 confirmed here and U18 here - both detailed/referenced in article already. GiantSnowman 16:44, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

Okay, cool. Thanks, @GiantSnowman:. Should we list the appearances we know about, or should we wait to tally all possible appearances? I ask simply because it looks awkward to have the side listed with no stats beside them. Anwegmann (talk) 16:59, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

Bit of Help Please

Could you please help me out with the article Spanish Guinea. The article there is quite broken. I have already gave the reasons why it is broken in the talk page. Kanto7 (talk) 08:47, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

@Kanto7: Sure. I'll give it a look this afternoon (US central time) and get back to you. Anwegmann (talk) 14:43, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
 Please could you look at it Kanto7 (talk) 08:08, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
I have looked at it, and I agree that there are a lot of serious gaps in the information. I'm unsure exactly what you're asking of me. Are you suggesting that by "looking" at it I should fill those gaps? If that is the case, I must unfortunately decline, as my expertise is in French West Africa, British West Africa, and Liberia, so it would take an enormous amount of individual research on my part to fix this article alone. If you want to start a draft with some suggested, substantive changes, we can start with that and build. But as it stands right now, I agree that there are important gaps, but I'm unsure exactly what you would like me to do about it. I am happy to work with you in filling those gaps, but I can't do it myself. Shall we set up a draft? Anwegmann (talk) 16:27, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
 Alright. We can set up a draft Kanto7 (talk) 00:38, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

Tosin Adarabioyo

Hello, please can you reach out to us regarding Tosin's page. Our site is closeview(dot)com. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Closeview (talk • contribs) 11:17, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

No. Anwegmann (talk) 17:06, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Cameron Carter-Vickers

He represents America internationally but that doesn't make him an American; in the same way Ethan Ampadu isn't actually Welsh and that Mick McCarthy isn't actually Irish. He grew up in Essex; the article itself says so. It's a well-established convention that with very few exceptions (namely those who moved to the country they represent at a very young age, such as Cedric Soares, Erling Haaland and Raheem Sterling), we do not state a player's nationality in the opening sentence if they represent a country different to that of their birth. Perhaps ambiguous was the wrong word but the fact of the matter is, we're better of not including his nationality. Look up the two I mentioned above, Dan James, Riyad Mahrez, Scott McTominay, Oli McBurnie, Alex Bruce, Romain Saiss, Hakim Ziyech, the list goes on; those who merely represent their national team but don't necessarily have a strong enough link to that country to be considered to be someone from that country. Carter-Vickers falls into that same bracket - "he spent a few weeks at a time there as child" really doesn't make him American to me. Afreoleidddra (talk) 16:36, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

@Afreoleidddra: Look at the lengthy discussions that we have had on WP:WPF and on Cameron Carter-Vickers's talk page. You are not saying anything new. This has all come up before, and it was consensus to list him has an American soccer player. There's no reason to argue this with me. I didn't make this decision. The community did. Before you continually make changes to established articles, you need to read the discussions and get an idea for where consensus sits. If you don't, your edits are tantamount to vandalism. Please stop making these changes. If you think we need to revisit his footballing nationality, bring it up again on the article's talk page. You cannot make these types of decision unilaterally. I am pinging @GiantSnowman: here, as he has been involved in the Cameron Carter-Vickers discussion as well as many, many others related to this exact issue. Please stop acting unilaterally and making unproductive, counter-consensus edits. Anwegmann (talk) 16:50, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
@Afreoleidddra: the last discussion I can see about this issue was Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/Archive 130#Cameron Carter-Vickers where I said use British English... GiantSnowman 16:55, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
@Afreoleidddra: and @GiantSnowman: From my understanding of that discussion, before it descended into a strange discussion about his citizenship vs. nationality, the consensus majority decision was that he was American, at least as far as football was concerned. I also recall you referring to Carter-Vickers as a reason to use "soccer" instead of "football" for Yunus Musah a few weeks (months, maybe?) ago. Based on the discussion cited above, and where that discussion left off, "professional soccer player" seems most appropriate in Carter-Vickers's case—which, I think, was how it appeared a while ago. Should I open this discussion up again on the Talk page? Anwegmann (talk) 17:05, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
@GiantSnowman: Here is the link to your reference to Carter-Vickers as reason to refer to Musah as a "soccer player" rather than "footballer." https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football&diff=next&oldid=1000902223 or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/Archive 138#"Footballer," "association football player," or "soccer player"? Anwegmann (talk) 17:12, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
Your point about there being a consensus is laughable. The user that asked the original question finishes the discussion with "my original point still stands". Which, incidentally, was about the language that should be used, not whether to specify his nationality in the opening sentence. As for his talk page, there's literally nothing there. Not a single word. Please, please find stronger evidence of this so-called consensus before you accuse me of being unproductive and a vandal. Afreoleidddra (talk) 17:23, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
Did you see the references I made above? How is that laughable? And again, what I am suggesting is listing him, as has been the case in the past, as "a professional soccer player," in keeping with all of the references cited in the discussion above. I am also more than willing to open the discussion on the Talk again to arrive at a new consensus. As it stands, though, there is no consensus at all that British English should be used. I am completely fine with taking "American" out of it, as there is likewise no consensus for keeping it. Anwegmann (talk) 17:44, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
There isn't any consensus, especially given I can't even remember my own position on the matter! GiantSnowman 18:26, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
Okay, cool. I'll open it up on the article's talk page and see where it goes. Anwegmann (talk) 18:37, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

March 2021

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 Anthony Laffor article, but I have found one and added it for you. Please try and remember to include sources yourself with future edits. Please let me know if you have any questions. GiantSnowman 10:06, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Oh, my bad. It slipped my mind, as I was putting through a number of edits. I'll go back and source it. Thanks for the reminder. Anwegmann (talk) 17:58, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
Just saw you already did. I appreciate it. Anwegmann (talk) 18:00, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
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