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[edit] All Time World Team

I can guarantee you, that is only because I wouldn't list anybody twice - Schmeichel would be on my world team then ;) Poulsen 07:31, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Garrincha

You reverted some edits to Garrincha which you termed "vandalism". I don't believe that they were vandalism: having seen the original edit by 172.202.200.193 in "Recent Changes", I was unsure whether it was vandalism or not, so I looked up the item "lost his virginity to a goat" and found supporting evidence on the web. I therefore added a reference to this. If this material is good enough to go into a biography of the person, then should it not also be allowed in Wikipedia? I think the footballer was a remarkable figure - the biography's review claims he makes Gazza look like a saint. Accordingly I have replaced the text and reference. Please let me know if you disagree with this. -- MightyWarrior 21:44, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Forgive my ignorance. It was just that I had never heard of this. You can back this up with a link, so I do not disagree. ChaChaFut 21:53, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
Unfortunately you have re-reverted the article in question! And I've made some other minor edits, so I'll have to try and merge the changes. Please try to assume good faith in future before reverting - perhaps a check on the web (eg. Google) first might help. Apology accepted. -- MightyWarrior 22:00, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
My turn to apologise - you didn't re-revert, just reworded my text to make it read slightly better. Unfortunately the blank edit summary fooled me into thinking you'd reverted it! No worries. -- MightyWarrior 22:07, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You're welcome

My goal is to (a) normalize all the world cup articles to the official FIFA reports, WITH FOOTNOTES explaining where differences of opinion occur, and (b) create articles for every World Cup goalscorer. These articles are just really simple stubs, but if you at least have a stub in place, it makes it easier for people to add in facts until you have a real article. I won't stop until I'm done! I appreciate your comments, it's good to know people are paying attention. Just because 2006 WC is over doesn't mean the game can be ignored! \ Fnarf999 \ talk \ contribs \ 01:10, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

I saw what you put in Wetterström's article, and I think that's about right. It's crazy for us to try to prove who's right, so we just put the official status and if there's any question about that then put that in too. It's not just one or the other. \ Fnarf999 \ talk \ contribs \ 01:35, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
I agree. That's probably the only way to achieve some kind of consistency, while keeping users alert about the discrepancies. I have noticed, however, that many times the most reliable sources for information on each nation are the nations' FA websites and sources from each nation in general. These sources are maybe the best to cite in name spelling discrepancies, for example. ChaChaFut 01:51, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] FIFA World Cup records

You're welcome! Thanks for your edit on the article FIFA World Cup records too. I didn't realize Eusébio scored 4 pens. The article 1966 FIFA World Cup originally listed only 3, but I've checked FIFA's website and Wikipedia missed one, so your info helped me made an edit. Chanheigeorge 02:45, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Renaming WC groups

Well done. I recall the 1974 and 78 being letters rather than numbers. --Guinnog 22:44, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kocsis Article

Hello,

Thank you for cleaning up the reference on the Sándor Kocsis article. I still have a lot to learn about the technical aspects of editing Wikipedia. Thanks again.

Be healthy,

Michael David 00:31, 6 August 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Re:Adolfo Pedernera

Thanks, it was an enjoyable article to translate :). Feel free to add to it or improve the translation. Fabricationary 02:35, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

I appreciate the slight change you made to the Mia Hamm article. It was a minor incorrect detail, but it was nonetheless incorrect.

[edit] László Kiss

The FIFA report confuses him with Imre Kiss, which was a goalkeeper. That means Hungary was playing with 2 GKs after the 55th minute! :-P Oh well, I guess the FIFA article you found clears it up. Chanheigeorge 02:01, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Goodness. Didn't see that one! Just laughable. --ChaChaFut 02:04, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Players who have played for FC Barcelona and Real Madrid

Hi, just noticed you contributed to my category. Do you know anyone else who has played for both these teams. If so, then could you add it to the list --Ageo020 01:22, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Ok, i'll delete him. The category should only be for A team players. Thanks --Ageo020 01:38, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiproject:Italian Football

Hi ya. I see you add to Italian Football articles from time to time. Just wondering if you want to check out Wikipedia:Italian Football. We are just hoping to organise our efforts towards improving articles better. If you want to sign up just put your name down under participants on the project. You can do as much or as little work as you like and any ideas on improving pages would be great. Niall123 18:44, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your edits to Zinedine Zidane

Please do not add nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. hoopydinkConas tá tú? 03:31, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

I understand this is in regard to two edits I made to the Zinedine Zidane article in the last few days:

I'm unsure of why any of those edits would be considered nonsense and/or vandalism. I usually try to make quality contributions to articles, and fight vandalism, especially to Football-related articles. Football knowledge has been a hobby of mine since the 1980s. You can verify this by looking at my contributions, or simply look at my talk. However if indeed those edits were nonsense and/or vandalism as per Wikipedia standards,

  • 1. I apologize if my edits were of poor quality or if they were negative in any way;
  • 2. I appreciate you pointing out my mistakes;
  • 3. I will do my best to improve my edits and be careful not to make the same mistakes again; and
  • 4. Why were my edits not reverted, removed, or changed?

Thanks in advance for your response.

Best regards,

ChaChaFut 02:31, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi there ChaChaFut! First of all, please allow me to apologise for the time you spent messaging me. It was a truly unnecessary use of your time, as it seems as if the warning I left you was actually not intended for you, although at the time, I thought otherwise. The diff that prompted me to warn you is as follows; here. When the anonymous user editing with an IP reverted the silliness, I was under the impression that you had added the bit that was reverted. Again, I apologise for my mistake and thank you for both letting me know and spending some of your valuable time helping to ensure that the Zinedine Zidane article stays free of vandalism. In a weak (at best) effort to compensate you for the time exerted on my mistake, I'd be happy to create or work on an article of your choosing for however long it took you to deal with this. Cheers! hoopydinkConas tá tú? 02:44, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Football AID 29 October - 5 November

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[edit] Mimis Domazos

Hello! I saw your edits in Mimis Domazos page and I'd like to tell u some thing about him: Domazos is a living football legend in Greece (any Greek can assure you for that) and it's one of the most succesful Greek footballers ever (10 times Champion, 3 Greek cups, 1971 European Champions Cup runner-up with Panathinaikos FC). In addition, he had great leadership abilities, as he was Panathinaikos FC & Greece captain for over 13 years. So i cant understand why you added the NPOV template. Please explain me ;) --KaragouniS 11-1-2006 12.29 GMT

Hello, KaragouniS. Thank you for your comments. I can assure you I have absolutely no doubt that he is a legend. But just like Pelé's, Maradona's and Franz Beckenbauer's articles, which are about footballers that are also considered legends and whose great achievements (one can say) do not need explanation or back up, Mimis Domazos deserves a neutrally-written article, complete with references, that will let the reader know of his true greatness by presenting the well-documented facts. I hope this helps. I can guarantee you I only placed those tags with the good intention of causing other users to check the article out and contribute to make it better. I myself might help. Thanks again for your civil approach. Best regards. --ChaChaFut 22:53, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes you're absolutely right. I forgot for a moment that we're members of an international online encyclopedia :P (You see, I compared him only with the other Greek footballers). Anyway, I've made some corrections and wikified the article in order to do it as neutral as I could! Maybe Mimis Domazos is a living legend for Greek football, but Pele, Maradona and Beckenbauer are undoubtedly Football Gods ;). I'd like to thank you for helping me improve this article. See you around :) --KaragouniS 2-11-2006 18.06 GMT

[edit] Osip Mandelstam

Vandal warning removed - technichal mistake Alex Bakharev 03:53, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Hello there. This was actually a very stupid technical mistake om my part, for which I apologize sincerely. I happened to spot vandalism by 64.12.116.10 on the Lacey Chabert article, and then decided to see if this was a recurrent vandal, and when I saw his edit at the Osip Mandelstam article, my intention was to revert his edit, but for some reason I didn't realize this had been already done, and I ended up reverting the anti-vandal revert. This was a big Oops, and while I do make technical mistakes once in a while, I would never intentionally vandalize an article, as you can confirm by looking at my contributions. Plus, I do spend time reverting vandalism, which is what I intended to to on this article (which is of somebody I never heard of :( ). Earlier today I had to revert about 15 vandal edits by the same user, and I guess I got carried away in doing that. Again, be assured that my intention was good, I just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time... please accept my sincere apologies, and I will try not to make the same mistake ever again. --ChaChaFut 03:51, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks --ChaChaFut 03:55, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Munich

Would you be interested in helping out atWikiProject Munich? And you don't have to know anything about Munich. Maybe you could help out on bringing Munich-related articles up to Wikipedia Policies and guidlines standards or maybe another area where you could help improve Munich-related articles. Kingjeff 23:07, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Football AID 19 November - 26 November

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[edit] re: Category:Date of birth missing

Good evening. Per the discussion about privacy concerns expressed at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Privacy of birthdays, date of birth should generally not be added to the biographies of living non-public or semi-public figures. So far, that policy has been interpreted fairly strictly with a pretty high bar being set for the definition of "public figures" who are assumed to have given up their rights to privacy.

By the same token, we should not be adding Category:Date of birth missing to articles unless we have made the case that the person meets the "public figures" threshold. Otherwise, we're just baiting new users into adding content even though the community has already said that we shouldn't include that particular data point. Category:Year of birth missing is okay but the exact date is often not. Thanks for your help. Rossami (talk) 05:36, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

There is no such tag that I know of. The recognition of the need to protect privacy is a recent one.
I have been working through the category and removing the tag from essentially all pages except dead people or patently obvious public figures such as heads of state. I haven't run across any yet that I considered to be close judgment calls. (I assume that the biographies of pop-stars who are truly public figures already include the DOB so I wouldn't have found them while fixing the category taggings.) But if there is a question on a particular biography, we should open a discussion about it on the article's Talk page. Thanks again. Rossami (talk) 07:08, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Expanded articles of Guatemalan football.

I recently checked out the expansion of these articles you talked to me about. I really like the article about el domo, since I didnt know much about it and the expansion of Marquense. Keep up the good work, you're the best wikipedia source about Guatemalan football!! I've seen you on bigsoccer, Im "Popol Vuh" there. ;) Gtrojan 04:47, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Football AID 3 December - 10 December

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[edit] Doing something about the ridiculous date autoformatting/linking mess

Dear Cha—you may be interested in putting your name to, or at least commenting on this new push to get the developers to create a parallel syntax that separates autoformatting and linking functions. IMV, it would go a long way towards fixing the untidy blueing of trivial chronological items, and would probably calm the nastiness between the anti- and pro-linking factions in the project. The proposal is to retain the existing function, to reduce the risk of objection from pro-linkers. Tony 01:01, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ignacio Tréllez

Ignacio Tréllez is the name given in RSSSF [1] and Planet World Cup [2]. I changed it, because as you said, it sounded more Spanish, so I'm taking a guess that it's the correct one. Chanheigeorge 08:12, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

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