Talk:Gary Payton

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Contents 1 Bandages across lower back 2 Best perimeter defender in NBA history? 3 Page move 4 RFD resolution

[edit] Bandages across lower back

I've been having trouble finding a citation for this, although I'm almost certain it did happen. If I recall correctly, he did it at least once between 2000 and 2003, but finding old NBA game reports is very difficult, and I can't come up with a good query. I'm pretty sure that it was an ACE bandage, but I'm not sure about that. If anyone can find a source, or a good resource for looking up old NBA.com (or other) articles, it would be much appreciated. Davemcarlson 04:07, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Best perimeter defender in NBA history?

I don't think there's a consensus on Gary Payton being the best perimeter defender in NBA history.

• Certainly not. I saw it listed in the "ghost text" of the page, and decided to include it in the main text in hopes that someone could find some sort of source or proof for the citation. I think we should probably leave that text in for a little while to see if anyone can find something, and then remove or modify that sentence if no new information arises. Davemcarlson 20:02, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Page move

It appears the other Gary Payton, an astronaut, uses a middle initial, thus the NBA player is "Gary Payton" and the astronaut is "Gary E. Payton" making their relative notability a non-factor.

But, even if the astronaut does not sign his checks with an "E." he should be moved to "Gary Payton (astronaut)" as the NBA player is infinitely more notable. Geographical bias is not a factor as they are both American.

— FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK) 07:41, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

I've moved Gary E. Payton to Gary Payton (astronaut) and Gary Payton (basketball) to Gary Payton per the request on Wikipedia:Requested moves. —Cleared as filed. 19:41, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RFD resolution

I resolved the discussion on RFD for this redirect (suggested 2005-11-17, page since moved to redirect location as not applicable, since the page was subsequently moved here. Here is an archive of the discussion:

• Gary Payton → Gary Payton (basketball). see Talk:Gary E. Payton and above. --necronudist 11:55, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

What's wrong with the above 5 redirects that warrants deletion? I've read the talk pages and they don't shed any light on the nominations. —Cleared as filed. 04:11, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

The NBA Wikiproject is going to reorganize all the stuff and we've decided that those redirects are usefull (will ever someone search for "Jason Chandler Williams" or "John "Hot Rod" Williams"? Maybe "Jason Williams" and "Hot Rod Williams"...). The Gary Payton redirect is completely unusefull, we've decided to move the article Gary Payton (basketball) to Gary Payton so the redirect must be deleted, same for Randy Smith. see also this. --necronudist 12:44, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

The impression I get about Redirect deletion policy is that we don't delete them just because we think no one will use them, we only delete them if there's something actually bad or confusing about them. Obviously someone thought to search for those terms once, because they created the redirect. As far as the redirects that need to be deleted to make way for page moves, I think those requests belong in Wikipedia:Requested moves and will be acted upon faster there. —Cleared as filed. 13:02, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Well, so delete Gary Payton and Randy Smith (basketball) so we can move those pages. --necronudist 20:02, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Sounds like those two just need to be moved to Wikipedia:Requested moves... 24.17.48.241 05:26, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Removed entry from RFD. Demi ^T/_C 01:30, 13 December 2005 (UTC)