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[edit] Re: Link removal

Hi - I got a message from user Burzmali about removing an external link I had added to a scholarly journal about decisionmaking and judgment in sport and exercise. Sorry; I can't figure out how to reply to him directly. Linking to a journal is not allowed; can someone clarify? Also, the history page indicates that my edit was identified as vandalism. Egads! Can someone help me understand that? I thought vandalism was more malicious than that. I wouldn't want the scourge of vandalism associated with my username. User:Mookie25 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mookie25 (talk • contribs) 00:36, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Linking to a journal is allowed - however the external links guidelines forbid linking to sites that require payment to view the content. They seem to be high-quality journal articles so the best way to use them in this article would be to add text to this article citing them as sources - the easiest way to do this would be through the footnote system. Your edit was definitely not vandalism as it was a good faith attempt to improve the article. The person who reverted your edit used a computer program that often labels edits as vandalism - I've seen that program make mistakes before. The program probably thought your edit was vandalism - more specifically spam - because you placed your link at the top of the list; all new external links should be placed at the bottom of a list unless there is a good reason not to do so. You can contact the editor who reverted you directly at user talk:user Burzmali and you can contact me directly at user talk:graham87. The easiest way to add a comment is to use the "+" link next to the "edit this page" link and you can sign comments on talk pages like this one using four tildes like this: "~~~~". Graham87 13:00, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Graham and Burzmali, Thanks very much for clarifying. The "vandalism" thing bothers me, but I understand about the policy. I was in fact making a good-faith effort to highlight relevant external content and not trying to increase rankings for that page (don't know the first thing about that!). Oh well. Graham, thank you as well for the advice about improving the content of the article and citing sources. Best, Mookie25 15:08, 12 September 2007 (UTC)Mookie25

[edit] Re: Page Move

I've moved the content from 'Sports psychology' to here, since this is the technically correct title.

I'll be adding more content to this page shortly - I'm in the midst of writing several Sport Psych. assignments for university, so I should have some good content for this page in a week or so.

-- Sasuke Sarutobi 22:56, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

I've now repointed all the links from the other page.

-- Sasuke Sarutobi 23:15, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removal of section

I've removed the section "History of sports psychology" because it reads more like an essay than an encyclopedia article. There probably is useful data in there but it doesn't need to be presented in this way. The diff of my removal showing the text I removed can be found here. Graham87 11:29, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I've put the section back for now because there are several tags on the article that refer to it. I'll do more with the article when I have more time, and on reflection I've decided a wholesale removal of the section would not be the wisest thing to do. Graham87 11:32, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Posting the info I deleted from the page incase it can be used in another section (doubt it):

If you want to see a sports psychologist, i would see Natalie Hahn-Pruett. Natalie is a graduate of Notre Dame University. She also Knows alot about spots because she is married to Athelete, Josh Pruett. I Would read her book, "Being a sports psychologist while being married to a pruett."

Indeed I think it's just someone at school adding names of friends/enemies/themselves. Just take a look at the contributions of the user who added that text. Graham87 11:42, 2 May 2007 (UTC)