Talk:Erick Lindgren

This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.

If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page.

Biography: Sports and Games

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	Sports portal This article is supported by the sports and games work group.

Gambling: Poker Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Gambling, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Gambling on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.GamblingWikipedia:WikiProject GamblingTemplate:WikiProject GamblingGambling articles

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

This article is supported by WikiProject Poker (assessed as Low-importance).

WikiProject Gambling To-do:

Current collaborations:

Improve an article to FA

Improve an article to A

Help with the Gambling articles needing attention.
Tag the talk pages of Gambling-related articles with the {{WikiProject Gambling}} banner.
The link to the Missouri gambling site is now out of date and needs to be updated.
Japan section reads as though it was written by the gambling industry - quotes of 160% returns are 'citation needed'.

Unpaid gambling debts

I assure you, Poker News [1] is a valid reliable source for news about poker players. WP:BLP issues, whatever they might be here, can't trump the public right to know that a person is a shady business man if this is confirmed via reliable sources. The cat is completely out of the bag here; whitewashing this matter serves no encyclopedic purpose. -- Kendrick7^talk 07:40, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I assure you that you need to stop posting extremely contentious material. Poker News is not the source of the information. They are just reporting what a thread on a forum said. WP:BLP is completely clear, no self-published sources, no forum threads, no rumors. If you have an issue with the BLP rules, and how rumors should be considered encyclopedic, take it up on the talk page there. Until then, do not keep adding this material. It is the responsibility of every editor to remove such pitifully "sourced" material on sight (and that includes even if it is true). 2005 (talk) 18:55, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but WP:Secondary sources attest to the public statements these notable people -- peers of Mr. Lindgren (such as Kid Poker) -- have made.[2] You can be critical of the exact wording if you'd like. Surely you understand that Erick Lindgren is notable purely for being a professional gambler, and as such, both his gambling winnings and his losses are fair game in his biography, as is how he chooses to do business in his chosen profession if those choices are far outside the mean (as reliable sources attest to indeed be the case here). The purpose of WP:BLP isn't to tie our hands and force us to be solely a fanboy or cheerleader here. -- Kendrick7^talk 01:05, 8 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but you can't just ignore the Wikipedia's policy, as for secondary sources repeating gossip, please. This is the Wikipedia, not the Enquirer. 2005 (talk) 20:16, 8 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Last winter, Lingren entered rehab for his gambling problem, as has been covered in personal interview with Bluff Magazine published in February 2013.[3] I hope you will find that source more reliable. -- Kendrick7^talk 01:33, 8 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the Bluff article is a reliable source. The forum posts, and reprints of such, were not. --SubSeven (talk) 03:15, 8 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Erick Lindgren. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 16:15, 25 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on Erick Lindgren. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20091030230950/http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/players/index.asp?sort=cashearned to http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/players/index.asp?sort=cashearned
Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.bluff.com/magazine/broken-the-erick-lindgren-story-6094/

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 18:16, 22 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]