Talk:Kevin Nugent (ice hockey)

"Canadian"?

   Nine months after the accompanying article's creation, an editor added the only ref until now, the first tags (which included Category:Canadian ice hockey players), and further text including "is a Canadian businessman and...".
   I suppose that

1. a reckless editor might speculate that the (unreferenced) statement

   He was one of Wayne's "protectors," who would drop the gloves if someone took a run at The Great One.

   could only describe a fellow Canadian, and that

2. some editors might say "everyone on an American-based farm team of a Canadian team should be treated as playing for Canadians" without taking note of the clearly at-least-as-applicable description of Category:American ice hockey players,
3. but it's hard for me -- in the case of an editor with 1000 prior edits -- to attribute failure to include at least "American-born" to any cause other than losing track, in mid-edit, of which article corresponded to which source.

   I'm

1. removing all direct reference to Canada (but mentioning the team's Edmonton Oilers affiliation, to demonstrate our ceasing to call him Canadian did not stem from ignorance of them)
2. adding missing info, and
3. incidentally removing the unsourced content about his "protector" (or enforcer?) role, that is also, throughout, PoV, unencyclopedically worded, or both.

--Jerzy•t 05:44, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

I am retired, but just checking back in I found your comments above and on my talk page. I can't remember what I was thinking at the time I made the edit, while trying to start moving a 2 line unlinked stub into something more reasonable. I hope that your last suggestion (losing track mid edit) is the correct explanation. Thanks for fixing my error. Cje (talk) 18:03, 17 December 2011 (UTC)