Talk:Ma Lin (table tennis)

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contradiciton?

"Ma Lin is now 12-7 head-to-head against Wang Hao"
vs.
"Ma Lin has an amazing 88.7% winning rate against all his opponents."
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Paranoid Android1208 (talk • contribs) 00:17, 17 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

a bit more notable achievments are required

Highest ITTF ranking? (and period) When did he retire? Recent activities? like training associate at the chinese national team etc. Nice article by the way. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.6.53.148 (talk) 20:50, 3 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move 25 October 2019

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The result of the move request was: Consensus to not move. (closed by non-admin page mover) SITH (talk) 10:52, 1 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ma Lin (table tennis) → Ma Lin (table tennis, born 1980) – Per WP:PARTIALDAB. Currently this article is linked by close to 20 Paralympic articles which are supposed to link to Ma Lin (Paralympic table tennis): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Ma_Lin_(table_tennis)&limit=500 67.149.246.163 (talk) 05:12, 25 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC - this Ma Lin is one of the best table tennis players in history and far more famous than the paralympian Ma Lin. A hatnote would suffice. -Zanhe (talk) 09:16, 25 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Zanhe above WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. comrade waddie96 ★ (talk) 09:48, 1 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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