Talk:Pete Morelli

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:50, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Lasting Effect of 2014 NFC Wildcard game

I'm questioning whether this will have a lasting effect. All the other incidents have had a long term impact (either a change in rule or procedure). I don't believe there's a case for removing it yet as the lasting effect may take some time to determine, however I feel this section has become to long and wordy and appears to be more in the style of an online newspaper reporting current events (which Wikipedia is not) Rehnn83 ^Talk 11:26, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Yes, lasting effect and recentism really cannot be determined until at least the league's spring owners' meeting, when they propose and vote on new rules. The current length is more of a practical and temporary WP:IAR and WP:DEADLINE situation while it is still in the news, and currently under semi-protection. This, like the other NFL referee articles, become massive vandalism targets whenever there is a controversial call, especially during the playoffs. The goal is to preempt possible and numerous edit requests, asking to post recentism edits (which would normally happen if this page was not semi-protected) -- especially ones that would likely be requests that are either vandalism or violate WP:BLP, WP:POV or WP:OR. IMO, it also looks better if there is factual, cited and Non-POV content there to discourage (and perhaps inform) such vandals too. Most of these vandals are usually fans of the team that got jobbed on the call, and are taking their immediate anger onto these articles. Then, during the offseason when the news spike dies down, we can make WP:10YT cleanup. Zzyzx11 (talk) 05:26, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

I should also point out that "lasting effect" may not necessarily result in a rule or procedure change. I do not recall something like "Bottlegate" (which is mentioned in several articles) resulted in a rule change. Zzyzx11 (talk) 06:29, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

Zzyzx11 I can't disagree with any of the points you make, and that's the main reason I've not edited the main article. I'm putting down a marker that in future this section may no longer warrant inclusion (and as you suggest that future may well be months or years off). Rehnn83 ^Talk 10:58, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

Looks like someone else created a stand-alone 2015 Lions–Cowboys officiating controversy article. Zzyzx11 (talk) 10:10, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Every referee's wiki page highlights their most controversial calls. This was one of the most controversial calls in NFL history and think for consistency and importance it should be left in this article. Chuck216 (talk) 21:14, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Year he stopped officiating

He stopped officiating in 2019, not 1994, as it states at the top of his page. 174.21.29.99 (talk) 03:52, 5 January 2022 (UTC)