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February 2012

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UC Santa Barbara Gauchos men's soccer

Ldurkin, please adhere to WP:POV, WP:WEIGHT, and WP:LABEL, which are Wikipedia policies and part of the WP:MOS, when editing UC Santa Barbara Gauchos men's soccer. Your recent revisions to the article are in violation of these principals and have been reverted. Thanks, GauchoDude (talk) 14:02, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Ldurkin:, it's marginally better, however it's still way out of WP:BALANCE with the rest of the article. Your statement that "...deleting the paragraph all together shows bias by trying to hide history..." is factually incorrect and personally offensive. A little research on your part would show that I neatly summarized everything in a more concise paragraph, uniform with the rest of the article and in direct contradiction to your accusatory statement.

Without devolving into a "he said, she said" back and forth, it could very easily be theorized that you're the one attempting bias in expanding a quite small incident in much more detail than the rest of the entire history of the page, especially in light that the overwhelming majority of your user contributions are either to the Cal Poly soccer page or the UCSB soccer page. After all, no one is expanding in detail why every record attendance Cal Poly touts is against UCSB, five of which aren't even home matches, or why your crowds are so raucous, or that more cops are needed when Santa Barbara comes to town.

– GauchoDude (talk) 20:57, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@GauchoDude, this edit of your's would fit the definition of bias. Paul Holocher resignation - Despite the valiant efforts by head coach Paul Holocher to push Cal Poly to a respectable level of play, it was announced on August 11th, 2014 that Holocher had stepped down from his role to join a youth soccer club.[9] Holocher, who spent 8 seasons guiding the team, abandoned them just 12 days before their first scheduled match of the 2014 season against the California Golden Bears.[10] He left with a final record of 72-60-25 and only 1 NCAA Tournament appearance. Phil Ruskin, a second year assistant coach, was promoted to be the interim head coach upon Holocher's departure having never held a head coaching position before.[11] Predictably, Cal Poly lost their first match to the unranked Davidson Wildcats after giving up 4 straight second half goals.[12]

can we just agree to a truce to not slander each other's school's articles?

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Re gubernatorial edit

I have no problem with the change but I would point out that changes are not determined by majority, but by consensus and consistency with policies and guidelines. 331dot (talk) 15:10, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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