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Happy editing! Cheers, Comr Melody Idoghor (talk) 10:20, 30 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Albert Lewis (footballer) moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Albert Lewis (footballer), is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) WP:NFOOTY is no longer a valid SNG, so GNG must be met. It needs several refs from independent, reliable, secondary sources to pass WP:GNG. It should have at least 3 of those. Please remember that routine sports coverage does not satisfy GNG, and that interviews, being primary sources, do not go to notability either. Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 12:27, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Major MTB and cyclo-cross results

Hey, I was noting that we currently don't include beyond top the three places in major championships such as the world and European championships for mountain bike and cyclo-cross results. I feel like these would definitely qualify as major results, considering we include the full top 10 for even 1.2 events in road cycling. What do you think of this? There is definitely a bias towards coverage of road cycling compared to other disciplines and this could help narrow the gap in coverage. Seacactus 13 (talk) 23:56, 26 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Seacactus 13,

Yes, possibly, I feel the gap also needs to close, but the field in road is much wider? Just looking at the Euro cyclocross last year. Only 17 finished (in a field of 30). Timon Ruegg came 10th and although maybe notable for him, isn't really a major result just coming in the top 1/3 of the race.

Mountain bike is different with a much global field and bigger startlist. I know they also have 5 on the podium for world cups etc, due to some weird reason involving Cadel Evans I think. But you do see riders celebrate a 5th place finish.

For consistancy, how about a top 5 in the Worlds/Europeans for both disiplines? But then what do you do about under-23/junior races? What do you think? It's hard because cyclo-cross is much smaller but maybe this is the best compromise SmartVandelay (talk) 09:00, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A top 5 would be good, similar to the national road championships. We could also make slightly different guidelines for cyclo-cross than MTB too. In terms of junior and U23 races, we could go either way with including only the top 3 or also doing the top 5. Maybe we should include all 5, as I believe we still do for U23 and junior road races. Seacactus 13 (talk) 14:13, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think make it as simple as possible

so

top 5 for all worlds/euros in all age categories for both cx/mtb

it would be good to do the same for world cups, but then it gets confusing for smaller classifications superprestige/trofee/french cup etc that don't really deserve a top 5. Mainly because there would be too many results on riders pages, that it would look ridiculous, especially as mtb/cx riders don't seem to have much written content on their pages compared to road riders. SmartVandelay (talk) 09:57, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

although saying that. I think top 5 in elite world cups wouldn't make that much difference. SmartVandelay (talk) 10:45, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, including just the world cup would work well, as it definitely is a level above the others. Seacactus 13 (talk) 16:57, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Northampton Town fan.

I've added the article Frank McDiarmid, however I noticed on 1908–09 Northampton Town F.C. season you had him listed as Fred, so I was a little confused, I started changing over to Frank, but Fred? Did Goodwin get his first name wrong? He is normally pretty good. McDiarmid seemed to be an important player during those four seasons he was at Northampton. Hope you can help improve the article. Regards. Govvy (talk) 13:35, 27 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Govvy,

I have only been going by what's known around Northampton circles, specifically Frank Grande's centenary book. It wouldn't surprise me if he went by Fred as a nickname? The book does have plenty of mistakes so I'm happy to be corrected, there was a situation with Lloyd Davies from the same era and team, where he was called Edwin Lloyd-Davies - even making the offical records...but that was just a repetition of an error. SmartVandelay (talk) 16:38, 27 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Released players

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Cole Kessler

Is it possible for this lad to have a wiki page? Colekessler03 (talk) 19:24, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Davide Piganzoli

Hi SmartVandelay. I was wondering why you removed the classics results timeline on Davide Piganzoli's page that I added. Kaduuuuuu (talk) 16:23, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

One good result is not worthy or a table, wait till he gets a few more, like every other rider. @Kaduuuuuu SmartVandelay (talk) 19:19, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh okay understandable, why keep the GT result time line though. Kaduuuuuu (talk) 14:39, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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