User talk:Fyunck(click)

You know, I've been fortunate in my life to have witnessed Laver and Rosewall walk out on to the court to play each other; to have heard the applause, to have heard dead silence from the crowd as a point was in progress. The years came and went as did the antics of Nastase, Connors and McEnroe... as did the stoic determinations of players like Borg, Evert, Sampras and Federer. Between submitting articles to tennis magazines, I've watched the ladies game move from lithe of foot players like King and Goolagong, to athletic powerhouses, using hi-tech equipment, such as Navratilova, Graf and Williams. Service has changed from having to keep one foot on the ground or just getting the ball in play, to players who can fire a dart that only high speed cameras can behold. Of course I wasn't there in the 1920's when tennis truly went international and the ILTF wrote into their bylaws that no Major championship could claim to be a "world championship" or that the language of tennis would be "for ever in English." But the repercussions of those early days, and binding together of adversarial organizations, laid the groundwork for what we have today. The sport is special to me and it always will be.

When I started editing at the English Wikipedia 7 or 8 years ago things were much much different. Guidelines and policies were not as complete and it was certainly more "English alphabet" oriented; other language Wikipedias were being formed to cover their own spellings and foibles. Vandalism and personal attacks happened to be sure but not to the extent it does today. Item placement was based much more on common use, sourcing and verifiability, rather than a consensus of opinion and how we would like things to be. We reported what we saw and read rather than making our own truth that would get picked up by Google and become a self-fulfilling factoid. It was source, source, source... verify not truth. The wiki world has changed. Maybe it's newer younger editors and their own world viewpoints, maybe it's that the percentage of English-first speakers has gone down in numbers. I'm not sure. But something has made this a less pleasing place to edit.

Over the last year I've been attacked and lied about by one or two editors... nothing has happened through my pleas. It wears on one but by ignoring things most of the time, I've been able to muddle through. When it gets to be too much I call them on it, but nothing is ever done. I know others read what is written and I know that they ignore it. This includes many administrators. Again maybe this is the way things work here now... who you know seems to be very important. But again, while not as enthused as I once was, I still fight vandalism and add items to established pages, while occasionally creating new player bios. But now I see that no matter how well sourced an item is, Wikipedia is looking to allow censorship of established player names. Amazingly, English spellings found as commonplace in the press, books, organizations, etc... are not just being systematically moved into the far corners of an article (that had already been done over the last couple years), but now these spellings are potentially being banished from Wikipedia forever, as if they never existed or are never used. Literally expurgated from this Wikipedia. And this with many administrators blessings. I have to say it hurts to see it go the way of New York soft drinks. It's not like we have storage limitations. Encyclopedia Britannica will often make sure multiple spellings are present so as to give their readers full information. I can't even comprehend how censoring could happen, but it has... here of all places.

This will require a re-evaluation as to what I can really offer to this encyclopedia and what enjoyment it can offer me. Sadly the environment I see now does not appear to be going in a direction that is pleasing to my typing efforts, and fighting off character attacks is certainly wearing me down... at least in an enjoyment capacity. Where consensus used to mean trying to work with everyone to find common ground that all can live with (whether minority or majority), it now seems to be an all or nothing, my way or the highway type of decision. Fyunck(click) (talk) 22:04, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

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Reversion

If you check the contributions for the IP address that reverted TheOldJacobite's edits, you'll notice that User:Elockid reverted every single edit by that IP address, all of which were constructive. It's a typical example of a mod not even bothering to look at the edits they revert.--190.248.94.78 (talk) 00:09, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Nice try, MoonMetropolis. Elockid ^(Talk) 01:54, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

And actually, I saw what was done after the fact. If a user is blocked or banned and they make an edit, it should be reverted whether it's a good or bad edit. Elockid did exactly what I would do, and what should be done. I just didn't see it when I corrected the removal and added the summary. Next time on this particular issue I will check first. Thanks Elockid. Fyunck(click) (talk) 02:25, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Sockpuppet activity?

The recent edits by [this user] seem very familiar (as does the user's location). Do you recall the details of those previous edits of YUG/former YUG country fields? Is this a sockpuppet?--Wolbo (talk) 22:18, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

Yeah... must be the same user with a new sock. That was User:Leandrorezendecarvalho033 aka User:Olavo braga nunes da silva and his dozens of sockpuppets. Looks like he's back again. Merry Christmas by the way, and happy new year. Fyunck(click) (talk) 08:04, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Yep, that's him. Has been dealt with for now. A Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you too! --Wolbo (talk) 09:06, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Gábor Máthé (tennis)

I saw some corrections on the page of Gábor Máthé (tennis). Thank you for improvements. I hope that you evaluate this person worthy to be on Wikipedia although he is not wide known and celebrated. Even though he is a handicapped person and the neglected port of deaf is supported when we write articles about them. I am pretty beginner in editing Wikipedia so my question is that a correction was posted with this note: "no scoring allowed in prose". Is this an official or an informal rule? Thank you. Koti.hung — Preceding unsigned comment added by Koti.hung (talk • contribs) 14:06, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Nothing is really official unless it's spelled out in Wikipedia "Policy." However the next step down from universal Policy are Guidelines which are usually brought about by consensus between editors and then written out for people to follow. Tennis articles are part of Project Tennis and has guidelines set up at Tennis Article Guidelines. "Scores should not be added to prose unless strictly necessary (i.e. sets a record). In such cases the tiebreak score is omitted. Just report the round and whether the player won or lost the match, and whom they played." You will find that many articles do not follow this format, but when we find them, we try to fix them. As for his notability and whether he should be on wikipedia... technically we have no listing in our guidelines to include him. But we do have wheelchair tennis and Olympics in the guidelines. The article seemed well sourced so when I saw it I simply used the same thing to cover deaf Olympics. I guess others could disagree. I thought that certainly anyone who wins a Gold Medal at the IOC sanctioned Deaf Olympics must be notable. Fyunck(click) (talk) 19:45, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Rafael Nadal 2014

Excuse me, but I believe I am responsible for Rafael Nadal 2014 tennis season page, since I am the one who did all the tables and stats on the page. Rafa confirmed for his 2014 schedule Copa Claro in Buenos Aires. Since he was forced to withdraw, I edited his page. If you observe Rafael Nadal 2013 tennis season page, to every tournament Rafa confirmed for his schedule and withdrew, it written was on the schedule table. Now please, don't touch anything of what I put on the page since it is legit. Alva9311 (talk) 01:17, 8 February 2014‎ (UTC)

Um... no you aren't responsible for that article. Wikipedia is a collaborative effort... no one owns anything, even in their own sandboxes. If I see unsourced info added I remove it if it looks suspicious, and I will "touch" what I see fit. You also added incorrect dates and I fixed them. Please add posts to user talk pages in the future and add four tildes afterwards to sign your post. Thanks. Fyunck(click) (talk) 02:13, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

what incorrect information did I added? Alva9311 (talk)

You had the wrong dates for the Australian Open, which I corrected. I inadvertently removed your addition of the tournament Nadal pulled out of. That was my mistake. Fyunck(click) (talk) 10:26, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

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Rankings

You only check it when it is updated ahead of time, but don't edit it when it is necessary to be applied. Dencod16 (talk) 09:07, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

You are correct that I usually don't update the rankings. But your edits are still against wikipedia policy. You have no sources for your edits so they are original research until you have a source. You MUST wait till there is a source. If a player retires they are instantly removed from the rankings so we are not a WP:Crystal Ball. It's also not a race against other editors in who adds the info the fastest. In 36-48 hours the ATP and WTA will officially update their sources. Fyunck(click) (talk) 10:08, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

YOu keep claiming one thing and another and act better than everyone else. I edit base on time convenience, You are the one keep who keeps rushing to the rankings section and does nothing. I bet you just look if someone edits it rather than do it yourself. You are not a moderator but a user same as everyone else. You don't contribute anything to tennis, but your bossiness and saying this and that. I expected an updated ranking as of February 24, 2014, even a week after you don't even edit the rankings. Dencod16 (talk) 10:21, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

I certainly don't act better than anyone else... I simply follow the rules set down here. If you can't do that then you are the problem. 90% of all your edits I don't even see, of the ones I do see 90% look fine to me so of course I do nothing. But those early against-policy edits of yours pop up on my screen when I log in and I simply correct them. Remember that if you follow guidelines and policies there is no problem here at all. What source do you use to get those stats? If you point out the webpage that lists them we can use them, otherwise our many readers will see the rankings you posted, look at the source, and claim they are bogus. We don't want that. Heck I often compromise on this as is. If it's the same day as the rankings come out (PST) and anyone has changed them, I usually let it go. But a day and a half before I don't. What's to stop 3 days before.... 5 days before... 3 weeks before? If we keep it to when it's published at the ATP and WTA websites we have no problems at all, and it can be readily sourced. You can always bring it up at tennis project if you think it's unfair and that we should allow the rankings to be updated unsourced a day or two early. Remember also that administrators/moderators are editors like anyone else. When they get into an "official dispute" amongst parties, yes they carry more weight. But they also edit and get reverted like everyone else around here. It's a team effort to keep sources proper and information flowing. I hope that helps. Fyunck(click) (talk) 19:55, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

ATP 250/500 Series timelines

I don't think these tournaments are significant enough to warrant inclusion in a player's main performance timeline or a separate performance timeline. I've tweaked the article guidelines to make this clear but one editor continues to re-add a timeline with Federer's results at the ATP 250/500 levels. I think this is absolutely unnecessary for the reasons I have mentioned before and because Federer's stats page is already relatively large. What are your thoughts? JayJ47 (talk) 22:31, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Actually per consensus, they are NEVER to be included in the performance timeline. I'll help out with the reversion and to try and make it clearer to the editor. Fyunck(click) (talk) 23:02, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. JayJ47 (talk) 23:35, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

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