Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mixed martial arts

Weight class column in record table?

I think it'd be a good idea. Many fighters move up and down throughout a career. A column would let readers follow the progression and note missed weight catchweights at a glance. With abbreviations, it wouldn't be a wide column. This sort of thing (according to Nikita Krylov's edit history) is frowned upon in the Notes column.

Thoughts? InedibleHulk (talk) 15:11, January 24, 2015 (UTC)

It would be hard to get such information from obscure fights — they're barely sourced and some of those small organizations don't even use the official weight classes (or have legit weigh-ins). A lot of them would stay blank (or with N/A), not to mention the hard work of filling those new columns for hundreds of records.

IMO, the notes are okay. Poison Whiskey 01:48, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

That's true. I also thought the notes were fine. InedibleHulk (talk) 18:02, January 25, 2015 (UTC)

Just seems like a lot of extra redundant information best left in the text rather than table. Its an unusual fighter that shifts his weight more than a couple of times.Peter Rehse (talk) 18:09, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

A lot of what's in the table's doubled in the text. It's a quick guide. As it stands, the Notes column is mainly filled with redundant blankness. I don't see the harm in noting the transitory matches there, especially since it'd be a lot less work. A little sketchy as to whether "Light heavyweight debut/return" is similar to "UFC debut", per WP:MMA.

I agree - and yes using the notes to indicate transitory matches makes the most sense to me rather than a dedicated column.Peter Rehse (talk) 18:32, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Also, new welterweight/lightweight Zhang Lipeng/Lipeng Zhang could use a table at all, if anyone's interested. InedibleHulk (talk) 18:24, January 25, 2015 (UTC)

I just took care of that. Apologies if I made any errors. I'm not sure how to move the side box above the record box though. If you could fix that, that would be great. Looks a little off as it is. Unless that's how it is suppose to be? 24.102.148.42 (talk) 16:56, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

I could be wrong, but it looks normal to me. Thanks. InedibleHulk (talk) 16:59, January 27, 2015 (UTC)

No problem. Are there any other fighter's missing a record table? I added Travis Fulton's a LONG time ago & that guy had a million fights. 24.102.148.42 (talk) 20:56, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Not off the top of my head. The Ironman must've been a chore. InedibleHulk (talk) 22:52, January 28, 2015 (UTC)

If you win or reach the final of TUF are you notable?

Ning Guangyou [1] winning the Ultimate fighter is that enough to make him notable?

Appearing on the TUF final counts towards WP:MMANOT - not enough on its own right.Peter Rehse (talk) 09:46, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

It can count, but only if a few secondary sources treat it like something special, and give us something to write, other than "He just about won the most obscure version of TUF". InedibleHulk (talk) 08:41, February 21, 2015 (UTC)

Fatal error: Does not compute.

I don't want to alarm anyone, but every single Sherdog infobox link is broken! New URLs or some such witchcraft.

Someone handy with code want to fix that? InedibleHulk (talk) 08:38, February 21, 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, looks like something has changed. I've edited the infobox template (Template:Infobox martial artist), but now you need to put everything after "fighter/" in the sherdog field (see Anderson Silva).

I think its better wait a few days... if nothing happens, we'll see what we should do (maybe stick with my solution or someone else's solution). Poison Whiskey 16:22, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

I noticed it with Overeem. For a second, I thought he'd failed a test so hard, he was stricken from history. Glad that's not the case.

Is there some function that retrieves an article name? That might work, for those who don't have the "(fighter)" qualifier. Probably a few that don't quite match up, anyway. Sherdog tends to use fuller names for Brazilians. This guy may give us some naming problems soon enough, regardless. Even his nickname is ambiguous. InedibleHulk (talk) 03:28, February 22, 2015 (UTC)

Hey guys, i had a hunch that things changed on the Sherdog.com side of things. Turns out this was correct. I sent a message in through sherdog.com/contact asking if they had an alternative to the old link format we were using. They responded and said that they had disabled the link format we were using but have now re-enabled it. I also reverted the template back to the previous working version and now everything works again. Big thanks to Sherdog.com for making that change for us. Kevlar (talk) 05:03, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

That's the way to do things - great job.Peter Rehse (talk) 09:01, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, Kevlar. Poison Whiskey 00:07, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Notability for the males 115lbs class?

I just added something for the WT:MMANOT page to talk about this topic, so could all available be able to join the discussion? 81.129.198.164 (talk) 13:57, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Alexis Dufresne redux?

Alexis Dufresne is a 2013 – IBJJF World No Gi Championships, Brown Belt Medium-Heavy champion.[2] Is this enough to make her noteworthy? Dwanyewest (talk) 00:11, 28 February 2015 (UTC)