Talk:UFC 101

This article was nominated for deletion on 27 February 2009 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep.

Rubbish Early spoilers

The "Reference" section had a lot of rubbish regarding Griffin winning well before the match happened (7:50 PST to be exact) so if I deleted it. If there was a a more skill way of doing the edit I will gladly take critism, but as odds-makers and fans are watching, I felt it imperative that the non-sense spoilers be removed ASAP. Jackbox1971 (talk) 03:17, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just to be clear... footnote exponents all referred to "abcdeghi" etc. to www.ufc.com. Revert, if you must, but it will be a mess. 03:24, 9 August 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jackbox1971 (talk • contribs)

Not encyclopedic but... damn, Silva made Forest look like a gimp.! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jackbox1971 (talk • contribs) 03:56, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

Any way we could semi-protect these in the future? 72.150.179.239 (talk) 04:06, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I wondered that myself, but then I realized that "in progress" events are going to be very fluid on wikipedia, and I suppose I should mellow out about them. Older events tend to stabilize after a few days, but you are bound to get the yahoos from piping in during the event itself. In any case, the action on this page these past two hours has been more exciting than the matches! --Jackbox1971 (talk) 04:58, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

We've protected them in the past - from the day before to the day after, maybe we need an MMA admin to do this automatically. David.snipes (talk) 15:00, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Would this mean that one could not get essentially "live" results from wikipedia? There have been times when I haven't ordered the PPV but was curious about outcomes. It was nice that wiki was updated in essentially real time. (Of course, false-results are the problem with this scheme, but, hey, it's a free service! --Jackbox1971 (talk) 20:42, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the MMA admin could provide the real-time results, I suppose. It's better than reading "Griffin defeats Silva by scrotum choke" a half hour before the fight. But you're right - free service, take what you can get. 72.150.179.239 (talk) 21:19, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There's different kinds of page-protection and the one we're looking at here (semi-protection) only blocks people without accounts (or with newly-created accounts) from editing. Pages are usually not protected pre-emptively since being the encyclopedia "anyone can edit" is one of the pillars of Wikipedia --aktsu ^(t / c) 07:32, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There are a ton of sites that will give you real time updates from www.411mania.com I'd rather get the results up here the day after the show than have to do 50 reverts from idiots. David.snipes (talk) 14:48, 10 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with David on that point. I wonder what is the wikipedia policy on information about future events? The whole concept of an encyclopdia providing information about what is likely to happen seems rather odd. How can something that has not happened be truly "confirmed" by a reliable source? Lattefever (talk) 17:12, 10 August 2009 (UTC)Lattefever[reply]

This is the Policy Wikipedia:FUTURE#Wikipedia_is_not_a_crystal_ball David.snipes (talk) 00:14, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

We can report on plans for future events, but the info should naturally be labelled appropriately (e.g. through "officially announced bouts" and "reported bouts"-sections etc.). --aktsu ^(t / c) 07:32, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Payouts

I was wondering why the payout information isn't listed here, when UFC 102's payout information is already on the page and it just happened. Byuusetsu (talk) 23:49, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Pennsylvania never released the figures. Not all athletic commission do. And when you have events places without an athletic commission, like Europe, then they aren't released either. --Drr-darkomen (talk) 23:52, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]