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Help with Eastbourne article

I picked out your Wiki name from those who have contributed to this article and wonder whether you could help with the main Eastbourne article, which is current rated as a GA. There are only 116 towns in this category. However, our GA status is currently under threat ... it would be a pity to lose it! There's a problem in the sport section because a lengthy paragraph has been added without a single citation. I don't know where the information came from and it would take me ages to track it down. Could you possible add some citations? Pse leave a message on my Talk Page. Thanks in advance. Mikeo1938 (talk) 23:01, 7 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your reply on my talk page and the offer of help. I check the article daily because it's on my watchlist. There's not a lot of vandalism and there are several others who keep a watching brief so any stupid things get erased fast. As I say in the section devoted to the recent GA review, there was a tendency (certainly on my part) to feel a bit smug about our GA. It took a great deal of effort to get it in the first place; the prime mover was a editor by the name of Mortimer Cat, but I also did some work. This review by Silk Tork has been a salutary rap over the knuckles and he has spent a lot of time improving the article since his initial review. It was certainly too long and too detailed because text and pictures had been added over the years. It's important to keep it concise; if a section gets too long, a separate article will have to be created, as I did recently for the Blue Plaques. Anyway, it's good to know that you are also taking an interest. Thanks again. Mikeo1938 (talk) 06:09, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Help , is it possible as a keen boro fan that you can help updating etc the page for Steve Brinkhurst. I am new to this and just need someone to advise etc re the page review etc etc.

many thanks "Raymondpaul2011 (talk) 21:22, 15 September 2011 (UTC)"[reply]

Table dates

The dates above statistics tables need updating to the day the last match was played. Cheers, Mattythewhite (talk) 22:42, 26 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Danny Simmonds (March 22)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Robert McClenon was:

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage about the subject in reliable sources that are independent of the subject—see the guidelines for sports persons and athletes and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

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Make this draft clear that he played in a first-tier league according to association football notability guidelines.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: John Westcott (footballer) (March 22)

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This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage about the subject in reliable sources that are independent of the subject—see the guidelines for sports persons and athletes and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

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The Football League in modern times sometimes is and sometimes is not first-tier according to association football notability guidelines. Provide clear evidence of first-tier play.

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Two Footballers

You recently moved drafts on two English footballers from Draft space to article space. However, they indicate that the two players played in the Football League. In modern times, the Football League sometimes is and sometimes is not a first-tier league in accordance with association football notability guidelines, because the articles didn't indicate whether they were playing at the Football League Championship level. I moved the articles back into draft space and declined them, because otherwise they risked being nominated for Articles for Deletion. If they played at the first-tier level, please update the articles to indicate that clearly with a reliable source. Moving them back to draft space seemed less disruptive than risking having them nominated for deletion, because you can always edit the articles and resubmit them. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:19, 22 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Robert,

Thank you for reviewing the two articles and also from saving them from deletion. I didn’t expect such a quick response! However, I'm a little confused with the request to provide evidence that these players have played in the first tier. Having read the guidelines, they would, I believe, conform with point 2: "Players who have played, and managers who have managed in a fully professional league, will generally be regarded as notable. See a list of fully professional leagues kept by WikiProject Football." The leagues in which they played were the old Football Division 2, in the case of Simmonds, and Division 3, in the case of Westcott. Both leagues correspond with the modern day Leagues One and Two, which are both listed as fully professional leagues kept by WikiProject Football. I decided to create the two articles based on this knowledge and going by the general practice that players plying their trade at these levels today tend to have an article created for them (if they have made league appearances). I hope you can help, as I'm not entirely sure how to continue, but I'm fairly certain the players are notable. BoroFan89 (talk) 11:23, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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