User talk:Bristol R.

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Proposed deletion of Stuart Sinclair

The article Stuart Sinclair has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this newly created biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

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Proposed deletion of Stuart Sinclair

The article Stuart Sinclair has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Footballer who has never played in a fully professional league – Bristol Rovers play in the Conference National, which isn't fully pro – so fails the football-specific notability guideline; not enough non-trivial media coverage to satisfy the general notability guideline

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Struway2 (talk) 08:39, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Infobox dates

Hi, when updating club stats in the infobox you should update the |pcupdate= or |club-update= parameter by adding five tildes (~~~~~), which generates the specific time the update was made. Thanks, Mattythewhite (talk) 21:21, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Please keep this in mind. Mattythewhite (talk) 23:15, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Updating infoboxes

If you look at a footballer's infobox, you'll see it says at the bottom "Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of" and then a date or date/time. The stats and the date come as a pair: it's no good bringing the stats up to date if you leave the correct-as-of date set to several weeks ago, or before a player even joined the club... The way to update the stats is:

1. wait till the game's finished, to be sure it doesn't get abandoned, in which case the player's appearances and goals would get abandoned as well;
2. don't just add 1 to what's already there: stats aren't always either up-to-date or accurate, so check with an appropriate reliable source such as Soccerbase or Soccerway to see what the correct figures should be;
3. update the timestamp parameter, which is called |club-update= or sometimes still by the old name of |pcupdate=, to a date or date/time unambiguously after the end of the match. The easy way is to replace the contents of the parameter with five tildes, so the row reads

|club-update = ~~~~~

which the system will automatically convert to the current date/time.

Hope this helps, Struway2 (talk) 07:43, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

June 2015

Hello, I'm Mattythewhite. I noticed that you made a change to an article, John-Joe O'Toole, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Mattythewhite (talk) 14:12, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Tom Parkes. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been reverted or removed.

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Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive, until the dispute is resolved through consensus. Continuing to edit disruptively could result in loss of editing privileges. Please refer to User talk:Bristol R.#Updating infoboxes. Mattythewhite (talk) 16:16, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Infobox stats

League stats only in infobox. Mattythewhite (talk) 21:57, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

Please keep this in mind. Mattythewhite (talk) 22:07, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

September 2015

Please stop your disruptive editing, as you did at Nicklas Bendtner. Your edits have been reverted or removed.

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Do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive until the dispute is resolved through consensus. Continuing to edit disruptively may result in your being blocked from editing.

I think you know very well that infobox club stats are for regular season league matches only – you've certainly been told often enough – and that when you update the stats, you need to update the as-of date to match. Please try to co-operate. Thank you for listening. Struway2 (talk) 09:06, 13 September 2015 (UTC)