User talk:Grey Jackal

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. You can give yourself a reminder to add an edit summary by setting Preferences → Editing → Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary. Thanks! UW Dawgs (talk) 01:07, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

No.

Please read MOS:NUMBERSIGN. We don't use "#" which is why editors are reverting all of your edits. UW Dawgs (talk) 21:08, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

unsourced / misleading content changes

Longest NCAA Division I football winning streaks uses the 2016 NCAA yearbook, reflecting the completion of the 2015–16 CFB season, to support the data table. Your edit changed the statement to the 2016–17 CFB season AND added a new claim for Alabama, of "Alabama 26 Clemson 2015–2016". That new Alabama content is NOT found in your citation. Please use care when updating content and changing citations, to ensure you are content changes are accurately supported by a citation.

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Longest NCAA Division I football winning streaks, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. UW Dawgs (talk) 02:43, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

edit summaries

Please begin to use WP:Edit Summaries. UW Dawgs (talk) 03:24, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

PLEASE USE EDIT SUMMARIES

@Grey Jackal:

There is speculation that the "Grey Jackal" account created in Jan 2017 and with 350 edits is being used to evade an active WP:BLOCK.

Please use a meaningful WP:EDITSUMMARY in your edits, as it is an indicator of the editor's desire and ability to WP:COLLABORATE with other editors, some of whom might otherwise be inclined to pursue this issue. Cheers, UW Dawgs (talk) 02:41, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

ongoing addition of unsourced content

You have now twice added new content to Longest NCAA Division I football winning streaks, modifing the section header text from "through the 2015 season" to " from "through the 2016 season," and added unsourced Alabama content. Therefore your edit has has been reverted, again.

• Here you incremented the header text from "2015" to "2016" and added

| Alabama || 26 || [[2016 Clemson Tigers football team|Clemson]] || 2015–2016

• And here you similarly added

| [[Alabama Crimson Tide football|Alabama]] || 26 || [[2016 Clemson Tigers football team|Clemson]] || 2015–2016

Here is the existing citation:

<ref>{{cite web|title=2016 NCAA FBS Football Record Book|url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2016/FBS.pdf|website=NCAA.org|publisher=NCAA|accessdate=May 7, 2017|pages=172|format=pdf|year=2016}}</ref>

The above citation uses the "2016 NCAA FBS Football Record Book" which is current through the conclusion of the 2015-2016 CFB season. That header text of "through the 2015 season" is fully supported by this citation, see the "2016 NCAA FBS Football Record Book" on page 172.

However, your new claim of Alabama's streak is not found in that citation (see page 172"), nor is your claim of the existing streaks being "though the 2016 season" since you left the citation as the "2016 NCAA FBS Football Record Book" which is current through the 2015 season.

I hope this helps you see some of the ongoing problems with your editing. From my perspective this is easily rectified by simply reviewing existing content and citation pairs prior to editing, ensuring your edits do not break the work of other editors in creating WP:V content which is supported by WP:RS, and reviewing the WP:EDITSUMMARY if someone has reverted edits before attempting to re-add that content.

Do you see the issues, here? UW Dawgs (talk) 02:51, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

• @Grey Jackal: What are your thoughts? UW Dawgs (talk) 15:43, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

• @Grey Jackal: What are your thoughts? You are editing elsewhere, but choosing not to respond to these questions. UW Dawgs (talk) 03:25, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

• @Grey Jackal: What are your thoughts, here? UW Dawgs (talk) 15:10, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

removal of content

Why are you removing the ranking of the losing team and incorrectly changing some game scores?

Sports reference [1] lists the 7 Sat, Dec 9, 1995 result as 84–88:

7 Sat, Dec 9, 1995 REG @ Michigan (22) Big Ten L 84 88 5 2 L 1 Crisler Arena

while you changed that result from 84–88 to 85–88. What is going on here with your editing? UW Dawgs (talk) 03:51, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

• @Grey Jackal: What are your thoughts? UW Dawgs (talk) 15:44, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Addition of stray characters

Your edit introduced stray "00" characters to that article. Are you previewing your changes before Save to avoid these mistakes? UW Dawgs (talk) 15:48, 25 June 2017 (UTC)