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October 2014[edit]

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'''In the 1986 World Cup crucial qualifier v Wales , Speedie earned a penalty [ converted by David Cooper } , Scotland won 1-0 , and went on to win the playoff against Australia to qualify for the 1986

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Durie scored the second goal in a 2–0 win against Latvia [ national football team|Latvia]] that clinched qualification for the [[1998 FIFA World Cup]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://

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November 2014[edit]

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'''Keith G Bambridge''' , (born 1 September 1935, is a former English footballer who played in [[the Football League]] for [[

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Soccer Who's Who|editor=Maurice Golesworthy|publisher=The Sportsman's Book Club|year=1965}}</ref>}}

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inside forward until the second half of 1962-1963 when he gained a first team place at right half }.<ref>Soccer Who's Who compiled by Maurice Golesworthy The Sportsmans Book Club 1965</ref>

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November 2014[edit]

Hello, I'm GiantSnowman. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Alan Banks (footballer)‎, 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. Giant Snowman 15:39, 3 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add or change content, as you did to Alan Banks (footballer), 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. Giant Snowman 17:29, 3 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Copying[edit]

Please don't copy content directly from books onto Wikipedia. Adding things like "Portsmouth had Atyeo on their books as an amateur but let him slip away in June 1951 when he turned professional with Bristol City. What a slip ! Big John has since scored more goals for the City than any other player did." is a violation of copyright, it's also not written in an encyclopedic style, and the tense ("Big John has scored more goals") is all wrong. By all means incorporate material from books, but it needs to be re-written in a neutral, encyclopedic and non-copyright violating manner. Drop me a line at my talk page if you need any more tips on editing -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 21:29, 3 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Also, you've added to a number of articles that Tottenham were the first team to win the Double (in 1961). This is untrue, the first team to win the Double was Preston North End in 1889. Tottenham were in fact the third team to win the Double -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:17, 4 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Bit more advice[edit]

Hello, and thank you for adding players' heights to their Wikipedia pages. And also thank you for adding a reference to the source of your information. I see someone's already told you about copyvio, and using standard English rather than the tone of a 1960s fan profile. There are a couple of formatting things you might want to know...

At the beginning of the article, after the player's name, it has his birth date, or birth and death dates. There's a conventional form for these dates, either (born 1 January 1950) for a living or presumed-living person, and (1 January 1950 – 31 December 1999) for a dead person. The brackets are supposed to be there, to separate the dates off from the rest of the sentence, and it shouldn't use the words born and died for a dead person.

Also, with the heights. If you use the format {{height|ft=5|in=9}} rather than the bare 5 ft 9, the system will format it in the standard manner and add a metric conversion. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 09:08, 4 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop adding heights to players without adding a reference to where the information came from: we're not supposed to add information to Wikipedia pages without it being verifiable from a reliable source. And please consider using the height formatting template as mentioned above. All you have to do is copy-and-paste the highlighted bit, including the pairs of curly brackets, and substitute the actual height for the example given. Thank you for listening. Struway2 (talk) 20:47, 5 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Some more pointers[edit]

You can't use another Wikipedia article as a reference
Section headings are done by typing the following ==Heading==, not just by making the text bold

Hope this helps -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 16:43, 5 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia standards[edit]

Hello. No-one expects you to learn Wikipedia's formatting and conventions straight away. Some of the stuff is fiddly, and those of us who've been here a long time don't always appreciate how difficult new people find it. Just try to avoid overwriting existing formatting when you make your edits... And please ask if there's something you don't understand or are confused by, don't just plough ahead regardless and end up with half your additions being undone.

When you add a player's height, if there isn't already a row there that says

| height =

then add a new one, with the upright line at the start, and press Enter at the end, so that it appears on a new line. Don't overwrite an existing row, as you did with the |currentclub= row at Gerry Byrne (footballer). Then copy across the height formatting code, with all the punctuation (upright lines and curly brackets} so that the row looks like

| height = {{height|ft=|in=}}

Then, after where it says |ft= , put the height in feet. Don't remove anything, or put any extra spacing, just the number of feet. Then do the same with the inches part, straight after where it says |in= . So if the player is 5 ft 10, the row should look like

| height = {{height|ft=5|in=10}}

Then copy across your reference, so that the row looks like

| height = {{height|ft=5|in=10}}<ref>Soccer Who's Who compiled by Maurice Golesworthy The Sportsmans Book Club 1965</ref>

And that's it. Then underneath the editing window, next to the Save page button, you'll see a Show preview button. That lets you look at the effects of your edit without saving it, so that if it looks OK you can then press Save page to save it, or if it needs fixing you can fix it, or if you can't fix it you can press the Cancel button (to the right of the Save page/Show preview/Show changes buttons) and start again from scratch. Which will save you getting in a mess and not knowing how to fix it, like at Les Campbell.

But the really important bit is to include the reference. If you keep on adding heights without the reference, the additions will be undone, you'll get fed up with your work being undone, and those doing the undoing will get fed up with having to do it. Hope this helps. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 13:41, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

November 2014[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. At least one of your recent edits, such as the edit you made to Tony Allen (footballer), did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at the welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make some test edits, please use the sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page.

Sorry, but I took a long time working out what I hoped were clear instructions as to how to include a height row in footballer infoboxes. It included the advice not to overwrite existing content, and details of how to add a new row. You manage well enough when you introduce new content to the body of an article, without overwriting the content that's already there. Please do the same with your height rows. Thank you for listening.

Struway2 (talk) 16:55, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

November 2014[edit]

Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. LRD 06:39, 21 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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