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Sports overcategorization

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I recently had 4 articles I had edited get revered. This is the general tone of the edit summaries. "Undid revision 1231303175 by Johnpacklambert (talk) It is standard practice to include all such categories for professional athletes. Abbott played for 18 professional teams and they can't all be expected to be mentioned in this article. His teams are easily verified via the external links at the bottom of this article." I am sorry, this is just ludicrous. First off, external links are not always reliable sources, so just using them to push categories directly is problematic. Beyond this, categories are supposed to link something that means something. They need to be "defining". If playing for a team was so non-defining to a person that we do not even mention it anywhere in the text of the article, not even in a table, we should not categorize by it. This makes me think that at some level team played for becomes to close to performance by performer categories. I am sorry, but we should not be categorizing anyone by 18 different teams played, especially with the amount of other categories sports people are placed in. At least not when we do not even mention in any way all 18 teams in the article.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:14, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Let'srun,

If you are going to close an AFD discussion, you have to untag all of the nominated articles and put the appropriate tag on the article talk page. Please follow through and take care of all aspects of closing a deletion discussion if you want to take on this responsibility. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 05:55, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Let'srun, you still haven't followed through on this AFD closure. It's incomplete for reasons I explained. Please let it be the first editing you do when you log back on. Seriously, you can't just close a discussion without taking care of all of the other steps. You're not a new editor any more. Liz Read! Talk! 04:19, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Aplogies, missed your first message somehow. Done. Let'srun (talk) 11:52, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

While this closure technically reflected the consensus, it was also a situation that warranted greater scrutiny. Reading the "keep" rationales and lack of response to the original nominator, there was nothing ultimately supporting this article, hence the re-nomination two months later that ended in deletion. I recommend considering where to help the discussion along and prompting for answers via a third relist next time. It's not standard to need a third relist, but it is warranted when the participation is fishy or not up to policy. czar 21:26, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I will do so. Let'srun (talk) 21:30, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to join WikiProject National Football League

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Hi, Let'srun. You are cordially invited to join WikiProject National Football League, a project dedicated to improving articles in relation to the National Football League.
Please visit the project's talk page to see what areas/topics need help and to discuss any questions you may have. Thank you! ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 20:09, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the {{proposed deletion/dated}} tag from KALO, which you proposed for deletion. I'm leaving this message here to notify you about it. If you still think this article should be deleted, please do not add {{proposed deletion}} back to the page. Instead, feel free to list it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Thanks! Mvcg66b3r (talk) 20:56, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]