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So long, Zag. I'll pick up the slack :P DaHuzyBru (talk) 03:32, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013
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Bill Russell (born 1934) is a retired American professional basketball player, widely considered one of the best in National Basketball Association (NBA) history. Playing center for the Boston Celtics, he was the centerpiece of their dynasty and his shot-blocking and man-to-man defense were major reasons for the team's success. A five-time NBA Most Valuable Player and a twelve-time All-Star, he won 11 NBA championships during his 13-year career, and jointly holds the record for the most championships won by an athlete in a North American sports league. He led the NBA in rebounds four times, and remains second all-time in both total rebounds and rebounds per game. Russell was the first African American player to achieve superstar status in the NBA and the first African American NBA coach. For his accomplishments in the Civil Rights Movement on and off the court, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. Russell is a member of three basketball Halls of Fame (Naismith Memorial, National Collegiate, and FIBA) and the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award is named in his honor. He also won a 1956 Olympics gold medal as captain of the U.S. national basketball team. (Full article...)
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Please refrain from changing Richard Devine's Wikipedia page to omit his part in the torture and abuse of over a hundred men. If all you want are cites, I will come back and edit it with 100's. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Judeic12 (talk • contribs) 17:06, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
Can you help me out with this? I am having this discussion with the user Partoni about his edits to these articles, mainly the one at Ioannis Bourousis, but also the edits at Melissanidis are of the same nature, and how they to me are inappropriate. Another editor, Wikimedit, seems to have also had the same issue with him over the edits at the Melissanidis article for awhile now, only he seems to have been getting warned about vandalism at his talk page and not to be removing the edits by mods. Even though those edits don't seem really all that appropriate. So I don't want to get into any edit war or anything because of course that's against site rules, but also because it looks like Partoni is quick to report someone who removes his edits. Basically, he is making edits to these articles that are very accusatory against these individuals, of things they were being accused of in the media awhile ago, and that were proven to be false and untrue, and he is editing the articles to make it appear as if they were true. And he is linking sources that makes it look that way, since there are a lot of sources that were simply reporting the accusations from that time. I have tried to discuss this with the editor, but they don't seem to want to discuss this. I tried to make some compromise edits, leaving the edits, but changing the wording, so as not to word it to look like Bourousis was guilty of doping, when he was not, and even leaving the sources, and they edited it back to show things that were later proven to be nonsense through an official investigation. The user Wikimedit also explained in the edit history of the Melissanidis page that those edits were controversial because that stuff had been disproved in court and so forth, but then the edits got put right back. Both of these guys are connected to AEK Athens club, which is a rival of Panathinaikos club, Bourousis also to Olympiacos club, which is also a rival to Panathinaikos club. So I am wondering if their might be some kind of Panathinaikos fan driven bias here. I don't want to make any accusations, but these kinds of edits look possibly agenda driven to me to be honest about it. So I think we need to have a discussion on this, and I would like your input on this. I already have been discussing it with Partoni like I said, and I also sent a message to Wikimedit about it too. I would appreciate your help and input with this.Bluesangrel (talk) 23:42, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
Old same issue. IPs constantly re-add before-1992 results to the Serbia national basketball team.--AirWolf talk 07:38, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
Hey Zag, I removed removed "Mike Wallace (basketball)" from List of National Basketball Association players (W–Z) because that player doesn't exist on basketball-reference.com as a former ABA, NBA, or even NBL player. I had thought that a vandal named Mike Wallace may have added himself onto the list but I see where you had included him in the article's original version. I'm wondering where you got information that a player named Mike Wallace existed? If I'm wrong, please correct me and show me a reference, but I'm just confused where that info came from. Thanks! Jrcla2 (talk) 14:34, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
Zags, are you going to remove that WikiBreak template any time soon? Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 00:14, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
Hey, I would like to invite you for a discussion here: Final disscussion: Results/medals history. Please, participate.--AirWolf talk 13:35, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Anita Padilla. Since you had some involvement with the Anita Padilla redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. - Marchjuly (talk) 03:10, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
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When you created Dick Klein (basketball) back in 2006, you added it in with a number of "ibid" references. As you can imagine, ibids are not helpful as a reference and create more complications for others to edit. Rather than trying to guess, do you know what the ibids were referring to there? You include separate references for Sachare and Hirsley so it could be the Tribune piece but I doubt that was a multi-page piece so I don't know. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 05:35, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
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And may all your days be merry and bright . . . Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 19:34, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
Your edits at lambs farm article. Please have a look in, at the edit I added as a note to two sources, to soften the jarring appearance of a term in those two article titles. Reply here? And let me know, if you please, if you are at all local to that charity, as we are. More later, incl. login. 50.179.252.14 (talk) 17:03, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
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I haven't seen any racist vandalism for a while on this article, which is the reason you described for putting this article on Pending Changes. Would it be possible to either remove the Pending Changes or at best replace it with semi-protection on the grounds of persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content? The only disruption I see on the article is mostly the unsourced changes to the infobox. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 19:53, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
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