Footballnerd2007

January 2025

Thank you for your contributions to women's football/soccer articles. I thought I'd let you know about the Women's Football/Soccer Task Force (WP:WOSO), a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women's football/soccer. If you would like to participate, join by visiting the Members page. Thanks! CNC (talk) 14:04, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Refactoring your talk page

Hi there, I noticed you performed a non-conventional refactoring of your talk page. For your references, please see WP:REFACTOR for the typical ways to perform a refactor of your talk page. You can also learn about automated tools to archive talk messages as well. TiggerJay (talk) 19:28, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for reaching out. Is it not the norm to move the page to "archive x" and start a fresh? Footballnerd2007 • talk ⚽ 15:43, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

You can find details over at WP:AATP. However, generally one does not move their entire page, and then replace with a blank one, but rather systematically (or automatically) move older (or closed discussions) over to an archive page either through manual or semi-automated methods, a full section at a time. You're also welcome to just delete entire sections for various reasons, see WP:REFACTOR -- for example blatant vandalism, personal attacks, etc. But generally warning notices placed on your page should be kept, not simply removed -- however that is simply a standard practice and not required. TiggerJay (talk) 17:31, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Reversion concern

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You re-added a link that the IP stated was invalid. They said that the site was a store selling marijuana or something like that. Did you double-check it? Your edit implies you think the link is valid. That could make others think you are a spammer. DMacks (talk) 12:34, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Sorry, i may have overlooked it on my part given the use of offensive langauge in the dit summary. I'm currently using redwarn to patrol. Footballnerd2007 • talk ⚽ 12:35, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

That makes sense. It's definitely important to look at an edit itself. Lots of editors get frustrated (rightfully so!) at spam, and might use harsh language. Also in general, I've found some people tend to use more profanity online than in person. DMacks (talk) 12:46, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

• Please be more careful when reverting vandalism in general, as this revert wasn't a good revert either as Thingsomyipisntvisable2 explained. At the speed at which your reverting, I can see how mistakes are made, so please slow down a bit and pay more attention to the content. To avoid any further disputes with other editors, it's best to only revert when it is obvious vandalism. Thanks. CNC (talk) 19:41, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

  In that same edit, you undid a change of "throught" (not even a real word) to "throughout". Given that was the very first part of the edit, you surely would have seen it first when you looked at the diff of edit you were undoing (or making yourself). DMacks (talk) 20:06, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

  FN2007, please slow down and be more careful. GiantSnowman 22:01, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

  I'll be sure to be more careful when patrolling for vandalism, thanks for your advice! Footballnerd2007 • talk ⚽ 22:12, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

  Your error rate is still too high. Sometimes you aren't even consistent in the reasoning for undoing an edit vs the warning you issue and are too often not correct about them. Three examples among your most recent 12:

  • [1] you called undoing "vandalism", but doesn't it seem reasonable to you that someone from 'Kagoshima' would be called a 'Kagoshiman', just like the comment you yourself restored says i.e. "Liverpudlian for someone from Liverpool"? That edit might even actually be correct, and is definitely not vandalism. And then when you warned he editor [2] you instead talked about "content removal" even though the edit added something.

    You will definitely want to respond at User talk:Mr I Am The Source, where the editor is continuing the discussion you started with them.

  • [3] you called undoing "good faith edit", but then when you warned the editor [4] you instead accused them of acting in bad faith. And isn't that edit actually correct anyway?
  • [5] you called undoing "vandalism" but it is actually an attempt at a common spelling change. That's good-faith. It's not correct (there is a stray linefeed, and the spelling-change itself is against MOS).

  I recommend you stop using Redwarn...it seems to be making it too easy to mis-click or not look closely at the actual edits you are making. A continued 20–25% error rate will easily get you blocked from editing. DMacks (talk) 12:25, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

  I'm really sorry about this, I think I've been using the rollback tool too quickly. I'll slow down to ensure quality over quantity.

  Of course I'll respond to the reply by the user above. Footballnerd2007 • talk ⚽ 13:00, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

  FN2007, the fact you are keen is great - but you're making too many errors. If it continues, we might need to go back to ANI to impose restrictions. GiantSnowman 13:43, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

  Hi GS, I'm going to use the rollback tool more carefully in future and be sure that the warning issued is correct. Footballnerd2007 • talk ⚽ 14:12, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

  You are not using the "rollback tool"; you are using RedWarn. To use "Rollback", you must have the rollback permission, which you don't have.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:53, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

  Well, how come RedWarn allows me to use rollback? Footballnerd2007 • talk ⚽ 14:54, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

  It doesn't. If you read more about it, you'll understand (hopefully) more about how it works for users with rollback and those without. Like WP:Twinkle, it mimics rollback for users without the permission but doesn't quite take you all the way.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:02, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

  OK. I'll look into it and will request rollback permission when I become eligible. Footballnerd2007 • talk ⚽ 15:05, 10 January 2025 (UTC)