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I'm changing the method of victory in two of his victories from "swickotine" to Guillotine. There is no such move as a swickotine in brazilian jiu jitsu, it is just a regular, everyday guillotine choke that he personally calls a swickotine. If lebron james called his assists "droppers", we'd still label them as assists in an encyclopedia. <small>—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/82.71.234.1|82.71.234.1]] ([[User talk:82.71.234.1|talk]]) 11:32, 1 July 2008 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
I'm changing the method of victory in two of his victories from "swickotine" to Guillotine. There is no such move as a swickotine in brazilian jiu jitsu, it is just a regular, everyday guillotine choke that he personally calls a swickotine. If lebron james called his assists "droppers", we'd still label them as assists in an encyclopedia. <small>—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/82.71.234.1|82.71.234.1]] ([[User talk:82.71.234.1|talk]]) 11:32, 1 July 2008 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

== Flags ==

Please stop changing the UK flag to the flag of England in connection with MMA fighters or the sites of MMA events.

This is not consistent with the usual international practice. When we refer to US fighters or MMA events in the USA, we always use the US flag, not the state flag. When we refer to Japanese fighters, we don't even mention the prefecture the fighter is coming from. When we speak about Spanish fighters, we don't mention the autonomous area he is coming from (even though some of the Spanish autonomous communities are much more sovereign than what England is in the UK).

The division of the United Kingdom into four countries is nothing special or unique. Many other countries (sovereign states) in the world are divided into autonomous regions, states or whatever in a similar fashion, and those regions have flags, national anthems, etc. of their own. But it doesn't make sense to use these divisions in the context of MMA.

And yes, England is a "country". So is Basque country in Spain; many other subregions of sovereign states can be called "countries", too. Yet those ARE NOT used in the context of MMA. England should not be used either.

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I'm changing the method of victory in two of his victories from "swickotine" to Guillotine. There is no such move as a swickotine in brazilian jiu jitsu, it is just a regular, everyday guillotine choke that he personally calls a swickotine. If lebron james called his assists "droppers", we'd still label them as assists in an encyclopedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.71.234.1 (talk) 11:32, 1 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Flags

Please stop changing the UK flag to the flag of England in connection with MMA fighters or the sites of MMA events.

This is not consistent with the usual international practice. When we refer to US fighters or MMA events in the USA, we always use the US flag, not the state flag. When we refer to Japanese fighters, we don't even mention the prefecture the fighter is coming from. When we speak about Spanish fighters, we don't mention the autonomous area he is coming from (even though some of the Spanish autonomous communities are much more sovereign than what England is in the UK).

The division of the United Kingdom into four countries is nothing special or unique. Many other countries (sovereign states) in the world are divided into autonomous regions, states or whatever in a similar fashion, and those regions have flags, national anthems, etc. of their own. But it doesn't make sense to use these divisions in the context of MMA.

And yes, England is a "country". So is Basque country in Spain; many other subregions of sovereign states can be called "countries", too. Yet those ARE NOT used in the context of MMA. England should not be used either.

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