Talk:Stephen Curry

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Comments about the career statistics: 1) the last row in the table should state "average" and not total. 2) The averages for field goals and 3pt field goals shouldn't be averages of the 3 season averages. It would make more sense to do a sum of all shots completed / attempted. That would be his true career field goal percentage.

I put this in comments both because it could be subject to debate and because I haven't done the totals myself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Atmchicago (talk • contribs) 19:35, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Team USA

Stephen Curry Played a amzing role with Team USA in the summer of 2010. He won gold medal in Turkey during the 2010 FIBA World Championships. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheHappiestCritic (talk • contribs) 05:33, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Merge infoboxes?

Maybe merge infoboxes? The "Career highlights and awards" section for NBA players are usually used for college awards, too. --Edgars2007 (Talk/Contributions) 07:23, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Reassessment

There was a request to reassess this article at WP NBA. I upgraded from C-class to B, though it was borderline for me if there were sufficient citations. I left as low importance for NBA project, as he hasn't played that many years yet nor achieved a significant honor like All-Star or All-NBA. Note there was a past discussion to use WikiProject NFL-like criteria for assessing importance of players.—Bagumba (talk) 22:45, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Is it time to re-assess Curry's importance to the NBA project? He won MVP for the regular season, and if his Warriors go on to win the Finals he stands a good chance of winning Finals MVP as well. NBA champion sounds like a pretty significant honor, right? (He is also now a 2x All-Star.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:4898:80E8:EE31:0:0:0:2 (talk) 21:30, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

It's currently assesses at "High", which is consistent with Wikipedia:WikiProject_National_Basketball_Association/Assessment#Importance_scale.—Bagumba (talk) 21:34, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Looking for someone to nominate this article for GA status

Does anyone else think this article is up to GA status?--Bigpoliticsfan (talk) 00:47, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

Removed the part that said he almost recorded a quadruple double with 27 points, 14 assists, 8 rebounds and 7 steals. That is not almost a quad-double, and is redundant. 99.247.3.143 (talk) 17:29, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 13 June 2014

In looking at the "Junior Season" section of Curry's Collegiate career, I found that it contains the following text: "They did, however, receive the sixth seed in the 2009 NIT as a constellation prize."

I am requesting that the word "constellation" be changed to "consolation".

150.137.2.91 (talk) 00:30, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Partly done: Nice catch. "Consolation" sounded to flowery for an encyclopedia, so I reworded to "Instead, they received the sixth seed in the 2009 NIT. "—Bagumba (talk) 01:04, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

International Career

I've noticed that the information in the International Career category is severely lacking. I mean only 1 line for two FIBA World Championships (now the World Cup)? We need to elaborate on what role he played in those 2 FIBA World Championships (or World Cups), cause he played a significant role in each one, especially 2014. Thanks, StephenCurry30Fan (talk) 18:22, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 10 February 2015

Please add as follows under Stephen Curry's Personal Life at the very end: Curry announced via Instagram in January 2015 that him and his wife are expecting their second child in July 2015.

DSR7767 (talk) 07:28, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made.—Bagumba (talk) 07:37, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 2 March 2015

Parodies

In 2014, Drake's song, "0 to 100/The Catch Up" featured a stand-out line about Stephen Curry. He raps, “I been Steph Curry with the shot, been cookin’ wit the sauce, chef Curry with the pot boy”. Stephen Curry and his wife, Ayesha Curry heard the track and paid homage by creating a parody video on Ayesha Curry's YouTube Channel. The video, titled "Chef Curry With The Pot", plays on this line. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjU7BYcJwIw. The video went viral and currently has almost 1,300,000 views, including many positive comments. Drake acknowledged the video, posting it to his Instagram with the caption "Ayesha and Steph cooking with the pot! Ayesha snapped on the flow. #ChefCurry #WayUp" https://instagram.com/p/wOam1-DQF4/ Nessareanna (talk) 02:48, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 16:14, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 April 2015

138.238.231.98 (talk) 05:53, 1 April 2015 (UTC) young money cash money billionaires

Not done: as you have not requested a specific change.
If you want to suggest a change, please request this in the form "Please replace XXX with YYY" or "Please add ZZZ between PPP and QQQ".
Please also cite reliable sources to back up your request, without which no information should be added to, or changed in, any article. - Arjayay (talk) 08:20, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

article class

Probably a B class or better, but i dont work on sports related articles, so cannot assign accurately. i gave it a C class as a minimum. page was a redirect by accident. now fixed. Go Warriors!Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:47, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

his bio is now one of the rotating bios at Portal:San Francisco Bay Area, a project i work on a lot.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:17, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 17 June 2015

209.59.106.25 (talk) 20:57, 17 June 2015 (UTC) in 2015 curry becomes the mvp

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Amortias (T)(C) 21:38, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Edit request

Please remove the African-Amercan categories because there are no reliable sources in the article to support them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.177.249.35 (talk) 17:12, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Charity Work

Stephen Curry is a Board Member of Access to Success non-profit organization [1] 72.15.208.253 (talk) 19:54, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Unless it's reported by a reliable source that is independent, it's probably not notable enough to mention.—Bagumba (talk) 20:10, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

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Sources on shooting (for future reference)

I'm moving these citations that were cluttering the lead per WP:LEADCITE and WP:CITEKILL. Free free to use for further expansion.—Bagumba (talk) 22:56, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Why not merge some of them, Bagumba? Also, thank you for laying them out here. Fdssdf (talk) 22:05, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Please read CITEKILL and/or discuss what you disagree with or don't understand. Unless the sources are used to expand the article text, we don't need an excessive number of cites for one sentence. I'm not volunteering to expand the article at this point, but you and others are more than welcome to. Cheers.—Bagumba (talk) 00:48, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

@Divergence5: You might not have been aware of this discussion when you reinserted the text on Curry being the greatest shooter into the lead. I have no objection to having some mention of the general opinion on his shooting ability in the lead; however, it doesn't need 10 citations there when it is already supported at Stephen_Curry#Player_profile.—Bagumba (talk) 02:50, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

References

Greatest 3-pt shooter or just greatest shooter?

@Divergence5: You added to the lead that Curry is "is considered by some to be the greatest three-point shooter in NBA history". That seems more restrictive than what sources generally say, and what is stated currently at Stephen_Curry#Player_profile: "Many basketball analysts, commentators, and current and former players consider Curry to be the greatest shooter of all-time." He's generally called the greatest shooter, not just 3-pt shooter, and it's probably (at least) a generally held opinion as opposed to just by some.—Bagumba (talk) 03:09, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

@Bagumba: I think 3-pt shooter is more accurate. There are many players in the league who are better 2-pt shooters. —Divergence5 (talk) 03:25, 20 January 2016‎ (UTC)

As I tried to nicely say here, I think the recent changes to the lead have been completely unnecessary and not entirely productive. The lead has always only said shooter. The lead should say "shooter" only because "shooter" is what sources say. Nearly all of the references listed after the sentence say "shooter" in the title. If they all said "three-point shooter", then the lead should say "three-point shooter", but that's not the case. It's also not opinion. With all these sources, the sentence belongs in the lead. Ten sources after one sentence, however, is silly and it should be changed back to what it was originally (2-4 sources after the sentence and more in other parts of article). "three-point shooter" may be more accurate or specific but again it should say what sources say and sources discuss all around shooting (any jump shot). Those sources don't talk about there being better two-point shooters; that's opinion. I also doubt these better players are better shooters than Curry and layups or whatever are a different story. That's not what sources would say. Obviously, the definition of "shooter" includes three-point shooting so it's not at all wrong to say shooter. There's seems to only be one editor who thinks the sentence shouldn't be there at all but it looks to me that they removed it because there was no sources there. This is a stupid thing to debate. One thing for sure is that ten sources in one spot is stupid. In short, say "shooter" only because it better reflects what sources say, and only include around 4 sources after the sentence. The wording of MVPs and championships can go any old how and mention of family is appropriate because without it the leads gives nothing on personal life. —DangerousJXD (talk) 04:21, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

I agree. The WP:WEIGHT of sources say he is the greatest shooter. It's WP:OR to apply our own criteria of other two-point shooters to discount or restrict what sources generally say. —Bagumba (talk) 06:22, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

I have removed duplicate references, and spread out the references so they aren't all in one place. I think how it is now is fine. If you still want to argue about "shooter" "three-point shooter" wording, then go ahead. —DangerousJXD (talk) 05:01, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

I'll just WP:CITEBUNDLE the ones left in the lead and be done with this.—Bagumba (talk) 07:16, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Divergence5 has reverted back to "greatest three-point shooter", even though there was no consensus for that. I will await discussion to see if there is there is any new support.—Bagumba (talk) 01:43, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

That's why I reverted. With edits having so far been disagreed with, reverting without any further discussion is questionable. Divergence5, I suggest at least talking it out a little more, not wildly reverting, rereading what's already been said by others here and in the page history, and remaining civil. No needs for ALL CAPS yelling. I reckon I thoroughly addressed everything in my lengthy post above so I have nothing more to add right now. —DangerousJXD (talk) 01:55, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, I was composing my post when you reverted.—Bagumba (talk) 02:06, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

"Off the Court" = Off the Page

I noticed that the section of biographies usually labeled "Personal..whatever" was instead titled "Off the Court." I found the same thing @ Blake Griffin and changed both to "Personal Life." "Off the Court" is 1) informal language and 2) an attempt to make the article 'distinctive,' with a hint of 'branding.' The fact that it appears in more than one related article indicates a possibility that someone is being paid/hired to manage these articles. All excellent reasons to 'revert' to the standard format. Tapered (talk) 22:23, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Or it could be as innocent as the editors are basketball fans who don't realize it's informal, or they patterned it after an FA like Magic Johnson.—Bagumba (talk) 22:30, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Hey, Tapered. I don't particularly care what those headers say (I suppose I'm for "Personal life") but if you change headers, make sure you don't capitalize every word. So if you change "Off the court" to "Personal life", make sure you don't make the l in life a capital letter. I corrected this at the Blake Griffin article. —DangerousJXD (talk) 22:33, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 3 February 2016

let me edit this bruh--

168.8.238.10 (talk) 15:44, 3 February 2016 (UTC)