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Where? What zero-brain puts that in a tooltip? Snots != brains FFS.

PS. This article is toxic but the demagogues who are pushing their agenda have locked it down. So typical and it's nothing we've not seen before. This is a Wikipedia article - keep your agendas at home in our own closet!

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Please change "Jamaica Sportsman of the year: 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013" to "Jamaica Sportsman of the year: 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015" Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaican_Sportsperson_of_the_Year

Siim.kumpas (talk) 21:31, 21 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: Wikipedia can't be used as source Varun FEB2003 ^{I am Offline} 13:33, 22 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Dubios

In 2016, he became the first track athlete in the modern Olympics to win three gold medals in an individual discipline. The phrasing is poor. "Track" as a substitute for the sport described as Athletics. Ray Ewry, Al Oerter, Viktor Saneyev , Carl Lewis, Robert Korzeniowski and Jan Železný fit that definition provided. Isolating the phrase, yes, he is the only one of them to perform (the majority of his work) on a running track, but that would slide by most Americans. Trackinfo (talk) 23:08, 22 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Page view statistics

It is perhaps worth recording that, according to the page view statistics, on August 15th, 2016 (the day before round 1 of the men's 200m race at the Rio Olympics) more than a million people (1,078,915) looked at this article. Kanjuzi (talk) 07:11, 28 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Name

The article notes his name is 'Usain St. Leo Bolt.' This is not correct. As per normal punctuation St does not have a full stop. This is also shown on his own web page, see: [1]

Can someone with editing rights correct this please. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.247.154.32 (talk) 13:02, 13 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

US centric edit

Please can someone revert this edit, which is clearly inappropriate: [2] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.247.153.115 (talk) 04:13, 24 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Just reverted.HyderaMan (talk) 16:01, 30 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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 Please can someone revert this edit, which is clearly inappropriate: [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Usain_Bolt&type=revision&diff=740390536&oldid=739348017]  <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/117.247.153.115|117.247.153.115]] ([[User talk:117.247.153.115#top|talk]]) 04:13, 24 September 2016 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
+:Just reverted.[[User:HyderaMan|HyderaMan]] ([[User talk:HyderaMan|talk]]) 16:01, 30 September 2016 (UTC)